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Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup
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description: David Fanning wrote: > > But, honestly, let's not make a habit of this. > *Some* of us have work to do. :-) I would have believed that but I discovered that you've made 5,300+ postings to this newsgroup. Now that's something... Cheers, Pavel
creator: Pavel A. Romashkin
date: 2001-11-27T23:48:11-00:00

Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup
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description: Pavel A. Romashkin (pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov) writes: > I would have believed that but I discovered that you've made 5,300+ > postings to this newsgroup. Now that's something... Really. This month!? Cheers, David -- David W. Fanning, Ph.D. Fanning Software Consulting Phone: 970-221-0438, E-mail: david@dfanning.com Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/ Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
creator: David Fanning
date: 2001-11-28T00:01:57-00:00

Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup
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description: David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes: > Folks, > > I've been pouring over the IDL Expert Programmer's > Association record books all afternoon, and it seems > to me we have set a new one-day record for posts to > the IDL newsgroup. (I think we would have made it > even without several of us posting replies to our > own messages.) I thought the "Top 10 IDL Requests" was a prolific thread, and you should know since you instigated it. :-) And another biggy was the whole IDL-Mac-Alpha support debacle, which produced hundreds of posts for sure. That one was not instigated by you I think. (but perhaps one of your well concealed aliases) Craig -- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- Craig B. Markwardt, Ph.D. EMAIL: craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu Astrophysics, IDL, Finance, Derivatives | Remove "net" for better response ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------
creator: Craig Markwardt
date: 2001-11-28T01:59:14-00:00

Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup
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description: In article <onn117odu5.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>, craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu wrote: > David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes: > >> Folks, >> >> I've been pouring over the IDL Expert Programmer's >> Association record books all afternoon, and it seems >> to me we have set a new one-day record for posts to >> the IDL newsgroup. (I think we would have made it >> even without several of us posting replies to our >> own messages.) > > I thought the "Top 10 IDL Requests" was a prolific thread, and you > should know since you instigated it. :-) > > And another biggy was the whole IDL-Mac-Alpha support debacle, which > produced hundreds of posts for sure. That one was not instigated by > you I think. (but perhaps one of your well concealed aliases) You mean you discovered that David is really my secret identity? Rats.... Joe Gurman -- "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams, 1952 - 2001 Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
creator: gurman
date: 2001-11-28T03:33:42-00:00