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And you can send me MP3 files of > birds chirping, preferably ones that would be enjoyable to wake up to > later on tonight – that is if you’ve got any. I sure would appreciate > it. Not easy to find birdies to sing to you when it’s dark out. > Josh
Josh, I knew you couldn’t read my mind "-))..however, I DID think it possible that one might be able to determine ‘lurkership’ as well as ‘membership.’ I’m not smart enough to know differently, althoug it did strike me as surprising!! No need to repost. Re; the birds: I don’t have any MP3 files on that….my grandson probably does, however! Although he’s more interested in Orks right now that birds….. "-)) KAT in CT
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:40:42 GMT, Randall Bart <Barti…@usa.spam.net> wrote: >No, he can’t. It might be possible to count the lurkers at a certain >newsserver, but there is no way to know about lurkers all over the >net.
Interesting. While there certainly is no central repository of newsgroup members (not possible since "membership" does not even apply), it should be possible to monitor posts over time and build up a list of names. Evidently that’s what www.remarq.com does. My name was on their list, and I never use their site. Jonathan _____________________________________________________ jonat…@gennick.com http://gennick.com Brighten the Corner Where You Are
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>Ziggy 99 wrote<<I went ahead and got a count on the number of posters. >A few of the names got mixed up in the translation. but it’s fairly accurate. >???? Not sure exactly what this ia in reference to–but I, Fangbasher am NOT >"faller" or "fenisz" and am wondering why that might have been assumed and/or >listed that way?
I copy/pasted the list into Word 97, saved the file as a Text file, then opened up the file in Access 97 and let Access 97 assign an automatic number to the list. It’s when I imported it into Access that the list got a bit corrupted (is that an understatement?). Apparently, when I pasted the list into Word, it didn’t understand some of the characters and concactenated some of the names. (Causing some names to be listed on the same line without spaces). so I tried to split the names into what I thought was the correct place to press return and get the proper name. But I think maybe some special characters got dropped when pasting, so I didn’t have necessarily a definite place that looked "right" to press return and get two "proper" names, instead of just one long illegible name. Then after I saved the list as a text file, I opened it in Access 97, and then again, Access dropped some of the special characters, making some of the names dissapear altogether, or shortening some names into illegible meaningless words. So again, I tried to fix the corrupted names in order for the list to read correctly, or at least look better. James
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<< However, I’m not there at all! (sob sob) Cas >> 
Cas, I know you are real. I just checked again–am still listed as #145 along with 2 others who have same # and thesee 3 are between the following. 144 Estesfam5 145 "Faller.FANGBASHER.Fenisz 146 FFberry110 I do not want my name maintained on any list that could make it more easily accessible for a mailing list, and I do not give anyone permission to share it with others in that form for that purpose or any other without permission.
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‘Twas Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:19:50 -0400 when the wise and venerated "KATHRYN A TAUBERT" <KATAUB…@prodigy.net> enlightened alt.support.tourette with these thought provoking words: >> Should I post a list of lurkers? That would be at least 3 times as long >> a list. >You can DO this? How do you find these things out? I’d be interested in >knowing the total number of posters and lurkers within a given time frame…
No, he can’t. It might be possible to count the lurkers at a certain newsserver, but there is no way to know about lurkers all over the net. — RB |
