WOMBAT (was: Four days of good posting)/long posts

[or.phan_ann]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Jordan Abel <random832 at ...> wrote:

> I think eventually we managed to get  
> enough of both people's answers and their grades to do some decent  
> statistical analysis. Or am I imagining that?

Ann:
I'm not a statistician. Would that be possible? If so: *unbelievably
cool*.

Also, I've just written a pair of posts, both of which I marked as
long.  They were each about 1,000 words. On the other hand, Katie's
recent Mesage 170717 on HP memories is marked "fairly long", and it's
only 450-odd words, and Elkins' Message 34802 is not tagged long and
clocks in at just under 4,000 words.

So my question is: given that there's no specific rule on long posts,
comparable with the one-line rule, how long do other listies think
"long" is? (For reference: 1,000 words is roughly equal to 3 or 4
pages of a book or 1 1/2 typed A4 pages.)

Ann