RE: SPAM & OFF TOPIC BLATHERING

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"Simon Lyall" 05/18/01 01:49 >>> [...] I was going to do a count of the number of posts to the list each month this year so far but it appears the web archive is broken (only about

-- Donald Neal Mobility & Calling Platforms Network Delivery Telecom New Zealand Ltd the

first 30 articles for each month are kept). [...]

Try the link that says "Next Page". :{)* By the use of advanced deci-digital counting methods, I get something like: January: Postings 60, Busiest Day 16 February: Postings 101, Busiest Day 24 March: Postings 133, Busiest Day 30 April: Postings 91, Busiest Day 35 May to yesterday (i.e .last sixteen days): Postings 134, Busiest Day 30 We've gone from an average of roughly three to four postings per day up till 7th May to 113 postings in the nine days starting 8th May. Those 113 postings appear to come from 31 different people. The most frequent posters were: Chris Wedgwood, Juha Saarinen: 12 Dean Pemberton: 8 Joe Abley, Simon Blake: 7 Simon Lyall: 6 Andy Gardner, Craig Whitmire: 5 That's a respectable number of people posting, but half of all messages from eight people and a quarter from three people. This may be a strong argument for another mailing list. Maybe not a very big one? On the other hand, there are 224 addresses on the nznog list, and all of three on nznog-digest. And I'm only on the latter to make sure it's working. If over 99% of subscribers choose not to take digests, maybe they're all happy. - Donald Neal --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog