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Re: Gunning for third. Gaining on the UK
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Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:36:46 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, James Howse writes:
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 coming up and inevitable
end-of-year-clearance-sales with (fingers crossed up to 50%?!?) off perhaps
we can cement the claim as "most noisy nation".

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



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"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)

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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)

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