NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
6 1/2 years of NAV-L
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Jan 3, 12:00 -0800
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2004 Jan 3, 12:00 -0800
From July 8, 1997 until Dec 31, 2003, here are the top contributors to the NAV-L email list. I have listed all those who contributed at least 10 posts during this period, with statistics following. As usual, I determined this through scanning through over 12 MB of email text with an Awk script. It is quite accurate, but may be slightly high due to replies being accidentally counted once in a while. I did my best to filter those out, but to do a perfect job would have taken a lot more time. This is still pretty indicative of who is on the list the most. Posts Name =========================== 468 George Huxtable 308 Dan Hogan 296 Dan Allen 257 Jared Sherman 195 Rodney Myrvaagnes 189 Peter Fogg 184 Fred Hebard 159 Trevor Kenchington 150 Herbert Prinz 130 Paul Hirose 113 Doug Royer 108 Rick Emerson 105 Bruce Stark 104 Robert Eno 100 Brian Whatcott 96 David Weilacher 92 Frank Reed 84 Jan Kalivoda 72 Chuck Taylor 71 Steven Wepster 69 Russell Sher 69 Arthur Pearson 67 Gordon Talge 67 Bill Murdoch 65 Michael Wescott 65 Aubrey O'Callaghan 58 Peter Smith 58 Bill Noyce 52 Yves Arrouye 48 Vic Fraenckel 48 Jim Thompson 47 Lu Abel 44 Geoffrey Kolbe 42 Tony Severdia 42 Nigel Gardner 42 John Kabel 42 Brooke Clarke 39 Steven Tripp 39 Lee Martin 37 Pierre Boucher 36 Richard Pisko 31 Mike Burkes 29 Ed Falk 28 Cliff Sojourner 27 Millard Kirk 27 Gary Harkins 25 Joe Shields 24 Marc Bernstein 24 Ken Gebhart 24 Hal Mueller 23 William Allen 22 Craig Scott 22 Chuck Griffiths 21 Andres Ruiz 20 Richard Langley 20 Phil Guerra 20 Eric Haberfellner 20 Clive Sutherland 19 Kieran Kelly 19 Barrie Hudson 18 Walter Guinon 18 Sam Chan 18 Rino van Dam 18 R.H. van Gent 18 Derrick Young 18 Courtney Thomas 17 Roger M. Derby 17 Marvin Sebourn 17 Mal Misuraca 17 John Germain 16 Mitch Burrill 15 Federico Rossi 15 Axel Vis 14 Stacy Hanna 14 Philip Ouvry 14 Gerard Mittelstaedt 13 Zorbec Legras 13 William Trayfors 13 Ken James 13 Jim Manzari 13 Jim Dullea 13 George Istok 12 Victor Reijs 12 Peter Ifland 12 Geoff Kuenning 11 Robert Block 11 Martin Gardner 11 Carl Herzog 10 Henning Umland SUMMARY STATISTICS: Contributors 389 Total Postings 5997 Minimum 1 Maximum 468 Range 467 Arithmetic Mean 15.4164524422 Harmonic Mean 1.96932958951 Geometric Mean 3.74905076171 RMS 45.6178098536 Sample Stdev 42.9891659423 Population Stdev 42.9338743876 Median 2 BINARY HISTOGRAM: [ 1 .. 2) N = 144 (37.018%) Sum = 144 ( 2.401%) [ 2 .. 4) N = 84 (21.594%) Sum = 199 ( 3.318%) [ 4 .. 8) N = 58 (14.910%) Sum = 301 ( 5.019%) [ 8 .. 16) N = 31 ( 7.969%) Sum = 340 ( 5.670%) [ 16 .. 32) N = 31 ( 7.969%) Sum = 656 (10.939%) [ 32 .. 64) N = 15 ( 3.856%) Sum = 674 (11.239%) [ 64 .. 128) N = 16 ( 4.113%) Sum = 1347 (22.461%) [128 .. 256) N = 6 ( 1.542%) Sum = 1007 (16.792%) [256 .. 512) N = 4 ( 1.028%) Sum = 1329 (22.161%) This shows, for example, that 6% of the contributors (the last 3 rows) contributed 61% of the postings, and that 37% of the contributors posted only 1 message ever. Dan Allen PS - Why July of 1997 as the starting point? Because that's when I joined the list and thus it is the beginning of my text corpus.