DeTomaso Mailing List: February 98, Message #79
     



From: 	ingate@shiseis.com (Shane F. Ingate)

Subject: Monthly Blather

Date: 	Mon, 2 Feb 1998 16:55:05 +0000



All,

	Its taken a while to get the monthly blather running

again; the different formats of the data on the new server required

that I hack some code, so there may be a few bugs this month,

but as time goes on, this will improve.



	Unfortunately, I do not have the complete digests

for September 1997 - December 1997 at my web site

(www.horizon.com/pantera), but is should be complete

for 1998 onwards.



	A couple of things to note; in the following "Daily Blather II"

where I calculate a "hit list" of the months most active & prolific posters,

please note that the total number of lines accorded each poster will

include blank lines, "attached" messages, etc.  Eg, we see that Jack

DeRyke may not seem very prolific with a total of 847 lines (as against

Mad Dog's 3544 lines), but Jack's posts come without any attachments, and

so is "pure" Jack.  On the other hand, we see Bo-Bo submitted 901 lines,

but as we all know, "the man of few words" rarely writes more than 1 line

per post, and thus we can conclude that this volume is due mainly to

attached email.



	So in case all you budding Shakespeares out there look at this

and think that maybe you could become the next Steve King at $0.04/word,

think about how much original content you add to the list, and how much

of it is attached email.  By editing down the attached messages to the

bare minimum to maintain a thread and continuity, we can cut down on

bandwidth and time requirements to read the messages.



	Shane Ingate, List Admin.