some names are repeating
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: FLUXLIST: Fluxstats (beta version) > Hi all, > > In a time of low traffic and with the sad loss of Patricia I began to > reflect upon the list. I know some people aren't too keen on reflection but > I find it a useful process. What I've found is that the list has achieved > far more than I thought and Patricia made a very major contribution,even > bigger than I'd thought before. Each project or exchange considered in > isolation maybe a relatively small moment but the reality is that over > almost 6 years now (Fluxlist began in April 1996) Fluxlist has produced a > substantial body of work. > > The first area of my reflection was wanting to know just how many people had > come and gone from the list over its life and how many posts they'd sent. To > do this I used the Fluxlist date index at > http://aporee.org/fluxus/list/maillist.html and I wrote a program to > extract from the date index the author of each message and count the number > of times their name appeared (i.e. how many messages they sent) and then > write the results to an html file. > > Anyway the results are up at http://solnte.50g.com/stats/ biggish file > (127k) but I wanted all names on one page so that people could see how much > they'd participated. > > Of course since at various points the archive has been down there is a small > error margin in these figures but the figures are certainly proportionally > representative. Anyway if you want to see how many messages you've sent to > Fluxlist have a look, senders are in alphabetical order. > > BTW - Any social science statistics heads are welcome to suggest futher > interesting data we could extract from the archives/analyse. > > BTW - this is the beta version of this page since the html my program > generated is slightly flawed in Netscape( Not in IE) and I haven't had time > to re-write the code yet...just thought some of you may be as excited as me > at these stats.....I only thought of a method of doing this analysis last > friday and wanted to share results with you all as quickly as possible. > > > cheers, > > Sol. > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
