Recently found a page that provided data which could be used to produce the
following on the users mailing list.

29286 - Unique number of people that have posted to the mailing list
205089 - Total number of posts
7 - Average # of posts per user (std dev is 84.4 - which supports a highly
skewed, peaked distribution).
2756.463 - Kurtosis
46.0032 - Skew

[Kurtosis: Higher kurtosis means more of the variance is the result of
infrequent extreme deviations, as opposed to frequent modestly sized
deviations]
[Skew: A positive skew indicates that the tail on the right side is longer
than the left side and the bulk of the values lie to the left of the mean. A
zero value indicates that the values are relatively evenly distributed on
both sides of the mean, typically but not necessarily implying a symmetric
distribution.]

# of posts    # of people
1                18969
2                4543
3                1656
4                861
5                521
6                360
7                291
8                210
9                166
10              131
11-20          648
21-50          459
51-100        211
> 101         260

Thought I'd pass it on...  Some may find it interesting.

/paul

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