From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2005-05-23T10:33:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

On 5/22/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> On Mon, 23 May 2005, Bill Guindon wrote:
> 
> > On 5/22/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
> >> Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
> >>
> >> Top 10 posters for the period:
> >>
> >> rank posts kbytes  name <address>
> >>    1    27   72.4  David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
> >>    2    24   87.2  Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
> >>    3    14   42.4  James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
> >>    4    14   28.0  Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
> >>    5    12   27.8  Brian Schr�der <ruby.brian@gmail.com>
> >>    6    11   28.4  Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com>
> >>    7    11   22.8  James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
> >>    8    10   23.0  Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.el>
> >>    9     9   24.9  nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
> >>   10     9   24.8  Christoph <chr_mail@gmx.net>
> >>      ----- ------
> >>        141  381.6  Total for top 10
> >>
> >> DISCLAIMER
> >> Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
> >> imply any quality.
> >
> > I know it's been raised before, but I don't recall any suggestions, so
> > I'll offer mine.
> 
> My suggestion was to remove this "disclaimer", which serves no
> positive purpose and is simply a gratuitous snub to frequent posters.
> 
> That suggestion was ignored.

Yeah, saw that conversation.  Guess I meant 'no suggestions for
rewording it to tone it down a bit'.  After looking at the last two
weeks of top ten, the disclaimer really seems off base.  Think it's
just unfortunate timing since he started posting these when... well, a
disclaimer seemed more fitting.

> David
> 
> --
> David A. Black
> dblack@wobblini.net
> 
> 


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Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)