“Martin F. Krafft”:http://blog.madduck.net/ posts “some stats about the debian-devel mailing list”:http://blog.madduck.net/debian/2007.10.10_not-so-chatty.xhtml.
The long and the short of it is that over its 12-year history, it’s averaged one message ever 25 minutes. Put that way, it sounds like no big deal, but then thinking again, what mailing lists are going to be able to show that sort of volume over such a long time-span?