A blog post entitled "DCMI and JISCMail: Profiling Trends of Use of Mailing Lists" has been written which provides information on use of the DCMI JISCMail lists during the first 15 years of the DCMI. The post is available at:
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/profiling-trends-of-use-of-mailing-lists/
In addition the underlying data is available at:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqyjJ9Eviy8idHMzR3dYNFR6VnJOZXNHNXJLT3hWa3c&hl=en
There have been a total of 14108 messages posted to the 23 lists. Usage peaked in 2002 and, despite the creation of a number of new lists, usage has declined since then with 9 lists having received less than 25 posts per year over the past three years.
I hope this information is useful to the DCMI communities.
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
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