congrats deepy - well done mate

Dunno how long you've been going, but by comparison, just the current incarnation of PA has 174813 articles.......and it seems IT is for the scrap heap!!!!!

Yesterday we equalled the record for the most number of members online at once - 9. It has stood since july last year.

RecFisher wrote on Feb 22^nd, 2008 at 12:41pm:


It is small, but I think this is the general nature of Aussie MBs (in this genre). The last smaller sized MB I posted on in the US, started mid-2006, had 564 members, over 126,000 articles, most users online 1,145. A larger one started about 18 months ago has over 10,000 members, with 1,288 active members, 8,506 threads, and nearly 167,000 posts. But the size of the US must be factored in, some 300 million people.

I posted for a while on Oz ABC forums, which had an awful policy of approving posts before they went on the board, which could be up to 10-15 minutes, and sometimes edited. When they chopped up one post I did, to suit their PC tastes, I gave it away. I think this MB (Oz ABC) has been dead since 2006. No wonder.

Yeah, but if you are only getting it across to a handful of people, is there any point?

RecFisher wrote on Feb 26^th, 2008 at 5:20pm:


Ok, I take your point, but only because I could read it without it being lost among chatter.

I've been in other forums where you can make post and 5 minutes later it's on the 5th last page because of the sheer volume of simultaneous posts moving your comment so far back that it most likely to be missed. Or, I will miss good comments by others.

I'm not out to change the world. I'm not trying to preach to the masses. Therefore, I don't need a masses to get my point. I prefer to have a quiet conversation with a few people than yell into a blowhorn at a rally.

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Me too Acid Monkey..better like this.

Thanks, yes, it puts it into perspective. 

How many of those 177 are the same person 

How many of those have posted in the last, say, 2 months?

Click on the column headings

Which column headings - the ones on the forums page don't click on.

We had 10 members online at once on Thursday last week. Thanks to whoever has been inviting all the new members.

congrats mate. 

Up to 14 on Wednesday.

Congrats, this is a good site and the mods have done a bang up job controlling some of the less desirable elements who came across from the "site that shall not be named" recently.
Congrats on the growth of the site and the professional way it is run 

Congrats ( I think ,lol,)  to Luke Folwer who is the newest  member number 666.