On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 10:49:54 -0700, "Ahern, Shannon" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>yr/mm        Posts     Recipients
>2002/01       4679      6608498
...

>Now, what I want to know, ... is the precise definition of "recipients".

Total number of email addresses mailed to over the sum of all messages posted.

For example, on day 1, there were (average) 155 messages posted to the list of
(average) 1412 subscribers.  On day 2 there were 156 messages posted to a list
of 1415 subscribers.  On day 3 there were 150 msgs posted to list of 1425
subscribers, etc.  (The numbers are made up of assumed averages.)  At the edn
of the month, there was a total 4679 messages sent to 6,608,498 addresses.
This is messages sent out, it does not include messages which bounced, etc.

Duplicate addresses are counted twice.

e.g. [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]  are duplicates.  2 messages were sent,
2 were counted.