Is there any way we can keep up with the number of hits that this forum gets per day? Can anybody out there give me some ideas for coming up with some other "panicometer"? I've only been on this forum for several weeks, but it seems that in the last few days it's been much more crowded as I've had trouble getting in to the server.

-- Puddintame (dit@dot.com), January 25, 1999

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Puddintame - At 5:30 A.M. Sunday morning, Jan 24, I was informed by gateway that there was some problem with the circuits. I got through to a technician by 6:00 A.M. and was instructed how to reconfigure the connection. Since yesterday, it has been one disconnect after another. My e-mail is not transmitting and I expect to be off again soon. It's very frustrating not to be able to get through and read the new posts. Is this just a gateway problem or are there problems with other providers? Mary

-- Mary (sweep@gateway.net), January 25, 1999.

I met a gentlemen over Christmas who lives in the Georgetown area. He mentioned that he was having a lot of problems with Gateway even then.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), January 25, 1999.

Puddintame: I've been lurking here for more than a year, just started posting withn the last month or so. A year ago it would be an extremely heavy day to see half a dozen new questions and maybe 35 to 40 new answers, if that provides a baseline for you. You could count the number of active posters back then on your fingers and toes. As for hits per day, perhaps the site admin has a counter somewhere, but I've never seen one displayed on the site.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), January 26, 1999.