RE: statistics for this mailinglist

["Riley Williams" <Riley@Williams.Name>]

Hi Folkert.

I've just checked my archive of Linux-Kernel for emails during
the interval stated (posted from 00:44:02 to 16:59:59 on 4th
May 2003), and I can't even come close to the figures you quote,
although they're a lot better than the previous ones.

Here's what I see for that interval:

     Total number of messages: 65
     Total number of writers: 42
     Number of people who wrote >1 message: 11

As far as my email archive is concerned, I can report these
statistics as far as claimed postage dates are concerned for
mail that has been received 25 March 2003 or later:

     Date Posted   Total Messages
     ~~~~~~~~~~~   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     12 Mar 2003          1
     23 Mar 2003          1
     24 Mar 2003          1
     25 Mar 2003        340
     26 Mar 2003        287
     27 Mar 2003        334
     28 Mar 2003        226
     29 Mar 2003        105
     30 Mar 2003         89
     31 Mar 2003        158

Note those three emails posted days before they were received.
Inspection of the Received headers thereon indicates in each
case that the local system clock was way out, all three being
actually posted on 3 April 2003.

I received a total of 7,294 emails marked as being posted between
00:00:00 on 1 April 2003 and 23:59:59 on 30 April 2003, and a
total of 2,693 emails marked as being posted between 00:00:00 on
1st May 2003 and 23:59:59 on 10th May 2003. That is an average of
243 per day during April and 269 per day during May, or an overall
average of 250 per day from 1st April to 10th May inclusive.

For reference, I have also received one email that claims to have
been posted on 5 July 2003, but the received headers suggest it was
actually posted on 8 May 2003 instead. This is not included in the
above totals.

Also, some of the other statistics just don't make sense...

 > Total number of lines: 132322
 > Total header length (lines): 90312
 > The header is on average 68.25% of the message (lines).

Other than test messages, I don't think I've ever seen an email
with more header than body, so I have to be suspicious of this
particular statistic.

Best wishes from Riley.
---
 * Nothing as pretty as a smile, nothing as ugly as a frown.


