It's possible. Whenever the email forum goes down or has a problem, there tends to be a surge of activity here. It also happens when there's some interesting posting, code or thread here and someone mentions it on the email forum, and again you get a rush of folks coming over to see.

Though I must admit I was surprised at that figure (almost a 100 up on the previous high total)... but don't forget that number includes Guests and you don't need to be logged-in to be a Guest.