[sumo] The Good News

[Barbara]

Doreen Simmons wrote:
> Yes, but you seem to be counting _every_ message, even when the poster 
> says only "Me too" or "I agree" over the entire previous message.  I 
> seem to recall an argument on these lines before, notably when one 
> poster sat in the Kokugikan and sent off the result of each bout as it 
> was decided. :-(

Very true, and that is how I counted them too.  I don't know a fair way 
to do it otherwise.  I suppose we could try to count messages 
between-bashos. Or number of originating messages (without the "Re:").

But I'm through counting messages, it took me an hour and a half.

Barbara Murasakihana