An Update (was Re: A bet)

[serenadust]

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "David" <dfrankiswork at n...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I think there is great scope for 'fun online' in the meantime: 
> what 
> > do you all think will be the size of the 'huge swell'.  Here are 
a 
> > few things to guess at:
> > 
> > Number of posts the day the list opens after closing for OOP (my 
> > guess: 95)

<snip>
 
> > Any other guesses?  Any other statistics to guess at?  Prizes for 
> > the best guesses?  Who should pay?
> > 
> > and... no gratuitous posting just to win your bet!


I wrote:
 

> My Guesses:
> Number of posts the day the list re-opens after OOP (175)
> Number of posts the week after (1000)
> Biggest posting day after OOP (July 6, 2003)


I was curious to see how close I came to guessing the actual number 
of posts after the list re-opened, so I went back and counted.

It seems my guess was a bit low (although closer than Dave's ;-))

>From the time the main list re-opened at 4:08pm on 6/22 until 
Midnight there were 400 posts.  Within 24 hours of the list opening 
there were 923.

Obviously, I've under-estimated the the number of posts for the week 
after, so I'll let someone else count those when the time comes.

Is ANYBODY keeping up with reading all this?

I've given up in exhaustion.

Jo Serenadust