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The SPSP list is for announcements, not discussions: Calls for papers or applications, open job opportunities, conference announcements, ... .
Will subscribing cause a blizzard of emails in your inbox? No.
A fairly typical month was e.g., May 2017
: There were seven messages (three on May 3rd, four later in the month), including two conferences' CfP, a workshop announcement, an available masters course as well as a postdoc position; these were announcements from Texas, Madrid, Exeter, Hannover, Munich and Oxford.
In more precise numbers: The two-year period 1 September 2015 – 31 August 2017 saw 183 messages over 729 days, which is 7.6 per month on average; there were 11 days with three messages, 14 days with two messages, 122 days with a single message, and the remaining 582 without any.
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