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15,000: Bob Corbett. A bit of list history and a source
Folks, we just turned the corner of another 1000 notes to the list.
I'm not sure if all of you are aware, but on June 24, 1999 I moved the
list to the Webster University server. In early 2002 the web master at
Webster U. did post the first 12,262 message to the web and those
are there for your use at:
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti-archive/maillist.html
However, if you go to my MAIN HAITI PAGE
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/haiti.html
This is a large line in RED which says:
SEARCH THIS WHOLE SITE.
This is an internal search engine just for the Webster U. web site and it
is quite sensitive. Thus you can do a full text search on those 12,262
messages. Just about a two weeks ago a scholar write me saying I had
almost nothing on Haitian/Dominican relations on my website which I need
was certainly true. But, having totally forgotten about the mailing list
post, I did a search to see what was on my web site and just typed in
the Dominian Republic. I got 931 hits and nearly all of them were from
the mailing list. So it's a useful search engine.
Below is a log of these 16,000 message to date. I don't have all the
data. If any of you have the note I sent out for these three missing
thousand marks, I'd love the date on them so I could complete this log.
See more below this chart.....
Post Date Days Average
# per
day
1 6/24/1999
1000 11/18/1999 140 7
2000 1/25/2000 69 15
3000 3/26/2000 60 17
4000 5/31/2000 66 15
5000 10/2/2000 124 8
6000 11/27/2000 56 18
7000 2/11/2001 77 13
8000 5/22/2001 101 10
9000 9/3/2001 104 10
10,000 12/17/2001 106 9
11,000 3/3/2002 76 13
12,000 5/12/2002 70 14
13,000
14,000
15,000
16,000 6/23/2003
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The chart above is from 6/24/1999 to today.
However, I began the mailing list in 1994 with just 7 people and I don't
even know who those 7 were. They would definitely have been subscriber to
the hard copy magazine I used to publish called STRETCH. If you were
among those original 7 I'd love to know who you were.
I have no idea how many posts were sent out between 1994 and 6/24/1999
when I began to number the posts.
Lastly, I will be contacting the web master at Webster University to ask
if he would soon post the next batch of post to the web for us, the
posts from # 12,263 to today 16,000.
It is a useful research tool.
Also: Some of you had written me that you have some of the post from
BEFORE 6/24/1999 when I was using either netcom.com or even earlier,
crl.com to send messages. If you have those I would simply LOVE to get
copies of them, perhaps on a CD rom, which I could then as the web master
to load to the archive as well.
Thanks very much, Bob Corbett