Eric Boutilier wrote:
This sort of data definate answers the age old questions "Where is
everyone?" very well. The data would need to be generated
on a weekly basis though, any longer than 1 week and the
data isn't terrably useful because all the discussions are
too old to get involved in, and I see this as being a great
way to more properly channel interest around the hot topics
and perhaps more importantly, around the neglected topics.
What I'm not clear about is how this report was generated. Was it
by hand or by some application?
It's actually just done via some rather crude mbox/header munging using
tools such perl, uniq, sort, and the formail (comes with procmail)
header munging/extraction tool, and then finished off with some (too
much actually) manual touchups. E.g. filtering which original posts are
made by leaders and also the flagging of leaders in the last part of
the report is currently almost 100% manually done.
The mbox format of the forums is available from the mailman archives.
I'll see how much further I can automate it to try and get the frequency
down to weekly instead of bi-weekly.
This is genius Eric! I had figured that if someone was going to do
everything
by hand the "easiest" way would be to just sign onto all the lists,
filter them,
and then using an advanced mail client like Thunderbird, oraganize them,
search
them, etc.... but, I never considered the option of simply automating that
whole process. This presents a very wide range of options that could be
really handy.
Frankly, we could end up creating a small project just for such a thing.
Very kool indeed.
benr.
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