(Does that mean I could call that number and say Aloha and you would hear me - or hear something else say what I said? .....hmmmm)

Nope, it's just voice mail and I need to activate it first. Hold on. It also reads your email to you. My email there is springnet@ureach.com It also accepts faxes and reads them to you over your voicemail.

(Does that mean I could call that number and say Aloha and you would hear me - or hear something else say what I said? .....hmmmm)

I would hear your voicemessage, yes, but you can't call me direct on it. You can send a fax to it and it will read me the fax. All this is free, according to the website.

(honest...I did not post the above a second time...and it happened to me in Drool a few minutes ago...are we overtaxing the Spring's servers?!) I shall not disturb your peaceful existance with noise from Hilo...was just curious!

...make that....whales breathing... oops!

Yea, 'cos else it'd hafta haf been "Welsh breathing", and who wants to listen to that? (Marcia, good to be back. Extremely busy times here - not hell as in "production hell", but "post-production stuff", i.e. promo, marketing, distribution, mending sore spots and souls [and soles, too!], mixed with "pre-production muck", i.e. readying stuff for next issue, working on office hardware & infrastructure, trying to raise money for some colour pages for an artist portfolio [Juan Burgos from Montevideo, Uruguay, whom the editors had the pleasure to meet two days ago and have had over for dinner an entertainment yesterday], trying to rig sponsorships and partnerships, and pointing our arrows, the extremely brilliant people working for superstar, to new stories and topics for this year's last ish. Normally, there's a slow month following hitting the news stands, then one month of work and a month of hell-in-an-office. The slow month is dropped due to 03/99 having been delayed, and us keeping 4/99 on schedule.)

It is so good to hear that you are being occupied with entertaining and worthy projects and work rather than hell-in-the-office kind of necessary tedium all of the time. Meeting interesting people is always invigorating to the mind and soul; enjoy! (I have listened to Welsh breathing - nothing out of the ordinary. Nothing like the leviathans just off-shore here!)

(Oh. Is that something like heavy breathing, laced with a bitter or a lager?)

Sorry, Alexander, no hefeweizen on the breath of our leviathans, just plankton!

:=}

(Just for the record, I'm an Export drinker, not a Pilsener, Kristall- or Hefeweizen-man. I appreciate dark beers, too, and also K�lsch and Alt. But most of all, I love Apfelwein, the local type of apple cider - not related to beer at all.)

(And my Apfelwein consumption goes down in the cold months, and in Summer depends much on the brand. Some stuff is considered indrinkable by me; I prefer the Apfelwein made in some bars by the proprietors, or some people around the village.)

I know the freezing method is applied by nomads in Mongolia, possibly also Siberia to make their booze more proof without distilling it... Never had Apple Jack. Apfelwein is a special thing of this area, and there are quite some nice places that make their own (as well as freshly pressed apple juice).

It must have an incredibly wonderful fragrance!

Well, it's sour.

Ah...it has already gone through the stages of fermentation. That attracts all sorts of little buzzing creatures. That part of the process is not as esthetic to the nose as crushing the apples when fresh, and the aroma of the finished product...

Yes, you get the fresh juice, it's called Most. And if slightly fermented, it's called Rauscher ("rusher"), because that's what it gets the consumer... It's like the Federweisser, the half-fermented wine. Very enjoyable in light doses!

You'd have Zwiebelkuchen with either of the three drinks (an onion-tarte). I love Autumn for this!

HUNGRY !!! Gimme some of it - sounds wonderful! Do you have a Zwiebelkuchen-recipe? Maybe I'll try this! Don't you get stomach-ache from fermented applejuice AND onions? (Like mmh - winds?)

Isabel, it's all a matter of dosis.

Ah, yes: S�sser (rather: S��er)! No, that's not alcoholic - that like Most... I always thought... Or do the Swiss call S��er what we call Rauscher? Marcia - Think of how much your fresh pineapples ALL YEAR ROUND tortures me! If that doesn't cheer you up...!

