change your password day

[Mike Schilling]

posts here, and I don't recall anyone with that name except for a
comp.emacs flamer that paid a brief visit four or five years ago.

The stats go back to 1991, so it's not too surprising that it includes
at least one person not heard from for years. And I don't post that
frequently here. My name appears only because

1. I've been around for a long time.
2. It's been many years since I changed my e-mail address.

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

What's Oliver Wong doing in position number 5? Nobody by that name
posts here,

Look at the statistics. From February 5, 1991. Checking on the
abominable Google groups, he had >4K posts in this newsgroup, the last
one being August 15, 2007, which should have been in the middle of
flaming season. I do recall him being a heavy poster before, but he
hasn't touched the newsgroup in 2 years.

I'm surprised I managed so high when I've posted for, what, 3 years?

 

[Joshua Cranmer]

2. It's been many years since I changed my e-mail address.

I think the script may be using display names instead of email
addresses, but only Wojtek knows for sure...

 

[Wojtek]

Joshua Cranmer wrote :

I think the script may be using display names instead of email addresses, but
only Wojtek knows for sure...

What script? Do you know how many hours it took me to count these out?







Ok, Ok, it was MesNews with its built-in stats engine. I think it takes
the names from the "author" column it displays, and it gets that
information from the header, so for yours it would be:

Author : Joshua Cranmer <[email protected]>

So Joshua Cranmer gets another count.

 

[Daniel Pitts]

Roedy Green wrote :

Group : comp.lang.java.programmer
Computing time : 00:03:42
Statistics : from 1991.02.05 to 2009.09.16

***** Users with most messages *****
num| Name | Nb Msg | size | or. | %
----|-----------------------------|--------|------------|-----|--------|
8 | Daniel Pitts | 2,251 | 6,258,700 | 78 | 1.39% |

Yay, I made the top ten

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Yikes, and even though I hardly post here anymore.

I compltely agree: yikes.

What's Oliver Wong doing in position number 5? Nobody by that name
posts here, and I don't recall anyone with that name except for a
comp.emacs flamer that paid a brief visit four or five years ago.
There's no way that nut posted over 2500 articles in one flamewar.

You were not here in 1996 (it says 1991, but I believe that cljp
is from 1996 and it is definitely not 1991 since Java is from 1995).

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

The stats go back to 1991, so it's not too surprising that it includes
at least one person not heard from for years.

Very true.

But I don't think there are any cljp posts from 1991.

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Roedy Green wrote :

Group : comp.lang.java.programmer
Computing time : 00:03:42
Statistics : from 1991.02.05 to 2009.09.16

***** Users with most messages *****
num| Name | Nb Msg | size | or. | %
----|-----------------------------|--------|------------|-----|--------|
1 | Roedy Green | 10,018 | 19,438,158 | 738 | 6.18% |
2 | Lew | 9,606 | 25,665,679 | 222 | 5.92% |
3 | Arne Vajhøj | 6,136 | 14,326,454 | 19 | 3.78% |
4 | Andrew Thompson | 5,211 | 10,777,113 | 311 | 3.21% |
5 | Oliver Wong | 2,627 | 6,976,008 | 102 | 1.62% |
6 | Patricia Shanahan | 2,284 | 5,944,951 | 30 | 1.41% |
7 | Chris Uppal | 2,259 | 5,381,696 | 95 | 1.39% |
8 | Daniel Pitts | 2,251 | 6,258,700 | 78 | 1.39% |
9 | Mark Space | 1,987 | 4,902,131 | 32 | 1.23% |
10 | Mike Schilling | 1,729 | 4,422,652 | 35 | 1.07% |
11 | Andreas Leitgeb | 1,441 | 3,102,448 | 31 | 0.89% |
12 | Tom Anderson | 1,392 | 4,294,710 | 15 | 0.86% |
13 | Eric Sosman | 1,377 | 4,253,920 | 17 | 0.85% |
14 | (e-mail address removed) | 1,371 | 4,890,108 | 2 | 0.85% |
15 | Knute Johnson | 1,205 | 3,328,341 | 53 | 0.74% |
16 | Joshua Cranmer | 1,170 | 2,995,254 | 17 | 0.72% |
17 | Stefan Ram | 1,145 | 2,746,456 | 75 | 0.71% |
18 | Thomas Hawtin | 1,143 | 2,754,991 | 67 | 0.70% |
19 | Gordon Beaton | 1,061 | 1,882,607 | 32 | 0.65% |
20 | Twisted | 1,035 | 3,807,710 | 28 | 0.64% |

How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Yay, I made the top ten

You made the same list as twisted ...

