I wonder if anyone could help me uncover the number of mailing lists
there might be in the world?

the most recent figures I've got are from April 1997 estimating the 
number of lists, from the Liszt directory, at 71,618.

Liszt seems to have commercial since then - possibly being a spam
site, and I can't find anything more recent.

Obviously the total number of active lists is more interesting than
the total number of lists, but i'll take anything at the moment :)

Thanks

jon




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