Ed.....I don't know if this is any consolation, but when I have used the
archives I found that it was invaluable.....

Thanks a heap for any effort that you expend in keeping them up,
m.

Ed Stewart-AstroDesigns wrote:

> Hi guys--
>
> Sometimes I’m asked why I bother maintaining the Topical Archive and
> after using a whole day of my Thanksgiving holiday to update it, I was
> beginning to wonder myself. Well the answer came this morning from the
> Mac’s Shack Counter Report (Mike, thanks for the free counter!). Thought
> you might like to see the level of activity and worldwide access:
>
> Web Server Statistics for Mac's Shack JEO-Counter
> =====================================
> Daily Summary for Sun: 80 requests
>
> Domain Report
> #reqs: %bytes: domain
> ----- ------ ------
> 45: 61.89%: .net (Network)
> 20: 22.28%: .com (Commercial, mainly USA)
> 5: 4.76%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
> 2: 2.25%: .org (Non-Profit Making Organizations)
> 1: 1.15%: .de (Germany)
> 1: 1.13%: .ru (Russian Federation)
> 1: 1.13%: .edu (USA Educational)
> 1: 1.12%: .nl (Netherlands)
> 1: 1.11%: .fo (Faroe Islands)
> 1: 1.07%: .ca (Canada)
> 1: 1.06%: .uk (United Kingdom)
> 1: 1.04%: .fr (France)
> =====================================
>
> And I ran some site analysis software (actually contained inside of
> Adobe PageMill 3.0) to auto-verify the WWW links and any internal
> errors. After that was complete, I asked for a site summary. These
> numbers really blew me away as I had no idea the site had grown to these
> kind of numbers:
> Total files: 262 (123 pages, 128 images, and 11 software zip files)
> Total links: 598 (336 www and 262 internal from page to page)
> Total memory: 6.7mb
>
> So back to the original question of why. There are two main reasons,
> first, I really enjoy helping people and the site report gives me the
> feedback that the information is being used; and second, I learn a lot
> about the webpage development process by actually doing it. Hope to use
> this skill in a couple of years as a new career when I retire from
> teaching. So there is a somewhat selfish purpose. Not looking for any
> comments, just wanted to share my thoughts this morning.
>
> <http://come.to/AstroDesigns> Mapug Topical Archive
> Personal webpage: <http://www.flash.net/~stlkid/>

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