Re: 100,000 posts!
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- Subject: [mg100081] Re: [mg100000] 100,000 posts!
- From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 23:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
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thanks for all your hard work keeping this group alive and kicking. 2009/5/21 Steven M. Christensen <steve at smc.vnet.net>: > Hello everyone, > > The Mathematica mailing list and newsgroup have been in existence for more > than twenty years now. In January 2005, we past the 50,000 message mark. > Now, in only a little more than four years, we have added another 50,000. > This is very gratifying to me and I hope that this effort will continue > to grow and help as many users as possible. > > A little personal history. I was honored to be a student and friend > of Bryce DeWitt, who some of you know was one of the finest theoretical > physicists of the last 100 years. One of the things he told me back > in the 70's was > > "Make sure all your projects are useful, work that will still be valuable to > others twenty years from now." > > I have tried to take this to heart in doing the moderation of this group > for twenty years and running sunfreeware.com for fifteen years. > > It is obvious that Stephen, the folks at Wolfram Research, and many of > the contributors to this group also follow this philosophy. Thanks to > all of you. > > > Steve Christensen > Moderator > > -- Peter Lindsay
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- 100,000 posts!
- From: "Steven M. Christensen" <steve@smc.vnet.net>
- 100,000 posts!