SPUG: Please, enough about editors

Andrew Sweger andrew at sweger.net
Fri Jun 17 18:51:01 PDT 2005


On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Jeremy G. Kahn wrote:

> [sensitive subject] is a recipe for a flurry of unsubscribes.

So far, no unsubscribe storm. The following isn't totally accurate (in
fact, I'm sure it's a load of BS since I did it by hand). Think of it as
just-for-fun.

  Date    #Subd   unsub(-) sub(+) eom(X)
--------  ----- ------------------------------------------------------
Mar 2004: (384)                   --------------X+++++
Apr 2004: (375)                --------X+++
May 2004: (370)              -----X++++
Jun 2004: (369)           -------X+++++++
Jul 2004: (369)          --------X++++++++++++++
Aug 2004: (375)              ----------X++++
Sep 2004: (369)               ---X+++++++++++++
Oct 2004: (379)                    --------X+++++++
Nov 2004: (378)                       ----X++++
Dec 2004: (378)                       ----X++++++++++
Jan 2005: (384)                               --X+++++
Feb 2005: (387)                                 ---X+++++++
Mar 2005: (391)                                  ------X++++++++
Apr 2005: (393)                                        --X+++++++++
May 2005: (400)                                 ----------------X++++++++++

The surge of sub/unsubs last month were largely the result of subscribers
at various AT&T domains swtiching over to Cingular, Comcast, etc. 

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.



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