NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2015 Sep 4, 09:52 -0700
I wrote previously:
"There are nearly 48,000 individual messages in the complete NavList archive. I'm attaching a bar chart of message traffic history for our collective contemplation..."
I decided to add bars for two other groups that some of you may know about. First there's the Yahoo Sextants group (sign up here). This has had 5% or lower traffic than NavList for ten years, and in the past five years less than 1%. The parrot is not dead yet, and it probably never will die completely unless Yahoo pulls the plug on its groups (unlikely, but possible). Note: by an amazing coincidence, just today after I had compiled these numbers, there were two messages via the Yahoo Sextants group wondering whether it was dead.
I also added bars for the Facebook Celestial Navigation group (sign up here), but these are only estimates since it would be most un-Facebook-ish to enable such statistics for this group.
As you can see, NavList has far more action that the others, but they each have something unique to offer. In the past five years (including projection for the remainder of 2015), this is how they stack up:
- NavList: 19,000 messages
- Yahoo Sextants: 190 messages (1% of NavList)
- FB Celestial Navigation: about 1400 messages (7.5% of NavList)
Frank Reed
Conanicut Island USA
