Hi all, Just a few administrative comments: 1. Please reduce quoting of messages to just a few lines. Please do not quote full messages. 2. If you want to unsubscribe an old address (from which you can no longer *send* messages, only *receive*), you can do so by writing "unsubscribe old@address" in the SUBJECT of a message to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org 3. Please keep you signature limited to 3 to 5 lines-- many people already have (unwanted) signatures from their free e-mail provider. 4. To make this message slightly more interesting, here's the latest run-down of SeeSat-L subscribers: Total 645 (568 SeeSat-L / 77 SeeSat-D) .com 237 .net 140 UK 37 USA (.edu) 35 Canada 24 Australia 20 Germany 20 .org 17 Netherlands 9 Italy 9 Spain 9 Sweden 9 France 8 Belgium 7 Japan 6 USA (.gov) 5 Finland 4 Ireland 4 Russia 4 Switzerland 4 Argentina 3 Denmark 3 Brazil 3 South-Africa 3 Poland 3 USA (.mil) 2 Austria 2 Norway 2 Czech Republic 1 Singapore 1 New Zealand 1 New Caledonia 1 Taiwan 1 Greece 1 China 1 Thailand 1 Hong Kong 1 Romania 1 Slovenia 1 Sri Lanka 1 Uruguay 1 Jordan 1 Malaysia 1 Oman 1 Having done this manually, some of these numbers may be off by a few units. We have subscribers in at least 39 different countries (probably more, since many are hidden in the .com and .net addresses). After having hovered around 600 subscribers since 1998 (the Iridium influx), subscriber numbers have been growing in the past few months (the second Iridium boost?). There are no obvious subscribers from Iraq, North Korea, Lybia or Cuba :-) Some other trivia: There are usually up to half a dozen unsub/sub requests per day, though I think up to 80% of our subscriber base is very stable. SeeSat-L produces several dozen bounce messages per day -- automatic unsubscription is enabled after 5 to 10 bounces are received from your address. Up to 100 people per day read the WWW-version of SeeSat-L, some of whom are probably not subscribed to the e-mail version. Distribution of a SeeSat-L message causes my workstation blackadder (a Silicon Graphics O-2 workstation with a 250 Mhz MIPS R10000 processor and 832 Mbytes RAM), usually used for (solar) image processing, to slow down for about 1 minute. The SeeSat-L and WWW VSOHP archives take up 168 Mb as of today. Most of that (100 Mb) is contained in the SeeSat-L WWW and text archives. The WWW archive typically gets accessed by more than 500 people per day, with over 80 Megabytes transferred on a typical day. All of the www(2).satellite.eu.org resources (hardware) are currently located in Palo Alto. Cheers, Bart ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bart De Pontieu -- bdp@lmsal.com -- http://blackadder.lmsal.com/~bdp/ Solar Physicist at Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab, Palo Alto bart@satellite.eu.org -- www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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