RE: Brin-l traffic analysis (relatively useless statistics)

[Nick Arnett]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk

[snip]

> Believe me, that *does* have quite an influence on the final results. It
> has a certain amount of influence when you look at the names, and
> even more
> influence when you look at the e-mail addresses (I have posted from at
> least five different addresses over the years, and I know of other list
> members who have been posting from several addresses).

Yahoo helps in one regard and hurts in another.  It conceals e-mail
addresses, so there's no way to do reliable matching.  However, it displays
any name in the e-mail address, so as long as the name is consistent, the
total will be correct.

On the other hand, when I said they were useless statistics, I meant it.
I'm much more interested in what I can uncover about social dynamics.

However, the project I'm doing these days (helping Intel plan a spin-out)
keeps expanding, so I'm not sure if it'll happen soon.  But most of the code
is already in existence.

Nick