8:23 a.m.
Howdy All -
I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
if I can avoid it.
Thanks!
Thomas
8:39 a.m.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
Howdy All -
I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
if I can avoid it.
Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
you do.
Rahul
9:32 a.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Howdy All -
>
> I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
> this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
> how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
>
> Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
> archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
> if I can avoid it.
Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
you do.
<head spinning> Dang. How did that happen? I just got
volunteered! :-)
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Thomas
9:47 a.m.
On Feb 8, 2008 9:32 AM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Howdy All -
> >
> > I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
> > this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
> > how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
> >
> > Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
> > archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
> > if I can avoid it.
>
> Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
> long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
> you do.
<head spinning> Dang. How did that happen? I just got
volunteered! :-)
+1 for volunteering thomas
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9:48 a.m.
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| On Feb 8, 2008 9:32 AM, Thomas Cameron
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|> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
|> <head spinning> Dang. How did that happen? I just got
|> volunteered! :-)
|
| +1 for volunteering thomas
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+2 for volunteering thomas :-)
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5:09 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Howdy All -
>
> I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
> this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
> how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
>
> Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
> archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
> if I can avoid it.
Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
you do.
Rahul
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
--
Thomas
5:25 p.m.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
Thanks for doing this. Show serial numbers as ranking on the first
column. Show names. If you are posting email address, don't make them
spam baits. Publish the script as early as possible since others might
have code suggestions. If you are interested in associating a list
digest etc, take a look at the code published in
http://kerneltraffic.org/
Rahul
5:34 p.m.
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 04:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thomas Cameron wrote:
>
> Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
> this is helpful.
>
> Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
> the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
>
> But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
> tweaking.
Thanks for doing this. Show serial numbers as ranking on the first
column.
Not sure what you mean by this. Serial numbers? Do you mean you just
want the people ranked?
Show names.
Ugh. You should see how many retarded ways the e-mail addresses show up
in the From: field. I had to scratch the noggin for quite a while to
get it as clean as it is, and it ain't too clean!
If you are posting email address, don't make them
spam baits.
Was actually going to set this up to run as a cron job to mail it to
this list every {day|week|month} or whatever makes sense. As far as the
list members e-mail addresses being spammed, well, the reality is that
every e-mail address is publicly available at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and it is not login
protected.
Publish the script as early as possible since others might
have code suggestions.
Heh - that presupposes I'm not too embarrassed by my weak-assed
scriptification skills to post it.
OK, it's at
http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/fedora-list-stats
Argh, I know I am going to be roundly embarrassed by this lame script.
If you are interested in associating a list
digest etc, take a look at the code published in
http://kerneltraffic.org/
Thanks.
--
Thomas
5:41 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:34 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 04:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Show names.
Ugh. You should see how many retarded ways the e-mail addresses show up
in the From: field. I had to scratch the noggin for quite a while to
get it as clean as it is, and it ain't too clean!
> If you are posting email address, don't make them
> spam baits.
Was actually going to set this up to run as a cron job to mail it to
this list every {day|week|month} or whatever makes sense. As far as the
list members e-mail addresses being spammed, well, the reality is that
every e-mail address is publicly available at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/ and it is not login
protected.
----
yeah but not in this format...you must obscure
Craig
5:51 p.m.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 04:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
>> Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
>> this is helpful.
>>
>> Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
>> the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
>>
>> But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
>> tweaking.
> Thanks for doing this. Show serial numbers as ranking on the first
> column.
Not sure what you mean by this. Serial numbers? Do you mean you just
want the people ranked?
Yes.
Rahul
5:25 p.m.
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see
if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
--
Thomas
That was quick. I agree with Rahul. You'll want to do something with
the email addresses. Otherwise it's a heck of convenient spam list.
Jacques B.
5:36 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 18:25 -0500, Jacques B. wrote:
> Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to
see if
> this is helpful.
>
> Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
> the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
>
> But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
> tweaking.
>
> --
> Thomas
>
That was quick. I agree with Rahul. You'll want to do something with
the email addresses. Otherwise it's a heck of convenient spam list.
I don't disagree, but the addresses are already at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/
The chances of someone harvesting them from my dinky little home site
are astronomically lower than from the Fedora list archives.
Also, they won't live there forever, I am just sort of goofing around to
try to come up with something. Once it's done I think it makes more
sense to send them to the list and not post them somewhere.
--
Thomas
6:31 p.m.
On Feb 8, 2008 3:09 PM, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Howdy All -
...snip..
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
this is helpful.
..snip...
--
Thomas
Interesting to see how few there are ranked 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15... Now
isn't that odd? :-)
Pardon my ignorance, are the stats of any particular use as far as the
list/archives
is concerned?
~af
7:03 p.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 16:31 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
On Feb 8, 2008 3:09 PM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > Howdy All -
...snip..
>
> Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
> this is helpful.
>
..snip...
