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Posting frequency? —Tim Courtney

About a year ago or more, Todd posted a list of peoples' names and ranked how often they posted to Lugnet. Just out of curiosity, Todd, could you generate one of those again? I think it would be neat to compare to the old one and also to see who the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Shiri Dori

(...) <grin> Tim, you and I would probably be way up there. ;-) And if o-t.debate is counted, we'd probably be 3rd and 4th places (right after Scott and Larry of course!!) (Actually I would probably only be way up there for early 2000, til about (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Tim Courtney

Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6Grs5.8u0@lugnet.com... (...) Yup, I kinda figured the debaters would make the top, followed by the rest of us. You're more of a loudmouth than I, but you've been hampered by being in school as (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:G6Gt1I.482@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) 'seen (...) <snip> Tim was referring to me. :) Anyhoo he did help even if I did figure it out myself :) HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.who's (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Tim Courtney

Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. <arcanamachi@netzero.net> wrote in message news:G6GvIo.L38@lugnet.com... (...) You and others, Kenneth. I've gotten many more where that came from. :-) -Tim (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Todd Lehman

(...) Hmm, I don't think it ranked how often people posted (e.g., frequency) but listed the total numbers of articles posted by each person for a few groups. Anyway, here's an up-to-date list across all LUGNET newsgroups (I'll post something another (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Greg Majewski

(...) Yee-haw! I'm the 75th loudest person on LUGNET! Yippee! (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Shiri Dori

(...) I'm the 5th. <grin> And that's after shutting up for almost 6 months. -Shiri (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Tim Courtney

Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6I5qC.BxE@lugnet.com... (...) So really you're probably close to first, if you took a snapshot of the time you were posting all day long. I'm surprised I'm at 16th (I thought I'd clear the top (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Frank Filz

(...) you (...) as (...) Well, we all know Lar likes to hear himself talk... We really should create lugnet.lar... Do you read .trains much? Many of the folks who have you beat are active in .trains. I'm not really surprised by any of the folks who (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Tim Courtney

Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:G6Irwu.I8E@lugnet.com... (...) Of course! :-) (...) the (...) Funny you mention, I just started reading .trains this week. I was subscribed to trains.org but after seeing a lot of (whaddya (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Kyle Keppler

<BIG snip> On a related (sorta) note, Is there a easy/fast way to figure out when my first post was? I'm pretty sure it would be in Decemeber 1999... I tried a few times back when the search was enaled but since that was not ordered by date it (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Top 10 (was Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)) —Steve Chapple

(...) <huge snip> (...) <another huge snip> (...) lol How did I know Larry would be "the loudest" 8-) SRC (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Erik Olson

It's fun to read the list, silently, while the TV announces the Rose Bowl player lineups! Da ta da... (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

Is it me or is the list in alphabetical order by FIRST name? Wasnt it supposed to be in order of post frequency? -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.who gets confused by long lists :) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Todd Lehman

(...) Yes. (...) It's that too. Scroll down farther. --Todd (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

oops sorry Todd. I see it now. I made 50 and I've not been on all that long. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.who is going to finish reading next time before he responds to a post "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Frank Filz

(...) Hmm, interesting. I guess I've got some catching up to do... I arbitrarily only grabbed those who posted at least 1000 times. I recognize most of those as regular posters, but a few I don't recognize as regular posters, but only one do I not (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Tim Courtney

Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:3A51627D.5A9B56...ing.com... (...) Terry was the creator and maintainer of the original James Jessiman memorial site, and handled official LCAD updates for about two years after James' passing (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) It's not about quantity, it's about quality. You have no catching up to do on that score. ++Lar (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Mike Stanley

(...) Well, in your case quantity and quality have gone hand in hand, of course. :) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Glad someone else said that. :-) ++Lar (raising next year's count with an essentially valueless post) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Mark Sandlin

(...) We're not sure exactly *where* they've gone, however. <GDR> ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Terry Keller

(...) Ouch. I guess that's the result of keeping quiet and laying low for such a long time. So... Hi Frank, nice to meet'cha! I've been around for a pretty long time, though at present I'm going through a bit of a "dim age". Not dark, but not very (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Daniel Crichton

Wow! I'm on the list!!! I've only been on here for a few months, and I didn't think I was that noisy (well, only 102 posts, but I never realised I'd made the Top 1000). Dan (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Selçuk Göre

