Webmaster's Notes 

Webmaster Notes...

by Anwar Kenicer

Here is a history of our usage according to our server's data:

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005 -Important Totals

Item Accesses Bytes Visits Charts
Overall Accesses 962,709 12,354,837,359 15,687 View Chart
Home Page Accesses 1,234 20,507,384 849 View Chart

Executive Summary

The web site received 15,687 visits. A typical visitor examined 35.42 documents before leaving the site. A typical visit lasted for 16.57 minutes. The longest visit lasted for 1,438 minutes.

Visitors came from 8,833 distinct Internet addresses.

The web server delivered 43,409 unique documents one or more times each.

29 distinct types of documents were delivered.

4 distinct Internet web sites were accessed via the proxy server.

There were 959 requests for documents which did not exist on the web server. The web server was linked to by 1 distinct pages on other web servers.

0 distinct Internet search servers were used to reach the site.

Visitors followed a total of 6,626 distinct, non-trivial "trails" among the documents found on the web server.

 

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005: Traffic by Day


 
Date Accesses % Bytes % Visits % Bits per Sec Bytes per Sec
10/30/2005 80,693 8.38 748,383,865 6.06 3,497 11.38 69,294.80 8,661.85
10/31/2005 176,986 18.38 1,899,788,710 15.38 4,934 16.05 175,906.36 21,988.30
11/1/2005 143,104 14.86 1,555,152,480 12.59 4,787 15.58 143,995.60 17,999.45
11/2/2005 116,978 12.15 1,492,890,371 12.08 5,470 17.80 138,230.59 17,278.82
11/3/2005 138,041 14.34 1,983,883,382 16.06 4,630 15.06 183,692.91 22,961.61
11/4/2005 154,491 16.05 2,180,363,937 17.65 4,030 13.11 201,885.55 25,235.69
11/5/2005 152,416 15.83 2,494,374,614 20.19 3,387 11.02 230,960.61 28,870.08
 

Top 50 of 8,833 Visitor Sites

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005: 

Sorted by Access Count

 

 
Rank Site Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 216.255.177.66 354,881 36.86 6,732,040,077 54.49 61 0.39
2 69.50.182.178 38,821 4.03 719,095,863 5.82 16 0.10
3 adsl-70-240-224-40.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net 12,916 1.34 65,860,826 0.53 11 0.07
4 crawl-66-249-72-71.googlebot.com 5,815 0.60 209,671,625 1.70 11 0.07
5 ppp-71-138-119-173.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net 4,272 0.44 9,951,712 0.08 1 0.01
6 chello084113011081.7.12.vie.surfer.at 3,868 0.40 22,225,638 0.18 1 0.01
7 195.229.242.53 3,657 0.38 32,722,809 0.26 39 0.25
8 64.127.124.162 3,543 0.37 115,275,146 0.93 3 0.02
9 mail.tusuka.com 3,342 0.35 37,060,289 0.30 2 0.01
10 egspd42032.teoma.com 3,318 0.34 21,038,183 0.17 5 0.03
11 adsl-68-89-190-73.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net 3,276 0.34 11,745,185 0.10 1 0.01
12 adsl-70-240-225-81.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net 3,023 0.31 12,858,781 0.10 2 0.01
13 81-202-233-182.user.ono.com 2,856 0.30 12,115,857 0.10 2 0.01
14 bny93-2-82-224-111-69.fbx.proxad.net 2,712 0.28 19,027,080 0.15 18 0.12
15 ip-209-172-35-48.reverse.privatedns.com 2,706 0.28 46,611,497 0.38 14 0.09
16 69.25.71.12 2,601 0.27 22,121,472 0.18 10 0.07
17 ip168-243-88-46.saltel.net 2,448 0.25 22,614,672 0.18 48 0.31
18 Adsl-196-201-74-116.aviso.ci 2,291 0.24 16,258,754 0.13 2 0.01
19 px2ht.ok.shawcable.net 2,181 0.23 6,718,633 0.05 2 0.01
20 cpe-204-210-134-35.hvc.res.rr.com 2,154 0.22 12,126,472 0.10 5 0.03
21 rrcs-24-173-6-206.sw.biz.rr.com 1,954 0.20 20,884,345 0.17 1 0.01
22 crawl-66-249-72-6.googlebot.com 1,937 0.20 29,705,581 0.24 2 0.01
23 msnbot.msn.com 1,902 0.20 32,718,575 0.26 109 0.70
24 62.61.132.51.generic-hostname.arrownet.dk 1,892 0.20 15,242,525 0.12 1 0.01
25 cpe-066-026-047-223.nc.res.rr.com 1,875 0.19 12,736,578 0.10 1 0.01
26 66.147.154.3 1,871 0.19 16,758,081 0.14 27 0.18
27 ool-457afc2e.dyn.optonline.net 1,839 0.19 6,112,139 0.05 1 0.01
28 82.116.147.7 1,819 0.19 14,103,052 0.11 2 0.01
29 210.173.180.173 1,791 0.19 15,585,615 0.13 34 0.22
30 BRF-CE04-G2-0.tm.net.my 1,778 0.18 20,364,423 0.16 67 0.43
31 212.118.10.195 1,774 0.18 8,221,309 0.07 3 0.02
32 194.126.24.4 1,702 0.18 6,884,132 0.06 28 0.18
33 c-24-6-19-150.hsd1.ca.comcast.net 1,645 0.17 11,781,967 0.10 1 0.01
34 internet3.irs.gov 1,572 0.16 5,823,600 0.05 1 0.01
35 MTL-ppp-156321.qc.sympatico.ca 1,526 0.16 10,330,659 0.08 2 0.01
36 adsl-70-240-232-239.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net 1,523 0.16 5,909,081 0.05 1 0.01
37 218.69.88.205 1,509 0.16 13,776,056 0.11 72 0.46
38 va-sterling-u1-c5c-a-190.chvlva.adelphia.net 1,455 0.15 5,805,269 0.05 1 0.01
39 smtp-fiber.aub.edu.lb 1,454 0.15 5,605,877 0.05 10 0.07
40 adsl-69-216-249-46.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net 1,440 0.15 10,597,010 0.09 1 0.01
41 ip-85-160-15-146.eurotel.cz 1,437 0.15 8,836,666 0.07 1 0.01
42 adsl-68-121-32-155.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net 1,434 0.15 10,108,435 0.08 2 0.01
43 APuteaux-151-1-67-188.w81-249.abo.wanadoo.fr 1,430 0.15 6,852,187 0.06 2 0.01
44 211.38.50.193 1,421 0.15 13,048,978 0.11 17 0.11
45 163.178.18.3 1,408 0.15 13,278,385 0.11 80 0.51
46 kl-tre-fec2dd00-172.dhcp.inet.fi 1,403 0.15 8,803,426 0.07 1 0.01
47 66-159-137-102.adsl.snet.net 1,393 0.14 9,208,636 0.07 4 0.03
48 212.199.251.98.ispeednet.net 1,382 0.14 8,028,440 0.06 2 0.01
49 kl-tre-fe48dd00-208.dhcp.inet.fi 1,376 0.14 5,101,957 0.04 1 0.01
50 CPE001111b42b41-CM0012c99c5f38.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com 1,366 0.14 7,966,913 0.06 5 0.03

