100,000 messages celebration?

[Michael Esveldt]

Just van Rossum]
> What he says. Here's a nice-looking graph, though:
>
>   http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/
 
[Grant Edwards]
> Is the Y axis a cumulative total, or messages per unit time.

[Tim Peters]
> If it were cumulative, how would you account for it going down some months?
> Aha!  Broken integer division <wink>.
> 
> There are actually 12 bars per year, each representing the number of
> postings in one month.

What happened in the middle of 1995?

Michael