Jerry Moos wrote:
That does indeed add up to 5 posts in 24 hours, but that is not 5 posts in a day, at least not as defined by any sane person.
Say I:
Excellent point Jerry! A day can't be defined as 24 hours. Massland is nutso! We all know that each day begins when it's midnight in Big Springs. Just now I went to the archives, clicked on "today" and was stunned to find that there were entries prior to midnight CDT. Imagine, the insanity. It's as though the world is some sort of sphere smoothly rotating on a kind of axis, when we all know the entire universe rotates in discrete 24-hour jumps, around me.
Sorry, Jerry. While I don't quite understand Steven's concern, to dismiss him with this "any sane person" argument is abusrd. As an engineer you are well aware that time domain data can be windowed either continuously or discretely, and we are all aware that this list has global membership. It has occurred to me that Steven is making the point that this whole 3 posts thing is silly. He went to the archives, which, believe it or not, use a running 24 hour window to define a day, and he picked you out as an offender. Clearly you've committed no crime, and the larger point is that limiting posts to 3-a-day is silly, provided that all posts carry some weight.
Tom Dalton Bethlehem, PA, USA
Now we have a new day, so I will respond as I did not last night. Steven's so-called "count" was arrived at by adding to my three posts yesterday two posts from the previous night, one at 11:45 PM, one at 12 minutes past midnight. That does indeed add up to 5 posts in 24 hours, but that is not 5 posts in a day, at least not as defined by any sane person. I didn't count John's posts, but I assume Steven applied the same spin to the facts in his case also.
Fortunately Dale is the Listmeister, and I am confident that Dale, unlike some, knows how to count to 3 or to 5.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
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