 

 

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005: Top 10 of 38 Visitor Domains

Sorted by Access Count

Rank Domain Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 UNKNOWN 543,989 56.51 8,704,829,492 70.46 6,724 42.87
2 net 172,680 17.94 1,129,701,462 9.14 2,673 17.04
3 com 97,832 10.16 1,179,408,893 9.55 2,672 17.04
4 europe 64,993 6.75 781,550,362 6.33 1,208 7.71
5 namerica 19,853 2.06 120,771,594 0.98 288 1.84
6 asia 18,731 1.95 156,907,777 1.27 1,116 7.12
7 africa 11,769 1.22 79,979,120 0.65 140 0.90
8 edu 7,377 0.77 41,499,922 0.34 73 0.47
9 australia 6,176 0.64 36,784,814 0.30 82 0.52
10 samerica 4,792 0.50 31,894,459 0.26 289 1.84

 

Week of 11/13/2005 to 11/19/2005: Traffic by Hour

Figures are averages for that hour of each day in the time period analyzed.

 

Documents Report - Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005

Objects by Type - Sorted by Access Count

Top 10 of 31,072 Web Pages

 
Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 / 1,234 0.13 20,507,384 0.17 850 0.15
2 /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=default.htm|Image=4|Digits=7 926 0.10 793,149 0.01 734 0.13
3 /shweir_news.htm 808 0.08 118,984,535 0.96 194 0.03
4 /bbs/messages/1.html 670 0.07 5,628,228 0.05 115 0.02
5 /Shweir_photos.htm 591 0.06 50,473,704 0.41 178 0.03
6 /bbs/messages/34.html 590 0.06 18,666,365 0.15 121 0.02
7 /bbs/messages/5.html 587 0.06 4,248,333 0.03 102 0.02
8 /bbs/messages/18.html 566 0.06 3,587,250 0.03 103 0.02
9 /bbs/messages/971.html 565 0.06 11,860,338 0.10 114 0.02
10 /bbs/messages/3.html 563 0.06 3,485,723 0.03 73 0.01

Top 1 of 1 Images

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 /new_zealand_files/image003.png 19 0.00 630,990 0.01 7 0.00

 

Top 3 of 3 Audio

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 /shweirfw/firework.au 3 0.00 17,316 0.00 3 0.00
2 /shweirfw/syu.au 3 0.00 1,311 0.00 3 0.00
3 /beerfest2003/dhour shweir.mp3 2 0.00 102,894 0.00 1 0.00

 

Top 1 of 1 Java and ActiveX Binaries

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 /shweirfw/jhanabi.class 3 0.00 16,308 0.00 3 0.00

 

Top 10 of 8,246 Additional Objects

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 /Images_8/pray.JPG 911 0.09 24,609,248 0.20 22 0.00
2 /Images 22/P1010730.JPG 832 0.09 14,042,201 0.11 736 0.13
3 /images/flag_of_Lebanon.JPG 688 0.07 17,776,487 0.14 78 0.01
4 /images/Shweir_4.JPG 531 0.06 10,091,152 0.08 498 0.09
5 /Images11/Bus from Ras Beirut.JPG 334 0.03 10,655,501 0.09 39 0.01
6 /Images 22/P1010592_small.JPG 255 0.03 596,472 0.00 100 0.02
7 /Images 22/P1010602_small.JPG 250 0.03 664,656 0.01 100 0.02
8 /Images 22/P1010586_small.JPG 243 0.03 655,160 0.01 99 0.02
9 /Images 22/P1010590_small.JPG 236 0.02 600,447 0.00 99 0.02
10 /Images 22/P1010591_small.JPG 233 0.02 625,800 0.01 97 0.02

 

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005: Top 10 of 5935 Entry Pages

Sorted by Entry Count - Visits typically began at these pages.

