Below is the first set of statistics compiled for the month of August (July 28 through August 27) complete with the blurb from the September newsletter.

As a final note, I give you the top ten chatters of the month by postings. count. I had hoped to do one on time also, but it proved too labor intensive and I had to abandon it. I also was pondering doing a word count, but Diana assures me it can't be done unless you know Perl and I don't know it *]:-). Anyway, I had intended to put up the entire list so you could figure out your total by spotting all your aliases, but there were over 500 (count `em, 500) names used this month. So forget it. Excluding Clepsy and me (since I might have doctored my figures to win), here's the list (I went to 11 in case you want to disqualify Diana.