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In message , Dr John Stockton
writes JRS: In article , dated Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:59:27 local, seen in news:sci.space.policy, Herb Schaltegger posted : On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:19:21 -0600, Dave O'Neill wrote (in article . com): Anybody have any stats on how big this news group actually is? One should generally not use "this news group" in a cross-posted article. I'm considering it to mean news:sci.space.policy. Someone who archives the group (*cough* OM *cough*) ought to download statnews.pl and analyze the posts. AFAICS, not only does Jonathan Silverlight have the longest name, but he certainly has the longest name-and-address and probably the longest address. Fame at last :-) Is there any way of discovering how many lurkers there are? |
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On 11 Dec 2005 01:57:52 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Rand Simberg wrote: No, it is decided by logic and facts. I laid them out. Mark had no response, except to change the subject. No one disagreed. What "facts" did you lay out? The "fact" that in the timescale there will be private enterprise manned missions to the moon, that they'll be met by the staff of the "lunar Hilton"? No, I laid out the facts about the false things that Mark attributed to me. Apparently you didn't even read the thread. |
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 15:40:06 -0600, Dr John Stockton wrote
(in article ): JRS: In article , dated Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:59:27 local, seen in news:sci.space.policy, Herb Schaltegger posted : On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:19:21 -0600, Dave O'Neill wrote (in article . com): Anybody have any stats on how big this news group actually is? One should generally not use "this news group" in a cross-posted article. I'm considering it to mean news:sci.space.policy. Someone who archives the group (*cough* OM *cough*) ought to download statnews.pl and analyze the posts. No need to assume that archiving necessarily involves statnews.pl. I didn't make such an assumption. Why do you think that I have? -- Herb There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. ~ RAH |
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:40:06 +0000, in a place far, far away, Dr John
Stockton made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: I have here 11 days of articles, 640 of them, omitting a few manifestly troll-type threads : 1588176 bytes. There's about 115 distinct authors; the Prolific 3 are Henry 56 Rand 53 Ed 39 When I did the same a day or two ago, Rand was well ahead of Henry. We all know how good Henry's articles are : it's a pity that there's someone who posts about as much but does so without even achieving, /in toto/, the value of the least of Henry's articles AFAIR. Counting articles is misleading. Another interesting statistic is article length. When it comes to wasting bandwidth (if that's the complaint), I'm sure that there are many much worse than me, because there are so many people who never trim a word, and get into long arguments with Guth and his keyboard diarrhea. 13 authors posted 50% of the articles between them. Under 20 averaged more than one per day. All that means is that Usenet, like all else, follows Pareto's Law. |
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Dave O'Neill wrote: You've posted something like, according to Google, 25% of the content of this particular Newsgroup. What was really amazing was that sometimes it seemed like he was posting for 24 or 36 hours straight with no sleep. That's when I first suspected that he might be something other than human. I think he first suspected that he might be something other than human decades ago. :-D Pat |
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Dave O'Neill wrote: I do wonder what the Rand Simberg "live act" is like though. http://www.samizdata.net/blog/~pdeh/rand_perry.JPG Rand is the dazed looking guy on the left standing next to the crazy looking guy on the right. That's from this webpage BTW-http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/cat_antics_parties.html This impresses my as one strange group. Pat |
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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:31:21 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: What was really amazing was that sometimes it seemed like he was posting for 24 or 36 hours straight with no sleep. ....Which, as most of you will recall, was something I exceeded that first week of February 2003 :-( OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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Rand Simberg wrote: On 7 Dec 2005 14:10:39 -0800, in a place far, far away, "tobarn" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: snipped bunch of typical Rand delusional rhetoric So please provide the name of this indepth Tourism Marketing study you have participated in. There are only a handfull of them afterall, surely you can remember which ones you participated in. I've asked several times and still have yet to receive the name of a single one. I've queried several people in the field and none have ever heard of you except for the sole american I queried who suggested you were a conference junkie but was unfamiliar with any serious study that you have contributed to and laughed at the suggestion that anyone would hire you for such a thing except as conference fodder. Just to refresh your memory, ....The question stated, ....""I see you still havent bothered to actually read any of the in-depth ....""Tourism marketing studies that have been done. ....You responded , ....""I've actually helped develop some of them" So please give us the name of just one of them. Its all very simple really, even for someone as mentally challenged as yourself. |
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Dave O'Neill wrote: All of the above have had strong to violent disagreements with you over your debating technique and your view of the world both in space and on Earth. And Pat at least simply killfiled him so as not to be bothered by more of his innanities. (hint) Pat |
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OM wrote: ...Which, as most of you will recall, was something I exceeded that first week of February 2003 :-( Yeah, but that outstanding piece of work on your part not only got you great credit with other members of the newsgroup, but was even being used by NASA itself to keep up on things IIRC. I used to watch all the Shuttle launches till they got so hum-drum that I decided to stay in bed for the launch of STS-51L. My father came upstairs to tell me something was very wrong. I used to watch most of the Shuttle landings until STS-107- my friend called me up to tell me something was very wrong. This is the same friend who runs the shop I walked into on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 and who stared and me in dumbfoundment as I looked at the television and asked him if there was a building on fire somewhere. Pat |
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