Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup [message #28246] |
Tue, 27 November 2001 19:33 |
gurman
Messages: 82 Registered: August 1992
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In article <onn117odu5.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>,
craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu wrote:
> David Fanning <david@dfanning.com> writes:
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>> Folks,
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>> 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.)
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> I thought the "Top 10 IDL Requests" was a prolific thread, and you
> should know since you instigated it. :-)
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> 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
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Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
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Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup [message #28249 is a reply to message #28246] |
Tue, 27 November 2001 17:59  |
Craig Markwardt
Messages: 1869 Registered: November 1996
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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
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