: From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@netcom.com> : Just to let you know, I took up the challenge Graham Toal proposed: I : posted messages with the string "gtoal" somewhere in them. For good : measure, I did it in 3 Usenet newsgroups. : I did this more than a week ago, and have not seen any reponse, any : indication that Graham found the messages. : (I didn't announce that I was planning to send the messages, as that : would make it "too easy"--a real signal would not be planned in : advance like this, so I chose to say nothing.) : Any comments from Graham? Heh, smart aleck! Since no-one seemed to be interested, I didn't bother looking closely at the 90K of logs that Larry Wall's clip program generates every day when you've got a big pattern file, *and* as luck would have it, the damn program started breaking the very day after I posted that so I could have missed it anyway. And now my wife is visiting me for a couple of weeks holiday so I'm afraid I don't have time at the moment for net.fun. Actually I'm slowly rewriting the clip program in C with more powerful functionality so it can be used to extract multiple threads and file them separately - currently it all goes into one big file, for all patterns - either that or you run multiple processes, and they're expensive. When I get a more robust and useful system going I'll mention it here and maybe we can try the experiment again. Also if it works well, I hope to make the service available to others under a magic-money kind of scheme. : If I missed this, I'm sorry. I've been travelling, but think I've at : least _seen_ most or all messages. I'm setting off for a tour of the Scottish highlands myself, in about 30 minutes. Bye for now, everyone. G