A bet (was Happy Birthday, Megan!)

[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)
> Number of posts the week after (750)
> Biggest-posting day after OOP (Thursday 10 July 2003)
> Number of posts that day (230)
> Biggest-posting week after OOP, Sunday to Saturday (the third week)
> Number of posts that week (1050)
> Longest post in the six months after OOP (105K)
> Date of longest post (Nov 25 2003)
> Max number of posts by one person in the month after OOP (97)
> Number of active posters in the month after OOP (342)
> 
> 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 assume you're talking about the main HPfGU list, and not a 
combination of the main list and OT, right?

How about Max Number of List members by the end of July 2003 (8800)

How do you determine the number of "active" posters at any given 
time?  I've always been curious as to what percentage of total 
members of the main list are actually posting.

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)

Can't begin to guess the rest of the questions, until I figure out 
how to count "active" posters.

Jo Serenadust