On Tuesday 09 August 2005 09:10 am, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > boblq wrote: > > On Monday 08 August 2005 08:58 pm, boblq wrote: > > > Hola amigos, > > > > > > Can any of you recommend a program that will > > > report user statistics on a daily/weekly/monthly > > > basis for maildir messages? > > > > I am looking for a report that displays > > > > user number > > boblq 10 > > a 12 > > etc 31 > > > > where number is the count of the messages from each user > > during the period of day/week/month. > > > > I have not found anything that will do this in a cursoral > > search of freshmeat, sourceforge and Google. Probably > > a utility is in there but I did not find it. > > > > Surely I am not the only person who would like such > > information. Surely I do not need to write this myself. > > You may be able to hack find(1) into doing something similar. I do not > know if the timestamp of a message changes as its state changes, though. > > -john
Well all that find will do for me is traverse the directories and extract files, say by date. who wrote what, and the actual time stamps are within the files. I am truly surprised that no one seems to have done this. Any serious statistical study of mailing lists would seem to benefit from such an extractor. Maybe I should go take a look at CPAN. Surely statistical studies of mailing lists must exist. Any one with clues? CPAN has a lot of mail stuff not surprisingly. e.g. WWW::Yahoo::Groups which is a robot for working with Yahoo mail groups. But other than primitives, which would be a good starting point, I can find nothing like what I am looking for. Nothing but primitives found in a cursoral search of the Python world. Basically I want to study the recurrant patterns one sees on mailing lists. I think there are a few behavioral patterns that will describe the vast majority of posters ... at any rate I would like to extract the data and at least look at it. That was the first thought. My next thought was, well I will just hack out a little program. My third thought was "Jeez, these are such obvious questions, somebody must have done it." But I don't seem to find it so I guess I am back to "hack out a little program." Color me surprised, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