Goodness, Alexander, do you lust after pineapples? Might have to ship you a few to keep you from imploding or whatever happens to the pineapple-deprived...! But, it should probably be after there is no threat of freezing. They get pretty boozy after that (which is ok, too, depending on your proclivities)

Boozy pineapples! WOW! Our S�sser actually comes from Italy, I believe, and can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic - depending on the stage of fermentation. It is the one case where I find the alcoholic version tastier.

Oh, but then your stuff would be Federwei�er from grapes, no? If you get some bottles of either Federwei�er or Rauscher (the cap has to be punctured lest they explode...), they have to be kept in the fridge. Still, every day they taste different, as the fermentation process goes on, changing sugar into alcohol. Marcia, fresh pineapples are quite a feast to me! Easy for you, but we are pineapple-y challenged here...

Cannot have a fine gentleman be pineapple-y challenged while your friend resides in the land where they grow in every yard. Let me check around and see what the shippers suggest as to the freeze potential and whether or not they suggest we wait until spring (6 long months from now?!) Perchance you may be surprised on of these days....please email me your snailmail address so I have a place to send them!

Whatever you do from now on, DON'T open yer mail with bare hands, Alexander!!

For agricultural products entering a country, they will open it at each border, eat some to see if it passes inspection, then send it on with huge labels proclaiming the box to contain PINEAPPLES as though you could not tell by the aroma surrounding the box...!

Or the little fruit flies!

Don't even think Fruit Flies. Some places on the Mainland of the US would like to ban all ag imports from the Islands due to them...! There will be rigorous inspection before they ever leave here - no insects whatsoever will be allowed out of Hawaii to you!

I'm not sure what's going on here, keep me posted. Only the conference hosts can scribble posts. I need more details.

All I can tell you was that I noted by accessing her post using recent/333 that I could read it. I commented on it and submitted my response. When mine came up hers was gone. Telnet stated that it had been "censored and scribbled". Since she is about ready to sleep I will ask her more this evening when she awakens tomorrow (very confusing when you commune with someone on the other side of the Date Line...) Her ISP is peculiar. When you hit the reply button to respond to her eamil, her address shows p as which is not usable. Consequently all message board items are permanently bouncing. Oh well. Will tell you more when I know more.

OK hmmm, wonder if it's a date problem?

Don't know...others from Australia do not have this posting problem. She seems to have to do about 4 posts before one takes. Most frustrating...and not just on Books and Drool and Geo - it happens every time she tries.

Well, we offer telnet accounts to anyone who has problems on the web. They're more reliable for posting.

Good idea...I shall ask her about that and then suggest she contact you or Ray Lopez (who set me up here in telnet)for help setting up an account. Thanks!

I did inform Anne of her options. She was grateful and gracious about it and said she would consider it and get back to me. Thanks, Terry.

But charge her for that service, Marcia: "That'll be, wait, ten quality posts, naw, I'm generous, say, seven! Seven quality posts a day during the next fourteen days EACH outside of Drool..." ;=}

When Terry sets up access to telnet accounts on Spring for us he does not charge for that...how could I possibly do the same. Besides, this lady has been a very special friend to me and helping her would be like helping you...I could not even think of charging either one of you *smile* Now, if you can think of a way to get nusiance posters to apy we just might be rid of them for ever!

Yeh yeh, easy, Fury! Hoh! I was jus' kiddin', ok? But still, it'd BE nice to have her about and around...

Oh Heavens, I did not mean to be rid of AnneH....she is a dear friend who sends me thing to post from Cricket to weather in weatern Australia to earthquakes anywhere in the world, and so on. We also discuss things Welsh (now, how many people can I do that with on Spring?!)...AnneH is anything but an nusiance, and that is why I am going through the exercises to get her posting properly. She is an admitted user of IE (Her husband's computer and he lIKES it!)...but that cannot be the entire answer to her roblem with posting. Still thinking...!

I use IE, but then I use telnet to post and read usually. Browsers seem so interminably show, even with my ISDN and T-1 connections.

