From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 01:46:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B6637B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7651343F93 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:46:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-uinj93o.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.121.164.120] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19THXp-0004kz-00; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:46:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3EF2C949.6D176439@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:43:53 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Murray References: <200306200655.h5K6tlHh035496@grimreaper.grondar.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a463f9e0c5b10abbcd0fd85542856cdcc73ca473d225a0f487350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Congratulations Terry! (was: Re: Meta: explain what where when?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:46:57 -0000 Mark Murray wrote: > > > I'm too amazed by this to even comment on the above quoted > > > paragraph. > > > > I'll comment: you are obviously not as fanatically dedicated > > to FreeBSD as I am, and you are apparently counting -chat > > postings. > > Why does having less postings than you make him less dedicated? It doesn't. I said that tongue-in-cheek. He was attempting to draw an ironic parallel between my statements there, and my posting history. His parallel was not apt, so I was ironic back to him. > Why do you consider this obvious? It was irony. > Why is counting chat@ in the set of "FreeBSD mailing lists" worthy > of mention? Because I post a lot to chat, relative to other lists, and he was counting total postings. Chat may as well be "IRC for people who are not IRC weenies". Consider what the relative numbers for everyone would be, if we were to take all of their blocks of communications in all forums related to FreeBSD into account and add them together. My numbers on -chat would be comparatively high, and my numbers on IRC channels would be zero, and on other non-@freebsd.org mailing lists would be at or near zero, depending on the forum, and in the cases they were non-zero, they would 99.99% be followups to crossposts that I didn't initiate. -- Terry