Hi again. On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: [zeropoint or not - that's the question] > That's not giving us anything. It doesn't draw a picture of the > subscribe frequency, nor does it provide a better view of the number > of subscribers.
Well, it _does_ draw a picture of subscribe frequency, related to all the people already subscribed. If you want a picture of just subscribe frequency, than make that: With the zero-point in the middle, and subscriptions add and unsubscribes substract from there. A graph for a statistic is worth nothing if it doesn't have the zero point in it. First unit statistics lesson. > In fact, the graphs would be quite flat and uninteresting. The first But it would be a real graph. > version on murphy had them, since the rrdtool in potato was too old. > As an example check out these two graphs of debian-announce. > > http://people.debian.org/~joey/stuff/debian-announce-distabs-month.png > http://people.debian.org/~joey/stuff/debian-announce-distabs-normal-month.png These doesn't seem to be the first graphs with the zero in it. So the still offer a false view of the state. I don't exactly know whom you want to impress with those false graphs or what you want to be able to see from it - but the current state seems to miss that, IMHO. Just my thoughts, nothing personal, as you should know. Go on like you like, personally I see it in this way quite useless. Alfie -- You never learn anything | /"""""\ ,'~~. by doing it right. | / chaos \ alfie.ist.org |o ?~\ -- unknown | \inside!/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_ ~<\ | \_____/ \__,~ \>