Klarinet Archive - Posting 000025.txt from 1997/10

From: "L. BORCHERT" <lborcher@-----.Edu>
Subj: Re: Clarinet Info Pages records 50,000 hits in the past year ...
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 22:04:53 -0400

A special thank you to Mark and Stan for doing this important service.
This kind of venture would not be possible without your time and
expertise. Bravi!!!

Laroy

Dr. Laroy Borchert
Professor of Clarinet
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Mark Charette wrote:

> To those who claim that the Arts are dead (not us!) ...
>
> sneezy.mika.com/clarinet has recorded just over 50,000 hits using the
> front page in the last year. Combined with Stan Geidel's Online
> Clarinet Resource, sneezy.mika.com/OCR 50,000 hits since March
> of last year, we've received 100,000 hits *through the front door*
> in 18 months. In total, we have had over 2,200,000 pages transmitted
> to various locations around the world, and over 4,000,000,000
> characters transmitted over the wire during those 18 months. Thousands
> of pages of music and thousands of copied of carefully crafted midi
> files have delighted and educated countless people; students.
> professionals and the occasional "layman" who "just wants to know".
>
> This is just the clarinet information on one machine; when combined
> with other people's efforts on other machines around the world, clarinet
> oriented and otherwise, I feel greatly encouraged. Music and the
> Arts help fill the soul and mind with the necessities of life.
>
> To a long and prosperous Klarinet mailling list, without which sneezy
> and the world would be all the poorer, I say - Cheers!
> --
> Mark Charette | "This is a very democratic organization, so let's
> charette@-----. All those who disagree with me, raise
> Mika Systems, Inc.| their hands." - Eugene Ormandy
> Webmaster of http://sneezy.mika.com/clarinet, The Clarinet Info Pages
>