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That's probably the only interesting thing (the search terms). Beyond that, 
it's just bandwidth usage, popularity of links, etc. For example, "m2" has 
had over 132,000 hits in the past week. That's the page that displays 
individual messages in the archive. Only 15,000 of those hits are not from 
search engines(one of those led me to www.searchme.com which is REALLY COOL 
--if you have a broadband connection).  Yesterday there was over a gigabyte 
of traffic through the NavList archive site since a few dozen people 
downloaded that single-file Bowditch (I did laugh aloud when you suggested 
breaking it up into smaller files, by the way).

There's nothing identifiable in the stats in case you're wondering. All web 
sites record IP addresses, of course, and under some circumstances, you can 
make an educated guess about the identity of the person behind the numbers, 
but it's not obvious. Web site statistic services, like the one installed on 
my web server by default, also record information on the type of browser 
visiting the site (IE and Firefox in a dead heat for first place with Safari 
and Opera way down the list). They also include the visitor's platform 
(mostly Windows XP with Win Vista about five times lower and Mac OSX 
trailing).

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