Todd Lehman wrote: 1026 Selçuk Göre 1030 Terry Keller 1117 Christopher L. Weeks Hmm, 30th place..:-) I didn't expect that, I didn't think that I was one of the big mouths..:-) 1208 Kevin Wilson 1258 John VanZwieten 1286 Mark Sandlin 1311 Jasper (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Steve Bliss

(...) 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)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Todd Lehman

(...) Ya, basically. Or if they changed their last name due to marriage, etc. (...) 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: (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Steve Bliss

(...) 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?) —Terry Keller

(...) If I was a .cad I wouldn't want an analysis of it either. ;-) -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Steve Bliss

(...) :p I've been good lately, very few low-content posts. I just put the puns in the useful postings... Steve (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Robin Sayce-Jones

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?) —Ed Jones

(...) 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)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) well, right now your headers show: X-Real-Life-Name: Ed Jones but I guess at some point they has the "Boxer" version? if it's important, I can try to dig up which posts show the "Boxer"... LMK :) Dan (22 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Shiri Dori

(...) Heeeheeee... I mean, c'mon, Steve, you even surpassed me!! Then again, you've posting here from the start, IIRC?... -Shiri (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Tim Courtney

Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:G6r00q.8MJ@lugnet.com... (...) Yeah, Steve, and we all know how hard that is to do!! :D (I'll spare my next logical comment, because I fear my life when I get back to Boston) (...) I believe he (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Steve Bliss

(...) Well, somewhat before the start. But I don't think the beta-messages count, I think Todd wiped them from the system. Steve (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Bryan Hodges

(...) <snip> (...) In case anyone is interested, I compiled the data into an Excel spreadsheet. If you want it e-mail me at hobartrus@hotmail.com and I'll send it your way. Some interesting (though useless) facts: There were a total of 178,707 posts (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Todd Lehman

(...) Uh oh, time for a blood transfusion! 6302/178707 = 3.5% 19/178707 = .01% 19*19/178707 = .2% --Todd (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Bryan Hodges

(...) whoops... sorry about that, I forgot to convert to percentages... yikes! I must be losing it... don't tell my dad! He'd be heart broken! ;) Thanks for correcting me Todd. -Bryan (URL) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Terry Keller

(...) Wow. 29th place. That is surprising - especially since I've been so quiet lately. I must have blabbed too much early on... :-) -- Terry K -- (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Mario Ferrari

(...) ... (...) Sergio Lorenzetti pointed out that I'm the 22nd in the list and that my LUGNET membership number is 22 too. Nice coincidence! Sergio himself ranked 42, "The ultimate answer" :-) Ciao Mario Lego web page: (URL) member page: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Richard Franks

In lugnet.people, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> Wow, I've been (mostly) away for almost a year and I'm still the #31 in the list of noisemakers: *fear* :-) Richard (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Aaron West

(...) Snip! (...) SNIP!! WEE! I average one post a day, so here's too meeting my blabbermouth quota!! It is likely that now that I have my web site back, and there is an end in sight to my storage dilema that I'll be posting more frequently in the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Mar-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Lindsay Frederick Braun

(...) Wow, I hadn't even seen this until now. It would have been much worse, no doubt, had I not gone off to Europe. Wait, I'm just making it worse right now...no, now... ack! #17...how wishy-washy. I'm not at all surprised at who the top 5 are, (...) (24 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Maggie Cambron

(...) <snipped the LONG list> (...) I notice this last one was done last January 1st. Are you Todd, or anyone else who may be involved now, going to do an updated one now that it's been another year? Maggie C. (M.C. also stands for Moderately (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) well, I know it's Jan 2nd, but I didn't get a chance to generate it yesterday... So here it is: 7815 total posts. 574 unique names. SORTED BY FREQUENCY Todd Lehman: 1092 Mladen Pejic: 323 Eric Sophie: 303 Mark Sandlin: 232 Larry Pieniazek: 225 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Jason Cicchini

(...) ::homer voice:: woohoo! I'm a noisemaker! lol. Thanx for the new list, dan. -Jay (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Larry Pieniazek

(...) This is for what time period? CANNOT be the whole year of 2001 right?? or does it filter some groups out? (...) Less than a post a day? I don't think so. (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —James Powell

