Re: [Gnuplot-info] EXT :Re: 12M? or 12 000 000? (not 12000000)

[Dave H. <da...@ho...>]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2022, Peter Rockett via gnuplot-info wrote:

> I think the idea of a single mailing list probably reflects gnuplot's 
> age. Other projects I follow tend to have forums with multiple 
> categories like development, using blah-blah, and so on.

Only when they reach a certain threshold of topic divergence.

> FWIW: I think this mailing list is actually pretty quiet. This flurry of 
> activity on 12M or whatever is the first for quite some while.

It's about the quietest list I'm on (and I'm on lots); it's just that it 
wakes up every now and then, and should a newbie then join...

> I think this is a mistyping of IRC - Internet Relay Chat, a chat tool 
> that was used extensively by Noah but not so much since the 17th century 
> ?. Hence the "Ha-ha" comment it received.

Indeed; unless the messages are archived then it's useless.

-- Dave