"J. van Baardwijk" wrote:
>
> At 23:21 01-05-2002 -0500, John Horn wrote:
>
> >I'd like to make a suggestion to the Brin-l statistics page. On the page
> >showing the number of posts per member, would it be possible to put the date
> >of the most recent post of each given person. I think that would be very
> >interesting to see and would show which of those people are still active
> >members of the list and which have been gone for a while.
>
> Theoretically: yes. Technically: yes. Practically: er... er...
>
> Adding that information is doable. Keeping it up-to-date is not really a
> problem either. The problem lies in the initial setup: there are currently
> 318 people listed on that page, which means I will have to do 318 searches
> in the Archive to retrieve the date on which someone sent his/her latest
> post. Searching through the entire Archive takes Eudora anywhere between 10
> seconds and 10 minutes per search on this computer (Intel Celeron 700 MHz,
> 256 MB RAM). Multiply that by 318 and you get up to 1590 minutes or 26.5
> hours of search time. Add the amount of time needed to add the found date
> to the Rankings page 318 times and you will end up with er... spending an
> awful lot of time.
Could you just start on it now, or soon, and mention on the page that
the feature is for the time period May X, 2002 and later? That would
keep you from having to spend all the time on it, but it would start
being useful for various purposes within a month.
If, after a few weeks, some earlier poster doesn't appear on the list at
all, one can safely assume they haven't posted in the past few weeks,
anyway. :)
Julia
