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  Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
 
Last time we mentioned we were about to overtake another country in .loc postings we spurred the Italians to greater verbosity. Now it's the Pommys' turn. Last I checked we're some 230 posts (2 to 4 weeks of posts) behind. With a South Eastern fest (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
 
"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:GECwHA.AEo@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) I think that James meant most noisy as in "most posts per capita", but I haven't done the sums. But yeah, I think that overall our being so (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
 
(...) We COULD always start up the question about lugnet being too polite, along with a side-order of whether this being an Aussie forum (?) we should be able to use Strine [1] or whether we should use 'Seppo' language. [1] Strine is the name given (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
 
(...) Is being the most noisy a "good thing"? And don't you mean "most noisy in your own group"? ... as we yanks way outnumber everyone else put together in terms of total volume of all posts to LUGNET across all groups, I think. ++Lar (23 years ago, 3-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
 
  Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
 
(...) I did the sums earlier (and posted in LUGnet but I'm too lazy to look the reference up) and we are WAY in front per capita (by a factor of 10 if I recall). But yes that was the general idea, that even a handful of LEGO fans can make a (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jun-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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