Re: META: Longest threads?
| From: | Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 22, 2005, 21:55 |
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On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 01:53:57PM -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:
> Looking at the NLF2DWS thread, I see ~105 responses (and that just on
> the main thread; add another 50 or so for the spinoffs or variants).
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> That seems to be pretty high, compared to the rest I've seen here.
> What *have* been the highest-response threads, historically? What're
> the records?
Erm. I don't know how to find that number, but I'm pretty sure the
average thread length was a lot longer back in the days that inspired
the current posts-a-day limit.
Ok, just pulled out of a hat by bringing up quasi-randomly a larger-than-
usual monthly mailspool archive of my Conlang mail, and 4 days into the
month (May of 2003) found the thread "Weekly Vocab 6", which my threaded
mailer finds to contain 173 mails (no guarantees that they're all the same
subject, just that they were created via a "reply" command that uses the
References: header).
If you want to get really really spooky, in my mailbox at least, the
thread immediately following that one was titled "Not linear written forms?",
although that turns out to have been about something completely different.
Amanda
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