(...) that's OK. I posted 2 times. Ya. Right. James P (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) what was I thinking! must have not recovered from new years yet... 121335 posts - redoing the rest of the stats... sorry for the goof... Dan (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Jon Palmer

"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:GpBMn1.1BE@lugnet.com... (...) Ok this is lookin better. I posted my last post just after you sent this. -Jon (sigh of relief) -- | The Galactic Shipyard - (URL) My website - (URL) BrickBay Store - (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Jon Palmer

Dan, please tell me I'm confused and not reading this right. A year ago Todd posted this: (...) have (...) And now this year you have posted this: (...) yesterday... (...) Does this really mean that posters have dropped from about 3000 to just over (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) nono, my mistake. should have looked at the numbers before posting. working on a repost. :/ Dan (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) ok, this time it looks better: 121335 Posts, 2298 Unique names. SORTED BY FREQUENCY Larry Pieniazek 3739 Todd Lehman 1741 Frank Filz 1708 Mark Sandlin 1664 Ross Crawford 1554 Lindsay Frederick Braun 1288 Scott Arthur 1271 Matthew Gerber 1217 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp) !!

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Pawel Nazarewicz

(...) Hmmm ... last year we had 31 people with over a thousand posts, and this year only 9. Plus the overall number has gone down - any ideas what this is attributed to? The newness of Lugnet wearing off? I wonder if the hits are higher than last (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Adrian Drake

(...) Most likely it's due to the new posting verification rules. It's been discussed that overall posting is significantly down since the email verification kicked in. Adrian (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Bram Lambrecht

(...) Todd's list last year was a list for all posts since September 1998, IIRC. I may be slacking, but there's no way I posted half as much this year as last. But I think you're right in that some of the "newness" has faded. As far as MOC's are (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Terry Keller

(...) It would be interesting to update last years list, so a comparision between now and last year can be made. -- Terry K -- (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Matthew Gerber

(...) 8th place!?!?! Oh holy cripes...Jill's gonna' kill me! I really had NO idea I posted here quite this often...I assume that this list isn't filtered for crossposts, right? So there's a CHANCE that I'm at least out of the top ten? GEEZ! Matt (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Shiri Dori

(...) Hehe. I wouldn't bet on it Matt, you post a *lot*! But there's nothing wrong with that... even as 8th place you posted a lot less than the top twenty last your, I think (too lazy to check). As someone here pointed out, last year had many (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Maggie Cambron

(...) yesterday... (...) Thanks Dan! (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Scott Arthur

(...) Rather Scary. 20 people post over a fifth of the messages here. :-o Scott A (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Nicole Drumm

"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:GpBx9D.CMy@lugnet.com... (...) yesterday... (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> In a way this is kinda deceptive because I used Ken's name for a bit after he died untill I was able to get mine (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Frank Filz

(...) Does this include the nightly activity posts under Todd's name? Still, to be #3.... I'd better not let my boss see that... Frank (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dan Boger

(...) yup, just counting X-Real-Life-Name headers. Dan (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Josh Baakko

AHHHH! I didn't know I posted THAT much! I'm 13th! Josh (23 years ago, 3-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Dave Johann

(...) Wow! I thought I'd have many more pots than this, but once I factor in the 4 months I was offline this number makes a bit more sense. Still....enough slacking off, I'm WAY behind Lar this year. ;) -Dave (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Ross Crawford

(...) Perhaps you should spend more money on pots than Lego 8?) Unless it was some other kind of pot you're talking about 8?/ ROSCO FUT .o-t.fun (23 years ago, 5-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Gary E. Blessing

Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:GpBx9D.CMy@lugnet.com... (...) yesterday... (...) Yikes!!! I never would have thought to get into the 200s let alone this. Cool. Gary (23 years ago, 4-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —John D. Forinash

(...) Yow. I've been missing for six months and I'm _still_ on this list? The rest of y'all are all slack! :) -JDF [As much testing to see if I've got posting set up right on this box as I am making fun of y'all's slack. :) ] (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Maggie Cambron

(...) yesterday... (...) <snip the next 999 noisemakers...> LOL, Brian K.'s post in b-s-t has reminded me, it's just about that time of year again-- Todd? or Dan, if Todd is too busy? Maggie C. (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Dan Boger

(...) ok, here it is. Like last time, only people who posted from the web interface were counted - it's too much of a pain to deal with parsing email addresses for unique ids. So as /. says, if you use these numbers for anything at all, you're out (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.statistics) !!

