On 6/15/13 7:19 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: LOL, I usually stay out of these arguments, but I'll root for Dave on this one. He actually can warp time, he types so fast. Dave McGuire's current post *showed up on my list at 7:19 P.M.* MikeS's original post:[Amusing Statistic] (I was curious... Out of 143 people who posted to the list in the first half of June,<snip>) *showed up at 7:46 P.M.* Living proof that Einstein was wrong, there actually *is* something faster than light. ;)

hahaha hilarious and i prolly hold the award for the worst spelling grammar? from the few i've posted On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > On 06/15/2013 09:46 PM, MikeS wrote: > >> I was curious... >> >> Out of 143 people who posted to the list in the first half of June, 116 >> posted 5 times or less. >> >> On the other hand, only 9 people (and we know who they are ;-) are >> responsible for half (462) of the total 923 posts, with Dave easily the >> winner... >> >> Must be nice to have so much time to waste... >> > > Oh, tons! > > Actually I'm working 100-110hrs/wk now. I just type fast. > > Speaking of time to waste, was there a point to this exercise? > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA >

On 6/15/2013 6:19 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: A more useful statistic might be "on topic posts." You managed to write a whopping 15 posts (out of 100) between 6/1 and 6/15 that could be considered "on topic" for this list (and I'm being generous.) Is the point becoming more clear now, or shall I be more blunt?

- Josh > > -Dave

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On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Josh Dersch wrote: "Offensive" is highly relative. What offends me may very well not offend certain others, and what others don't see as offensive may well offend me. Given that, I suspect what offends me may differ greatly from what offends Dave McGuire or Mike Stein, or even yourself.

For that fact, I think many of us were active here long before the "offensive posts" bit was added to the mailman listinfo during one of the past server migrations. A quick grep of the archives shows your first post the list as 24 Apr 2006, so you've been here long enough to know that.

On 06/16/2013 03:42 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: You needn't. But I will: This is the ccTALK list. (emphasis mine) -Dave

On 6/15/2013 6:19 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: A more useful statistic might be "on topic posts." You managed to write a whopping 15 posts (out of 100) between 6/1 and 6/15 that could be considered "on topic" for this list (and I'm being generous.) Is the point becoming more clear now, or shall I be more blunt?