Shawn,
I think this is my 4th email address on the VRF, so like you said, it's
real hard to tell who the top contributors are. Early on I was asking
more that answering, then over time it started going the other way.
Lately, I've been doing a lot more reading than responding.
I was listening to Kim Komando on the air today and she heard from a
listener they would clean up an old, sticky keyboard by throwing it in
the dishwasher and set it for a hot rinse-only cycle (with no soap),
then let it set for a few days to dry out. She thought it was foolish,
until she tried it! Sure beats popping all the key caps off to clean
it by hand! Just thought I would throw that out, since you seen to go
through a lot of keyboards. (Hummm... Do coffee drinkers retire more
keyboards than non-coffee drinkers?)
Mike Groves
BTW, wasn't there something on the VRF M-A-N-Y years ago about cooking
a fish in the dishwasher? Maybe it wasn't on the VRF, but I thought
that's where I first heard it. Maybe I'm just getting senile.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Fessenden [mailto:shawn@testech-ltd.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:05 PM
To: VRF
Subject: RE: [vrf] VRF Stats
There is a primitive stats page (with top 10) now at:
http://www.oswegosw.com/VRFStats.php
Yours truly wins (?) with well over 1300, with Scott Bayes a distant 2nd at
283. Actually, my number is closer to 1500 - I haven't yet figured out how
to combine the results for the same person from different email addresses
(it's all SQL with no post-processing). My hotmail address alone contributed
95.
This result isn't surprising. I've won "awards" on several BBSs for being a
huge gas bag! Hence the question: "how many keyboards do you go through in a
year?"
-SHAWN-
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I think this is my 4th email address on the VRF, so like you said, it's
real hard to tell who the top contributors are. Early on I was asking
more that answering, then over time it started going the other way.
Lately, I've been doing a lot more reading than responding.
I was listening to Kim Komando on the air today and she heard from a
listener they would clean up an old, sticky keyboard by throwing it in
the dishwasher and set it for a hot rinse-only cycle (with no soap),
then let it set for a few days to dry out. She thought it was foolish,
until she tried it! Sure beats popping all the key caps off to clean
it by hand! Just thought I would throw that out, since you seen to go
through a lot of keyboards. (Hummm... Do coffee drinkers retire more
keyboards than non-coffee drinkers?)
Mike Groves
BTW, wasn't there something on the VRF M-A-N-Y years ago about cooking
a fish in the dishwasher? Maybe it wasn't on the VRF, but I thought
that's where I first heard it. Maybe I'm just getting senile.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Fessenden [mailto:shawn@testech-ltd.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:05 PM
To: VRF
Subject: RE: [vrf] VRF Stats
There is a primitive stats page (with top 10) now at:
http://www.oswegosw.com/VRFStats.php
Yours truly wins (?) with well over 1300, with Scott Bayes a distant 2nd at
283. Actually, my number is closer to 1500 - I haven't yet figured out how
to combine the results for the same person from different email addresses
(it's all SQL with no post-processing). My hotmail address alone contributed
95.
This result isn't surprising. I've won "awards" on several BBSs for being a
huge gas bag! Hence the question: "how many keyboards do you go through in a
year?"
-SHAWN-
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> From: Stan Bischof (Richard S) [mailto:rsb@soco.agilent.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:20 PM
> To: VRF
> Subject: [vrf] VRF Stats
>
>
> had a few minutes and it is Friday afternoon
> so looked at some stats from the VRF----
>
> year # messages
>
> 1995 27 (started late in the year)
> 1996 548
> 1997 1200
> 1998 1944
> 1999 1831
> 2000 1313
> 2001 1762
> 2002 2610
> 2003 3008
> 2004 4454
> 2005 1121 as of tax day ( 3900 annualized)
>
> So- traffic peaked in 98 and declined a little
> but then has come back strong since 2000
> and has been steadily rising. Maybe not surprisingly
> this pretty much follows the dotcom boom/bust and
> now recovery. To date that's nearly 20 thousand
> messages.
>
> But this year looks weak- so we need to get more active!
>
> Stan
>
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