Bob,

Who cares?

You really must have too much time on your hands.

Brian
--- Reef Fish <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The MASS exodus of Scuba-L regular posters from
> Scuba-L to Scuba-SE
> took place on May 23, the day AFTER Nick's May 22
> "Tuesday Massacre".
>
> On May 26, I noticed some INTERESTING NUMBERS
> (afterall, that's my
> profession!) and posted this in Scuba-L:
>
> > Before the Scuba-L migration (most in protest of
> Nick's tyranny)
> > there, these were to TOTAL number of posts in
> Scuba-SE:
> >
> > September 1999:     1    "subscribe"
> > October   1999:     0
> > November  1999:     2    Off Topic posts in "Fw:
> Very Dangerous Virus"
> > December  1999:     0
> > January   2000:     0
> > February  2000:     0
> > March     2000:     0
> > April     2000:     4    "Anybody there"  twice;
> >
> > Mr. Simicich, is THAT what you want Scuba-L to be?
> >
> > MAY 2000:   The past TWO days, since the "Tuesday
> Massacre" in
> >             Scuba-L by Nick ...
> >
> >             ABOUT 200 posts ...
>
>
> Nick snipped the numbers in his reply:
>
> >>Finally, for those who are so preoccupied by
> counts, here are a
> >>couple of interesting FACTOIDS (in the same
> Scuba-SE archives):
>
>   <The "counts" there referred to Nick counts on his
> "strikes">
>
> >>
> >>Mr. Simicich, is THAT what you want Scuba-L to be?
> >
> > You are making a classic mailing list mistake.
> You are mistaking
> > quantity for quality. I doubt that we will drop
> that much.
>
> Yeah, I doubt it'll drop to ZERO too.  Nick's TWO
> periodic postings
> a month would make that at least 2.  :-)
>
>
> But it's GETTING THERE!
>
> In Week 4 (June 22 - June 28), there was a TOTAL of
> 28 posts in
> Scuba-L, 5 of which by Sherry, FOUR of the FIVE were
> identical
> postings INITIATED by Sherry in BOTH Scuba-SE and
> Scuba-L.
>
> ONE of Sherry's intiated post ("Serious Question")
> generated 5
> follow-ups in Scuba-L.
>
> Readers can judge for themselves the QUALITY and
> QUANTITY of
> the posts in Scuba-L this lastest WEEK.
>
>
> Now that Sherry has announced in Scuba-SE ("Posting
> on only one"):
>
> > This is the list I will post to all my friends are
> here.
>
> Scuba-L is well on its way to the days of FORMER
> Scuba-SE, as long
> as Nick is there running Scuba-L:
>
> > April     2000:     4    "Anybody there"  twice;
>
>
> -- Bob.


=====
Brian Gelfand<BR>Montreal, Canada

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