At 08:41 03/13/2002 Wednesday, Joanne Gibbons wrote:
 >Hi -
 >I'm new as a list owner and have several questions:
 >1.  Is there a way to determine the average number of daily postings to a
 >list?

There are ways, but they aren't pretty:

1) subscribe to INDEX or DIGEST mode -- it will give you a count (or
easily calculated).

Or do daily SEARCHes

S * IN listname FROM YESTERDAY TO YESTERDAY

Rich has answered your 2) and 3).

Pete