boblq wrote:
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
A regular poster to the Yahoo! SCOX forum has built a website to track
all kinds of statistics on that board's messagebase. Of course, it's for
an HTML-based list, but maybe what he does can be somehow adapted to
what you want?
His code is GPL'ed and available here http://yah.warmcat.com/
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