On Sun, 04 Jan 2015, Joe Delahaye wrote to Ward Dossche:

 JD>> Does it really though?

 WD> Actually, it's irrelevant.

 WD> I'm pretty certain the real size of the overal nodelist is less 
 WD> than 50% active people than those listed in it. What the 
 WD> distribution would be, I don't know.

 JD> I'll agree with you there.

as far as "active" goes in areas that can be found in the public
eye, that's probably pretty true... we can't count private areas and no one
has to actually post anything anywhere to be a member of the network...

that said, eliminating duplicates, there's 1948 operator names listed in
nodelist.006... that's with eliminating obvious non-names... there's only
one or two that may be the same person listed with two variations of their
name...

eg: FA_Stare  Fred_A_Stare  Fred_Stare  (ficticious example)

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