100,000 messages celebration?

[Tim Peters]

[Just van Rossum]
> What he says. Here's a nice-looking graph, though:
>
>   http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/

[Grant Edwards]
> Is the Y axis a cumulative total, or messages per unit time.

If it were cumulative, how would you account for it going down some months?
Aha!  Broken integer division <wink>.

There are actually 12 bars per year, each representing the number of
postings in one month.