This must reveal something about which messages Yahoo is missing. Very odd.
It might also be that he has combined people's different names. I haven't even started to try to do that. But wait, could Jeroen be wrong? About anything? ;-) Nick > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Dan Minette > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:50 PM > To: Brin-L > Subject: Re: Brin-l traffic analysis (relatively useless statistics) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 8:36 PM > Subject: Brin-l traffic analysis (relatively useless statistics) > > > > At long last, I have gotten quite a bit of the Brin-L traffic into my > > database that looks for patterns in discussions. Up to now, I have only > > used this to analyze stock market discussions. I did this by capturing > the > > header info from the Yahoo Group pages. That gave me about 60,000 > records. > > Note that I'm not looking at message bodies, just who posted, > the subject > > and when. In any event, the bodies for the vast majority of these > messages > > don't seem to be available on Yahoo anyway. You may note that Yahoo > Groups > > shows 79K messages. The missing ones are just that, missing. In the > stock > > boards, that means someone deleted them. Don't know what it means for > > Brin-L. > > > > Some early results... > > > > We've had about 490 people posting (minus some whose names changed along > the > > way, making life more difficult for statistical analysis, dammit) and > about > > 15,000 subjects in 60,396 messages (minus the ones that Yahoo deleted). > > Without benefit of a computer or calculator, it appears that the average > > thread length is four messages. > > > > Top posters (out of 490 total): > > > > Julia Thompson 2,656 (1,601 subjects, or about 1.6 messages per subject) > > Gord Sellar 2,491 (1,397 subjects, 1.8 mps) > > JDG 2,196 (1,382 subjects, 1.6 mps) > > Charlie Bell 1,965 (1,130, 1.7 mps) > > Alberto Monteiro 1,912 (1,156, 1.6 mps) > > Nicola Gebendinger: 1,433 (650, 2.2 mps) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1,414 (621, 2.3 mps) > > Steve Sloan 1,341 (946, 1.4 mps) > > Ronn Blankenship 1,293 (735, 1.8 mps) > > J. van Baardwijk 1,226 (715, 1.7 mps) > > Your top 10 is quite different from the official top 10, Nick. From > Jeroen's site, > > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/6074/ranking.html > > we get: > > > 1 John D. Giorgis 3405 > 2 Gord Sellar 3247 > 3 Julia Thompson 3175 > 4 Steve Sloan 2480 > 5 Charlie Bell 2036 > 6 Alberto Monteiro 1996 > 7 Dan Minette 1957 > 8 Nicola Gebendinger 1949 > 9 Stefan Jones 1836 > 10 Bob Zimmerman 1781 > > I'm not sure how many of my posts you've missed, but it seems to be a good > fraction. :-) You got almost all of Alberto's. > > Dan M. >
