I had a little time tonight so I put a spreadsheet together of the 159 paid members of SLAGA (hey, I said I had a little time, not enough for all 500+ members of the group) and came up with some stats: snow_rules is the longest active member - 1/21/2001 #2089 next is strider on 2/5/2001 #3258, and Glenn (*gln) on 2/20/2001 #4552 That was an average of about 82 members joining each day. I calculated an average per day membership for approximately every 10-month period, starting at 1/21/2001: 1/21/2001 (snow_rules) - 11/20/2001 (Island-Dave) avg = 90.2 per day 11/20/2001 - 8/31/2002 (JanS03) avg = 153.58 8/31/2002 - 6/26/2003 (deltawinner) avg = 213.09 6/26/2003 - 4/13/2004 (dollar bill) avg = 283.89 4/13/2004 - 2/10/2005 (troutboy98) avg = 393.25 2/10/2005 - 11/22/2005 (Team VanHorsen) avg = 581.2 11/22/2005 - 9/3/2006 (phil 4:13) avg = 1097.71 9/3/2006 - 7/9/2007 (2dogohana) avg = 1161.0 (I'm in this group...a newbie) 7/9/2007 - 1/24/2008 (Mrs Seaeye - our newest member) avg = 1358.16 You can see how in the past 2 1/2 years the sport (hobby, obsession, etc.) has really taken off with over 1,100 new members each day (1,020,645 new members in 30 months). Mrs Seaeye was #1,446,311. I hope this growth continues, at least for a few more years. Tom (Lobocs) Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: It would be interesting to see the growth curve ...my problem is I just blew away all the emails as I was cleaning out my box so all the numbers are gone with them.....Anyone in the group join in 2000 ? .....we have several in 2001....probably several in 2002 etc ....it would give us an idea of how many members were added in between our members and that would be relatively close to the proper membership growth curve. I can see that there was quite a jump from Strider in 2001 at around 3200 to my almost 37000 in January of 2002 Dan Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Well I started in January of 2002 and I am # 36840 Laura Million <lmillio@xxxxxxxx> wrote: v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Wow! I?m 610,818 and I?ve only been a member for 2 years! Can you imagine the numbers in 5 years? Laura 2_cats From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darren Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 12:29 PM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: How many cachers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? awesome! I came in real close to the beginning! I'm # 1,336,396!!! woot!!!! On Jan 28, 2008 11:56 AM, Laura DeWeese <festive@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Here's one way. Go to your profile, point your cursor at the link that says "See the forum posts for this user", and look below at the URL that shows up. Your number should be at the end, right after "getalluser&mid=". Laura (a.k.a. purple) --------------------------------- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Lusicic Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 11:12 AM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] Re: How many cachers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? So how do you find out what "number" you are? --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.