At 22:27 29-1-02 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:

> > Your top 10 is quite different from the official top 10, Nick.
>
>Nick's data is since sometime in 1998, while Jeroen's goes back to the
>founding of the list in 1996.  That might account for it.

That is one of the reasons. Another reason is that I combine the posts from 
a person who posts under different names (for example "John D. Giorgis" and 
"J.D. Giorgis") and/or from multiple e-mail addresses.

Of course, things can go wrong bigtime when I accidentally contribute posts 
to the wrong person -- just look what happened to Jon Gabriel's ranking 
recently.

One may notice that the rankings on my site also include 9,861 posts "from 
unsubscribed addresses". I am still working on building a complete archive 
and have not yet determined who the people in that group are. Once I figure 
that out, it will have some effect on the rankings, but I do not think it 
will dramatically change the top 10.


Jeroen

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