I think that also including how many original articles had a reply, and how many had no reply, would be a useful statistic which would show the level of (or lack of) line noise.
This data might be used to advertise the quality of the list, maybe at http://learn.perl.org Thoughts? Carl > Weekly posting statistics for perl.beginners - week 24 of 2002. > >>From Monday 2002-06-10 to Sunday 2002-06-16 there were > 431 articles posted (20384 lines) by 113 authors, giving an average > 3.81 articles per author, and an average article length of 47 lpa. > The average number of articles per day was 62. > > There were 102 (24%) original articles, and 329 (76%) replies > (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line). > > 42 (37%) authors posted only one article. > > The authors top-10 by number of articles is as follows: > > All/Ori Lines lpa Author > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 43/3 1955 45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) > 15/2 1303 86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David... > 15/9 639 42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phumes1) > 15/1 577 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jenda Krynicky) > 14/2 709 50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikola Janceski) > 14/0 686 49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janek Schleicher) > 14/1 519 37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Geerinckx) > 12/0 564 47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Showalter) > 12/0 480 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan) > 11/0 620 56 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sudarsan Raghavan) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