Rank Entry Page Entry Count %
1 / 716 5.45
2 /miss_emigrant_2003.htm 267 2.03
3 /texas.htm 182 1.38
4 /california.htm 179 1.36
5 /beer_fest_2004.htm 172 1.31
6 /announcements.htm 136 1.03
7 /family_tree.htm 122 0.93
8 /jokes.htm 119 0.91
9 /art_and_poetry.htm 109 0.83
10 /in_memory_of.htm 108 0.82

 

 

 

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005: Top 10 of 5824 Exit Pages

Sorted by Exit Count - Visits typically ended at these pages

Rank Exit Page Exit Count %
1 /_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=default.htm|Image=4|Digits=7 456 3.47
2 /miss_emigrant_2003.htm 255 1.94
3 /texas.htm 191 1.45
4 /california.htm 183 1.39
5 /beer_fest_2004.htm 163 1.24
6 /in_memory_of.htm 158 1.20
7 /announcements.htm 139 1.06
8 / 135 1.03
9 /family_tree.htm 132 1.00
10 /jokes.htm 122 0.93

 

 

Directories Report

Week of 10/30/2005 to 11/5/2005

See the "web pages" section for links to subdirectories.

/ : Objects by Type

Sorted by Access Count

Top 10 of 317 Web Pages

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 [ /bbs ] 488,409 50.88 8,423,231,051 68.44 9,611 61.55
2 [ /_derived ] 159,295 16.59 96,818,234 0.79 3,962 25.38
3 [ /images ] 35,296 3.68 217,929,893 1.77 2,163 13.85
4 /Images 22 29,555 3.08 328,157,419 2.67 1,142 7.32
5 /Images 1 23,749 2.47 124,468,519 1.01 1,174 7.52
6 /Images 4 23,030 2.40 136,315,200 1.11 1,185 7.59
7 /Images 2 20,381 2.12 145,645,467 1.18 3,199 20.49
8 [ /Images_6 ] 20,046 2.09 147,822,892 1.20 768 4.92
9 [ /ubb ] 17,598 1.83 3,755,813 0.03 1,797 11.51
10 [ /Images14 ] 13,819 1.44 146,362,843 1.19 397 2.54

 

Top 10 of 45 Additional Objects

Rank Item Accesses % Bytes % Visits %
1 /default.inc.css 71 0.01 260,890 0.00 69 0.45
2 /lebanon-misc.htm#Christina Sawaya, Crowned Miss Internation
al 		10 0.00 3,363,790 0.03 10 0.07
3 /books.htm#brahim Mitri Rihbany 8 0.00 1,736,800 0.01 7 0.05
4 /Eid M 2002.htm#Miss Teenager 2002 3 0.00 389,688 0.00 3 0.02
5 /prayer.htm#INTRODUCTORY PRAYERS 3 0.00 335,658 0.00 3 0.02
6 /art_and_poetry.htm#Nassam Alaina Al Hawa 3 0.00 42,663 0.00 1 0.01
7 /contacts.htm#Welcome 3 0.00 167,679 0.00 3 0.02
8 /meet_our_youth.htm#Miss Teenage Beauty Pageant - August 200
1 		3 0.00 243,447 0.00 3 0.02
9 /texas.htm#Shweir on the Beach 2000 3 0.00 470,301 0.00 3 0.02
10 /education.htm#Cornerstone for the Library 2 0.00 359,004 0.00 2 0.01

 

History from 5/19/2002 to 11/19/2005 - Historical Totals

Values for completed time periods are final. Values for the reporting period currently in progress are projections, except for user-calculated functions, which are not scaled.
Overall Accesses
 
