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    Re: 6 1/2 years of NAV-L
    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.
    
    
    

       
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