Hah! I can be a top poster as well!

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:59:13 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC OwenBot:

> is the top poster (but not a top poster) to CSS with almost 6,000
> posts. Wow!

I'm sure this can't be correct. If it is, I really should get out
more.

Mind you, that's only like 600 a year or something. Less than two a
day.

Chris


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On Jun 21, 9:25*pm, "Chris Young"
wrote:
> Hah! *I can be a top poster as well!
>
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:59:13 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC OwenBot:
>
> > is the top poster (but not a top poster) to CSS with almost 6,000
> > posts. Wow!
>
> I'm sure this can't be correct. *If it is, I really should get out
> more.

It's there in the Google groups statistics. I'm not sure how reliable
they are and I doubt they take account of people changing email
addresses but...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/about

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:05:06 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC OwenBot:

> It's there in the Google groups statistics. I'm not sure how reliable
> they are and I doubt they take account of people changing email
> addresses but...
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/about

If you click on my name you'll see it is counting posts under my old
email address... so I've actually written more than that.

I therefore declare Spike the top poster, being listed twice in the
top ten, with 5213 and 3251 posts, making a grand total of 8464.

Chris


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Chris Young wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:05:06 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC OwenBot:
>
>> It's there in the Google groups statistics. I'm not sure how reliable
>> they are and I doubt they take account of people changing email
>> addresses but...
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/about
>
> If you click on my name you'll see it is counting posts under my old
> email address... so I've actually written more than that.
>
> I therefore declare Spike the top poster, being listed twice in the
> top ten, with 5213 and 3251 posts, making a grand total of 8464.


Is that including the u5a77 e-mail address from when I was at uni?
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:58:04 +0100, Andrew Halliwell
wrote:

>Chris Young wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:05:06 -0700 (PDT) da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
>> to MC OwenBot:
>>
>>> It's there in the Google groups statistics. I'm not sure how reliable
>>> they are and I doubt they take account of people changing email
>>> addresses but...
>>>
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.sinclair/about
>>
>> If you click on my name you'll see it is counting posts under my old
>> email address... so I've actually written more than that.
>>
>> I therefore declare Spike the top poster, being listed twice in the
>> top ten, with 5213 and 3251 posts, making a grand total of 8464.
>
>
>Is that including the u5a77 e-mail address from when I was at uni?

What *I* would like to know is, why there was one single solitary post
in November 1992 (about a broken Z88) and then nothing until December
1993! Also, what on earth happened in February 2001 to make the
group hit its peak of 5460 posts (we don't see that many in a year
nowadays); was there an explosion in a crisp factory or summat?

Still, in other news Google Groups (today's) shows two more Finlander
morons spouting more bollocks along the lines of "vanyar ätëääkälää
Homer Simpson ätëääkälää, bork bork bork" in an effort to get their
own groups flooded with crap, but those posts don't show on Usenet
proper (at least not AIOE). Hooray! :-)

Robert Baker wrote:
> What *I* would like to know is, why there was one single solitary post
> in November 1992 (about a broken Z88)

well, I didn't make my first post until 1995.
Far fewer people had internet/usenet access back then
Was 1992 when css was founded (or ported from the mailing list rather)?

> and then nothing until December
> 1993!

Shirley shome mishtake
maybe it's just gaps in the dejanews archive going that far back.
When was deja formed? Did they start from scratch or did they use some
previous archive as a starting point (like google did when they bought
deja)?

> Still, in other news Google Groups (today's) shows two more Finlander
> morons spouting more bollocks along the lines of "vanyar ätëääkälää
> Homer Simpson ätëääkälää, bork bork bork" in an effort to get their
> own groups flooded with crap, but those posts don't show on Usenet
> proper (at least not AIOE). Hooray! :-)

Alas, I saw them on individual.net.
Spam filtration isn't an exact science.
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Oops, forgot to mention:

Earliest post by a name I recognise: Dec 14 1993, by Marat Fayzullin,
in "ZX Spectrum: Emulators" (Arnt Gulbrandsen posted to that thread as
well; where are they, and Gerton Lunter et al, now?)

First strange thread: "This group comes 10 years too late!", Dec 14
1993, by the aptly named Pollux1 (no content either, just some pollux
(sorry) about contacting him through the Penet anon remailer)

First mention of the FAQ: Dec 15 1993

Crustiest present-day regular: Nick Humphries (first post Jan 10
1994, appropriately starting a thread called "Where are they now?")

And in the early days, there were numerous "unsubscribe" requests
posted to the group.

Robert Baker wrote:
> And in the early days, there were numerous "unsubscribe" requests
> posted to the group.

That'll be from the mailing list from which CSS spawned.
Did it at one time share both formats? Mailing list AND newsgroup via a
mail2news gateway before finally settling into the pure usenet
utterlybutterly goodness we have today?
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:58:04 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Andrew Halliwell:

> > I therefore declare Spike the top poster, being listed twice in the
> > top ten, with 5213 and 3251 posts, making a grand total of 8464.
>
>
> Is that including the u5a77 e-mail address from when I was at uni?

Nope, it also doesn't include the one you're using now.

Chris


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Chris Young wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:58:04 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC Andrew Halliwell:
>
>> > I therefore declare Spike the top poster, being listed twice in the
>> > top ten, with 5213 and 3251 posts, making a grand total of 8464.
>>
>>
>> Is that including the u5a77 e-mail address from when I was at uni?
>
> Nope, it also doesn't include the one you're using now.

