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Biotech / Medical : Ligand (LGND) Breakout! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: B.D. who wrote (17105)	3/10/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 32384

BD, The 25,000 hits are equal to 25,000 visits. If I counted each tracker as well as the page, the number would be over 75,000. Some of the hits are "reloads", but I didn't count hits to other pages and the counters were down on some busy days (I think that the heavy hitting actually overwhelmed the system - can't say for sure, but there was a definite correlation), so the number of hits to the site is actually somewhere between 26,000 and 30,000, most of which came from pharmaceutical sites.

To: B.D. who wrote (17105)	3/10/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Henry Niman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32384

BD, Actually, the 25,000 hits are a fairly conservative number. They come from the tracker that displays the hits. I someone revisits the site, but doesn't hit reload (and is actually see what was seen on the last visit because the computer is using the info in the cache), the view doesn't register. In contrast, the other tracker records each time the page is visited (as well as the internet site the visit came from) so the hits to the new page I just put up had 1 1/2 times as many hits. Thus, the other tracker probably would have close to 40,000 hits (I installed that tracker when the first started to fail, and I suspect that the failure was due to heavy hitting, so I don't have a total).

To: B.D. who wrote (17105)	3/11/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: Torben Noerup Nielsen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32384

>I appreciate all the work Henry does to organize and collect >information for people interested in Ligand stock, believe me. It's >just that sometimes I think Henry gets a wee little bit over- >enthustiastic. :-) I have tried to make that point too. And there really is no need. If Henry would stick to the science side of things and leave the ticks and the counts alone, he would have a great deal more credibility. Condensed into one word: ''Sophrosyne". And I make no apologies for using an ancient tongue; it is simply the most appropriate word I can think of. Cheers, Torben