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Article #286875Re: gettin a little slow here
From: OscartheGrouch
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:29
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:29
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"McG." <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote in message news:460c5a1f$0$1340$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... > > "Inglo" <ioo@??.ลผลผลผ> wrote in message > news:pH8Ih.2695$uo3.2125@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net... >> OscartheGrouch wrote: >>> Shit, where's Arqon? Where's supertech? Where's everybody who it's been >>> so long I can't remember their names. Where's aj and tomo? Why do I >>> remember them? Geribaldi, the pf dudes, red, muktheknife. Ok, so I'm >>> going back to 1999 and 2000 and 2001. This was a fun hoppin place. Sad >>> to see it so dead. >>> >>> >> I was looking at Google Groups archive stats for agq3, in June of 2001 I >> had 286 posts all by myself. That's inconceivable! That's like 10 posts >> a day. >> There's been about that many posts total here in the last year. >> >> The all time top posters are: >> Wiz 4893 >> Supertech 4737 >> Joe Crouse 2408 >> sepulchral 2357 >> me 2201 >> jimbob 2133 >> pop 2124 >> a.j. (?????, so many posts killfiled) 1617 >> McGrandpa 1612 >> >> >> Of course that goes by number of posts per e-mail address and I know lots >> of people rotated different munged addys. One in the top list is >> no@spam.com which is kind of generic. >> Still kind of interesting. >> >> I don't do much gaming any more. I'm trying to get a PhD in astrophysics >> right now, if ya can believe that. I heard you can order them online. I >> spend the rest of my time compiling obscure statistics as above. >> >> There ain't never been nor never will be anything quite like the heydays >> of agq3. >> >> -- >> "Out here on the perimeter there are no stars" >> >> Steve --Inglo-- > > Good lord have mercy, how'd I ever even make that list?!?! LOL! I just > gotta figure how to get Q3 to work under x64 :) > McG. > McG, that's kinda funny, a five post difference between yourself and aj. Your posts related to the game and intelligent stuff as I recall. Aj was blasting everyone, but mostly tomo. That was right about when I came in, those clowns were going at it. I remember thinking this newsgroups is really cool, and it has it's own comic relief section. They were just a normal part of the landscape here in those days for me. These days I would have killfiled both pretty quickly. I've grown a bit grouchier.
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