On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:17:09 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:53:29 -0400, Alexis
wrote:

Of the 91,457 most recent messages posted on rec.boats, 50,067 were off
topic.

Of the 41,390 remaining some were off topic but not caught in the
filter. Others started on topic but degenerated into off topic.

Items in para 2 notwithstanding, only 45.3% of posts in rec.boats are on
topic.

Of the off topic posts the most prolific off topic posters, and their
total off topic posts in this sample, a

Short Wave Sportfishing 310

You need to redo your filter settings.

I went back through my outbox, post-by-post and I don't have more than
48 off topic postings out of 782 posts since March of this year and
most of those have come recently.

And of those 48, 21 were "on topic off topic".

Recheck your data.

There's a basic error in the methods these twerps use to do their
countings. It's the same dumb error every time.

I know a guy who can do this with a fair amout of accuracy. He wrote
a script to use with Xnews reader that will even count the number of
times you use any particular word. I, for instance, have a propensity
to use the words propensity, however and the phrase, "having said
that".

Somethings should be better left unknown. :)

Later,

Tom
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"Angling may be said to be so
like the mathematics that it
can never be fully learnt..."

Izaak Walton "The Compleat Angler", 1653

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 16:17:09 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:53:29 -0400, Alexis
wrote:

Of the 91,457 most recent messages posted on rec.boats, 50,067 were off
topic.

Of the 41,390 remaining some were off topic but not caught in the
filter. Others started on topic but degenerated into off topic.

Items in para 2 notwithstanding, only 45.3% of posts in rec.boats are on
topic.

Of the off topic posts the most prolific off topic posters, and their
total off topic posts in this sample, a

Short Wave Sportfishing 310

You need to redo your filter settings.

I went back through my outbox, post-by-post and I don't have more than
48 off topic postings out of 782 posts since March of this year and
most of those have come recently.

And of those 48, 21 were "on topic off topic".

Recheck your data.

There's a basic error in the methods these twerps use to do their
countings. It's the same dumb error every time.

I know a guy who can do this with a fair amout of accuracy. He wrote
a script to use with Xnews reader that will even count the number of
times you use any particular word. I, for instance, have a propensity
to use the words propensity, however and the phrase, "having said
that".

Somethings should be better left unknown. :)

Later,

Tom

You've just hit on one of the problems. Example: several of the
Conservatrashers start posts each year that include my name in the
subject line. Some of these rack up 80 or 100 follow-ups, even if I
don't comment at all. Or they'll pick up a word within a message...and
if your name is in that message...there you go.

But it doesn't matter.


--
We today have a president of the United States who looks like he is the
son of Howdy Doody or Alfred E. Newman, who isn't smarter than either of
them, who is arrogant about his ignorance, who is reckless and
incompetent, and whose backers are turning the United States into a pariah.

What, me worry?