I didn't keep all the statistics posts before December 1994. But at some stage while I still had them I recorded the following information.

          
month      posts  posters frequent
                          posters

Dec 1994   1630    257     
Nov 1994  
Oct 1994  
Sep 1994   2237    264     55
Aug 1994   1682    236     54
Jul 1994   1670    196     39
Jun 1994   1441    213     45
May 1994   1689    219     51
Apr 1994   1867    184     51
Mar 1994   1497    187     42
Feb 1994   1741    164     54
Jan 1994   1488    172     44
          
month      posts  posters frequent
                          posters

Dec 1993    939    133     31
Nov 1993   1234    127     37
Oct 1993    942     99     23