How many members are there in this mailing list?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 26-12-09 09:36, arshad wrote:
> hi all,
> just curious to know. how many members are here?
>
> thank you :)
>
>
No answer on the total number of users, but I can answer for the active 
users in the month december: 426.

How did I get this number?

$ wget https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-December.txt.gz
$ zgrep -e '^From: .*' 2009-December.txt.gz | sort | uniq | wc -l
426

To get the top 30 most active users on the list:

$ zgrep -e '^From: .*' 2009-December.txt.gz | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr 
| head -n 30
     201 From: glgxg at sbcglobal.net (NoOp)
      85 From: yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com (Steve)
      79 From: klarsen1 at gmail.com (Karl F. Larsen)
      74 From: alan.mckay at gmail.com (Alan McKay)
      70 From: lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net (Leonard Chatagnier)
      60 From: tomh0665 at gmail.com (Tom H)
      57 From: flyindragon1 at aol.com (Andrew Farris)
      43 From: wrschram at gmail.com (Werner Schram)
      40 From: clanlaw at googlemail.com (Colin Law)
      40 From: amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be (Amedee Van Gasse (ub))
      36 From: crp at cmc.net (Ray Parrish)
      34 From: cl at isbd.net (Chris G)
      33 From: arshad3m at gmail.com (arshad)
      26 From: cyber_wizard at mindspring.com (Cybe R. Wizard)
      22 From: ubuntu at tigershaunt.com (Rashkae)
      22 From: froller at tnclimited.com (Fred Roller)
      21 From: JWU001 at SHSU.EDU (UNGER, JOHN WM)
      21 From: christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk (Christopher Chan)
      21 From: avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com (Avi Greenbury)
      20 From: gurus.knugum at gmail.com (Johnny Rosenberg)
      19 From: stanb at panix.com (stan)
      19 From: lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net (Leonard)
      19 From: daveyjatin at gmail.com (Jatin Davey)
      18 From: mr.mcmiller at gmail.com (Mark C.  Miller)
      17 From: res at ausics.net (Res)
      17 From: christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk (Chan Chung Hang 
Christopher)
      16 From: ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de 
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Markus_Sch=F6nhaber?=)
      16 From: loic.grenie at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc_Greni=E9?=)
      16 From: jf_byrnes at comcast.net (Jim Byrnes)
      16 From: googoleyes at gmail.com (Andrew Kane)


The month is not over yet so the numbers may still change a bit.

Also not that this simple method does not see the difference between 
different aliases of the same person. For example, christopher.chan at 
bradbury.edu.hk (Christopher Chan) is also christopher.chan at 
bradbury.edu.hk (Chan Chung Hang Christopher) so he has 21 + 17 = 38 
posts, which would put him in the 11th position.

We can also see that NoOp is the undisputed king of this mailinglist. 
That is, if you look at quantity, not quality. ;-)

-- 
Amedee Van Gasse