Just wanted to pass along this note from Dr. Leverich at Rootsweb. They are providing us such a valuable serivce. Please consider becoming a Rootsweb Sponsor. If you can't afford $12 a year, consider sending any amount. Thanks. >Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:53:39 -0800 (PST) >To: [email protected] >cc: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <[email protected]> >Subject: RootsWeb in December -- 321,408,000,000 Bytes Served >Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:13:18 -0800 >From: Brian Leverich <[email protected]> >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/22 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] > > >Sorry about the tardiest report to date -- we've been so busy that >we just didn't have the time to compile our statistics for October >and November. > >The executive summary is that we had about a 55% growth over in >just the three months from September to December: > > o 20,835,802 Web files (14,687,507 in Sept) from 2,240 > Websites (1,891 in Sept). > - 5,903,137 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) > (4,462,656 in Sept). > - 2,911,509 were cgi-bin database searches and such. > (1,777,881 in Sept). > - 11,849,905 were GIFs (10,902,627) or JPEGs (947,279) > (8,317,545 in Sept were GIFs (7,560,589) or JPEGs > (756,956). > > o 472,838 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives > and the ROOTS-L Library (427,565 in Sept). > > o We've lost count of how much mail we're shipping to > the 2,300+ (1,900 in Sept) mailing lists we host, but > last month it was in the neighborhood of 90,000,000 > million pieces. > > o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles > to hosts on three continents (same as Sept). > > o Approximately 321,408,000,000 bytes in total > (207,360,000,000 in Sept). > >Besides adding hundreds of new Websites and mailing lists, in >the last three months RootsWeb has added search engines for >the USGenWeb Archives and all 4 *gigabytes* of messages in >the archives of our surname and regional mailing lists. > >Also in the last three months, RootsWeb has added several new >servers and a third and fourth T1 connection to the Internet. >(A T1 is about 50 times faster than a standard modem.) These >additions have significantly increased our costs of operation, >but they were essential if we were to continue to properly >support the Internet genealogical community. > >I'd like to take this opportunity to thank RootsWeb's Members, >Sponsors, and Donors. > > *** RootsWeb could not exist without you *** > >Because you've chosen to support RootsWeb, we already have more >than 7 gigabytes (that's the eqivalent of 3.5 *million* pages) >of genealogical data online. > >There is a tremendous amount of further work to be done but, if >community support of RootsWeb continues to grow, ultimately we >will be able to provide resources to online genealogists that >will rival what they could find in the very best research >libraries. We've done a lot already, but think of what it will >be like when any genealogist can access a first-rate library >from the comfort of their own home. > >Thanks again for your support! -B > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 [email protected] >