On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 11:50 , Felix Geerinckx wrote:
> Yearly posting statistics for perl.beginners - 2001.
[..]
> There were 4374 (26%) original articles, and 12269 (74%) replies
> (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line).
>
> 926 (42%) authors posted only one article.
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> Monthly posting statistics for perl.beginners - April 2002.
[..]
> There were 495 (24%) original articles, and 1588 (76%) replies
> (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line).
>
> 168 (46%) authors posted only one article.
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> Weekly posting statistics for perl.beginners - week 20 of 2002.
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> There were 127 (23%) original articles, and 419 (77%) replies
> (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line).
>
> 68 (48%) authors posted only one article.
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so, on average, half the user's are not nice enough to
even offer up a 'why thank you'.....
Have you thought about doing the requisite semantical
evaluation of 'threads' as they drift? As well as the
RegEx to track things such as the classic
<newHeading> was RE: <oldSubject>
as was the 'traditional mainstream family values based model'
of early usenet news groups....
You should also include your sigma values.....
ciao
drieux
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