200000 Bug Sweepstake - Winner

[Gervase Markham]

[Rather disappointingly, this appears not to have made it through.
Resending.]

A few minutes ago, at 13:11 PST on 2003-03-31, the 200,000th bug was
filed in http://bugzilla.mozilla.org:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200000

Rather fittingly, it was filed by Chris Hofmann, head honcho of
Netscape's embedding team and staunch Mozilla supporter, and is titled
"joke of the day spam mail crash". (Note: please don't mess with the bug.)

Consulting my records, I see that the closest guess to the actual date
and time was made by:

1st: 2003-04-01 00:00:01 bradan...@hotmail.com (10 hrs, 50 mins)

a mere 10 hours and 50 minutes out. Congratulations to him; he wins a
Mozilla 1.0 CD if he sends me his address.

Runners-up:

2nd: 2003-04-02 10:15:36 co...@myrealbox.com (45 hrs, 05 mins)
3rd: 2003-04-02 16:12:44 cris...@netzero.net (51 hrs, 02 mins)

co...@myrealbox.com wins the
I-have-a-Bugzilla-account-and-so-am-not-a-random-Slashdotter category.

Not every entry had an equal chance of winning the prize. Nine people
submitted dates which were before the contest started (clue: this year
is 2003, chaps, not 2002), and several people thought we were going to
file 20,000 bugs in a matter of about a week. One person thought that
he'd get away from the crowd by guessing a date in the 13th month of
2003 (what does he know that we don't?), and the furthest out two
guesses had us still struggling towards the mark this time next year.

Thanks to all who took part :-)

Gerv