[Ed Pawlowski]

My news reader regurgitated a few years of old posts for some reason.
I quickly went through them and saw some of the rather lengthy
discussions over the past few years.

Top five winners a
# of posts Subject Year

855 Telemarketers 2009
855 Whitehouse Dinner for Mexican President 2010
718 Costco Membership 2010
628 OT healthcare reform 2010
554 Our Mutual Border 2009

[Broadback[_2_]]

On 09/06/2013 05:26, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> My news reader regurgitated a few years of old posts for some reason.
> I quickly went through them and saw some of the rather lengthy
> discussions over the past few years.
>
> Top five winners a
> # of posts Subject Year
>
> 855 Telemarketers 2009
> 855 Whitehouse Dinner for Mexican President 2010
> 718 Costco Membership 2010
> 628 OT healthcare reform 2010
> 554 Our Mutual Border 2009
>
The trouble, I find, with long threads that I have not the patience to
read them all, so probably miss the important/interesting bits!

[F Murtz]

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> My news reader regurgitated a few years of old posts for some reason.
> I quickly went through them and saw some of the rather lengthy
> discussions over the past few years.
>
> Top five winners a
> # of posts Subject Year
>
> 855 Telemarketers 2009
> 855 Whitehouse Dinner for Mexican President 2010
> 718 Costco Membership 2010
> 628 OT healthcare reform 2010
> 554 Our Mutual Border 2009
>
says something,most were OT, so much for winging about OT posts

[Ed Pawlowski]

On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:50:54 +1000, F Murtz >
wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> My news reader regurgitated a few years of old posts for some reason.
>> I quickly went through them and saw some of the rather lengthy
>> discussions over the past few years.
>>
>> Top five winners a
>> # of posts Subject Year
>>
>> 855 Telemarketers 2009
>> 855 Whitehouse Dinner for Mexican President 2010
>> 718 Costco Membership 2010
>> 628 OT healthcare reform 2010
>> 554 Our Mutual Border 2009
>>
>says something,most were OT, so much for winging about OT posts


In reality, the biggest winner is about Healthcare. I only listed the
top five that I found but in addition:
452 OT The Healthcare Bill is in peril 2010

A few other big ones:
542 Hard Times 2011
385 Food Network 2011
529 Warning! Crockpot "warm" setting 2011
531 O/T Clothes Lines 2010
685 Rising Food Costs 2008

I was skimming pretty fast so I may have missed some others. Most
threads were well under 50, 100+ was not uncommon though.

[notbob]

On 2013-06-09, F Murtz > wrote:

> says something,most were OT, so much for winging about OT posts

I'd guess they all drifted in and out of food related subjects at one
point or another or several. Jes like long food threads often do.

nb

[Robert Miles[_5_]]

On Saturday, June 8, 2013 11:26:17 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> My news reader regurgitated a few years of old posts for some reason.
>
> I quickly went through them and saw some of the rather lengthy
> discussions over the past few years.

I've seen an even longer thread recently in newsgroup sci.med.cardiology
recently. 1001 posts, mostly from just one person.

My newsreader also tends to regurgitate months or years of old posts, mostly
in newsgroups where it has already lost the count of posts downloaded from
that newsgroup.