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[[file:index.org][{Back to Worg's index}]]

The Org mailing list is an English language forum for discussing Org.
It is used by the diverse community of Org developers, maintainers,
contributors, experienced users, and new and prospective users both for
discussion and as a repository of information. It was established by
the creator of Org-mode, Carsten Dominik, who enjoys the different
perspectives and range of interests expressed there.

The list is less formal and more diverse than a site like
[[http://stackoverflow.com/tags/org-mode/info][stackoverflow]], which has an org-mode section. Subscribers' messages to
the list aren't moderated and there is no formal mechanism to rate
questions, answers, or reputations.

List etiquette encourages posters to be precise, concise, and
friendly.  Lengthy excerpts of quoted material are probably redundant
and they clog certain distribution channels.  Posters should include
enough quoted material to establish the context for their comments and
cut away the rest.

* Search in Org mailing list

The [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode][Org mailing list]] is very active.  You can also browse it on [[http://news.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][Gmane]].

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* What to do before posting a question

 Please see the following FAQs:

   - [[file:org-faq.org::#can-org-do-x][Can Org-mode do "x"? Does org have "x" feature?]]
   - [[file:org-faq.org::#when-to-contact-mailing-list][What should I do before contacting the mailing list?]]
   - [[file:org-faq.org::#ml-subscription-and-gmane][I read the mailing list through gmane. Should I subscribe?]]
   - [[file:org-faq.org::#bug-reporting][I think my Org-mode is broken! How do I report a bug?]]



* Statistics (as of sept. 19th 2010)
  
** Scope and method

Here are a few stats that I computed from the [[ftp://lists.gnu.org/emacs-orgmode/][lists.gnu.org]] server
archives.

I concatenated the archives into one single mbox file, then I used a
small utility called [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusStats][gnus-stat.el]].

** Posts

: Total number of posts: 30810
: Average bytes/post: -1.000000
: Total number of posters: 1402
: Average posts/poster: 21.975749

| Posts | Authors          |
|-------+------------------|
|  6325 | Carsten Dominik  |
|  1227 | Bastien          |
|  1169 | Bernt Hansen     |
|   806 | Sebastian Rose   |
|   762 | Eric Schulte     |
|   574 | Nick Dokos       |
|   474 | Eric S Fraga     |
|   431 | Samuel Wales     |
|   426 | Dan Davison      |
|   415 | Manish           |
|   386 | David Maus       |
|   374 | Leo              |
|   363 | Sébastien Vauban |
|   342 | Matthew Lundin   |
|   279 | Matt Lundin      |
|   271 | Adam Spiers      |
|   269 | Richard Riley    |
|   267 | Rainer Stengele  |
|   248 | Russell Adams    |
|   242 | Tassilo Horn     |

: Total number of subjects: 10085
: Average posts/subject: 3.055032

| # posts | Subject                                                             |
|---------+---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      71 | [Orgmode] Re: Sourceforge community award                           |
|      56 | [Orgmode] Re: [ANN] Org-babel integrated into Org-mode              |
|      51 | [Orgmode] Re: Behavior of Gnus when called from an hyperlink        |
|      46 | [Orgmode] Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change             |
|      45 | [Orgmode] depending TODOs, scheduling following TODOs automatically |
|      43 | [Orgmode] Beamer support in Org-mode                                |
|      39 | [Orgmode] Re: keys and command name info                            |
|      38 | [Orgmode] POLL: the 40 variables project                            |
|      35 | [Orgmode] Re: Org now fontifies code blocks                         |
|      34 | [Orgmode] Re: New beamer support                                    |
|      33 | [Orgmode] Re: POLL: Change of keys to move agenda through time      |
|      33 | [Orgmode] Re: org-mode on sloooow computer                          |
|      32 | [Orgmode] iPhone ----> org-mode                                     |
|      30 | [Orgmode] Re: Support (or not) for Emacs 21, and XEmacs             |
|      30 | [Orgmode] Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode                         |
|      29 | [Orgmode] Poll: Who is using these commands                         |
|      29 | [Orgmode] Re: log on state change                                   |
|      28 | [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?                       |
|      28 | [Orgmode] property searches for #+CATEGORY                          |
|      28 | [Orgmode] XHTML export - &nbsp; etc.                                |

** TODO Gmane stats?

Here is an idea: Gmane gives [[http://gmane.org/output-rate.php?group%3Dgmane.emacs.orgmode][raw numbers]] -- we could use them to rebuild
the graph that you see [[http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode][here]].