[wellylug] "The quart-annual top-posting debate" was: Setting up a simple web server

[Jo Booth]

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:30:47 +1200, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:57 +1200, Leo (Pizbit) wrote:
>> > I've seen many more irritating things than top posting, but I tend to
>> > get around it by trimming the emails. There's no excuse to quote the
>> > whole thread, that's why I have an 8000 email archive from WellyLUG -
>> > so I can scan back if I want.
>> Oh c'mon now, surely as obsessive as we geeks are about replying to
>> every email we can because we have nothing else to do, we havn't yet
>> managed to create an 8k long thread... Right?
>>
>> Who's up for trying? (This is a joke people:P)
>
> What's a Joke?
>
> I'm on 11,060 emails, since July 2003.
>
> The archives go back to 2000, so that's a lot of emails....
>
> Apart from Ewen, I wonder who does have the largest archive?
> *challenge* :-)
>

/me considers downloading the archives... Opera and M2's database based search is even faster than that Spotlight Command-Space, and this is a lowly PIII/450

Philip, we could make 8000 if we keep it up..

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Jo 'Mangee' Booth