From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject:    ****Top 25 reasons *not* to read SCI****
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 19:15:28 GMT


Greetings,

Last night, while browsing through the first 12000+ SCI articles
looking for FAQ material, I got bored and decided to do something
different. I found out how many articles each netter has posted
throughout the 2.5 years that SCI has been in existence. I have tried
to be accurate, but mistakes are inevitable. Without further due, as
of Aug. 10 1992, here're the top 25 posters to SCI (as well as the top
25 reasons *not* to read SCI :-).

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Rank   Name                Location                  Postings
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 1. Babak Sehari        Iowa, USA                       446
 2. Farzin Mokhtarian   British Columbia, Canada/Japan  439
 3. Siamak Hashemi      N. California, USA              405
 4. Ala Mohseni         Illinois, USA/DC, USA           404
 5. Reza Modarres       DC, USA                         320
 6. Behnam Sadeghi      S. California, USA              311
 7. David Fayegh        British Columbia, Canada        272
 8. Mash Cheragh Ali    N. California, USA              227
 9. Amir Taghavi        Ohio, USA                       225
 -. Anonymous Postings  N. California, USA              220
10. Ramin Sepehr        New York, USA                   182
11. Hooshyar Naraghi    N. California, USA              177
12. Zafar Minhas        Ohio, USA                       171
13. Hossein Rafsanjani  UK                              151
14. Shahrokh Mortazavi  N. California, USA              141
15. Alireza Karimzadeh  Maryland, USA                   131
16. Farhad Shakeri      N. California, USA              125
17. Saeid*              Nebraska, USA                   124
18. Anoosh Hosseini     N. California, USA              117
19. Aref Erfani         N. California, USA              115
20. Noushin Bashir      New York, USA                   114
    Kamran Iranpoor     Norway                          114
22. Payman Arabshahi    Washington, USA                 113
23. Assana Fard         N. California, USA              112
24. Javad Boroumand     New Jersey(?), USA              109
25. Soheila Amiri       Florida, USA                    101
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The following are some observations that I have made. Feel free to add
your own comments.

    o The above 25 people (roughly 0.1% of this group's readership)
      have accounted for nearly 40% of the traffic on this group.

    o It seems that quality of one's articles is (roughly) inversely
      proportional to his/her number of postings.   :-)

    o 22 of the top 25 posters are male. Only 3 are female.

    o 21 of the top 25 posters are in the US, one in Norway, one in
      UK, one in Canada, and one initially in Canada, and now in Japan.

    o Northern California has by far the largest population of
      frequent posters with 8 of the top 25 (but only 2 in the
      top 10).

    o Farzin Mokhtarian is the top poster outside of the United States
      at 2nd place.

    o Zafar Minhas gets the honor of top non-Iranian poster and the
      only one in the top 25 at 12th place.

    o Noushin Bashir is the top female poster in a tie for 20th place.

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Here are the next 5 netters who should get honorable mention.

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26. Jamshid Naghizadeh  N. California, USA/Germany       97
27. Brad Hernlem        N. Carolina, USA                 92
28. Amoojoon            Ghahveh Khooneh Mash Yadollah    75
29. Bahram              Somewhere In Heaven              74
30. Farid Hamjavar      New Mexico, USA                  73
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If you don't find your name in the top 30 list, don't worry. Send me
e-mail and I'll tell you how many posts you have had (and how hard you
have to work to make it to the list)!    :-)

It's certainly been a fun 2.5 years.

    --mack

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