On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Sandwhich Eyes wrote: > so do most people use irc now? > i notice the volume of this list has gone from around 15 or so emails a day > to 1 or 2 a week. > where are all the newbie questions being answered? Maybe we don't have as many noobs, but I'll say for sure that these two things have affected my use of the list: (1) Ubuntu/Linux software mostly just works for me now. It has improved a lot over the years so I have fewer questions now. And... (2) Google answers a lot more questions than it used to. I find a lot of answers on Ubuntu forums and such, so less need to ask here. I hope plenty of new people are getting into using Linux but I'm not really sure what the data show. It seems like Macs with their OS X unix really took off, but did that cut into the Linux user base? Best, Mike