There should be a time stamp available for the certifications. Then we could see how much less people are getting certified now, compared to a few years ago. If people in general here are only a little similar to me, the certificate frequency is a lot lower these days.
And the crappiness of sourceforge mail servers lately have finally pushed me into a corner and I am now working on moving the main curl mailing lists off sourceforge to a server that can handle mails more swiftly. Stay tuned for info on that. Waiting several days for each mail to show up on a list is not really helping discussions...
