Speaking of hitting the delete key: a couple of years ago, for a little under a year IIRC, Gerry (the machine, not the man) was in the habit of sending me a list member count update every day or so. During that time the count changed up and down in the range of about 60-80 ppl, from the mid 800s to the low 900s. It never made it to 1000 in that time. I took the number to be slightly inflated given that some folks have duplicate subscriptions.
I always figured the net count would continue to go down over time due to list members dying, selling their vans, vans 'leaving the road' (junked, destroyed, parted out or given up on) and so on.

Cya,
Robert

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Seems to me that not that long ago there were just over 1000 subscribers to
this list.
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