Arne

 

[Wojtek]

Arne Vajhøj wrote :

Very true.

But I don't think there are any cljp posts from 1991.

So I opened the filter wider than required. <shrug>

 

[Wojtek]

Arne Vajhøj wrote :

How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

 

[Wojtek]

Wojtek wrote :

Arne Vajhøj wrote :

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 | 0.04%
|

 

[Mike Schilling]

Wojtek wrote :

Arne Vajhøj wrote :

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 |
0.04%

That looks wrong. I've had conversatins with Jon that went on for 5
or 10 on several occastions.

 

[RedGrittyBrick]

Wojtek wrote :

Arne Vajhøj wrote :
How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?
I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 |
0.04%

That looks wrong. I've had conversatins with Jon that went on for 5
or 10 on several occastions.

He posted a lot to c.l.j.help and to c.l.j.gui according to Google Groups.

Actually, every time I look at his profile in GG it shows a different
number of postings in a different number of newsgroups. It now shows
12,443 postings in c.l.j.programmer, mostly between Oct 1999 and April 2004.

<Shrug>

 

[Wojtek]

Mike Schilling wrote :

Wojtek wrote :

Arne Vajhøj wrote :
How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 | 0.04%

That looks wrong. I've had conversatins with Jon that went on for 5 or 10 on
several occastions.

Well the stats are taken from the cache that I have on my machine. If I
don't have the posting, then it will not be counted. And all of that is
dependant on the news server and its storage rules.

I never stated that this was rigorous, scientifically vetted, peer
reviewed, cross-checked information.

Just a fun thing to look at really.

 

[Mike Schilling]

Mike Schilling wrote :

Wojtek wrote :
Arne Vajhøj wrote :
How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 |
0.04%

That looks wrong. I've had conversatins with Jon that went on for 5
or 10 on several occastions.

Well the stats are taken from the cache that I have on my machine. If
I don't have the posting, then it will not be counted. And all of
that is dependant on the news server and its storage rules.

I never stated that this was rigorous, scientifically vetted, peer
reviewed, cross-checked information.

Just a fun thing to look at really.

Google groups shows 12443 posts for Jon Skeet, compared to 2366 for me. So
something's a bit off

 

[Daniel Pitts]

You made the same list as twisted ...

Arne

Actually, I'm quite amazed, since I tend not to participate in
flame-wars, that I was higher than Twisted.

Then again, he was having "trouble" with Google Groups blocking the
number of posts per day, so he used several accounts.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Arne Vajhøj wrote :

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/about?hl=en

claims 11981 posts !

Arne

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

Mike Schilling wrote :

Wojtek wrote :
Arne Vajhøj wrote :
How come that Jon Skeet is not on the list ?

I only copy/pasted the top 20 out of 300

And only this stat. There are others.

273 | Jon Skeet [C# MVP] | 63 | 200,956 | 0 | 0.04%

That looks wrong. I've had conversatins with Jon that went on for 5
or 10 on several occastions.

Well the stats are taken from the cache that I have on my machine. If I
don't have the posting, then it will not be counted. And all of that is
dependant on the news server and its storage rules.

I never stated that this was rigorous, scientifically vetted, peer
reviewed, cross-checked information.

Just a fun thing to look at really.

We are not expecting it to be the ultimate truth.

We are just puzzled and want to inform you why.

Arne

 

[Nebulous]

Yikes, and even though I hardly post here anymore.

[implied insult deleted]

None of the nasty things that you have said or implied about me are at
all true.

You were not here in 1996

Irrelevant.