Subject: Last 7 days on the IETF list

From: Rob Austein <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:47:22 -0400

Traffic statistics (as seen from my cave, your milage may vary) for
the last seven days on the [email-masked] mailing list.

Conclusions, if any, are left as an exercise for the reader.

  Messages   |     Bytes       | Who
-------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------
 11.4% |  53 | 13.9% |  233614 | [email-masked]
 12.2% |  57 | 10.1% |  170963 | [email-masked]
  7.5% |  35 |  7.2% |  121074 | [email-masked]
  3.0% |  14 |  4.8% |   80253 | [email-masked]
  3.9% |  18 |  3.6% |   60755 | [email-masked]
  3.4% |  16 |  3.5% |   58293 | [email-masked]
  3.6% |  17 |  2.6% |   43278 | [email-masked]
  2.8% |  13 |  2.2% |   37288 | [email-masked]
  2.4% |  11 |  2.3% |   37930 | [email-masked]
  2.1% |  10 |  2.2% |   37479 | [email-masked]
  2.1% |  10 |  2.2% |   36561 | [email-masked]
  2.1% |  10 |  1.9% |   31676 | [email-masked]
  1.9% |   9 |  1.8% |   31053 | [email-masked]
  1.9% |   9 |  1.8% |   31016 | [email-masked]
  1.9% |   9 |  1.7% |   27856 | [email-masked]
  1.9% |   9 |  1.6% |   27349 | [email-masked]
  1.9% |   9 |  1.5% |   24511 | [email-masked]
  1.1% |   5 |  2.1% |   34761 | [email-masked]
  1.7% |   8 |  1.3% |   21321 | [email-masked]
  1.3% |   6 |  1.7% |   28495 | [email-masked]
  1.3% |   6 |  1.2% |   19636 | [email-masked]
  1.3% |   6 |  1.1% |   19259 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  1.5% |   24586 | [email-masked]
  1.1% |   5 |  1.0% |   16989 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.9% |   15992 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.9% |   14418 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.8% |   13896 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.7% |   12281 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.7% |   11323 | [email-masked]
  0.9% |   4 |  0.7% |   11275 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.8% |   13511 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.7% |   12302 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.9% |   14402 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.8% |   14209 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.6% |   10191 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.6% |   10181 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.5% |    9109 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.5% |    8328 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.5% |    7803 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.5% |    7584 | [email-masked]
  0.6% |   3 |  0.4% |    6866 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.8% |   13680 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.5% |    8935 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.5% |    7722 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.5% |    7620 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.4% |    6916 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.4% |    6630 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.4% |    6470 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.4% |    6156 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.6% |    9711 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    5077 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    4924 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    4618 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    4576 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    4438 | [email-masked]
  0.4% |   2 |  0.3% |    4335 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.5% |    7750 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.4% |    7195 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.4% |    6953 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.4% |    6315 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.4% |    6293 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.4% |    6003 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    5766 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    5699 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    5206 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    4923 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    4425 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    4388 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.3% |    4306 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    4096 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3465 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3310 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3214 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3194 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3085 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    3077 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2958 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2946 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2782 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2761 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2661 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.2% |    2621 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2510 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2416 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2323 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2303 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2265 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2259 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    2175 | [email-masked]
  0.2% |   1 |  0.1% |    1789 | [email-masked]
-------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------
100.0% | 466 |100.0% | 1684907 | Total

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From: "Anthony Atkielski" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:59:27 +0200

Now post the same numbers for the past year, and perhaps some even more
interesting conclusions can be drawn.

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 17:43:46 -0700 (PDT)

I don't think posting message size is quite appropriate as part of your
statistics and even more particularly as a criteria to order the list. 
Unless I'm mistaken you're calculating bytes for entire message but often 
> 75% comes from another message being replied to and so you can't really 
judge amount of input the actual poster added to the message. If you want 
message bytes statistics, you could try to see what parts of that were 
not from previous message and only calculate size based on that.

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From: shogunx <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 00:02:43 -0400 (EDT)

well, i guess i got shorted on my .02 (insert currency here) then.
where can i collect my other .001 of messages posted, and my .002 of data
transfer?

scott
> >   Messages   |     Bytes       | Who

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From: Dave Aronson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:58:04 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:

 > I don't think posting message size is quite appropriate as part of
 > your statistics and even more particularly as a criteria to order the
 > list. Unless I'm mistaken you're calculating bytes for entire message
 > but often > 75% comes from another message being replied to

That has its own implications, which IMHO should definitely be taken into 
account.  'Nuff said?

-- 
David J. Aronson, Unemployed Software Engineer near Washington DC
See http://destined.to/program/ for online resume, and other info