From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 94 03:22:27 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: How many on cypherpunks?
Message-ID: <gate.47DXNc1w165w@dxm.ernet.in>
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> It was at about 700 subscribers for several months, then the first big
> "outage" a month or so ago caused the number to drop way off. Last I
> checked (send the message "who cypherpunks" to majordomo@toad.com),
> there were about 400 subscribers. (It is likely that many of the
> original "700 Club" were casual subscriber, dormant accounts,
> gateways, whatever.)
> 
> And the list just suffered a second wipe-out of the subscriber list,
> so I don't know right now how many are even seeing this.

My week-old 'who' shows 450; yesterday's shows 180. I see this second outage
as an omen - the cypher gods want less traffic ;-)

So I'm _not_ going to send a mailer to the differential list of users I have,
this time!

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