>>> shempmcgurk wrote:
>>> Well, he [Maharishi] must have had quite an impact on you be-
>>> cause you spend half your days dialoging on a forum devoted to
>>> his teachings and people's experiences with it and his movement...
>> Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
>> Actually it seems this is a list for ex-TMers in recovery...an
>> ex-TM 12-step group...it just happens those still burning a can-
>> dle for TM and the TM$P are the loudest and most obsessive post-
>> ers.
> jim_flanegin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> Yourself included?
Here are some interesting statistics about posting on this list
[culled from the last 200 posts to the list].
Interpret them as you will.
1. Fairfield Life has 1103 subscribers.
Be aware that NOT all those people actually read this list every
day. Some stopped long ago, and either changed their subscription
to "web only" and never stop by the website anymore, or they keep
getting the digest version and delete it, yet they still show up on
the membership rolls; there are a fair number of these - I bump in-
to them regularly. Others get and quickly skim the digest version,
and only read on if something grabs them. While others read us
in detail occasionally, and also skip us for varying periods of
time.
2. 28 posters (out of 1103 members) made 100% of the last 200 posts.
So 2.5% of our list members made 100% of the list posts.
97.5% of our members are lurking, to some extent or another.
3. Of those 28 active posters, 17 made 4 or less posts.
These 17 posters made 33 posts out of the last 200.
4. Of those 28 active posters, 11 made 6 or more posts.
These 11 posters made 167 posts out of the last 200.
These 11 posters comprise 1% of the list's members, and create
84% of the list's posts.
5. So, basically, these 11 posters are carrying on various conversa-
tions here, and entertaining (or boring or being ignored by) the
other 99% of the list.
Here are our 11 most active posters (for the last 200 posts):
Rank Name # of posts
1 shempmcgurk 39
2 spareig 34
3 authfriend 19
4 mdixon 13
5 Rick Archer 12
5 TurquoiseB 12
7 Vaj 11
8 Sally Sunshine 7
8 Nelson 7
8 Robert Gimbel 7
11 Lurkernomore 6
[Of course, this is by "number of posts" - someone (other than me)
could count words, lines, etc. - as a couple of you are so good at
;) - and out-OCD me. Probably I might even sneak onto the list if
you catch the right sampling of posts with one of my whoppers in
it. But this is as much fun as I have time for tonight.]
So look at the list of our most prolific posters, and then
judge for yourself whether they are TBs, TNBs, pro-TM, anti-TM,
pro-Maharishi, anti-Maharishi, mixed, neutral, confused, realized,
unrealized, too serious, too sarcastic, too positive, too negative,
too fat, too thin, "burning a candle", burning a bush, etc. as you
wish. See if your labels provide evidence to support your view of
the nature of this list (or even the nature of the world).
Namaste,
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