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Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup [message #28246] Tue, 27 November 2001 19:33
gurman is currently offline  gurman
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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

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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 Go to previous message
Craig Markwardt is currently offline  Craig Markwardt
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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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Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup [message #28257 is a reply to message #28249] Tue, 27 November 2001 16:01 Go to previous message
David Fanning is currently offline  David Fanning
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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

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Re: New All-Time Records on IDL Newsgroup [message #28258 is a reply to message #28257] Tue, 27 November 2001 15:48 Go to previous message
Pavel A. Romashkin is currently offline  Pavel A. Romashkin
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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
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