Overall Accesses
Report Date Accesses Bytes Visits
Total 49,316,064 398,194,095,071 767,743
Average 269,486 2,175,924,016 4,195
Latest 780,964.19 10,836,053,176 13,320
05/19/02 10,146 42,676,529 9
05/26/02 115,342 674,701,021 2,998
06/02/02 106,940 529,114,079 2,500
06/09/02 106,698 593,421,063 2,674
06/16/02 123,434 681,622,605 2,379
06/23/02 135,620 839,520,452 2,679
06/30/02 106,710 565,215,959 2,627
07/07/02 117,460 630,429,251 2,322
07/14/02 112,792 873,276,892 2,655
07/21/02 83,220 645,839,182 2,069
07/28/02 86,166 665,296,028 1,951
08/04/02 87,745 695,365,192 1,993
08/11/02 104,102 780,455,827 1,659
08/18/02 119,409 989,925,982 2,290
08/25/02 101,787 961,706,487 2,368
09/01/02 147,423 1,152,614,405 2,975
09/08/02 147,299 1,266,612,285 2,905
09/15/02 136,182 1,138,881,158 2,497
09/22/02 133,239 1,039,026,558 2,308
09/29/02 164,760 1,414,837,205 2,814
10/06/02 165,281 1,324,868,294 2,721
10/13/02 158,601 1,281,741,498 2,747
10/20/02 146,190 1,147,598,569 2,572
10/27/02 150,312 1,293,417,535 2,970
11/03/02 139,214 1,203,486,393 2,804
11/10/02 151,108 1,296,290,499 3,105
11/17/02 171,362 1,339,461,405 3,234
11/24/02 165,550 1,324,689,278 3,244
12/01/02 159,369 1,380,176,446 3,430
12/08/02 183,346 1,466,471,194 3,297
12/15/02 160,527 1,318,580,656 3,266
12/22/02 115,676 916,431,250 2,512
12/29/02 145,829 1,058,090,226 2,497
01/05/03 142,034 1,101,695,693 3,091
01/12/03 113,650 923,592,739 2,815
01/19/03 118,696 952,375,291 2,995
01/26/03 124,314 1,324,629,945 6,171
02/02/03 115,768 868,845,414 2,777
02/09/03 134,274 1,007,677,029 3,214
02/16/03 160,424 2,019,661,486 5,540
02/23/03 151,595 1,423,178,113 4,109
03/02/03 132,489 1,173,695,940 3,220
03/09/03 110,314 909,236,063 2,705
03/16/03 108,430 858,578,655 2,672
03/23/03 109,172 880,451,007 2,316
03/30/03 111,464 818,888,925 2,836
04/06/03 109,984 779,531,655 2,515
04/13/03 101,117 800,848,052 2,465
04/20/03 128,670 1,023,991,949 2,683
04/27/03 109,602 921,435,405 2,533
05/04/03 128,128 1,008,745,340 2,797
05/11/03 115,157 1,091,522,541 2,591
05/18/03 109,948 933,623,800 2,848
05/25/03 120,048 968,097,460 2,745
06/01/03 120,332 929,390,717 2,650
06/08/03 101,738 874,087,791 2,556
06/15/03 94,134 807,076,551 2,337
06/22/03 78,550 653,005,865 2,132
06/29/03 90,701 828,495,853 2,686
07/06/03 69,899 523,740,775 1,610
07/13/03 100,877 908,193,729 2,379
07/20/03 111,591 1,125,264,582 2,520
07/27/03 138,786 1,346,454,725 3,039
08/03/03 129,350 1,193,913,831 2,554
08/10/03 115,561 1,023,225,692 2,380
08/17/03 121,660 1,050,864,971 2,856
08/24/03 142,604 1,209,150,303 2,673
08/31/03 131,482 1,164,538,555 2,971
09/07/03 131,170 1,259,723,800 3,271
09/14/03 152,757 1,417,000,583 3,116
09/21/03 153,561 1,274,918,969 3,007
09/28/03 135,923 1,285,551,510 3,142
10/05/03 138,497 1,237,690,357 2,875
10/12/03 138,250 1,347,480,007 3,051
10/19/03 157,137 1,698,113,332 3,303
10/26/03 117,431 1,178,578,194 2,882
11/02/03 146,118 1,507,368,687 3,157
11/09/03 140,249 1,485,120,845 3,188
11/16/03 146,405 1,368,939,000 3,058
11/23/03 165,857 1,450,470,417 3,326
11/30/03 160,949 1,364,885,142 3,391
12/07/03 166,865 1,626,184,512 3,361
12/14/03 155,447 1,431,738,137 3,424
12/21/03 142,368 1,311,892,661 3,122
12/28/03 163,121 1,417,363,000 3,409
01/04/04 97,658 865,688,448 2,063
01/11/04 36,565 284,121,103 1,036
01/18/04 34,352 259,423,174 1,085
01/25/04 30,072 253,134,863 1,082
02/01/04 30,496 296,010,847 1,082
02/08/04 36,345 286,872,513 1,259
02/15/04 44,112 307,290,802 1,335
02/22/04 64,567 446,020,831 1,561
02/29/04 49,476 336,531,270 1,343
03/07/04 46,938 326,570,783 1,274
03/14/04 43,823 319,651,652 1,274
03/21/04 45,741 319,366,340 1,306
03/28/04 47,540 355,971,131 1,494
04/04/04 57,830 378,625,189 1,387
04/11/04 47,837 352,770,310 1,347
04/18/04 108,906 709,323,359 1,773
04/25/04 82,325 570,016,387 1,574
05/02/04 61,824 419,271,911 1,499
05/09/04 52,677 363,659,871 1,550
05/16/04 50,702 356,203,084 1,397
05/23/04 43,966 360,606,880 1,340
05/30/04 50,374 420,087,484 1,276
06/06/04 45,529 348,850,847 1,274
06/13/04 49,635 439,785,981 1,356
06/20/04 55,555 383,713,224 1,363
06/27/04 53,166 401,159,643 1,253
07/04/04 54,401 397,471,524 1,315
07/11/04 62,088 423,923,817 1,454
07/18/04 49,327 399,104,107 1,307
07/25/04 56,991 435,613,808 1,356
08/01/04 63,057 582,561,134 1,690
08/08/04 63,079 551,380,623 1,706
08/15/04 56,251 491,459,987 1,667
08/22/04 57,421 437,610,002 1,378
08/29/04 58,498 452,629,358 1,280
09/05/04 47,755 394,170,635 1,296
09/12/04 106,404 519,205,251 1,849
09/19/04 110,318 519,230,092 1,984
09/26/04 257,609 1,790,675,514 3,467
10/03/04 360,899 2,933,102,257 4,903
10/10/04 351,495 3,435,129,694 6,068
10/17/04 336,704 3,001,351,505 6,415
10/24/04 343,634 2,875,523,707 5,740
10/31/04 337,035 2,872,222,847 6,043
11/07/04 388,015 3,384,770,634 6,487
11/14/04 449,867 3,466,438,416 5,050
11/21/04 422,070 3,113,108,319 4,843
11/28/04 425,275 3,214,585,731 4,850
12/05/04 423,437 3,192,699,762 4,616
12/12/04 375,307 2,514,858,464 4,333
12/19/04 371,816 2,489,234,956 4,497
12/26/04 389,039 2,590,939,811 4,546
01/02/05 406,607 2,731,290,452 4,907
01/09/05 421,125 2,945,032,608 4,501
01/16/05 402,033 2,739,199,021 4,902
01/23/05 461,797 3,170,011,527 5,303
01/30/05 475,374 3,340,289,649 5,890
02/06/05 528,142 3,738,166,064 6,171
02/13/05 640,792 4,352,251,741 7,627
02/20/05 512,100 3,352,012,091 5,923
02/27/05 531,554 3,508,391,861 6,578
03/06/05 591,306 3,888,117,794 6,636
03/13/05 587,170 3,665,793,228 7,028
03/20/05 596,406 3,862,368,857 7,382
03/27/05 606,671 4,661,016,760 7,284
04/03/05 546,808 3,761,697,923 6,882
04/10/05 534,419 3,918,021,072 6,298
04/17/05 612,753 4,627,869,839 7,624
04/24/05 629,476 4,899,864,500 7,058
05/01/05 628,621 4,581,221,037 7,603
05/08/05 618,764 5,514,124,440 7,748
05/15/05 694,299 5,083,350,276 8,023
05/22/05 643,012 4,326,724,364 7,426
05/29/05 740,831 4,722,564,394 8,612
06/05/05 735,386 4,721,290,584 9,130
06/12/05 692,932 4,886,451,744 8,510
06/19/05 691,238 5,139,735,816 8,534
06/26/05 583,593 4,377,889,863 7,697
07/03/05 613,116 4,333,711,577 6,849
07/10/05 576,520 4,182,380,535 6,729
07/17/05 669,018 4,783,185,376 7,958
07/24/05 724,293 5,416,531,843 7,899
07/31/05 657,316 5,363,085,841 7,917
08/07/05 676,290 5,899,677,259 8,378
08/14/05 715,612 5,451,266,667 9,692
08/21/05 864,549 6,790,438,756 11,271
08/28/05 753,788 5,581,164,335 10,946
09/04/05 821,511 6,396,765,110 11,540
09/11/05 869,746 6,332,424,429 12,503
09/18/05 1,101,644 7,492,469,123 14,413
09/25/05 991,777 8,404,172,994 13,053
10/02/05 762,794 7,284,897,592 13,513
10/09/05 1,740,354 19,761,214,159 11,463
10/16/05 560,432 5,600,411,019 11,929
10/23/05 615,500 5,904,086,283 15,934
10/30/05 962,709 12,354,837,359 15,687
11/06/05 820,323 9,892,192,542 15,322
11/13/05 780,964.19 10,836,053,176.33 13,320.77
 