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
 > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of
 > root@vanheusden.com
 > Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 3:01 AM
 > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 > Subject: statistics for this mailinglist
 >
 >
 > Overall statistics
 > ------------------
 > Statistics created on: Sat May 10 04:02:12 2003
 >
 > First message was written at: 2003/05/04 00:44:02
 > Last message was written at: 2003/05/04 16:59:59
 > Total number of messages: 1841
 > Total size: 9073KB
 > Total number of writers: 636
 > Number of people who wrote >1 message: 227
 > Total number of lines: 132322
 > Average lines per message: 71
 > Total header length (lines): 90312
 > Average header length (lines): 49
 > Average line length: 31489
 > The header is on average 68.25% of the message (lines).
 > The header is 51.41% bytes in size of the total.
 > Average number of bits information per byte: 0.7504
 > Total number of unique user-agents: 62
 > Total number of unique organisations: 62
 > Total number of unique top-level domains: 44
 >
 > Importance
 > ----------
 > Low   : 0.00%
 > Normal: 0.98%
 > High  : 0.00%
 > (the rest is unspecified)
 >
 > Top writers
 >    | # msgs|av size| total|time| e-mail address
 > ---+-------+-------+------+----+--------------------------------
 >   1]     84|   5231| 429KB|1532| Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
 >   2]     75|   3437| 251KB|0925| davem@redhat.com
 >   3]     61|   3565| 212KB|0000| Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
 >   4]     49|   5598| 267KB|1536| Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
 >   5]     49|   5046| 241KB|0947| William Lee Irwin III
 > <wli@holomorphy.com>
 >   6]     49|   3695| 176KB|1320| Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
 >   7]     48|   3981| 186KB|1356| Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
 >   8]     41|   5198| 208KB|1030| "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
 >   9]     30|   3144|  92KB|1141| Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
 >  10]     26|   6539| 166KB|1445| Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
 >
 > Top subjects
 >    | # msgs|av size| total|time| subject
 > ---+-------+-------+------+----+--------------------------------
 >   1]    126|   3951| 486KB|1013| The disappearing sys_call_table export.
 >   2]     69|   4466| 300KB|1206| top stack (l)users for 2.5.69
 >   3]     54|   4695| 247KB|1426| [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu
 >   4]     39|   5947| 226KB|1124| ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io
 > and serial stuff to be shared
 >   5]     37|   5590| 201KB|1256| [PATCH] 2.5 ide 48-bit usage
 >   6]     32|   4436| 138KB|0920| Binary firmware in the kernel -
 > licensing issues.
 >   7]     30|   5475| 160KB|1059| Linux 2.5.69
 >   8]     28|   6245| 170KB|1116| 2.5.69-mm2 Kernel panic,
 > possibly network related
 >   9]     28|   4954| 135KB|1616| [PATCH] TTY changes for 2.5.69
 >  10]     26|   4136| 105KB|1159| Using GPL'd Linux drivers with
 > non-GPL, binary-only kernel
 >
 > Top receivers
 >    | # msgs|av size| total|time| e-mail address
 > ---+-------+-------+------+----+--------------------------------
 >   1]    474|   6553|3033KB|1207| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 >   2]     82|   4716| 377KB|1024| Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
 >   3]     79|   6939| 535KB|1247| torvalds@transmeta.com
 >   4]     71|   4557| 315KB|1313| davem@redhat.com
 >   5]     46|   4836| 217KB|1142| Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
 >   6]     41|   3859| 154KB|1218| Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
 >   7]     40|   6968| 272KB|1325| Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
 >   8]     34|   4187| 139KB|1308| Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
 >   9]     27|   4995| 131KB|1254| William Lee Irwin III
 > <wli@holomorphy.com>
 >  10]     26|   4130| 104KB|0954| root@chaos.analogic.com
 >
 > Top CC'ers
 >    | # msgs|av size| total|time| e-mail address
 > ---+-------+-------+------+----+--------------------------------
 >   1]    867|   4493|3804KB|1147| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 >   2]    117|   6130| 700KB|1315| Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
 >   3]     76|   4065| 301KB|1114| Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
 >   4]     61|   4612| 274KB|1407| Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
 >   5]     57|   4283| 238KB|1049| hch@infradead.org
 >   6]     39|   4965| 189KB|1446| Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
 >   7]     36|   5396| 189KB|1212| davem@redhat.com
 >   8]     31|   4403| 133KB|1402| Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
 >   9]     22|   3671|  78KB|1119| Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
 >  10]     20|   5125| 100KB|0943| linux-mm@kvack.org
 >
 > Top of top-level-domain
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1]  com 789
 >  2]   de 234
 >  3]  org 232
 >  4]  net 123
 >  5]   uk 103
 >  6]   au 39
 >  7]  edu 37
 >  8]   no 36
 >  9]   pl 33
 > 10]   cz 32
 >
 > Timezones
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1]  476 +0200
 >  2]  463 -0700
 >  3]  225 -0400
 >  4]  148 +0100
 >  5]   64 +1000
 >  6]   48 -0500
 >  7]   39 +0300
 >  8]   24 +0000
 >  9]   21 +0530
 > 10]   16 -0300
 >
 > Top organisations
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1]  156
 >  2]   49 The Domain of Holomorphy
 >  3]   16 Red Hat, Inc.
 >  4]   15 Scali AS
 >  5]   11 none
 >  6]   11 OSDL
 >  7]    9 ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH
 >  8]    9 K4 labs
 >  9]    8 Lycos Mail  (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80)
 > 10]    7 Trudheim Technology Limited
 >
 > Top user-agents
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1]   50 Mozilla/5.0
 >  2]   45 Ximian
 >  3]   28 Mutt/1.5.4i
 >  4]   16 Mutt/1.3.28i
 >  5]   16 Microsoft
 >  6]   14 Mutt/1.4.1i
 >  7]   12 Sylpheed
 >  8]   12 Mutt/1.4i
 >  9]   11 KMail/1.5.1
 > 10]   10 Mutt/1.5.3i
 >
 > Messages per day
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >    Sunday   118 **************
 >    Monday   276 *******************************
 >   Tuesday   370 ******************************************
 > Wednesday   337 **************************************
 >  Thursday   255 *****************************
 >    Friday   205 ***********************
 >  Saturday     5 *
 >
 > Messages per Month
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 > Jan     0
 > Feb     0
 > Mar     0
 > Apr     2 *
 > May  1563 ************************************************
 > Jun     0
 > Jul     1 *
 > Aug     0
 > Sep     0
 > Oct     0
 > Nov     0
 > Dec     0
 >
 > Messages per day-of-the-month
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1     0
 >  2     0
 >  3     4 *
 >  4   118 ****************
 >  5   277 ************************************
 >  6   369 ************************************************
 >  7   337 ********************************************
 >  8   255 **********************************
 >  9   204 ***************************
 > 10     0
 > 11     0
 > 12     0
 > 13     0
 > 14     0
 > 15     0
 > 16     0
 > 17     0
 > 18     1 *
 > 19     0
 > 20     0
 > 21     0
 > 22     0
 > 23     0
 > 24     0
 > 25     0
 > 26     0
 > 27     0
 > 28     0
 > 29     1 *
 > 30     0
 > 31     0
 >
 > Messages per hour
 > ----------------------------------------------------------
 >  1    33 **************
 >  2    27 ***********
 >  3    22 *********
 >  4    17 *******
 >  5    16 *******
 >  6    14 ******
 >  7    34 **************
 >  8    60 ************************
 >  9   102 *****************************************
 > 10    97 ***************************************
 > 11    98 ***************************************
 > 12    73 *****************************
 > 13    85 **********************************
 > 14   122 *************************************************
 > 15    85 **********************************
 > 16   124 *************************************************
 > 17    89 ************************************
 > 18    95 **************************************
 > 19    70 ****************************
 > 20    66 ***************************
 > 21    73 *****************************
 > 22    62 *************************
 > 23    62 *************************
 >
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