Mine should be on there! jay On Tuesday, January 22, 2002, at 01:17 AM, Bumsteinas wrote:
> some names are repeating > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:14 AM > Subject: FLUXLIST: Fluxstats (beta version) > > >> Hi all, >> >> In a time of low traffic and with the sad loss of Patricia I began to >> reflect upon the list. I know some people aren't too keen on reflection > but >> I find it a useful process. What I've found is that the list has >> achieved >> far more than I thought and Patricia made a very major >> contribution,even >> bigger than I'd thought before. Each project or exchange considered in >> isolation maybe a relatively small moment but the reality is that over >> almost 6 years now (Fluxlist began in April 1996) Fluxlist has >> produced a >> substantial body of work. >> >> The first area of my reflection was wanting to know just how many >> people > had >> come and gone from the list over its life and how many posts they'd >> sent. > To >> do this I used the Fluxlist date index at >> http://aporee.org/fluxus/list/maillist.html and I wrote a program to >> extract from the date index the author of each message and count the > number >> of times their name appeared (i.e. how many messages they sent) and >> then >> write the results to an html file. >> >> Anyway the results are up at http://solnte.50g.com/stats/ biggish file >> (127k) but I wanted all names on one page so that people could see how > much >> they'd participated. >> >> Of course since at various points the archive has been down there is a > small >> error margin in these figures but the figures are certainly >> proportionally >> representative. Anyway if you want to see how many messages you've >> sent > to >> Fluxlist have a look, senders are in alphabetical order. >> >> BTW - Any social science statistics heads are welcome to suggest futher >> interesting data we could extract from the archives/analyse. >> >> BTW - this is the beta version of this page since the html my program >> generated is slightly flawed in Netscape( Not in IE) and I haven't had > time >> to re-write the code yet...just thought some of you may be as excited >> as > me >> at these stats.....I only thought of a method of doing this analysis >> last >> friday and wanted to share results with you all as quickly as possible. >> >> >> cheers, >> >> Sol. >> >> > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > _____________________________ http://www.thejaymarvinshow.com http://www.marvinantiart.com