 

 

 

By 2001, we outgrew our first Bulletin Board and now Shweir.com is embarking on utilizing a New Bulletin Board to better communicate with our readers and supporters.  We will have sections for General topics for discussion, and Forums for Al Mukhtar, Hilda and Webmaster.  This new Bulletin Board is far more interactive where by you can initiate a topic for discussion or respond to any other topic initiated by another member.   Click here to visit the > > New Bulletin Board . 

Below are some highlights.  An edited sample from the new Bulletin Board  

Most recent entries appear first.  

Author Topic:   Communication is key to greater success
Webmaster
Administrator		 posted 04-21-2001 02:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Webmaster      Reply w/Quote
Al Mukhtaar wrote recently that what ever we do, we should have fun in the process.

Well, I would like to share with you the importance of good vs Excellent communication skills. In order to effectively communicate my message to you, I will tell a story which is now featured on the "Take Five" web page of Shweir.com...

"A man and his wife were celebrating their 25th anniversary, both at the age of 50.
 A fairy godmother came to congratulate them both and to grant them each one wish.
 The fairy godmother turned to the wife and asked', “What is your wish?” The wife thought for a second and replied, “I Would like a world tour.” The fairy godmother waved her wand, and the wife was holding two world cruise line tickets in her hand.
 Then the fairy godmother turned to the husband and asked, “What would you like?” The man thought for a second and replied, "I would like a wife 30 years younger than me."
The fairy godmother smiled, waved her wand, and the man was 80 years old."

