I was curious when and what my first forum message was.
http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/1998-October/000078.html
Posted to J Forum on Oct 20 1998 it said
"I believe, it's high time to start something like CPAN for J. ..."
It's been materialized 9 years later as JAL.
> From: R.E. Boss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> first message (in this archive):
> http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/1998-September/000000.html
>
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> R.E. Boss
>
>
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Namens R.E. Boss
> > Verzonden: donderdag 10 juli 2008 19:18
> > Aan: 'General forum'
> > Onderwerp: RE: [Jgeneral] Re: Forum traffic
> >
> > Also (more?) interesting are messages with numbers 10^i.7.
> >
> >
> > R.E. Boss
> >
> >
> > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:general-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Namens Dan Bron
> > > Verzonden: donderdag 10 juli 2008 3:45
> > > Aan: 'Dan Bron'; 'General forum'
> > > Onderwerp: RE: [Jgeneral] Re: Forum traffic
> > >
> > > > Then you can apply all the statistics you want.
> > >
> > > If one visits http://www.jsoftware.com/forumsearch and presses
> > "Search"
> > > without filling out any fields, you'll see the message
> > >
> > > Listing 100 of 47765 messages found.
> > >
> > > which tells you that, in aggregate, 48e3 messages have been posted
> > across
> > > all the Forums since their inception.
> > >
> > > Do any of you statisticians (amateur or pro) care to predict when the
> > > 50,000th message will be posted? I want to post that
> > > message.
> > >
> > > -Dan
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