Subject: Re: archive site hits
From: Tim O'Connor (oconnort@nyu.edu)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 10:07:39 GMT
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 09:55:01AM -0700, citycabn wrote:
> > How terrifying to think I've been
> >posting here for years under the quiet assumption that only the 100-odd
> >list subscribers ever see the messages, and only a portion of that 100
> >ever actually reads them.
> >
> >1200 hits a day on the archives. I expect the old boy himself numbers
> >among them somewhere....
I've often speculated on that. We once got a huge number of hits from
someone in the Cornish area, from an Internet service provider there.
> I, too, have been posting under the assumption as described above. If you
> had told me there were _two_ hundred hits a day on the Archives I wouldn't
> have believed you. _Twelve_ hundred boggles the mind and induces immediate
> writer's (poster's ?) block.
As one person pointed out to me, some number of those hits are from
search engines. Which of course means that a search on, say,
www.google.com gets a lot of results, which leads, one hopes, to more
readers.
> Readers: please note that all of my previous posts were written on a very
> poorly rehabilitated German keyboard. A new one is on order from New
> Hampshire.
The assembly line can't keep up with the demand....
--tim
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