How many members are there in this mailing list?

[Steve]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:02:29 -0000, Amedee Van Gasse  
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:

> 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. ;-)
>
I’m sure a statistician could produce some very pretty pie-charts form  
that :-))
While the results aren’t of any great use to me. The method of obtaining  
the is.  Tomorrow I’ll be having a read of the man pages to see what all  
the switches in 'zgrep -e '^From: .*' 2009-December.txt.gz | sort | uniq  
-c | sort -nr | head -n 30' are for and learning another bit of the jigsaw  
puzzle. Thanks.

-- 
Steve