Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:51:14 -0400
From: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Subject: WWW page enormously successful
Sender: Lojban list <LOJBAN@CUVMB.BITNET>
To: Veijo Vilva <veion@XIRON.PC.HELSINKI.FI>
Reply-to: Logical Language Group <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
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I took a look at the WWW page log for Veijo's server for the first time in
several months, and collated the statistics.
 
Since the beginning of this year there have been over 20K accesses.  But
more importantly, we have had 8800 different addresses since the server was
 started, making requests of the server.  In some cases these requests are
 spurious,
because they come from a WWW search engine (you'd be surprised what kind
of weird things pick up Lojban gismu and rafsi files - someone searching for
female genitalia ended up on the Lojban page - bet THEY were surprised!).
Some sites will issue a www request from a variety of machines, and will thus
show up as multiple sites in the log.  On the other hand, more than one
person at a major ISP like Digex or Netcom, will all show the same source
address.  Thus, the total number of sites probably balances out to a usable
estimate.
 
The server is averaging over 30 new sites requesting data every day, and there
are gaps in the log, so that we are probably closing in fast on 10000 different
people qquerying about Lojban.
 
This is showing up in other ways.  i think close to half the people on
Lojban List are people who have never registered with us, so I have no idea
who you are or your level of interest in the language, but it is presumable
that most of you found out about Lojban from the WWW server.
 
lojbab
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lojbab                                                lojbab@access.digex.net
Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc.
2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA                        703-385-0273
 For the artificial language Loglan/Lojban, see ftp.cs.yale.edu  /pub/lojban
    or see Lojban WWW Server: href="http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/"