That man communicated to the Fairy Mother his intentions of his request and the Fairy godmother granted him exactly what he requested, but she added her own interpretation to it. Instead of him getting a new twenty year young wife, he instead grew thirty years older. Poor guy, at 80 he could hardly get up let alone get it up.

If we take this one step further... suppose he asked for a beautiful 20 year old wife, and got his wish, do you think he would be happy?   Maybe and then again... he may end up with a "pre-Madonna" of a young and beautiful wife.  But she could be so jealous of her own shadow, self doubting with negative outlook, disorganized and unappreciative.  She could make his life so miserable that he would have wished to take back his original wife and treat her with more courtesy and respect than before.  

Now if he were to make as clear of a wish like:  
"I wish for a wife that is loving, caring, beautiful, tall, slender, has a positive outlook on life, resourceful, creative, unselfish, adventuresome, has a great smile, between the ages of 20 and 50, even if she were widowed or divorced and even if she had a couple of kids, someone that can be as comfortable sharing with me khibz wa zaitoon (bread and olives) as she can make me proud hosting a formal banquet... " 
Then he would have a much better chance of being a happier man for the rest of his life. 

The morale of the story is to be as specific in your communications as you possibly can. When you write an email, Please, Please write as descriptive of a subject. And when you "Reply" or "Forward" an email and you add new information, modify the subject accordingly.  When you respond to a communication, read it carefully and do your best to answer every segment and question as clearly and completely as possible.

You see, Al Mukhtaar and I and many of you who deal with lots of emails, sometimes we waste a lot of time reading through dozens of emails trying to find one from days or few weeks earlier.

One other item, many of us have gotten into the habit of not using upper case or punctuation or taking shortcuts in spelling. While it is ok in a casual and rushed settings, if I may gently suggest, do not make a habit of it. I have heard that many companies who screen job applicants via the internet consider persons with such style lack attention to details and they are less likely to be selected. Enough preaching.

Now if the Fairy godmother asked you for three wishes what would they be???

Anwar

 

Author Topic:   Shweir.com of the month
George Matar
Administrator		 posted 10-12-2001 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for George Matar     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Month of September have passed , and October is almost half over. If I may Humble Anwar a little and Nominate him for the honor of both months. I would have liked to share it with him but, honestly I don't deserve it. Sure I was with him in Shweir most of the time, but it was him that brought all of you the news and pictures, while I am struggling and some of you think I am enjoying my long and extended vacation in New Orleans, and here in Aruba.
No Anwar has to be the Man. If there is anybody that can share the honor, are all these wonderful Shweirieh that wrote reports on the events of the Eid.

Anwar, "U Numba 1"....Yes "U'd da Man"

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lamloum_k
Member		 posted 10-12-2001 11:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for lamloum_k     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
i agree with u Aamo George I think Anwar should be elected as Shweirieh of the month!
He has been working really hard!!

lamloum

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Klee
Member		 posted 10-13-2001 05:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Klee     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Yes, he definitely lit up the website in kodachrome, fujicolor and 16-bit highcolour. And especially impressive was the effort he made to find places and relatives that meant a lot to those of us overseas. It was really appreciated. You are a very appropriate Shweirie of the Month Anwar.

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Nabil E. Matar
Member		 posted 10-13-2001 03:26 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Nabil E. Matar     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Yes, I agree with you all, In my book Anwer deserves not only to be the Shweiry of the month but Shweiry of the year. My friend you are some thing else

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Paul Woodfield
Member		 posted 10-14-2001 11:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Paul Woodfield     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I couldn't agree more. Not only were many photos taken (and Anwar did make sure he included everybody), but he and George took great care of Sitty (Helena Ataya), Janice and Miriam - not to mention myself, in Shweir making us all feel very included. All much appreciated, my friend.

Paul

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Waleed Moujaes
Member		 posted 10-15-2001 08:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Waleed Moujaes     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I haven't spoken to anybody in Shweir since August, and he/she hasn't mentioned Anwar. The way he presented his trip, the organized photographs with the exact dates (although the time was California's!!!), his enthusiasm,... is admirable!!! Can you image that he who hasn't been to Shweir in 30 years, was able to find Dr. Klee's grandfathers supposedly place of living who left Shweir more than 100 years ago!!!

Anwar is the honoree of the year. point.

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George Matar
Administrator		 posted 10-15-2001 11:18 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for George Matar     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Why are you so quite Ya Anwar? Have wore out the letters on the keyboard?

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Webmaster
Administrator		 posted 10-16-2001 03:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Webmaster     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
My sincere apologies for being out of touch for a while... Don't want to bore with details... Suffice it to say that I was anxious to post as many photos and had to deal with some condos I have near Seattle and etc. etc.

NOw you guys and ladies are about to make me blush... Thank you very much for your kind words and the honorary nomination.

Well, if you recall, I was the shweir.com honoree for June of 2000. As Shweir.com Webmaster, if I may exercise some "discretionary power", I would be very happy instead to recognize some who have not yet been honored.

