Re: [Marxism] re:Spike in archive visits

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

M. Junaid Alam wrote:
> It's also true that Alexa ratings aren't useful for gauging Marxmail,
> but I'm confused as to how Marxmail is operated. I though Alexa wouldn't
> be useful now because the server hosting the list isn't on marxmail.org,
> it's on columbia.edu, and you can't access ratings for subsites of
> domains through Alexa. But then again the discussion list itself is
> located at Utah? How does that all work exactly?

Well, that's the problem. Marxmail is spread all over the place. The
historical archives are at U. of Utah. I often go there to look up a
thread from a few months ago. The Marxmail website is at panix.com in
NYC. Generally, this is where people go who first find out about the
list. Panix supplies mb transfer statistics, but not hits. And then you
have the archives at Columbia. My guess is that if you could pull all
this together, the number of hits would probably be 40,000 per week on
average.


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