[QUOTE] [QUOTE] this is going well, isn't it?[/QUOTE] Did anybody here not guess, from the moment they say Cane's post, that it was going to solicit a load of replies from regulars, people pretending to be Bear/sir.tony/somebody else[1] and a random noise from lurkers? So I'd say it's going pretty much as expected, really. [/QUOTE] But then Cab can run the data through whatever he runs data through to count the unique posters in the thread and then reduce that number by the number of people who've previously posted to ukrm to arrive at an approximation of the number of lurkers out there. Or an approximation of the number of lurkers who happened to read and cba to post a reply.