Statistics for the ubuntu-users mailing list for Feb 2006

Carthik Sharma carthik at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 22:03:27 UTC 2006


Hi all,

I was playing around with the mailliststat package available in
Ubuntu, and did an analysis of the ubuntu-users mailing list traffic.
I hope this is okay, if no one objects to this, I might do it again
next month, and ever after :)

Results follow:

 Statistics from 01.02.2006 to 28.02.2006
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
***** People who have written most messages:
+----+-----Author-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | rlrevell at joe-job.com (Lee Revell)         |   68 |  3.25 % |
|  2 | peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au (Peter Garr |   57 |  2.72 % |
|  3 | yogich at sc2000.net (C Hamel)               |   55 |  2.63 % |
|  4 | vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr (Vincent  |   54 |  2.58 % |
|  5 | news at pointerstop.ca (Derek Broughton)     |   42 |  2.01 % |
|  6 | psychosushi at optusnet.com.au (Sasha Tsykin |   39 |  1.86 % |
|  7 | duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk (Duncan Lithgow |   39 |  1.86 % |
|  8 | stsykin at gmail.com (Sasha Tsykin)          |   32 |  1.53 % |
|  9 | martin at autotelic.com (Dave M G)           |   29 |  1.39 % |
| 10 | eric.dunbar at gmail.com (Eric Dunbar)       |   28 |  1.34 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        | 1649 | 78.82 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author-------------------------------------------+-KBytes-+
|  1 | yogich at sc2000.net (C Hamel)                       |  119.0 |
|  2 | RandyS at ThePierianSpring.org (Randy W. Sims)       |   39.7 |
|  3 | duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk (Duncan Lithgow)        |   38.0 |
|  4 | ralf at hartings.se (Ralf Hartings)                  |   35.6 |
|  5 | billy at silverbaseball.com (Billy Pollifrone)       |   34.9 |
|  6 | vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr (Vincent Trouilli |   33.9 |
|  7 | dennis at kaarsemaker.net (Dennis Kaarsemaker)       |   33.8 |
|  8 | peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au (Peter Garrett)     |   30.9 |
|  9 | celtic at sairyx.org (Yuki Cuss)                     |   27.5 |
| 10 | eric.dunbar at gmail.com (Eric Dunbar)               |   24.9 |
+----+------------------------------------------------------+--------+

***** Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):
+----+-----Author--------------------------------------------+-bytes-+
|  1 | ralf at hartings.se (Ralf Hartings)                   | 36477 |
|  2 | steven at nchc.org.tw (Steven Shiau)                  | 18493 |
|  3 | monotux at gmail.com (Oscar Carlsson)                 | 15833 |
|  4 | RandyS at ThePierianSpring.org (Randy W. Sims)        | 13556 |
|  5 | rlb9212003 at yahoo.com (Rhonda Bullard)              | 10045 |
|  6 | andrea.monte at tecnologic.biz (Andrea Monte)         |  7889 |
|  7 | superwillyfoc at rastafurbi.org (Guillermo Latorre)   |  6563 |
|  8 | carribeiro at gmail.com (Carlos Ribeiro)              |  5107 |
|  9 | daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com (Daniel Holbach)         |  5051 |
| 10 | gerhard.rauniak at chello.at (Gerhard)                |  5040 |
+----+-------------------------------------------------------+-------+

***** Table showing the most successful subjects:
+----+----Subject-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+
|  1 | ANNOUNCING : Ebuntu , Enlightenment 0.17 + U |   38 |  1.82 % |
|  2 | Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?     |   37 |  1.77 % |
|  3 | Problem!                                     |   36 |  1.72 % |
|  4 | Server comments                              |   30 |  1.43 % |
|  5 | What modems work with Ubuntu?                |   29 |  1.39 % |
|  6 | Mldonkey too old? LowID?                     |   22 |  1.05 % |
|  7 | Themes                                       |   17 |  0.81 % |
|  8 | Migration to Dapper                          |   17 |  0.81 % |
|  9 | XFCE4 Install under Dapper                   |   16 |  0.76 % |
| 10 | I upgraded my Dapper and imagine my surprise |   15 |  0.72 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+
|    | other                                        | 1835 | 87.72 % |
+----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+

***** Table of maximal quoting:
+----+-----Author------------------------------------------+-Percent-+
|  1 | bronson at rinspin.com (Scott Bronson)              | 93.92 % |
|  2 | lomartin3 at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?TG/Dr2MgTWF       | 89.98 % |
|  3 | olafra at gmail.com (Olafur Arason)                 | 89.90 % |
|  4 | (karlp at ourldsfamily.com)                            | 87.73 % |
|  5 | mr-ubuntu at linuxalert.org (Magnus Runesson)       | 87.48 % |
|  6 | dank at kegel.com (Dan Kegel)                       | 85.61 % |
|  7 | jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net (James Diehl)            | 82.31 % |
|  8 | ibn.richard at gmail.com (Ja'far Railton)           | 80.09 % |
|  9 | serg.belokamen at gmail.com (Serg Belokamen)        | 80.07 % |
| 10 | petong at jah.net (Pete Hicks)                      | 79.68 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+
|    | average                                             | 37.18 % |
+----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+

***** Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:

100% -------------------------------------------#----- - 141
 90% -------------------------------------------#----- msgs
 80% -----------------------------#-#-----#-#---#-----
 70% -----------------------------#-#---#-#-#-#-#-----
 60% -----------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#---
 50% -----#---#---#-------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
 40% -#-#-#-#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-
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hour  0         5           11          17          23


***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:

100% -------------#--------------- - 387
 90% -#-----------#--------------- msgs
 80% -#-----------#---#-----------
 70% -#-------#---#---#-----------
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      *   *   *   *   *   *   *
     Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun


***** Maximal quoting:
      Author     : khadjari at hotmail.com (kek had)
      Subject    : Dapper Pilot 4 alsa Problem and stability problem,
      Date       : Thu Feb 23 22:55:08 2006
      Quote ratio: 98.60% / 12509 bytes

***** Longest message:
      Author     : RandyS at ThePierianSpring.org (Randy W. Sims)
      Subject    : Dell Dimension E510 (aka Dimension 5150n), ATI
Radeon X600, & Ubuntu
      Date       : Mon Feb  6 01:51:15 2006
      Size       : 39258 bytes

***** Most successful subject:
      Subject    : ANNOUNCING : Ebuntu , Enlightenment 0.17 + Ubuntu
      No. of msgs: 38
      Total size : 44365 bytes

***** Final summary:
      Total number of messages:             2092
      Total number of different authors:    476
      Total number of different subjects:   607
      Total size of messages (w/o headers): 3227340 bytes
      Average size of a message:            1542 bytes

***** Generated by MailListStat v1.3, (C) 2001-2003 <marki (at) nexin.sk>
***** See http://freshmeat.net/projects/mls for details...

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Ph.D. Candidate
University of Central Florida
Homepage: http://carthik.net


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