[OSM-talk] Suggestion more complete mapping verifactiion

[John Baker]

:) 60 million call that a lot. ;)

Maybe this will be an eye opener

http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all

Big Boards is a list of the biggest forums/boards

The busiest forum alone has:

1,154 million posts in it

Have a nice day

John
:)


On 15/09/2007, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/15/07, John Baker <rovastar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is the year 2007 now not 1997 when people last used mailing lists or
> was
> > in that when people lived in caves when they were last used. Dunno maybe
> you
> > all wind your computers up........
>
> Umm, then perhaps this link will be a real eye-opener:
> http://gmane.org/
> It's an archive of nearly 10 thousand mailing lists with nearly 60
> million messages. And that's but a small fraction of the mailing lists
> out there...
>
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/



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.

On 15/09/2007, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
>
>
> You're free to create an email account on gmail or anywhere just for
> this mailling list if you don't want to give your real email address.
>
> Maybe we're in 2007, but it doesn't mean email is deprecated. You don't
> have the choice of the interface when using a forum while there are
> thousands of emails clients available, making it much more efficient to
> use if using the one that you like.
>
> Nicolas
>
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