No, Mr. Busby, there is a Santa Claus.

[Tom Busby]

The count was performed by me programmatically. That count represents all
the emails associated with that email address that are present in the
venona raw archives.

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 21:39, jim bell <jdb10987 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I have another question:  on the CP archive page
> https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/notable/
>
>  , it has an option to show "Notable Authors".  Finding my own listing, it
> states:
>
> Jim Bell
>
>    - jim bell <jimbell at pacifier.com>
>    <https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jim_bell_jimbell_at_pacifier_com_/>
>     - *1118 posts*
>    - jimbell at pacifier.com (Jim Bell)
>    <https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jimbell_at_pacifier_com_jim_bell_/>
>     - *57 posts*
>    - jimbell at pacifier.com
>    <https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jimbell_at_pacifier_com/>
>     - *1 posts*
>    - jimbell at pacifier.com (jimbell)
>    <https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jimbell_at_pacifier_com_jimbell_/>
>     - *1 posts*
>
>
> My posting count above, 1118, seems to be larger than anybody's, except
> for Tim May. I wonder over what time frame this posting-count is derived.   At
> least based on the 1995 forged archive, almost none of my messages that
> would have posted 1995 are there!  I would imagine that the largest
> proportion of my total sent messages, at least during 1995-1997, come from
> 1995. So, where did that count, "1118" come from??   And WHICH count does
> it appear to reflect:   The genuine count, or the forged count? And
> there's another question:  The vast majority of the messages which should
> have been directed "to" me in 1995 to not appear.   Do the people's
> message-counts who sent emails to me include those now-phantom emails, or
> omit them?
>                Jim Bell
> ?
>
>
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