I don't know if this is why the flurry in subscriptions (I mean, who knows?)
but yesterday I posted about this list to Web4Lib[1], which has almost 4,300
members and likely many coders.
Roy

[1] http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2008-January/046580.html

On 1/30/08 7:26 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Two things regarding mailing list administratativia (or however it is
> spelled).
>
>    1. In the past twenty-four hours there has been a furry of new
> subscribers. What happened? Was there some sort of announcement
> somewhere?
>
>    2. This list has roughly 800 subscribers. The growth is slow and
> steady. By contrast, the NGC4Lib mailing list has roughly 1800
> subscribers with little growth. I think this is sort of funny because
> coders make up much less than half of library workers yet one of
> their mailing lists is just less than half the size of a profession-
> wide mailing list. Put another way, I think this group is rather
> cohesive.
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame

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