Actually, I believe that is yyyymmddhhmmss format, so it is the
eighteenth of January 05 about 22 minutes before lunch.  Perhaps the
site admin discarded earlier changelog data, or perhaps the changelog
option was just enabled around that time, and there were 88 subscribers
then.

You'll need to confer with the admin to discover whether earlier data
can be accessed.  But for statistical purposes, oriented toward
promoting the benefits of the list, maybe omitting the first four months
(when things were slow and/or confusing for new participants) is a good
thing; just refer to the most recent full year, or use calendar-year-05
as your basis for comparison and discuss how things have progressed
since then.

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Thank you, Francoise.  My next task is to figure out how to apply the
Rexx program for Windows!

The Changelog file records all transactions back to this one:
20050118113840 SUBCOUNT 88

This puzzles me because, if I'm reading correctly, the date is January
1, 2005, but the list commenced operations in October 2004.  One
explanation would be that the site administrator removed the changelog
file for some reason and didn't replace it.  I have had some technical
problems in the past, and the people who served as site administrators
during that time did indeed remove some archival files to get the list
working again.   But they replaced those archival files, at my request.

Is there another, more likely explanation?  Can I get a complete
changelog file back to October 2004?  Thanks - Ian