> Here's something to try for fun: After a long thread on
> opensolaris-discuss finally peters out, sort it by sender and count how
> many people from the project in question participated. Usually very few --
> even none. So what the heck is this mysterious allure of starting threads
> on opensolaris-discuss? I mean, it goes w/out saying that a discussion
> about a thing is most effective when they takes place directly in front of
> the people interested/responsible for that thing -- especially as opposed
> to a generic, anything-goes list. <rant-off>
I am a curious fellow that has strange desires to count things.
So I took a look at my email directory from which I delete nothing but spam.
I go back to late Feb 2006 and I have this :
bash-3.00$ find Maildir/cur -type f -ls | wc -l
8579
Now how much of that is traffic from the opensolaris-discuss list ?
bash-3.00$ find Maildir/cur -type f | xargs /usr/xpg4/bin/grep "List-Post:
<mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>" | wc -l
2938
OKay .. so a pile.
So .. out of curiosity, how many unique email addresses post to the list ?
bash-3.00$ find Maildir/cur -type f | xargs /usr/xpg4/bin/grep "List-Post:
<mailto:opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>" | cut -f1,2 -d: | xargs
/usr/xpg4/bin/grep "^From:" | cut -f4 -d: | sed 's/\"//g' >
address_list.txt
The first 3 are thus :
bash-3.00$ head -3 address_list.txt
Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Derek E. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Let me translate that to lower case and then sort and uniq it ...
bash-3.00$ cat address_list.txt | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sort | uniq >
address_list_uniq.txt
... and I am only interested in the stuff between the "<" and the ">"
bash-3.00$ cat address_list_uniq.txt | cut -f2 -d\< | cut -f1 -d\> | sed
's/\ //g' | sort | uniq > address_list_uniq_clean.txt
bash-3.00$ wc -l address_list_uniq_clean.txt
354 address_list_uniq_clean.txt
So there we have 354 addresses of everyone that posted a message all the way
back to late February.
Are you in there ?
bash-3.00$ grep eric address_list_uniq_clean.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
bash-3.00$
in fact, you are in there as a sender 155 times with the last message being :
msg 155 Maildir/cur/1150760674.28223_1.enterprise:2,S
bash-3.00$ more Maildir/cur/1150760674.28223_1.enterprise:2,S
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on
enterprise.blastwave.org
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,
UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham version=3.1.0
X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by mail.blastwave.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09943F8AB
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:44:34 +0200
(MEST)
Received: from mail.blastwave.org ([127.0.0.1])
by localhost (enterprise.blastwave.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
with LMTP id 27543-01 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:44:28 +0200 (MEST)
Received: from mail.opensolaris.org (mail.opensolaris.org [72.5.125.84])
by mail.blastwave.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C8CF8B1
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:44:27 +0200 (MEST)
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Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:44:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:45:21 -0500 (CDT)
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Here's something to try for fun: After a long thread on
opensolaris-discuss finally peters out, sort it by sender and count how
many people from the project in question participated. Usually very few --
even none. So what the heck is this mysterious allure of starting threads
on opensolaris-discuss? I mean, it goes w/out saying that a discussion
about a thing is most effective when they takes place directly in front of
the people interested/responsible for that thing -- especially as opposed
to a generic, anything-goes list. <rant-off>
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there .. that was fun.
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