I don't think you should be counting the lines with a > in front either.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Lies, damn lies and statistics > > > Yearly posting statistics for perl.beginners - 2001. > > From 2001-01-01 to 2001-12-31 there were > 16643 articles posted (705907 lines) by 2200 authors, giving > an average > 7.57 articles per author, and an average article length of 42 lpa. > The average number of articles per day was 46. > > There were 4374 (26%) original articles, and 12269 (74%) replies > (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line). > > 926 (42%) authors posted only one article. > > The authors top-10 by number of articles is as follows: > > Posts Lines lpa Author > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 628 21542 34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pinyan) > 529 12754 24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy) > 465 16848 36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fowler) > 410 18134 44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul) > 344 13245 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Showalter) > 336 13364 39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) > 268 14017 52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jos I Boumans) > 256 6694 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) > 218 7084 32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) > 180 11136 61 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wagner-David) > > > > > Monthly posting statistics for perl.beginners - April 2002. > > From 2002-04-01 to 2002-04-30 there were > 2083 articles posted (95740 lines) by 367 authors, giving an average > 5.68 articles per author, and an average article length of 46 lpa. > The average number of articles per day was 69. > > There were 495 (24%) original articles, and 1588 (76%) replies > (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line). > > 168 (46%) authors posted only one article. > > The authors top-10 by number of articles is as follows: > > Posts Lines lpa Author > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 186 9159 49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) > 127 7693 60 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Johnson) > 87 5909 67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nikola Janceski) > 75 3998 53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) > 72 2768 38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan e. paton) > 70 3055 43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) > 67 1875 27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan) > 56 3474 62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Ackerman) > 53 1794 33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Gray) > 48 2129 44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jenda Krynicky) > > > > > Weekly posting statistics for perl.beginners - week 20 of 2002. > > From Monday 2002-05-13 to Sunday 2002-05-19 there were > 546 articles posted (23179 lines) by 141 authors, giving an average > 3.87 articles per author, and an average article length of 42 lpa. > The average number of articles per day was 78. > > There were 127 (23%) original articles, and 419 (77%) replies > (articles that started with 'RE:' in their subject line). > > 68 (48%) authors posted only one article. > > The authors top-10 by number of articles is as follows: > > Posts Lines lpa Author > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 101 5033 49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drieux) > 27 654 24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix Geerinckx) > 26 1163 44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Johnson) > 24 1016 42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Krahn) > 23 1207 52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Jackson) > 16 804 50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beau E. Cox) > 15 531 35 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan e. paton) > 10 406 40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Showalter) > 9 433 48 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Ackerman) > 9 392 43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shishir K. Singh) > > > -- > felix > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the sender's own, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of Summit Systems Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]