Your download can only be as fast as the site you are downloading from is sending it to you. My son keeps telling me this, and gave me the formula for figuring the max speed at which one could download even with the best equipment on both ends. It was amazingly slow!

Our stats! Statistics Report Range: 04/19/2000 03:14:48 - 06/07/2000 03:10:45 Hits Entire Site (Successful) 557,743 Average Per Day 11,382 Home Page 6,969 Page Views Page Views (Impressions) 133,535 Average Per Day 2,751 Document Views 127,491 Visitor Sessions Visitor Sessions 79,594 Average Per Day 1,624 Average Visitor Session Length 00:14:46 International Visitor Sessions 0% Visitor Sessions of Unknown Origin 100% Visitor Sessions from United States 0% Visitors Unique Visitors 28,200 Visitors Who Visited Once 23,217 Visitors Who Visited More Than Once 4,983

Low home page views. About 4 or 5 million hits a year it looks like. Anyone know the definition of a "hit"?

Is it not how often a page is accessed from outside? Not my going from on topic in Geo to another or even from conference to another. It is when I access it again from outside the Spring. At least, it is how I interpret it.

General Statistics Date & Time This Report was Generated Tuesday April 17, 2001 - 22:05:53 Timeframe 04/06/01 03:11:12 - 04/17/01 03:10:54 Number of Hits for Home Page 1,827 Number of Successful Hits for Entire Site 1,355,332 Number of Page Views (Impressions) 228,264 Number of Document Views 211,774 Number of User Sessions 89,354 User Sessions from United States 0% International User Sessions 0% User Sessions of Unknown Origin 100% Average Number of Hits Per Day 123,212 Average Number of Page Views Per Day 20,761 Average Number of User Sessions Per Day 8,123 Average User Session Length 00:07:33 Number of Unique Users 30,959 Number of Users Who Visited Once 24,294 Number of Users Who Visited More Than Once 6,665

11 days 1.3 million hits. Thank you Karen Rosenberg! And Bridget Jones. And Colin Firth!

Right now we might be the number one fan site on the net.

That is pretty damn cool...

It's tres cool and edgy.

Some recent stats: Sat 04/28/2001 50,536 4,050 495,158 K 3,195 Sun 04/29/2001 122,035 8,587 1,083,401 K 7,088 Mon 04/30/2001 164,084 12,726 1,641,696 K 8,340 Tue 05/01/2001 80,311 6,796 739,872 K 3,752 Total 421,626 35,851 3,968,771 K 22,591

The columns are hits, page views, kbytes and visits. About 100,000 hits a day plus, which is a 3 million - 4 million hits per month pace. Bridget Jones is red hot!

bbs logins Sun Apr 29: 3901 Mon Apr 30: 5729 Tue May 1: 6937 Wed May 2: 6857 Thu May 3: 8035 Fri May 4: 5526 Sat May 5: 4018 Sun May 6: 4285 Mon May 7: 5318 Tue May 8: 4575

Most of my regulars for Geo have not found their way back here. I shall have to rattle cages once again!

Wow, yeah, definitely rattle those cages!

I seem to be attracting the readers again. Perhaps they too would enjoy a trip to see Kilauea erupt even if it is just in my memory.

Thu Mar 30: 12717 Fri Mar 31: 9288 Sat Apr 1: 8296 Sun Apr 2: 9398 Mon Apr 3: 10265 Tue Apr 4: 8602 Wed Apr 5: 7756 Thu Apr 6: 8151 Fri Apr 7: 7405 Sat Apr 8: 4728 Sun Apr 9: 5702 Mon Apr 10: 7227 Tue Apr 11: 7920 Wed Apr 12: 8008 Thu Apr 13: 6649 Fri Apr 14: 6031 Sat Apr 15: 4869 Sun Apr 16: 4650 Mon Apr 17: 6047 Tue Apr 18: 7309 This is the number of log ins by day on all the conferences. I don't know if I can get log in stats by conferences.