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Kevin Wilson

Dan Boger wrote in message <20021230055017.GA10...on.com>... (...) That can't be so - I'm on the list at 413 posts, and I post via newsreader, not the web. Kevin ---...--- NEW Half-Timbered Shops kit 1400+++ pieces! (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Nicole Drumm

"Kevin Wilson" <kwilson_tccs@compuserve.com> wrote in message news:H7x5J1.GvK@lugnet.com... (...) Me too Kevin. I'm happy to be in the top 50 :). -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm MS (URL) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Dan Boger

(...) well, somehow your posts got an X-Real-Life-Name header. Perhaps your newsreader was configured to add it? Dan (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —James Brown

(...) Perhaps the authentication process adds it? James (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Paul Baulch

(...) Mine too - I got 147 posts, and I only ever post using Outlook Express! Go Microsoft!!! (j/k) ;-) Cheers, Paul (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Richard Noeckel

Thanks to both Maggie for the reminder, and *Dan for the compilation. I like the fact that I’ve posted more than Suz for the past 2 years! …it make me feel somewhat kinda special… ;) <blushes> (...) These figures are a gauge of my self-worth… (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) In Windoze, click in the textfield then press [Ctrl] + [A], that is the default Select All keyboard command. Best Mr. #21 (remove SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Richard Noeckel

(...) Thanks for the help Tobbe! I liked it when you wrote: Mr. #21 (is it jus’ me or does this sound really Japanese) <Mista numba twenty-onee> ;p Your fellow compatriot Mr. #31! --==Richard==-- (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Gregory Cook

(...) If you don't want to delete all the quoted message, but just the list (or any other time you're trying to delete stuff en masse), just put the cursor at the start of the first line-to-be-deleted, hold down shift, and tap (or hold) page down (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Richard Noeckel

(...) Thanks so much, I'll try this next time! I really appreciate yours and Tobbe’s assistance…I was beginning to think that nobody would help. Obliged, --==Richard==-- (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Gregory Cook

(...) No prob. Always looking to spread more efficient Windows usage tips. -Greg "Fox" Cook (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Frank Filz

(...) Even a little faster: Click just before the first character you want to delete. Use the mouse to scroll down to the end of the message. Hold the shift key, and click just after the stuff you want to delete. Hit the delete or back arrow keys. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Kevin Wilson

Frank Filz wrote in message <3E1B44AB.D80811B3@m...ng.com>... (...) Even faster, if you know you want to highlight right to the end of the message: position the cursor where you want to start highlighting Hold down Ctrl and Shift and press End. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Frank Filz

(...) And note that either way you select your huge chunk, you can use shift and cursor keys to adjust the end of the selection. You can also re-adjust the end with a shift mouse-click. FUT: lugnet.off-topic.geek (22 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Gregory Cook

(...) If I'd only known what I'd be starting! Heh. A) Yeah, good mouse tactic, but I dislike using the mouse unless I have to. B) I always forget the exact keycombo for straight to the end, thanks. C) yep. but that goes without saying. OR DOES IT? (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —John Henry Kruer

(...) Yeah! I'm # 16. Good for my first 11 months. Off to make more noise. *Noise*...*noise*...*noise*... -JHK (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Nicole Drumm

"Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20021230055017....ron.com... (...) <snipped list> (...) Woo Hoo number 44! Wait a second, I've never posted from the web interface! Huh. I'm happy anyway. :) <snipped list> -- Thanx~ Nicole Drumm (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers & Review —John P. Henderson

Cool! I doubled what I did the previous year. Of course, I am a long way from Larry still. ...Waitaminute, the year isn't over yet. I still have 38 hours to post 2134 more times!! 8-P Anyway, how about a year-in-review, to see what all these posts (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.general)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tim Courtney

(...) Wow... the number of my posts has halved in the last year. In 2001, I posted 1150 times. -Tim (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Richard Noeckel

(...) I'm using the 'post figures' as -points-earned!- ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ ~Once you reach 10,000 points y’get a free trip to LegoLand!!! (I'm sure TLC will honor this…) ;p Mr. #31, --==Richard==-- P.S. !!!Go rtlToronto!!! We’ve got the highest number of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Richard Noeckel

