I'd guess 5-10 times per year. The bulk of these have been mostly positive followup questions to comments I've posted here. I admit that in a few cases I've dr

I'd guess 5-10 times per year. The bulk of these have been mostly positive followup questions to comments I've posted here. I admit that in a few cases I've dropped the ball and not gotten back to people. I do apologize for that. I've also received two or three negative e-mails from people who didn't like my comments/posts, which is a little odd, as I don't tend to be too controversial on here. One of these was I think prompted by a misunderstanding of the message I was trying to convey. I would have responded but the person in question was using an e-mail anonymizer which didn't support return messages. The most impactful relationship I've formed via HN was when I contacted Sebastian Macke to discuss my networking setup for jor1k. We don't speak to one another often, but since I still happily maintain the server which supplies network access to the jor1k demo we do contact one another every now and then.