From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/1/2026 8:49 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   > 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 . . .   
   >   
   >    .   
   >   
   >   
      
   I've not used the chatbots much, and I had no idea you can use it like   
   this.   
      
   I've long wanted to make a chart of the number of active RASFW   
   writers over time.   
      
   'Active Writer' means someone who has contributed comments in   
   a give year or month. Not original posters, since we used to   
   have a major spam problem, which was almost always in the   
   form of new threads.   
      
   pt   
      
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