[sarcasm mode off]

-- Observer (@ .), November 13, 1999

Answers

yeah,I remember my first beer....

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 13, 1999.

I can remember when Ed gave up the delete key to Diane and shortly after someone posted a thread saying the "forum was dying" At that time the count was 50 odd posts a day (I counted:o)

We have doubled the amount of threads in the last 6 months.

Not only that the Prep forum started in the mean time which drew all the prep stuff off this forum.

I don't think that CSY2K has seen anything like this type of growth and that would be the next biggest communication source for Y2K information. (The birth actually).

Pats on the backs folks. Something has to be working right.

-- Brian (imager@home.com), November 13, 1999.

First message: 1997-12-22
* Most recent posting: 1999-11-13
* Number of archived messages: 247423

Almost 1/4 Million posts !!!!!!

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 13, 1999.

The reference to a dying forum referred to signal-to-noise ratio, not volume of posts. You people seem to think that if the station fades out and you turn up the static REAL LOUD, then the station is coming in stronger than ever!

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), November 13, 1999.

Uh Flint.

Anytime I, and some of the other Sysops, try to snip the static (to take out a bit of trash) a barage of posters from a nameless board descends... yelling... "CENSORSHIP!" What's a person to do?

Damed if you do, damed if you don't.

Kind'a like Y2K.

*Sigh*

Diane

(Not long now).

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 13, 1999.

Flint

This is true, some days are better than others. But you still read and post here so there must be something that attracts you.

I know it isn't me :o)

-- Brian (imager@home.com), November 13, 1999.

Ppppsssssssstt, flintstone, talking about static ...

-- white fuzz (on@TB2K.dial), November 13, 1999.

On the whole, I kind of enjoy the static. We get a fairly wide variety of topics here, and they're entertaining and often educational. I'm not trying to criticize the ambience, only to point out the loss of focus.

For me, valuable signal here isn't necessarily y2k specific, it consists of almost any post that isn't a personal attack, and reflects some thought more than mindless reaction. And I really do appreciate the effort to keep the "stupid html tricks" to a minimum.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), November 13, 1999.

Oh yeah. How many of you can remember when an entire days postings would fit on a computer screen...20 or less????

I remember.

-- OR (orwelliator@biosys.net), November 14, 1999.