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Re: Top 1000 noisemakers (was: Re: Posting frequency?)
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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. (26 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 (...) (26 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? (24 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.nntp)

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