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- From: jbm@hal.trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)
- Subject: Re: Question about our friend
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.231708.922@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:17:08 GMT
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- eluyten@rc1.vub.ac.be (Eric Luyten) writes:
-
-
- >Before I attempt to do it, has someone already done some analysis on the
- >stuff it produces ? i.e. Gather ALL articles originating from the site for
- >a certain period of time and check posting dates/times, length, consistency,
- >typing errors, repeats, ... ?
-
- I have. I have collected everything on soc.culture.europe for almost
- a year now, and have written a program to produce very detailed statistics.
- (Time of the day and volume posted, hour by hour, proportion of
- posts by topic, number, and length. Some weeks Mutlu/Argic posted
- half a megabyte, accounting for 70% and more of the total traffic).
- I used to post the weekly statistics on soc.culture.europe under the
- title "Weekly Mutlu Index", preceded with zany editorials when I
- was in the mood. I still save everything off soc.culture.europe,
- but haven't run and produced any Mutlu Index for about three months
- (getting a bit boring, it is). I have saved all the past data, and
- issues of the Weekly Mutlu index on a streaming tape. You're all
- welcome to the whole sorry lot.
-