>
> --
> Thomas
Interesting to see how few there are ranked 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15... Now
isn't that odd? :-)
Pardon my ignorance, are the stats of any particular use as far as the
list/archives
is concerned?
~af
Not yet. The first column is supposed to be rank, and that part's
busted right now so it's blank.
The second columns is the number of posts.
Third is the poster.
It's going to get fixed but I'm home from the road, the kids are home
from school, it's Friday night and I'm heading out to the grill for a
while to do up a big family dinner.
--
Thomas
8:42 a.m.
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 16:31 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote:
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On Feb 8, 2008 3:09 PM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > > Howdy All -
...snip..
>
> Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
> this is helpful.
>
..snip...
>
> --
> Thomas
Interesting to see how few there are ranked 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15... Now
isn't that odd? :-)
Pardon my ignorance, are the stats of any particular use as far as the
list/archives
is concerned?
~af
The list is clearly wrong. I have been falling behind and placing me as
5th on the list is clearly not correct.
10:21 a.m.
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 08:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
The list is clearly wrong. I have been falling behind and placing me
as
5th on the list is clearly not correct.
Um, I'm seriously starting to get that old "no good deed goes
unpunished" feeling here.
Patches accepted. I am a horribly rusty scripter, and the script is at
http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/fedora-list-stats - ripe
for improvements.
I don't think it's wrong, Aaron. Look at the way it counts and you'll
probably see that it's pretty plain Jane.
Thomas
12:26 p.m.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 08:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> The list is clearly wrong. I have been falling behind and placing me as
> 5th on the list is clearly not correct.
Um, I'm seriously starting to get that old "no good deed goes
unpunished" feeling here.
Patches accepted. I am a horribly rusty scripter, and the script is at
http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/fedora-list-stats - ripe
for improvements.
I don't think it's wrong, Aaron. Look at the way it counts and you'll
probably see that it's pretty plain Jane.
Thomas
One quick improvement - grep for "^From:" instead of "^From".
You
cut the matches in half.
Mikkel
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8:46 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 12:26 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 08:42 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>
>> The list is clearly wrong. I have been falling behind and placing me as
>> 5th on the list is clearly not correct.
>
> Um, I'm seriously starting to get that old "no good deed goes
> unpunished" feeling here.
>
> Patches accepted. I am a horribly rusty scripter, and the script is at
> http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/fedora-list-stats - ripe
> for improvements.
>
> I don't think it's wrong, Aaron. Look at the way it counts and you'll
> probably see that it's pretty plain Jane.
>
> Thomas
>
One quick improvement - grep for "^From:" instead of "^From". You
cut the matches in half.
Done. Thanks!
Any other suggestions?
--
Thomas
9:28 a.m.
Thomas Cameron wrote:
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see
if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
We're being data mined now too? Are we going to have eventual grading of
our questions/answers? Will we get negative points for top posting or html
posting? What lessons will we learn? :-)
3:49 p.m.
2008/2/9, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com>:
We're being data mined now too? Are we going to have eventual
grading of
our questions/answers? Will we get negative points for top posting or html
posting? What lessons will we learn? :-)
Being punished for top posting is a good idea actually. :)
Niels
5:14 p.m.
New subject: List statistics now available (was Re: List statistics?)
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Howdy All -
>
> I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
> this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
> how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
>
> Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
> archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
> if I can avoid it.
Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
you do.
Rahul
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
--
Thomas
12:49 a.m.
New subject: List statistics now available (was Re: List statistics?)
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:14 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 20:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Howdy All -
> >
> > I remember some time ago someone used to post monthly statistics about
> > this list. Things like who posted the most messages, how many threads,
> > how many posts, which threads were largest, etc.
> >
> > Is that information still available anywhere? I know I can look at the
> > archive and figure it out myself, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel
> > if I can avoid it.
>
> Noone is doing that anymore AFAIK. I found it useful when it happened
> long back. If you are interested, go ahead and share the scripts when
> you do.
>
> Rahul
>
Have a peek at http://www.camerontech.com/fedora-list-stats/ to see if
this is helpful.
Some folks mailers do some ugly things and they show up in the bottom of
the list with all kinds of weird special characters.
But this is just my first run, the script certainly needs a lot of
tweaking.
Helluva job, Thomas. <pat on the back> About email addresses, just
google and we all show up, email addresses and all, listed in the search
results. So, I'm not losing any sleep. Again, nice job and thank you for
volunteering. Oh yeah, about that check I was gonna send you for putting
my name at the top of the list? I'm a little short right now...
<chuckles> Ric
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New subject: List statistics now available (was Re: List statistics?)
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 01:49 -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
About email addresses, just google and we all show up, email
addresses
and all, listed in the search results.
I think it's a case of not handing them out on a plate. Spammers are
quite likely to go prowling for list statistics, and similarly
identified pages, as a ready-made list of addresses all in one hit.
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