"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 08:18 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote:
>> If measured in "bytes of the gzipped mbox" it looks like there's a
>> *huge* increase of volume on Hackers in the past 3 months - well
>> over twice the historical levels; and maybe 4X 2002-2006.
> Its because we eliminated the -patches mailing list.
Yeah, I think this is most probably explained by repeat postings
of successive versions of large patches. Still, Ron might be on to
something. I had not considered message lengths in my previous
numbers ...
regards, tom lane