<div>:) 60 million call that a lot. ;)</div>
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<div>Maybe this will be an eye opener</div>
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<div><a href="http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all">http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all</a></div>
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<div>Big Boards is a list of the biggest forums/boards</div>
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<div>The busiest forum alone has:</div>
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<div>1,154 million posts in it</div>
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<div>Have a nice day</div>
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<div>John</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martijn van Oosterhout</b> <<a href="mailto:kleptog@gmail.com">kleptog@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 9/15/07, John Baker <<a href="mailto:rovastar@gmail.com">rovastar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It is the year 2007 now not 1997 when people last used mailing lists or was
<br>> in that when people lived in caves when they were last used. Dunno maybe you<br>> all wind your computers up........<br><br>Umm, then perhaps this link will be a real eye-opener:<br><a href="http://gmane.org/">
http://gmane.org/</a><br>It's an archive of nearly 10 thousand mailing lists with nearly 60<br>million messages. And that's but a small fraction of the mailing lists<br>out there...<br><br>Have a nice day,<br>--<br>
Martijn van Oosterhout <<a href="mailto:kleptog@gmail.com">kleptog@gmail.com</a>> <a href="http://svana.org/kleptog/">http://svana.org/kleptog/</a></blockquote>
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<div>True I can create an account but that means your solution is for everyone ever joining this community have to cope with these restrictions. I seems silly and an unsuitable point of entry.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 15/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">nicolas vigier</b> <<a href="mailto:boklm@mars-attacks.org">boklm@mars-attacks.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>You're free to create an email account on gmail or anywhere just for<br>this mailling list if you don't want to give your real email address.
<br><br>Maybe we're in 2007, but it doesn't mean email is deprecated. You don't<br>have the choice of the interface when using a forum while there are<br>thousands of emails clients available, making it much more efficient to
<br>use if using the one that you like.<br><br>Nicolas<br></blockquote></div></div><br> </div><br>