[ANSTHRLD] St Gabriel dead again

[doug bell]

Does anyone know when the St Gabriel site will be back on line?
It ist verdamnt annoying that it crashes so often when needed for commentary.

Magnus

> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:29:31 -0500
> From: tmcd at panix.com
> To: heralds at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] online OP
> 
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Jay Rudin <rudin at ev1.net> wrote:
> > Daniel replied to me:
> >
> > > > Similarly, the code of "Yes" doesn't mean "This person has a
> > > > registered name," but rather "You can stop here and not check the
> > > > Armorial, because this is the registered form of the name."  That's
> > > > always up-to-date except for the relatively few people who change
> > > > the registered form of their name.
> > >
> > > In December 2007, there were 11 name changes (including
> > > reconsiderations of registrations and corrections)
> > > out of 75 primary name actions total.
> > >
> > > November 2007: 6 name changes out of 64.
> >
> > True, but to determine how rare name changes are, the proper
> > comparison is not to the number of registrations that months, but to
> > the total number of names registered, that being the pool of people
> > with a registered name to change.
> >
> > (To be more precise, the comparison should be to *active* people
> > with registered names.  People who have left Ansteorra have no
> > effect on the issue)
> 
> I've not thought about it deeply, but you might be able to come up
> with an expected lifetime of a name if the levels are approximately
> steady and if names are radioactive.  (Poisson distribution?  That
> could be simulated pretty easily, actually, so I wouldn't have to drag
> out old statistics textbooks.)
> 
> In any event, my point is that, while somewhat rare, the number cannot
> be neglected.
> 
> Danet Lincoln
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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