There is someone in particular I have in mind. That person does not surf the net, but what she did and said deserve recognition... ok, I am talking about Helena Ataya from New Zealand...

Imagine, 90 year young Helena and her support team walked all the way from the other end of Shweir all the way to Saha in Dhour and attended the Festival, spoke to the audience in classic Shweiry Arabic that I have not heard since my aunts passed away many years ago and she told the crowd that she plans on coming next year...
George looked at me and said that what that lady is doing is the best advertisement for Shweir to bring the Mughtaribeen next year...

and imagine that about 1:00 a.m. when the Hafli in Saha was finished, they were planning on walking back to Shweir... and they were prepared with flash lights... now that is impressive...

I know that between George, Janice, Mirriam, Paul and I, we can write something great about Helena and honor her.

Thank you all for your support and for keeping the momentum going.

Anwar

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Paul Woodfield
Member		 posted 10-23-2001 11:24 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Paul Woodfield     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Mind you Anwar, a lot has happened since June last year!!!

I would be happy to write something up about Sitty (grandma). Shes still travelling around in Egypt at the moment. She gets out more than I do - now thats sad!!!

I will start typing.....

Paul

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Habeeb M. Nacol
Member		 posted 10-24-2001 07:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Habeeb M. Nacol     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
As evidenced in this web page, Shweir has many caring, talented, energetic as well as visionary individuals. Some are creative and originators like Hilda and George, others like me are reactors, others are silent yet forceful doers like Elie and Alfred and we have wonderful lightning rods like Ghassan and Elias. We have the level headed ankors like Klee, and those that bring in a touch of freshness like the incomparable Lamloum-I am crazy about her. Her parents must be bursting with pride!

What a great bunch of people, including you Elusive! However, once in a blue moon someone special surfaces that embodies all the goodness, humanity, leadership and all the attributes of greatness. This individual has never ceased to amaze me since I had the great fortune to meet him. And when I think that he has outdone himself, he comes up with something more worth while and spectacular. Let me weigh in and say Anwar you embody everything good that Shweir has or should have. Only a poet or an artist can paint the picture that you have composed of your trip to Shweir. There is something in this collection for everyone. You have made our village alive once again for so many of us that have never seen it or as in my case have forgotten some of its wonderful people and places.

Person of the month and of the year? Certainly. God bless you Anwar and I love you brother .

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Elias Khonaisser
Administrator		 posted 10-24-2001 11:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Elias Khonaisser     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Working in the tech field and building web pages as a hobby makes me appreciate what Anwar is doing because i know how much time and effort is put into presenting all the material and the details that go along with it and the frustration sometimes when the software is just not behaving the way you want it to.

i will add my voice to habeeb's and there is no better words to describe or thank you than what Habeeb said. Amen to that.

Anwar for shweirie of the month and the year.

Elias

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Webmaster
Administrator		 posted 10-26-2001 02:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Webmaster     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Ya Habeeb el Alb, you just left me speechless or in this case writeless... I am so touched by what you all wrote... God, do I have the best family in the world or what...

I have and continue to act on the belief that I could not have done that much without the support of our team of Shweir.com and should there be any important acknowledgement, I would like to share that with Al Mukhtar and/or the Matar Brothers because with their energy, diplomacy and broad knowledge,we worked so well together. As such, I hubly accept your vote of confidence and invite the Matar Brothers to join me as honorees for October...

Now we still have to name an honoree for September.
I would like to nominate Helena Ataya for September because she is setting a great example for a 90 year young Mughtarebeh visiting her home land and as I understand it she has expnaded her tour to include the Middle East... now she is in Egypt. So, Paul, get us a nice write up to do Helena justice...

We welcome your nomination for more candidates because we have November and December quickly approaching ...

With much appreciation and love to all,

Anwar

 

Virus Caution from Ghassan Zghaib, Canada  
May 9, 2001

2 days ago, my Norton Antivirus paid off.  I got an email with the file 'lchapp.exe' attached to it. The name was an arabic one 'Suzanne' with an arabic family name. The body said that someone needed the directions to my house. I was suspicious since it didn't mention the name of that somebody. I didn't open it at work (Smart decision). I opened it at home only to test my Norton Antivirus and it intercepted the virus.

The lesson to learn is: NEVER OPEN AN ATTACHMENT with the extension 'exe' or 'vbs' or any other executable extension.

As for the 'Nigerian Scam', no matter what we do, they will still be able to get our emails from somewhere. The only remedy for this is to use our head and keep in mind that we are 'doomed' to work hard for our money.

=====  
Ghassan Zghaib 
GSD INFORMATIQUE INC. 
GhassanZghaib@bigfoot.com 
ICQ# : 24270082 
Online Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/24270082 
Express E-Mail: 24270082@pager.mirabilis.com

Virus Caution from George Matar:  
May 9, 2001

Our company has issued this alert and just wanted to share it with you, Be very careful.

S&B has received news of a virus being distributed in an email with the subject line of "Homepage". The message body contains an attachment, and the text "Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;0)".

