On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:34:20PM -0700, boblq wrote: > > > > BobLQ > > Ok, I wrote a simple Perl script to pull out the data. > I ran it against the Kooler list archive I have. I have > only begun looking at aggregate statistics. For approximately > 8000 messages from 80+ posters we have an simple average > of 100 messages/poster. Roughly 25% of the posters only > sent one message. The most prolific poster sent 1200 > messages. > > I find an exponential distribution of the Number of posts > versus Rank of the poster. I suspect there is a very simple > model that will account for this result but I have not yet had > time to develop that model. Something to do with queuing. > > The data and results are at > http://www.prencesita.com/MailStat/ > > For a little about the exponential distribution see > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExponentialDistribution.html > > Good clean fun, > > BobLQ >
Please keep this anonymous. I don't want my boss to know. Lan "it couldn't have been _1200_!" Barnes -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
