I am sure you are right, but in the list below the bytes and number-of-messages rankings are more or less identical. Since this is in the context of overload of the list by a limited number of people, the number of bytes real contribution is not relevant. People don't read it anymore. All what counts is number of (slight) irritations while reading mail and total bytes traffic (if we pay for it).
What you want to know, isn't ascertainable through some log analyzing script. You have to read all the messages. And we do not do that anymore. On Fri, 30 May 2003, at 17:43 [=GMT-0700], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think posting message size is quite appropriate as part of your > statistics and even more particularly as a criteria to order the list. > Unless I'm mistaken you're calculating bytes for entire message but often > > 75% comes from another message being replied to and so you can't really > judge amount of input the actual poster added to the message. If you want > message bytes statistics, you could try to see what parts of that were > not from previous message and only calculate size based on that. > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Rob Austein wrote: > > > Traffic statistics (as seen from my cave, your milage may vary) for > > the last seven days on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > > > > Conclusions, if any, are left as an exercise for the reader. > > > > > > Messages | Bytes | Who > > -------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------ > > 11.4% | 53 | 13.9% | 233614 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 12.2% | 57 | 10.1% | 170963 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 7.5% | 35 | 7.2% | 121074 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3.0% | 14 | 4.8% | 80253 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3.9% | 18 | 3.6% | 60755 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3.4% | 16 | 3.5% | 58293 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 3.6% | 17 | 2.6% | 43278 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2.8% | 13 | 2.2% | 37288 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2.4% | 11 | 2.3% | 37930 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2.1% | 10 | 2.2% | 37479 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2.1% | 10 | 2.2% | 36561 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 2.1% | 10 | 1.9% | 31676 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.9% | 9 | 1.8% | 31053 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.9% | 9 | 1.8% | 31016 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.9% | 9 | 1.7% | 27856 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.9% | 9 | 1.6% | 27349 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.9% | 9 | 1.5% | 24511 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.1% | 5 | 2.1% | 34761 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.7% | 8 | 1.3% | 21321 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.3% | 6 | 1.7% | 28495 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.3% | 6 | 1.2% | 19636 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.3% | 6 | 1.1% | 19259 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 1.5% | 24586 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 1.1% | 5 | 1.0% | 16989 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.9% | 15992 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.9% | 14418 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.8% | 13896 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 12281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 11323 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 11275 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.8% | 13511 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.7% | 12302 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.9% | 14402 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.8% | 14209 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.6% | 10191 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.6% | 10181 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 9109 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 8328 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 7803 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 7584 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.6% | 3 | 0.4% | 6866 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.8% | 13680 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 8935 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 7722 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 7620 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6916 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6630 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6470 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6156 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.6% | 9711 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 5077 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4924 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4618 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4576 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4438 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4335 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.5% | 7750 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 7195 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6953 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6315 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6293 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6003 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5766 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5699 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5206 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4923 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4425 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4388 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4306 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 4096 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3465 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3310 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3214 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3194 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3085 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3077 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2958 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2946 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2782 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2761 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2661 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2621 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2510 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2416 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2323 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2303 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2265 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2259 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2175 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 1789 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------ > > 100.0% | 466 |100.0% | 1684907 | Total > > > >
