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No apology necessary, Vincent. Your contributions are appreciated and
valuable (regardless of whether they are met with technical agreement or
not) and I hope you will not reduce your contribution. We can all be more
succinct -- regardless of how many messages we post. I look forward to your
date & path analysis. Now, if you could only throw light on useless
invective... <smile>
- Lawrence
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From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
Of Vincent Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 10:47 AM
To: 'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'
Subject: apologies from the mouthy englishman
A preliminary analysis of all posts since I joined the list reveals some
personally embarrassing facts.
I joined on 28/04/00, and have counted all posts up to about 1pm UK time
today (all those I still have, as I don't recall deliberately deleting any,
but I may have deleted some by accident):
In that time, 82 people contributed 2706 posts (mean of 33 per person) BUT
the top 8 most prolific posters accounted for 67% of those posts!
The culprits, in reverse order, are:-
Derek Gatherer with 102 posts
Kenneth van Oost with 159 posts
Chris Lofting with 165 posts
Joe Dees with 188 posts
Robin Faichney with 235 posts
Chuck Palson with 242 posts (good going since he hasn't posted since June of
last year!)
Wade Smith with 286 posts, and.....
I'm deeply ashamed and embarassed to say that topping the tree by far is....
Me with 438 posts (some 16% of all the posts in the last, what, 10 months or
so).
I humbly and deeply apologise, and promise not to speak again until spoken
to (apart from this post obviously), and then only when I've got something
useful to contribute (that should cut the posts down a bit).
As more displacement activity away from the work I should be doing, I may
undertake a date and path analysis, to see the dynamics of the list.
Vincent "promising to be quiet in future" Campbell
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