Traffic Report for December 2000
- Introductory Comments
- Archive Information
- Traffic Report
- Countries Information
- Top 15 Contributors
- HumorList Information
- Contributor Spotlight
- Contribution of Humor
- Month Index
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Hi, everyone, this is Doug, with this month's traffic report. Once a
month, during the first part of the month, I send the report to
the entire HUMOR list. Welcome to the month of
December, 2000.
I am going to make you work for the Contributions of Humor. The
jokes themselves will not be shown, only the link. Follow the link if
you want to see what the joke is. For more information on this, see
the Contribution of Humor section.
The number of jokes is way up this month. Probably because
the number of contributors is up too. Way to go everybody!
Welcome our new Contributors or old Contributors with new Email addresses:- Dan Hicks <danhicks@IJ.NET>
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These are the current sites for the archives:
humor.catweasel.org
(HTML, Text, and Zip copies of Digests and Yearly and
Monthly Traffic Reports)
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Traffic Report for December 2000
Week Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 10 8
2 11 14 18 32 17 17 10
3 14 34 11 14 14 19 9
4 7 13 13 13 10 10 8
5 10 6 8 13 9 9 11
6 11
Dec Nov Dec Dec
2000 2000 1999 1998
# Jokes for the Month: 370 321 206 284
# days of submissions for the Month: 31 30 31 31
Average Jokes per day for the Month: 12 11 7 9
# Contributors for the Month: 37 39 31 50
# New Subscribers for the Month: * * * *
# Members Unsubscribed for the Month: * * * *
# Subscribers as of end of the Month: 6205 6250 8048 7659
# Contributors as of end of the Month: 611 610 599 584
# Countries as of end of the month: 85 84 88 114
* - Statistics not available
The above statistics are based on addresses registered to our
listserver. It does not include addresses which receive HUMOR by
other than direct mailings. The numbers include
concealed/non-concealed subscribers
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The HumorList is sent daily to the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil,
Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cocos (Keeling) Islands,
Colombia, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt,
Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong,
Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica,
Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macau, Malaysia,
Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman,
Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania,
Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain,
Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga,
Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Ciacos Islands, Uganda,
Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, USA, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia,
Zimbabwe,
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And now, the Top 15 Contributors. This will show you which
Contributors are sending the most contributions of Humor each month.
Those who are posting every day are noted.
Top 15 Contributors from 12/1/2000 to 12/31/2000
Contributor # Posts
*Bill Stebbins 31
The Punk With The Stutter 30
Terry Galan 30
Mickey&Karen 30
Randall Woodman 25
Les Pourciau at UMem 24
Rose Vos 21
Emko Witteveen 20
Stan Kegel 17
Paul Benoit 16
SSibert911 14
chaps 12
Maurizio Mariotti 12
Jimmy Farrar 12
Jim Mica 11
* - Contributed Every Digest/Day
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The Humor staff is comprised of:
Jay Harman, Listowner
Larry Randall, Examiner & Rules Enforcer
Doug Harter, Archivist and Traffic Reporter
Bill Edwards, Founder and Listowner Emeritus
HUMOR GOALS
A daily average of 10-20 examples of humor.
A diversity of humor: sources, forms, subjects.
Freedom of expression for contributors.
Protection of sensitivities for readers (heading warning
requirement).
HUMOR CONTRIBUTOR RULES (brief version)
Subject line should disclose the subject of the humor.
Subject line should include warning if potentially offensive.
One contribution per day.
Only substantial examples of verbal humor should be posted.
Discussion, requests, and criticisms are not to be posted.
No personal attacks, apologies, reactions or retractions.
Articles should normally be shorter than 25 lines (99 lines max).
Conserve bandwidth: Avoid blank lines; No ASCII art or sig file.
A contributor who violates the rules may be suspended.
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To Subscribe to the Humor List:
Send an e-mail to:
leave the subject area blank; in the BODY of the letter,
type: SUB HUMOR yourfirstname yourlastname
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A few of the more widely used commands:
Send an e-mail to:
leave the subject area blank; in the BODY of the letter, type:
GET HUMOR GUIDE become a contributor
QUERY HUMOR check your settings
SIGNOFF HUMOR leave the main list (unsubscribe)
SIGNOFF HUMOR-P leave the contributor's list
SET HUMOR NOMAIL stop all mail for a temporary period
SET HUMOR MAIL receive humor as it is posted
SET HUMOR DIGEST daily collections of humor (default)
SET HUMOR CONCEAL conceal your address from spammers
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Now the Contributor Spotlight:
Featured this month: Jim Mica
Jim Mica was our 10th top contributor in the last 4 months.. Here is
information about him, in his own words.
Jim Mica was delivered on a drab November morning four score and five
years after Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address. As a youth Jim
maintained a micawberish attitude toward life, but found his school
chums had no idea what this meant. In search of understanding he
stayed in school until he was well into a doctoral program. While
preparing his dissertation, however, he found out that only 200
others in the whole world shared his passion for mathematical
sociology and only 1/3 of them were employed. So he quit. He now
spends his time as the nose counter in the admission's office of an,
otherwise, well-respected private college in upstate New York.
Mr. Mica finds humor in current events, old joke books, e-mails from
sympathetic friends and the recesses of his chaotic mind. He first
joined the HUMOR list in 1993. Throughout 2000 he has been using
"jiM Mica" as his sig and nobody has commented on it. Readers may be
more familiar with the work that appears under his penname: John
Emile Mills. His motto follows de la Bruyere or Walpole or Byron or
some old Chinese proverb:
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who
think.
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And finally, the one feature which has been featured in all
Traffic Reports, the Contribution of Humor. Since, I am not a
real regular contributor, I will not be providing new Humor.
Instead, I will provide a joke from the archives. It will be at
least 14 months old, so most of you won't remember it. I
will only provide a link to the joke, not the actual joke, although I
will provide the Subject line (Topic). Since there are now HTML
versions of all Digests, it will point to the joke itself.
My Contribution of Humor from the Archives:
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Doug Harter, Traffic Reporter and Archiver
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