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Re: 6 1/2 years of NAV-L
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2004 Jan 4, 11:05 +0000
From: Aubrey O?Callaghan
Date: 2004 Jan 4, 11:05 +0000
I wonder does Dan have a list of the 20 longest subscribing members ? Happy new year and fair winds to all. Aubrey. At 20:00 03-01-04, you wrote: > 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.