The following three Totals indicate the intensity of traffic on MUSEUM-L
between 1 Jul and 28 Oct 1994. Careful interpretation is in order.
 
The total number of Subjects means the total of Subject lines with
_exactly_ the same text (except that the Re:'s and the original Subject
are combined).
 
The total number of lines doesn't count the mail header lines, but only
the message body lines (there are another 5221 header lines, plus any
additional mail header lines inserted by the various mail handlers
between MUSEUM-L and you). And, the total number of lines includes the
many, often unnecessarily repeated, lines of included messages to which
the sender is responding.
 
   Total Number of Subjects=  1136
   Total Number of Messages=  2690
      Total Number of Lines=  81533
 
Following is a list of the top twenty Subject Lines occurring in
MUSEUM-L between 1 Jul and 28 Oct 1994. Since Subject lines sometimes
do not reflect the actual content of the message, and also messages
treating the same subject sometimes change their Subject lines, these
statistics must be interpreted with much care.  For example, there are
another 4 messages and 111 lines about the "team approach", but the
Subject line is "Team Approach & A Chicago Museum" so it isn't included
below.  Nonetheless, the list does provide some hint of what topics have
provoked the most comments. 363/2690 [13.5%] of the messages were on
the twenty Subjects listed below.
Peter
 
No of Articles
|   Total No of Lines per Subject
|   |   Subject Line
|   |   |
77 1608 Ghoulish request
32 556 (blank)
24 960 R>> technology and museums
21 770 Mummies and Micro-climates
18 383 Museum-L Newsgroup
17 466 team approach
17 600 public access
14 408 Museums & WWW/Access issues
14 489 Curatorial process and political pressure
14 684 Museums Online
13 391 Use of Museum databases - policies
12 220 Unsubscribe
12 229 High School tours/keeping interested
12 455 Food and Beverages
11 201 Grade level tools
11 206 R>> Historic Theme Parks
11 270 Exhibits
11 296 *Intentionally* Funny Museums/exhibits
11 415 R>> RE: Info vs Advertising..and conservation!
11 416 touchscreen or joystick?
 
(Regarding "Unsubscribe" and some recent comments about those who signoff
of MUSEUM-L: The "Unsubscribe" messages counted above are only those from
people who sent the unsubscribe request to MUSEUM-L instead of to LISTSERV,
and/or from those who had some comment to make about (un)subscriptions and
were not really trying to signoff themselves. I don't know what the true
number of signoff's has been during the past months, but it is a fact that
the total number of subscribers has been growing steadily.)