Pre-Federation, the old group's Yahoo discussion list operated from January 2005 to December 2015. The project I mentioned last night (technically early this morning) was to analyze the statistical post trends, just for fun. :) Jonathan G. was the first to raise his hand. He replied with two things: 1. The data at http://www.vcfed.org/evan/legacy_list_stats.xlsx 2. A comment that, "You can clearly see the burst in mails around VCF East each year in the graphs." Jonathan, I'm not sure if you knew this, but the VCF East wasn't always in springtime like it is now. We started with VCF East 3 (2006) and skipped 2010/2013. The schedule was as follows: 2006 - East 3.0 - May 2007 - East 4.0 - June 2008 - East 5.0 - September 2009 - East 6.0 - September 2011 - East 7.0 - May 2012 - East 8.0 - May 2014 - East 9.1 - April 2015 - East "X" - April