numbers creep

Phil messaged me. He was trying to help Laila. She wants to study the expired members and see how engaged they were in our Yahoo!Group. He asked if I could help. I said I'd try.

The first worry was if they were no longer in the Yahoo system, I probably would not be able to quickly see their last status. I'd have to look in archived materials.

He sent over a file with member (er, ex-member) names and the Yahoo mode they requested when they joined RASC. But I needed more data, for cross-referencing. When they joined RASC. Their email address.

Then I took a look at the size of the table. More precisely, the number of data rows. 244! What the hell? Laila has said about 100.

I replied to the original request communique and indicated that will take days of work...