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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • many mongers are on multiple lists (i am on 4) so subscriber counts aren't a good way to measure group sizes. it might be fine for smaller groups or ones which are more isolated but i am sure london.pm's size is due to many outsiders on its list.

    but this is an interesting exercise anyway, regardless of its serious statistical flaws.

    uri
    • statistical flaws

      That was mentioned in the talk, actually :-)

    • many mongers are on multiple lists

      In the talk that accompanied the slides I estimated that up to 25% of the 8,300 mailing list subscriptions might be taken up by David Adler being subscribed to every PM mailing list :)

      Which got the desired laugh, but also made the point that this stats are pretty close to being meaningless. I'm on about a dozen PM group mailing lists.

      • being the uber-fearless leader of all of perl mongers, i would expect you to be on every single pm list! :)

        and i am glad you mentioned my point in the talk. i just didn't see it on the slides.

        uri
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