Welcome clansmen! I bid you greetings from the ‘Circle of 18 Richards!’ We are a numerous bunch, and soon we will be poised to rule over these fair lands once more. Our high-commander, Richard Marchetti, shall be saluted as ‘post-master’ 1 of 18 (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.community)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —William R. Ward

(...) [...] So I'm #8? Whoopee, I think. I post the majority of messages through NNTP, but I do post the occasional one through the web interface (such as this one). But I know I didn't post 867 through the web interface, so I think you may have (...) (22 years ago, 30-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Matt Hein

(...) Hmm...no. 22. Thought I made more noise than that... Ah well, always next year! :) <<_Matt Hein_>> Fellow lego enthusiast (22 years ago, 1-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Gregory Cook

(...) Woo hoo, #698! (just thought I'd offer a slightly larger number than most who have replied). Then again, I only started posted a couple months ago. -Greg "Fox" Cook (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Bruce Hietbrink

Wow. I jumped from being tied for last last year (with 1 post) (I'd just gotten my membership), to 20th this year (with 592 posts). With that rate of growth, I'll squash Larry's numbers by Ground Hog's Day. Happy New Year's, all. Bruce Hietbrink (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) As a matter of fact I myself thought I'd be a good rocket (went from two posts to 21st place) and before I fell asleep last nigth I thought it would be cool to make a list with the biggest rockets from 2002. So I made that. Due to the fact I (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Simon Bennett

(...) What I find most bizarre is how consistent the majority of posters are, the number of us who are within 0 or 1 of last years total is freakish. I imagine this is mostly down to the amount of time we each have to surf Lugnet. Psi (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) I'm not quite sure I follow you, but as I did the list I found _a_lot_ of people that either did not post at all or only a few posts in 2001 that had a fair amount of posts in 2002. Of course I took away everyone who posted less then 50 times (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Simon Bennett

(...) Oops, my mistake. Since I know I posted more than 1 message in 2001 I didn't twig that the first numerical column wasn't the difference!. (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) The list used incorrect values for 2001, se a new and improved list here (moved to new thread for convinience): (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Cary Clark

(...) ... (...) ... (...) ... Tobbe, I'm not as big a rocket as you might suggest. I think that you may have used the wrong list from 2001. As I recall, Dan Boger posted two lists; the first one was incorrect. correct 2001 list (URL) Clark 193 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Jude Beaudin

(...) I think you may have a problem with your information for 2001. I posted more than 19 times and I am pretty sure Larry posted more than the 225 times you reported for him. Jude (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) Yes, it has been pointed out to me Dan posted two versions of the 2001 list and I used the incorrect one. I'll see if I can rework the whole thing later today or in the weekend. Best, /Tobbe (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

(...) Jude Beaudin 19 490 471 (...) The list used incorrect values for 2001, se a new and improved list here (moved to new thread for convinience): (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Tobbe Arnesson

The list used incorrect values for 2001, se a new and improved list here (moved to new thread for convinience): (URL) (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers —Frank Filz

(...) And from 2001: (...) Hmm, I'm still number 3 but quite a few less posts... I wonder how much of this is my trying harder to stay out of off-topic.debate. I post mostly from NNTP, but I think NNTP posters get a X-Real-Life-Name added by Lugnet (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Benjamin Medinets

(...) Does this go for E-mail only sending Posts, or Web-based. I do web-based posting, and don't even see my name there....??? :-/ I know I post quite a bit..... Benjamin Medinets (23 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?) —Maggie Cambron

(...) <snipped LAST year's list> (...) For THIS year's list, compiled by Dan Boger (not cumulative, but only for 2001), see (URL) C. (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Kerry Raymond

I think what we can safely conclude from this thread is that: 1) there are lies, damned lies and statistics (I apparently have posted 287, 321 or 481 times in 2002) 2) no matter how you caculate it, Larry posted most :-) 3) people need to learn to (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Richie Dulin

(...) Indeed there are. The real fun comes when you start treating the first two as the third. (Not to be confused with treating the third as either of the first two of course :-) ). I think that this thread must be the longest (chronologically) on (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)

Re: Posting frequency? —Kerry Raymond

(...) then ancient history quietly disappears from view. Kerry (22 years ago, 3-Jan-03, to lugnet.people)