Quoting Mike Bresnahan (mbresnah at visi.com):
> Bob, can you give us some explanation where the 7 million hits per month are
> coming from?  

People searching lkml archives.
Searching spiders indexing lkml archives.

> Certainly the TCLUG members are not searching the archives that much?  

Correct, most of the traffic is google.

> If so, could we turn off searching and see how that effects list
> performance?

It's not the searching, it's the spiders, mostly.

> By the way, how many people are subscribed to the list?  I'm guessing less
> than 5000?

Correct.

> It just seems odd to me that the list requires state of the art hardware.
> People have been running mailing lists the size of TCLUG's for many years on
> much slower hardware, no?  I'm confused.

Again. TCLUG's mailing lists is made up of several mailing lists. tclug-list,
tclug-announce, tclug-jobs, tclug-devel, and linux-kernel.

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