100,000 messages celebration?

[Just van Rossum]

Tim Peters wrote:

> [gods1child]
> > All this heated discussion over floats has led me to wonder if we need
> > to lighten up a little bit and celebrate the fact that were close to
> > 100,000 (94,100 as of this moment) messages on this news-group
> 
> [Garry Hodgson]
> > 94,100?  is that cumulative, or just today?
> > it sometimes seems like the latter.
> 
> Actually, I think it was just that week.
> 
>     http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-list/
> 
> has over 150,000 c.l.py msgs archived, and my logs show that I read 50,317
> before 2001 began.  Unfortunately, I only generate summary reports once per
> year, so I can't yet tell you how many I've read since then.
> 
> but-millions-seems-a-good-guess-ly y'rs  - tim

What he says. Here's a nice-looking graph, though:

  http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/

Just