According to the statistics page for this forum, over seven thousand postings have been posted here, as of today.

We are number two after TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) at an astounding 36377 postings, and before The Government of the United States at 5673.

Of course, it is a matter of opinion which of the top three are the most over-hyped. =) I expect that eventually we'll be number three, especially as the whole impeachment debate drags on, and the campaign for the 2000 elections starts rolling.

To put things into perspective, number four on the list is Large format photography at 2875 postings.

(Note: stats current at 20.51 (Pacific Time) on Thursday, 1999 January 14th.)

{fixed above date; thanks, Misty!}
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-- Thomas M. Terashima (tom@nucleus.com), January 14, 1999

Answers

Are you sure those stats aren't current as of Thursday, January 14th, 1999, and not 1998? =)

-- Misty (HiRver@concentric.net), January 15, 1999.

Ha-ha, Thomas, if this site would ever become an incorporated business, I should have 10% stakes in it, as I realize I have been posting over 700 times! Wow, now when did this happen? :-)

-- Dan Draghici (ddraghic@sprint.ca), January 15, 1999.

Hello Tom: Well, in the corporate world, of which I am no longer a part of, being number three is the place to be! Congrats on your great site that I have enjoyed immensly over the past year!

Regards, Peter

-- Peter Nivling (pcnivling@capecod.net), January 15, 1999.

Hey! Can anyone tell me if I am considered 'foo@bar.com' or 'foo@bar.com.au'? Foo@bar.com apparently is listed by writing 500 or so postings ( I do list myself as foo@bar.com ), which seems a tad awkward considering I have only been here since August. ( a long time but hardly enough to qualify as to writing 500 postings ) Could I be foo@bar.com.au? It seems that far more people have written more than I have. I do think foo@bar.com.au has about 100, but I'm not sure. Thanks! :-)

-- Kelly (foo@bar.com), January 16, 1999.

Kelly,

I can lay claim to dozens of foo@bar.com posts. So can Niles, George, and many others. So don't worry, they aren't all yours.

-- Dalton (foo@bar.com), January 16, 1999.

I believe foo@bar.com.au is the one Emma used for a while, the au standing for Australia, which is where she is from.

-- Misty (HiRver@concentric.net), January 16, 1999.

January 18th was a bad omen for this site. No one posted any responses AT ALL the entire day! I wonder how long since that happened - if ever?

-- Sharona (Neville@Winston.com), January 19, 1999.

Sharona:

Postings in the forum have settled-down, but I expect that everything will be online and active "forever".

I'll start running-up the free publicity engines over the next few weeks. I suspect that the move of servers (and change of URL) for the main TitanicShack page caused some of the dropoff.

-- Thomas M. Terashima (titanicshack@yahoo.com), January 19, 1999.