Klarinet Archive - Posting 000174.txt from 1999/11

From: charette@-----.org
Subj: Re: [kl] the klarinet list
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 02:29:14 -0500

Rein wrote:

>First, what does it mean, when you announce "XXX is a sponsor of
>sneezy.org"?

Sneezy.Org is a very, very small company that I formed to help out with the running of a number of mailing lists & web sites. I donate my time, but the hardware and some software costs real money. Last year I had a fund raising effort that garnered enough money to buy a new machine with plenty of disk space, and I did a little trade with a local newspaper to get a fast connection to the Internet. That was great, but it doesn't cover day-to-day costs. Companies that want to get a small advertising spot on the Web server portion and/or want a Web presence can pay a nominal fee (starting at $50.00/yr) for a small advertisment on The Clarinet Pages and a Web site. It really helps out & keeps my wife happy that I'm not spending "her" money (she handles all our finances other than the Sneezy.Org stuff). Since we all benefit from those sponsors, I announce new sponsors here.

>Secondly: I have the impression this list is run in two different modes. In
>one mode people receive all postings to the list in a direct mail, as soon
>as these are put onyo the list. In the other mode these postings are
>collected and mailed in the form of a magazine, the "klarinet digest", that
>is sent at least twice a day, at 9.15 and 21.15 Middle European day time. I
>wonder whether this impression is correct, and how it is decided an extra
>issue should be mailed in between.

Digests are forced out at those times; they can come more often if the number of postings causes the size of the digest to grow past a certain point. The issue is with AOL customers - AOL mail makes incoming email into an attachment if it exceeds a certain size, and was causing troubles with some of our readers.

>Thirdly I wonder, whether it is known, how many people are on this list, how
>they are distributed over nationalities, how large the share of pro
>musicians is, and how the distribution is over the musical main streams
>(classical, jazz, klezmer, and so on). Couldn't any statistics be published?

The number of people - yes. I normally send it out once a month if I remember. How they're distributed - well nigh impossible. All I can do (and have occasionally done) is to look at the mail addresses, but it's time consuming, so I normally don't do it. As to breakdown of pro, styles, etc. - there's no way to do that with mail addresses :^). If you want to try doing a statistical analysis, be my guest, as long as the answers are to you directly.

There are currently 514 Klarinet members, 305 Klarinet-digest members.

>In the digest every message is preceeded by a heading that begins with:
>"Date: Wed, 03 November 1999, 11:57:52 +0100"
>Is this the local time at sneezy? and what does "+0100" mean?

The time is displayed with a timezone offset from UTC (used to be GMT). +0100 UTC would be 1 hour ahead (east) of UTC. The Sneezy.Org computer is -0500 UTC (5 hours behind) UTC, also known as EST.

Currently at the Sneezy computer:
Fri Nov 5 10:59:45 EST 1999
Fri Nov 5 15:59:45 UTC 1999

Cheers,
Mark C.

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