Folks,

We've been pretty talkative lately! In mid-March, we had a total of about 75,000 messages -- and now we're above 82,000!

I'd like to ask, once again, that we all do our best to avoid cluttering the forum with unrelated messages, rants, etc. At this point, it's getting hard to even scroll through one day's new threads, let alone a week's worth.

I think I'm going to reduce the time period from 7 days to 5 days before newly posted threads get archived. That might make it a little easier for everyone.

In the meantime, my best wishes for a happy Passover/Easter/etc season to everyone.

Ed

-- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), April 03, 1999

Answers

What's this Ed, no rants? Life AWKI won't be worth living without being able to take Flint and Paul Davis to task for their wayward synapses :)

#82506

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), April 03, 1999.

i recall when we were lucky if we got one message per day. this is better, actually.

-- jocelyne slough (jonslough@tln.net), April 03, 1999.

82,509.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), April 03, 1999.

Hi, Ed.

I still have that "Structured Programming" book, from 1980, I think. Just unable to part with it, though not a programmer anymore. 19 years of "waiting for time to do some light reading."

Question is: how does 5-day archiving reduce the number of threads hitting the forum?

What about creating a daily:POST YOUR RANTS HERE PLEASE, or TODAY'S KOSOVO SUB-FORUM. TODAY'S PLASTIC BUCKET QUESTIONS & ANSWERS. TODAY'S POLLY-TOASTING THREAD, etc. etc.

Anyway to COLOR "official" threads meant to draw posts that would otherwise have started new threads?

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.com), April 03, 1999.

Happy Easter, Ed.

Any "news" on a search engine that won't completely bog down the Greespun system?

Thanks,

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), April 03, 1999.

Happy holidays to you too, Ed.

Just a suggestion, but how about running a contest ($$$$ paid in preps) when the message board hits 100,000?

Also agree with Diane's comments about a search engine. Would be very helpful.

Cheers!

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), April 03, 1999.

One other item: Ed's input would be appreciated at the following thread

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000e7a

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), April 03, 1999.

Happy Passover/Easter/etc to everybody too!
Wonder if after next year, Rollover becomes a commemorative holiday too for a few millenia.

"Preparation Prevents Panic! Don't *you* rollover during Rollover!"

Anybody got their T-shirt yet?

xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx

-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), April 03, 1999.

Statistics from Nov. 1998

There were 20,000 messages as of Nov. 28, 1998.

-- (counting@numbers.num), April 03, 1999.

Using Number's data from Nov 98 there were about 350 messages per day back then. Using Ed'd numbers above and assuming 17 days from mid march till now, we are posting 411 messages per day. These statistics include Dieter's messages.

-- beaner (bean@counter.com), April 03, 1999.

Beaner,

You are correct...and 400 of them in any given day are from Norm.

I prefer jor-el's idea as opposed to reducing the number of days until archival.

-- Wanda (lonevoice@mailexcite.com), April 03, 1999.

Wanda, only about 200 are from Norm. The other 200 are from me, trying to find the other side of Norm's coin! <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), April 03, 1999.

Guys, he's talking about QUESTIONS posted, not answers. If we counted all the answers there would be millions!

Happy Easter, and Thanks Ed!

-- @ (@@@.@), April 03, 1999.

>We've been pretty talkative lately! In mid-March, we had a total of about 75,000 messages -- and now we're above 82,000< I've been AFK since about June, curious as to the stats here now...

-- Whitney (y2kwhit@aol.com), October 06, 1999.

Statistic snapshot:

First message: 1997-12-22
* Most recent posting: 1999-10-06
* Number of archived messages: 214881

Note that these data do not include messages that were deleted (or marked for expiration) by the forum moderator.

Active Contributors

* sacredspaces@yahoo.com (5215)
* 2000EOD@prodigy.net (4211)
* allaha@earthlink.net (3486)
* cook.r@csaatl.com (3272)
* a@a.a (2944)
* flintc@mindspring.com (2489)
* y2kboard@yahoo.com (2456)
* anon@spamproblems.com (2242)
* rienzoo@en.com (2214)
* mixesmusic@worldnet.att.net (2213)
* ray@totacc.com (1905)
* BigDog@duffer.com (1901)
* farming@home.com (1740)
* tomcarey@mindspring.com (1659)
* privacy@please.com (1591)
* moment@pacbell.net (1562)
* catsy@pond.com (1537)
* mtdesign3@aol.com (1465)
* ahadams@ix.netcom.com (1403)
* anon@ymous.com (1315)
* davisp1953@yahoo.com (1284)
* sonofdust@net.com (1274)
* link@librarian.edu (1186)
* A@AisA.com (1174)
* imager@home.com (1159)
* bardou@baloney.com (1136)
* dinosaur@williams-net.com (1101)
* searcher@internet.com (1088)

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), October 06, 1999.

big deal. 10,000 of those look like
********14 days of preps!**********
posted ad nauseum by stan the shill fairy-na

twice daily spam; sick!

-- Big Deal (death@lovers.sickening), October 06, 1999.

Dear Big Deal:

1) Stan was asked to do this at about a 1-2 day interval.

2) If I don't need the 14 day primer, i can scroll past it, and so can you.

Please strive for a little bit of maturity.

Chuck, a night driver and Sysop #3

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), October 07, 1999.

Waaaait a minute, just a few weeks ago it was over 200,000! Huh?

-- @ (@@@.@), October 07, 1999.

@, see date of original post. Stan, thanks for your hard work.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), October 07, 1999.

Old Git,

I DID see the date of original post - I was asking about THIS one!

"We've been pretty talkative lately! In mid-March, we had a total of about 75,000 messages -- and now we're above 82,000< I've been AFK since about June, curious as to the stats here now..."

-- Whitney (y2kwhit@aol.com), October 06, 1999.

-- @ (@@@.@), October 07, 1999.