well Atlantis that's the value of the forum - most of us have thousands of posts - us "Lifers"

but u should be able to tell a lot about someone even from 10 -50 posts - for example if all 10-50 posts are in the politics forums - RUN- not walk- to the nearest exit (for me anyway) but I think u can get what Ima sayin'

and I agree - just randomly dating from the search option and a few emails hasn't worked for me either

Also Mr A. - consider - the web is one dimensional, talk on the phone and there's another dimension - it is going to be impossible to really know what someone is like till u meet - no matter how much posting is done

Don't forget, you can also draw conclusions about how much one spends on the net. Compare it to what he writes and the frequency of how many times you find the person on the net and where. Most people are attention wh_r_es especially single people and that's natural, but some people only write for the sake of attention, while others draw attention automatically from his (or her) writing, even if it's a few posts. Quality over quantity.