on Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:54:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Franks) wrote: > 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. > [...] > Thoughts?
At present, these statistics are based on info available from the nntp overview fields (xover-call). Unfortunately, it's not a trivial task to reconstruct the threads in this list (which, in my opinion is mainly due to the fact that a lot of members use their email program instead of their newsreader to interface with the list). In fact, your own message is a good example of this: although it is a reply to my Weekly posting statistics article, it doesn't contain any references to this article, which makes it kinda difficult to relate them as belonging to the same thread. >From a similar discussion some time ago, I got some good pointers to do thread analysis, which I might, if time permits, incorporate in the statistics some day. -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
