I took the various Stallman-related discussion threads, saved them as an MBOX file, then ran some stats. I parsed the mbox file with shell utilities (grep, awk, sort, etc) and probably dropped a few data points, so the counts are approximate. Overall Voting so far (according to the google docs spreadsheet) 33 TCLUG 10 TCGLUG 3 GNU (TCLUG) 5 Misc Mailing List Postings by political affiliation 142 The number of postings by people who voted TCLUG 137 The number of postings by people who voted Something other than TCLUG Breakdown: 113 TCGLUG 11 GNU (TCLUG) 13 Misc It appears that the TCGLUG and TCLUG voters had a fairly even conversation, in terms of quantity. I counted 84 unique posters for the discussion 38 people wrote just one message, likely just to vote That's about 45% of the posters Message count Histogram (approx - might be off a bit) Note: this includes people who didn't vote 63 Mike Miller 26 Florin Iucha 25 "p.daniels" 22 Jeremy 19 "Chuck Cole" 18 Sunny 15 Jima 14 Eric F Crist 10 "Rob Bayerl" 10 "Isaac Atilano" 8 "Dan Armbrust" 8 "Justin Krejci" 8 Adam Monsen 8 Max Shinn 7 Robert Wilkinson 7 Josh Paetzel 7 "Chris Schumann" 7 David Alanis 7 "Jordan Peacock" 6 "Larry R. Pint" 5 Steve Cayford 5 "Troy.A Johnson" 5 Munir Nassar 5 "Smith, Craig A" 4 Elvedin Trnjanin 4 markdeb.browne at comcast.net 4 Yaron 4 "Richard M. Stallman" 4 Dan Rue 3 "John Trammell" 3 tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org 3 "Andy Schmid" 3 "J Cruit" 3 Alan Palazzolo 3 Bob Tanner 3 "Brian D. Ropers-Huilman" 3 "Robert Brown" 3 "Nick Scholtes" 2 "Jim Crumley" 2 auditodd at comcast.net 2 Dean.Benjamin at mm.com 2 John Gateley 2 Chris Barber 2 Dave Carlson 2 Robert Sinland 1 Ian Young 1 Dean 1 "Tony Yarusso" 1 Tom Poe 1 bradyh at bitstream.net 1 Asim Baig 1 Stephen Hilton 1 thecubic at thecubic.net 1 The Wandering Dru 1 Scott Raun 1 Robert De Mars 1 Harry Penner 1 Doug Reed 1 Chad Walstrom 1 Carl Zeilon 1 Donovan 1 "Tim Link" 1 "steve ulrich" 1 Bret Baptist 1 "Tom Penney" 1 swede 1 "Doug Olson" 1 "Dave Sherman" 1 "Paul Cutler" 1 "Erik Anderson" 1 "Mark Browne" 1 "Shawn Fertch" 1 "Noah Markon" 1 "Benjamin Gramlich" 1 "Andrew S. Zbikowski" 1 John Holmstadt 1 Paul A Corbero 1 Joshua Radke 1 Jonathan Osborne 1 Nate Straz 1 "Kurt Lieber" 1 "Keith Bachman" 1 Jeffrey Lehman 1 Marc Skinner