Re: [GENERAL] mail list traffic

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Page
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Verite wrote: >> Gregory Stark wrote: >> >> > I would be curious to see the average lifespan of threads over time. >> >> I happen to have the mail archives stored in a database, [...] > > When I saw the manit

Re: [GENERAL] mail list traffic

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Verite
Alvaro Herrera wrote: When I saw the manitou-mail.org stuff some days ago I was curious -- how feasible would it be to host our web archives using a database of some sort, instead of the current mbox-based Mhonarc installation we use, which is so full of problems and limitations? One p

Re: [GENERAL] mail list traffic

2008-11-23 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Alvaro Herrera wrote: When I saw the manitou-mail.org stuff some days ago I was curious -- how feasible would it be to host our web archives using a database of some sort, instead of the current mbox-based Mhonarc installation we use, which is so full of problems and limitations? I wondered abou

Re: [GENERAL] mail list traffic

2008-11-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Daniel Verite wrote: > Gregory Stark wrote: > > > I would be curious to see the average lifespan of threads over time. > > I happen to have the mail archives stored in a database, [...] When I saw the manitou-mail.org stuff some days ago I was curious -- how feasible would it be to host ou

[GENERAL] mail list traffic

2008-11-23 Thread Daniel Verite
Gregory Stark wrote: > I would be curious to see the average lifespan of threads over time. I happen to have the mail archives stored in a database, so I've expressed this in SQL and below are some results for hackers and general, 2007-2008. count is the number of distinct threads whose o