If you receive such an email, please delete it without opening the attachment. Although our server intercepts these type viruses, it's better to be safe. If possible, telephone the person who sent it to you, and warn them that they are infected

Caution about Nigerian scams from Dr. Klee in Australia, 
Sent on May 7, 2001

Dear George and Anwar,

I thought you might be interested in some observations I have made on this.
As I mentioned on the Bulletin Board in Tech Corner, I have had a series of "Nigerian Scam" letters, at least one a month, since putting my email address in the guest book on February 8th. I have reported three to Yahoo.com on Saturday, as that is the internet provider where most of them originated. They have already dealt with Fela Attah quickly as other people had also complained, and I am waiting to hear about the other two. Yahoo.com's terms of service section gives detailed information about how to look at the headers of emails to track where they have come from so you can report the entire header showing the path of the email and the entire unedited email message including the subject. It helps them to investigate it.
Connected with that, on the weekend I have checked some of the headers on the emails where a Shweirieh bil Mahjar sender asked for a receipt to be sent to say that the message has been read (this includes Jabbour, Corban-Banks and Abou Sauder on the Shweir list that always request email receipts). This happens both when they write to the entire list which they apparently now appear to have in their address books or when they reply to Anwar or yourself and we also get a copy and have to send receipts too. In one case (from Arab Emirates) on 25th February, the receipt saying I had read the mail went automatically to two email addresses so I am wondering whether it not only went to the sender but some other person too. The text of the receipt attachment was as follows:
 
 Final-Recipient: rfc822;zad4amal@emirates.net.ae
Original-Message-ID: <011801c09ee6$d9ae0120$5cf72ad5@8080>
Disposition: manual-action/MDN-sent-manually; displayed

Within 30 minutes of that receipt being sent, the first scam letter was received from Miriam Abacha. It is interesting but I can't make any more of it than that at the moment as it may be a coincidence.
 
In researching these nigerian scams on the internet this week I found a site with 180 pages of details about the nigerian scam artists at http://www.superhighway.is/iis/names_of_crooks.html and in searching through I found that the telephone number in Fela Attah's scam email is the same of that reported for a Dr. Umar Dikko Azeez, the fax is the same as Asiodu Garuba Dudu, Dr. Yusuf Ibn Farouq and Dr. Ibrahim Bako, and the home telephone is the same as Dr. Ibrahim Bako, Dr. Ayo Banjo and Dr. Zulu J. Mbeki. All of these are probably one person only, i.e. the person mutates his name over time. Some of the emails that have a number, like felaattah71 are probably highly organized clerically and maintain a specific identity for that location, changing to another name when their "free email" is cut off by an internet provider for abusing the service. Some of these internet providers relay email to mobile phones etc. so the actual location can be more complex.
On another occasion a virus message ( the HaHaHa virus ) turned up after soon after I started receiving the emailed joke messages on the mailing list. It may have attached itself to the Shweir address book from a downloaded joke source or it may have been linked to one of the receipts I mentioned above as I remember receiving a dangerous "worm virus" when Abou Sauder was sending receipted messages. This surprised me at the time because he writes from a computer consulting firm, but maybe that puts him at enormous risk of virus attack and transmission, and us also because he has the whole mailing list on his computer. I remember being surprised that it might have been from his address book as I thought he would have good virus-checking software. It would be sad if I have to leave receipt-requested emails un-open and trash them. Once the receipt request pops up on the screen, it seems impossible to not reply to that receipt message and get it off the screen to delete the message; it doesn't let you.
It's interesting, like detective work, to solve how they are getting the addresses. Due to the correct spelling of my surname, I am sure it is from the Guest Book list as on the update mailing list my surname is misspelt and the emails are personally addressed. I am sure that it is not from the Bulletin Board profile as I took my email address off the profile of the Bulletin Board when the problem started and it never had my surname anyway.
I have seen guest books where the email address and sometimes even the entire message is hidden. I think that this might be the way to go but it would be a great pity. I wonder how sites like the Lebanese White Pages (of emigrants) manage this problem. It would be a great pity to make contact between us all harder although I am sure that the web-master would put us in touch with another person if we asked.
Keep up the good work.
Regards
Klee

Virus Alert:   This came courtesy of Nabil Matar sent on 4-19-2001 

I think this is a very important message that all should read with regards to this new virus.

Subject: FW: Fw: Virus alert ... Please read

 Virus with no cure.Please, send this information to every person in your address book.

 If you receive an e-mail that reads "Upgrade Internet" do not open it, as it contains an executable file named "perrin.exe" it will erase all the data in your hard drive and it will stay in your memory. Every time that you upload any data, that data will be automatically  erased and you will not be able to use your computer again.

 This information was published yesterday in the CNN web site.   This is a very dangerous virus.   To this date. There is no known anti  virus program for this particular virus please, forward this information to your friends, so that they will be on the alert, also check the list below, sent by IBM with the names of some e-mails that, if received. SHOULD NOT BE OPENED and must be deleted immediately. Because they contain attached viruses.

This way your computer will be safe.   The Titles are:

 1) buddylst.exe 
 2) calcul8r.exe
 3) deathpr.exe
 4) einstein.exe
 5) happ.exe
 6) girls.exe
 7) happy99.exe
 8) japanese.exe
 9) keypress.exe
 10) kitty.exe
11) monday.exe
12) teletubb.exe
13) The Phantom