[ppml] Re: Independent space from ARIN

[Richard Jimmerson]

Hello Leo,

> True enough.  That should be somewhat easy to tell though, 
> how many addresses are subscribed to ppml?

If you exclude RIR staff members (@apnic, @arin, @lacnic, @ripe) there
are 405 addresses subscribed to the PPML.

Best Regards,

Richard Jimmerson
Director of Operations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Leo Bicknell
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 7:35 PM
> To: ARIN Policy
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Re: Independent space from ARIN
> 
> 
> In a message written on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 04:57:29PM 
> -0700, bmanning at karoshi.com wrote:
> > > > 1551 posts since that time.  Of the 1893 members, 8% 
> posted on the 
> > > > list, if all 169 people are members.
> > 
> > 	that might be a big IF
> 
> Rather than use the term "members", if you use the phrase 
> "posting on their employeers behalf" I suspect less than half 
> would qualify.
> 
> > > > What would be interesting to know is is that silent majority 
> > > > silent because they are happy, silent because they are 
> afraid to 
> > > > speak up, or silent because they simply don't know this list 
> > > > and/or the meetings exist?
> > 
> > 	Or...  they weigh the percentage of public debate with this
> > 	crowd against washing their hair/shaving the dog/getting a
> > 	root canal...
> 
> True enough.  That should be somewhat easy to tell though, 
> how many addresses are subscribed to ppml?  If the answer is 
> 169, then they just don't know. :)  If the answer is 1800 or 
> more, then they are probably happy (I don't think afraid is 
> likely here, but you never know).  Someone from ARIN will 
> have to disclose how many people are on the list though, if 
> they want to make that public.
> 
> -- 
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