At 10:30 AM 1/15/97 -0500, you wrote: >I did some unformal work on statistics about this list ; maybe some of you >will find it interesting. > >I counted 400 postings within 10 days, an average flow of 40 per day. > >These messages were posted by 125 individuals. > > 3 of them posted more than 20 each > 9 posted more than 10 each > 75 posted only 1 > > 50 % were posted by 30 people > 80% were posted by 50 people > >Assuming there is a total of 1425 subscribers, this also means : during these >10 days, 1300 subscribers posted nothing. > >I wonder why. > > >Bernard JOLY >[log in to unmask] > Dear Bernard and other listfriends, My computer was broken and I had to read 460 messages. That's a hell of a job! I read the shortest ones first...367 messages left... I'm reading the three blocks e_mails now... assuming that everyone would mail only 1 letter a day and that downloading and reading takes 1 minute..... That means that we have 1 minute for breakfast, 1 minute for coffeebreak, 1 min for lunch, and so on till we spend all of our 15 minutes that are left after taking care of the list..... I embrace all of the 1425 lurkers..... stick my thump up... You are doing a great job, but please say something once... I will be quiet for several days. Kees Paap