begin quoting boblq as of Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:34:20PM -0700: [snip] > 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.
Cool. > Roughly 25% of the posters only > sent one message. The most prolific poster sent 1200 > messages. Now I'm wondering where I'm ranking in that list... and how my ranking varies from month to month. If we break up the ranking into bins, do people generally stay in the same bins? > 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. Markov chains type of thing? > The data and results are at > http://www.prencesita.com/MailStat/ [snip] > Good clean fun, Cool work. -Stewart "How hard is it to identify thread-creators?" Stremler
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