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Christophe,

It's hard to really say. You see, some people join and never come back. We have a "hardcore" group of about 100 members. These are people that come in at least 3-5 times a week. Then of course the people who check in once or twice a month, and so on. There are many people who are stuck in email registration limbo. They either signed up with a false email address and won't receive the email confirmation or they never bothered to complete the registration. When registering, the forum will attempt to contact the new registrant with an email. If the email bounces the registrant cannot become a member. That is why you are seeing a difference in the number of registered members. I plan to delete these accounts at the beginning of the year. I haven't done this since the forum opened so you will see the number of members go down.

Here are the real time statistics as of November 8 2003:

(COPPA) Users awaiting moderation...4

(COPPA is a U.S. legal thing, if a user is under a certain age, their parents have to complete the registration process..obviously these people didn't so they remain in limbo)

Administrators...1 (yours truly)

Banned by Moderators...5 (I don't think these people count towards anything)

"Gold" Donor Registered...11 (these are folks who have donated the amount to give them special access to the for sale section)

Registered...325 (these people have successfully registered and are members)

Moderators...7

Users awaiting email confirmation...57 (the users described above)

Thus, the total is 406, although technically it should be 344.


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