How many followers of comp.lang.python

[Duncan Booth]

Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:

> * rantingrick (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:03:16 -0800 (PST))
>> On Jan 27, 12:00Â pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>> > Guido does post here once in a while, under his own name. Â I can't
>> > think of any very recent examples, but I can remember some from a few
>> > years back.
>> 
>> I searched the archives for "Guido van Rossum" and there is nothing
>> since May 2000. That's the most recent i could find anyway??
> 
> Search again - the last was in December 2008:
> http://groups.google.com/groups/search?as_q=&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=
> 10&scoring=d&lr=&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=2009
> &as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=2009
> &as_ugroup=comp.lang.python&as_usubject=&as_uauthors=guido+van+rossum&sa
> fe=off

Or even:

http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?show=more&enc_user=RVb59hAAAADAKHw2rKTOXQmYRzwTg33E&group=comp.lang.python

which shows 456 posts to clp over the last 9 years, but only about once a 
year for the last 3 years.

For comparison, according to Google I've managed 2251 posts to clp since 1997 
which I find kind of scary.