| [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #299970] |
So, 16 Juli 2006 22:30 |
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This is a regular service. So tune in again in another three years.
http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2003.txt
verses
http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2006.txt
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #299989 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 00:39 |
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The time: 16 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: aqusenet [at] mailinator.com (Aquarion)
> This is a regular service. So tune in again in another
> three years.
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2003.txt
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> verses
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2006.txt
Good grief, it all comes back to me[1]. The Myra Hindley
thread. The guns thread. The repeated arguments with
alt.fan.tolkien. The movie thread. The bullying thread.
Suddenly the current State of AFP doesn't seem so bad...
(And a thread headed "[M] Quality not quantity -- *please*".
Plus ca change...)
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"If being stuck in a swamp with Christine Hamilton
is 'reality', pass the mind-altering drugs."
-Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #300035 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 09:09 |
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In article <1hil7ii.15tg87bw8k5vkN%aqusenet [at] mailinator.com>, Aquarion
aqusenet [at] mailinator.com wibbled...
> This is a regular service. So tune in again in another three years.
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2003.txt
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> verses
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2006.txt
Heh. Not actually that much difference as far as I can see - quoted vs
new rate is still in the 40%'s, still lots of subjects and lots of
posters... only thing I spotted is that for posting volumes me and
himself seem to have vaguely swapped places in the list *LOL*
Suzi
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #300043 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 10:19 |
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Aquarion wrote:
> This is a regular service. So tune in again in another three
> years.
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2003.txt
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> verses
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> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2006.txt
Interesting, but ...
I'd have to wonder what the methodology is with regard to things
like X-No-Archive posts and so forth; and how much of AFP your news
server gets.
(Unfortunately, a fair bit of Debian developerland is not available
at the moment, following last week's compromise of gluck; thus
checking is somewhat harder than it might otherwise be.)
There does appear to be some degree of variance with Google's
stats - see
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.fan.pratchett/about?hl= en -
although this could well be Google's screwup;
By a (very rough) yardstick:
2003 sample period:
Google: ~18000
Aq: 57000
2006 sample period:
Google: 35000+
Aq: 29000
Given that 2006's sample period is twice as long as 2003's, this
would tend to indicate that AFP in 2006 is a quarter as busy as it
was in 2003; and has a quarter of the posters.
cheers,
Gideon.
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #300045 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 10:22 |
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Suzi wrote:
> In article <1hil7ii.15tg87bw8k5vkN%aqusenet [at] mailinator.com>, Aquarion
> aqusenet [at] mailinator.com wibbled...
>
>> This is a regular service. So tune in again in another three years.
>>
>> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2003.txt
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>> verses
>>
>> http://www.aquarionics.com/fun/afp/afpstats-2006.txt
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> Heh. Not actually that much difference as far as I can see
Apart from the fact that at the start of 2003 there were apparently 650
messages per day compared to 162 per day at the start of 2006? Sorry, but
that gem indicates to me that the whole lot is completely bogus. There is
NO WAY ON EARTH that traffic 3 years ago was four times higher than it is
now.
I suspect that either Aq's news server has been missing a lot of posts
lately, or he's been unsubscribed part of the time recently, or he has spam
rules that dump messages before they get as far as the stats program - all
of which mean these figures are meaningless.
Peter
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #300051 ] |
Mo, 17 Juli 2006 12:57 |
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The time: 17 Jul 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: "Peter Ellis" <pjie2 [at] cam.ac.uk>
> Apart from the fact that at the start of 2003 there were
> apparently 650 messages per day compared to 162 per day at
> the start of 2006? Sorry, but that gem indicates to me
> that the whole lot is completely bogus. There is NO WAY ON
> EARTH that traffic 3 years ago was four times higher than
> it is now.
Sounds about right to me. Back in the day there were usually
about 50 new messages by the time I finished reading the
overnight ones. These days, there's often nothing except my
own posts.
--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
"If being stuck in a swamp with Christine Hamilton
is 'reality', pass the mind-altering drugs."
-Humphrey Lyttelton, "I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue"
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #301432 ] |
Di, 18 Juli 2006 14:04 |
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:39:32 +0000, Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
> (And a thread headed "[M] Quality not quantity -- *please*".
> Plus ca change...)
And a bra thread, and one on UK ID cards.
Let's all hope we *don't* have a shuttle thread... other than to
congratulate them on a safe return.
--
Kind regards,
Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #301760 ] |
Mi, 19 Juli 2006 19:25 |
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:04:45 +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> Let's all hope we *don't* have a shuttle thread... other than to
> congratulate them on a safe return.
Answering my own post.. tut tut.. ;)
They're back and in one piece! Yay! :)
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Kind regards,
Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
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| Re: [M] it was the past, and we did things differently then [message #301923 ] |
Do, 20 Juli 2006 21:25 |
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Aquarion posted:
> This is a regular service. So tune in again in another
> three years.
....
Interesting: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class soapclient in
/var/www/hosts/www.aquarionics.com/epistula/include/nusoap.p hp on line 3837
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Ciao
Thomas =:-)
<sometimes RL is such a drag>
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