How many members are there in this mailing list?

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On 27-12-09 12:36, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2009/12/27 Amedee Van Gasse<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>:
>> 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)
>
> Wow… I'm on a list…! 20th position on a list that is world wide…! ;P
>
> Johnny Rosenberg

Now the geek in me thinks, can I script this and run it as a monthly 
cron job? Of course I can! Is anyone interested in monthly statistics on 
this mailing list? Just yell.

-- 
Amedee