From: g@crcomp.net   
      
   Titus G wrote:   
      
   > snip   
   >>  Bush           4627   
   >>  Jesus          4608   
   >   
   > Please confirm that there were at least 20 occurrences involving fires   
   > relating to Australia or Moses.   
      
   Your motive for seeking such a statistic stumps me. But, you asked the   
   group. The word "Jesus" occurs over a thousand times in the thousand   
   plus followups to a blasphemous troll. The blasphemous troll mentioned   
   "Jesus" by name and posted once, and only once.   
       Most, if not all, of the emotional, rhetorical, wordy people listed   
   earlier, responded to the troll multiple times. On the other hand, it   
   seemed pointless to me to add my own two cents to such an obvious troll.   
      
   Many emotional, rhetorical, wordy people left the group after The   
   Doctor's statistical summaries started appearing each month. At this   
   point, the "posters" program may be doing more harm than good. The first   
   sentence and last paragraph of this excerpt from the "posters" man page   
   reveals its motive:   
      
       NAME   
            posters - make a list of USENET abusers   
      
       SYNOPSIS   
           posters +InR -InR [-posts | -bytes | -name R] [Bany.news.group] [...]   
      
       DESCRIPTION   
            The posters program scans your USENET spool directory   
            and tallies up who has been posting the most over a   
            given period.  By default it prints the top ten   
            posters over a 7-day period.  You can list several   
            newsgroups (to include subgroups, for example) and   
            they will all be included in the tally.   
      
            It also adds up the number of articles and the   
            number of bytes and computes the sums, averages, and   
            the contribution of the top InR as a group.   
      
            You can use this information to decide who to put in   
            your kill file; or post it to the newsgroup in   
            question and watch for indignant reactions from those   
            who made the list.  Fun for the whole family.   
      
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