Friday, March 3, 2000

	Betamountain turns 5 months old today. Slowly growing :) With no advertising and manual search engine entries, the access log had these nice things to say:

	(Figures in parentheses refer to the 7 days to 01-Mar-2000 20:10). Successful requests: 17,793 (4,998) Average successful requests per day: 147 (713) Successful requests for pages: 3,450 (578) Average successful requests for pages per day: 28 (82) Failed requests: 2,368 (523) Redirected requests: 8 (1) Distinct files requested: 593 (235) Distinct hosts served: 940 (153) Data transferred: 128.900 Mbytes (30.623 Mbytes) Average data transferred per day: 1.071 Mbytes (4.374 Mbytes) I peeked at the error.log and most of the errors are due to the inactive links between the character guide & the episode guide, so those will be resolving themselves as the building progresses.

	As it stands, the character guide conversion now runs from 0-9, A-M. Only 63 characters left until the episode guide conversion starts.

	Currently, all @Betamountain.org email redirects are offline. Sorry for any inconveniences. I'm loosing email too. And if that's not enough...Yahoo/Geocities (Geo-Who?) killed my [email protected] account this morning. For now, [email protected] can be used to contact me with for Betamountain info.

	Betamountain is holding a banner contest! CGfWiG & Fatima have been great enough to toss messages to the list in the absence of my working emails addresses:

	Hi! Our webmaster Rabbi Bob asked me to host another contest. This time, the goal is to design a banner for Betamountain.org. Well, here we go. Rules: (a la Rabbi Bob) All banners must comply with either class 1 or class 2 dimensions. Class 3 will be only considered on if exceptionally done. Class 1) 468 pixels x 60 pixels Class 2) 60 pixels x 60 pixels Class 3) free for all Size should not exceed 40kb in file size. [Strictly enforced] File formats will be either .jpg or .gif (animated accepted). Deadline for entries: May 1st, 2000 How to contribute Send the images to mailto:[email protected] before May 1st, 2000 vote on the contest according to further announcements on Ranger-L WIN! Well, Rabbi Bob didn't tell me what you might win, but I think at least one thing we can offer is an E-Mail forwarder like "[email protected]" --- if you don't have one already ) cu CGfWiG --

	Which means I have to think of a prize ;P .......