Bearing in mind we all accept that this list fills a gap in all our lives when we're bored stiff or haven't got any friends, who is the saddest of them all? Just for fun I looked at the archives and foudn out who's posted the most since August last year (based on number of messages and not size). Here we go:

keith@qss.co.uk (283) pjmiller@arrakis.es + oc245d8aff@colon.net (264)

Hooray! I am clearly the winner, because Keith cheated once and sent in a message consisting solely of ":-)" because people were walking out of Pastels gigs in droves. This is punishable by having twenty messages removed from your score.

Aren't the top ten brilliantly predictable?! I thought this was great - Keith and Peter steam ahead in front, clearly having no friends. I'm embarrassingly antisocial too. I like the way some of them try to fool us by changing their email addresses.

Some kind of weighting system may be necessary here. Duke's rather weedy showing is due to his enforced lay-off when someone caused him a rather nasty groin injury by calling the Lovin' Spoonful "insipid cack".

Sons of Showaddywaddy (10)

Great last one there - I must go back and look at it in the archives.

ah yes, a classic. Let me think back to save you a trip to the archives....Warren Oates plays for Luton, I once had to climb out of the toilet window.....oh sod it, go and look at the archives. Billy No Mates ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------