4 years worth of posts under u5a77 to count

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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:46:09 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
to MC Robert Baker:

> Also, what on earth happened in February 2001 to make the
> group hit its peak of 5460 posts (we don't see that many in a year
> nowadays); was there an explosion in a crisp factory or summat?

Could that be the near-legendary "The C64 is crap"? Although IIRC
that was a couple of years before then.

Chris


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Chris Young wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:46:09 +0100 da kidz on comp.sys.sinclair were rappin'
> to MC Robert Baker:
>
>> Also, what on earth happened in February 2001 to make the
>> group hit its peak of 5460 posts (we don't see that many in a year
>> nowadays); was there an explosion in a crisp factory or summat?
>
> Could that be the near-legendary "The C64 is crap"? Although IIRC
> that was a couple of years before then.

Thread of evil perhaps?
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OwenBot schrieb:
> is the top poster (but not a top poster) to CSS with almost 6,000
> posts. Wow!
Chris Young? Is this that guy who played in Max Headroom as Bryce Lynch?
http://www.maxheadroom.com/mh_cast_young.html
:lol:

LCD

I wonder if the Andrew Owen tribute thread was longer than the thread
of evil. I should go back and check but I can't be bothered.

OwenBot wrote:
> I wonder if the Andrew Owen tribute thread was longer than the thread
> of evil. I should go back and check but I can't be bothered.

Don't think it was... Though yeah, it was a long one...
Remember, the thread of evil fed on itself and the stats I posted which
egged everyone on to post more.

Like this...

User Number of Posts
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew Halliwell 22
korax1214@gmail.com 20
fuzzix 12
Boriel 11
"Chris Young" 10
Lister 10
"Slower Than You" 10
OwenBot 10
LCD 9
Scribbler 8
Matthew Westcott 7
dickydodds 7
"Brian Gaff" 7
Ian Rawlings 6
DanSolo 6
Digital Prawn 6
"Brian Gaff" 6
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bohus_Kr=E1l?= 5
deKay 5
Guesser 5
Lee Prince 5
zxbruno 5
Chris F 5
deKay "Sam Gillett" 4
Adam 3
"Llama-Wax Len" 3
Hanno Foest 3
Dylan Smith 3
"GzavSnap" "fsh" 3
other 3
"Graham Prout" 3
faqjunk@the-den.clara.net 2
Robert Baker 2
Gunther Gloop 2
=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Bohus_Kr=E1l?= 2
Pepijn Schmitz 2
Paul Murray 2
"Paul E Collins" 2
Duncan Snowden 2
Woodster 2
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bohus_Kr=E1l?= 2
"Colin Wood****" 2
Johnny B Good 2
sparkes 1
Gavin 1
jgharston 1
Pasi Blomberg 1
"dott.Piergiorgio" =?iso-8859-2?Q?Bohus_Kr=E1l?= 1
"Martin M. S. Pedersen" 1
gus 1
Joakim M?kinen 1
"Petomante" 1
dave@webshed.org (Dave The Lurker) 1
Steve Jackson 1
"andy" 1
ReverbNation 1
zx128k 1
Marko Oksanen 1
frink@homer.cmp.liv.ac.uk (Doctor J. Frink) 1
"Shak" 1
Janne S?derholm 1
philicorda Calum 1
"Cameraman" 1
Andrew Broad 1
Vili Heino 1
Simon 1


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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:42:28 +0100, Andrew Halliwell
wrote:

[snip]
> korax1214@gmail.com 20
[snip]
> Robert Baker 2
[another snip, that helped destroy...]

Hmmm... and perhaps it's a good thing that I no longer use
or the original of that ID,
(although I still could, on Google, unless
Google have dumped those accounts for inactivity) as this would
confuse things still further. To say nothing of
[so don't -- Ed]...

Robert Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:42:28 +0100, Andrew Halliwell
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> korax1214@gmail.com 20
> [snip]
>> Robert Baker 2
> [another snip, that helped destroy...]
>
> Hmmm... and perhaps it's a good thing that I no longer use
> or the original of that ID,
> (although I still could, on Google, unless
> Google have dumped those accounts for inactivity) as this would
> confuse things still further. To say nothing of
> [so don't -- Ed]...

Nah, my stats script only reads the leafnode feed I have here, so it only
goes back a couple of weeks.

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Robert Baker schrieb:

> What *I* would like to know is, why there was one single solitary post
> in November 1992 (about a broken Z88) and then nothing until December
> 1993!

Because the group was founded 7 Dec 1993 (that's the date of the voting
result being posted)? I guess the earlier posting had an incorrect date.

BTw, how many of the founding members (those voting in the CfV) are
still here? I'm one...

Hanno

Hanno Foest wrote:
> BTw, how many of the founding members (those voting in the CfV) are
> still here? I'm one...

You are?
Have you posted under a different nick in the past cos I've been here 12??
years and don't remember you.


Have you sampled the delights of the dedicated CSS irc channel?
server: irc.astrolink.org
channel: #speccy
key... the first location of spectrum memory dedicated to screen realestate.
so /server irc.astrolink.org
/join #speccy

(the key's to keep the idiots in)

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| |can't move, with no hope of rescue. |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been |
| in |good to you so far... |
| Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|