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Subject:	Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp
Date:	Wed, 3 Jan 2001 02:14:40 GMT
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In lugnet.people, Steve Bliss writes: > > This is counting the X-Real-Life-Name header > So if someone changed their registration, their count would get broken up? Ya, basically. Or if they changed their last name due to marriage, etc. > It's hard to believe there've only been a couple dozen posts from people > like Ed Boxer and Robin Sayce-Jones. Well, lessee... Ed Boxer shows up a couple ways: 19 Ed "Boxer" Jones 505 Ed Jones I think the count of 22 for Robin is right...at least, the search engine agrees: http://news.lugnet.com/?q=%2Brobin+%2Bsayce+%2Bjones and I don't see any other variants like Robyn or either Jones or Sayce alone with Robin. I'm surprised as well; I thought I'd seen that name tons of times. > > (and ignoring externally-originated articles that don't have > > that header) > > Would those articles be some kind of system-originated posts (relatively > insignificant for the question at hand), ya -- everything in .admin.statistics and articles #1 & #2 of every group, so about 3200 in all, at present. > or something more significant like > email-originated postings? no > [...] > > 2749 Shiri Dori > > 3140 Frank Filz > > 4389 Steve Bliss > > 5925 Todd Lehman > > 6302 Larry Pieniazek > > Oh, geez. I had no idea. I think I'll shut up now. My, how soon we forget... :-) :-) :-) http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=2673 > BTW, were the counts based on unique messages, or were cross-postings > multi-counted? Unique messages. That is, cross-posted articles got counted once, not multiple times. --Todd

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		Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
(...) OK, that's better. :) (...) anyway. (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

		Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
Hi, Just for the record. I was born Robin Jones. I married Tina Sayce Tina was the last Sayce in her family so we decided to hyphenate. Hence Sayce-Jones. You wouldn't believe the number of variations we get when we say this over the phone. As for (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

		Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
(...) Just curious as to why I would show up twice, once with "Boxer", once without? (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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		Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
(...) So if someone changed their registration, their count would get broken up? It's hard to believe there've only been a couple dozen posts from people like Ed Boxer and Robin Sayce-Jones. (...) Would those articles be some kind of (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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