From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   The Doctor  wrote or quoted:   
   >  1 | Paul S Person        |     77 | 226,957 |   1 | 12.96% xxxxxxxxxx   
   >  2 | Lynn McGuire         |     52 | 145,528 |  26 |  8.75% xxxxxx   
   >  3 | Lawrence D’Oliveiro  |     51 |  90,858 |   1 |  8.59% xxxxxx   
   >  4 | Bobbie Sellers       |     49 | 146,016 |   9 |  8.25% xxxxxx   
   >  5 | Cryptoengineer       |     38 | 108,479 |   1 |  6.40% xxxx   
   >  6 | James Nicoll         |     31 |  49,127 |  16 |  5.22% xxxx   
   >  7 | William Hyde         |     25 |  80,282 |   0 |  4.21% xxx   
   >  8 | Scott Lurndal        |     25 |  60,345 |   0 |  4.21% xxx   
   >  9 | Ted Nolantednolan>   |     23 |  66,146 |   3 |  3.87% xx   
   > 10 | Titus G              |     23 |  62,709 |   0 |  3.87% xx   
      
     I asked the AI chatbot for a more long-term list of posters   
     by the original lines written by them (excluding the count of   
     quoted lines), and he said my question was an "excellent and very   
     smart question" and came up with these counts since about 2003:   
      
   |Wayne Throop            411296   
   |Dorothy J Heydt         226747   
   |Quadibloc               214765   
   |Robert Carnegie         202262   
   |Gutless Umbrella . . .  147907   
   |James Nicoll            131111   
   |David DeLaney           114266   
   |Kurt Busiek             113251   
   |Brian M. Scott          106271   
   |Lynn McGuire            102283   
      
     . So, I wondered who all these names were and I asked a follow-up   
     question about when they disappeared from the newsgroup. I got,   
      
   |Wayne Throop            411296   2013-10-24   
   |Dorothy J Heydt         226747   2025-03-10   
   |Quadibloc               214765   2024-02-24   
   |Robert Carnegie         202262   2025-10-18   
   |Gutless Umbrella . . .  147907   2018-01-11   
   |James Nicoll            131111   2026 . . .   
   |David DeLaney           114266   2020-01-15   
   |Kurt Busiek             113251   2015-03-03   
   |Brian M. Scott          106271   2016-10-17   
   |Lynn McGuire            102283   2026 . . .   
      
     .   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)