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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 18 Mar 1997 03:24:08 GMT Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 55 Message-ID: <5gl1so$f2l@news.Hawaii.Edu> References: <332D8E6F.18C3@eunet.spm-protect.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: charon.ifa.hawaii.edu X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.02 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:164961 comp.os.linux.networking:72267 comp.os.linux.setup:103010 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6354 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2832 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57175 comp.os.os2.advocacy:275564 Terje A. Bergesen writes: > Wayne Hyde wrote: >> I wrote: >>> Wayne Hyde writes: >>>> Plus, you can use emacs' eliza to >>>> generate USENET replies with about the same level of quality content >>>> as a certain fellow in cooa. >>> Obviously a reference to Donal Fellows. >> Yes, Donal Fellows did use the Eliza function of Emacs to generate >> messages with about the same level of content as your average post. > Interesting - I am not sure what is the most stupid part > in such a discussion, Eliza, or the nitwits who insists > on arguing with her... This newsgroup obviously has a lot of people who are rather anxious to discuss other people, as opposed to the subject of the newsgroup. They like to engage in such irrelevancy. >> Do you still think www.dejanews.co.uk is in Europe? > It's IP address would certainly indicate that it is. Is > it so stupid to think it is? Isn't it? I haven't checked, > and who would care? Wayne obviously cares, but apparently for no other reason than to further one of his pet theories. Too bad it does absolutely nothing for his case. My point was that DejaNews won't necessarily count everything that has been posted; as an example, I noted that some distributions are restricted to areas that don't include the archiving machine (that is, I've made some postings with distribution set to "local", and those don't show up at DejaNews), thus the DejaNews numbers aren't an accurate measure of posting frequency. The specific case involved Mike Timbol's claim about the number of postings from me and Jeff Glatt, and I noted that perhaps DejaNews hadn't counted all of Jeff's. Indeed, if you go to DejaNews, set up a query filter with the newsgroup limited to comp.os.os2.advocacy and then click on the resulting set of over 200,000 documents, you'll find a curious lack of Jeff Glatt postings among the most recent documents, despite the fact that he has obviously been quite active here. If you then further restrict the query filter to the author jglatt@servtech.com, the document list starts with entries from November 1996 and get progressively earlier! Adding 1997/01/01 to the query filter's From date field yields *zero* documents. So much for the cases people tried to make using DejaNews numbers.