Date:         Tue, 9 Dec 1997 10:48:36 EST
From: "this little piggy went to accounting..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fill: how many??

On Tue, 09 Dec 1997 05:55:46 EST, Words from the Monastery
<jackechs@EROLS.COM> wrote:
:) God only knows there certainly haven't been all that many
:) submissions or critiques (at least on list critiques).

I was a bit surprised to see this, since I had the impression that
there were quite a few submissions and critiques recently...plus, one
of the seminars in the convention I was at last week was all about
assessment, with heavy emphasis on the likelihood that impressions are
not accurate, so go out and count...

since I'm still reading through my backlog, I decided to run a few
quick counts.

in one folder (12/09 saved), I found (okay, the program, being strict
about SUB: etc, found):

Total Postings:        154
Submissions:            34
Critiques:              24
Technical:              11
World of Writing:        5
Filler:                 37
Exercises:               0
Interactive:             6

maybe that day was a fluke?  try the next stack (friday and saturday,
I think)

Total Postings:        232
Submissions:            41
Critiques:              32
Technical:               7
World of Writing:        4
Filler:                 48
Exercises:               0
Interactive:            12

12/08?
Total Postings:        156
Submissions:            14
Critiques:               3
Technical:              11
World of Writing:        8
Filler:                 17
Exercises:               0
Interactive:            18

12/07
Total Postings:        143
Submissions:            18
Critiques:               7
Technical:              17
World of Writing:        2
Filler:                 27
Exercises:               1
Interactive:            10

A little heavy on the filler a few times, but usually quite a mix of
sub and critique.

and thanks, Anthony, for giving me a little "reality anchor" for the
assessment platitudes about the gap between impressions and actual
measurement.

tink