Subject: Re: archive site hits
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 05:51:44 GMT
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:37:19AM -0400, Mattis Fishman wrote:
> Hold on, there. You mean to tell us that we get 4 posts a day, the
> majority of which have no relevence to JDS or his works whatsoever,
> and 1200 occasions *daily* on which someone comes looking at this?
Yes! From what I've been told privately via mail, people frequently
drop anchor at the archives and browse quite a bit before joining. Some
subscribe only after putting the proverbial periscope up a bit. Others
prefer to read a whole month's worth of messages and get their fix that
way; they don't want so much to write as they do to read.
> Do you perhaps have a breakdown? Number of searches? Common search
> criteria? Most popular months for review? Numbers? Do I have to move to
> South America and change my name?
No tie between search and person! I'd be able to show actual machines
and what files they retrieve, but I refuse to do that -- too intrusive
and too apt to invade privacy. We just capture top-level domains (TLD)
and next-level domains (e.g., something.ibm.com, but not
"johndoe@computer.something.ibm.com"). So, you can take off your false
whiskers and fake Heidelberg duelling scar. 8-)
The stats are on the web site. Just look at:
http://www.roughdraft.org/JDS/
and see the line that says:
Welcome to the Bananafish List Archive ... or search this
archive ... or see statistics on runs, hits, and misses.
> L. Manning Vines
<grin>
--tim
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