Fwd: CDR: List Statistics

[Frederic Madre]

>From: walsingham@hushmail.com
>Subject: CDR: List Statistics
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>
>In the 24 hours since 11:00 am 04/12:
>
>45 messages have come through cypherpunks.
>
>By author:
>
>Jim Choate - 14
>Tim May - 4
>Sunder - 3
>"King" RAHenry VIII - 3
>tskinner - 2
>Mac Norton - 2
>Reese -2
>Others... 1
>
>Of these posts my subjective analysis (which is admittedly picky)  lists
>their quality as:
>
>High -
>Lucky Green - 1
>Tim May - 3
>
>Medium -
>Peter Trei - 1
>Alan Olson - 1
>
>The remainder included:
>
>14 hand wringers about the state of the list.
>4 arguments about the definition of a corporation. (One of which speculates
>on the world population of field mice).
>4 arguments about what an idiot Clinton is (isn't).
>4 references to Hitler, the holocaust or the denial thereof.
>3 Self - Congratulatory "I've seen that before"'s from "King" RAHenry VIII.
>(2 of which are forwards of his posts on other topics on other lists).
>3 messages containing almost nothing but a single URL. (1- Jim Choate  which
>makes a reference but lists no URL or cite).
>
>Of all messages:
>
>17 are under 5k (5 of these are from Jim Choate and would be smaller if
>not for his uselessly large signature).
>The largest was from Tim May (11k) and was almost all original material.
>
>Of the 5 largest messages only Tim May's and a Colorado advertisement contain
>less than 50% quoted material.
>The worst of these was Reese' Clinton whining post, the third largest at
>11K, which contains less than 3% of original content and about 97% quoted
>material.
>
>There are 6 advertisements - one beginning "Dear Tennis Instructor or student,
>" and one HTML message insisting we visit Colorado.  (Note also that this
>was the fourth largest message in the period at over 10k)
>Half of the advertisements are over 5k in length.
>
>19 Messages contain the "CDR" prefix.
>12 of these were from Jim Choate
>1 of these (from Tim May) had any quality content.
>
>Conclusions - I could have reeduced useless posts (noise):
>
>44+% by filtering out 3 authors: Jim Choate, Sunder and "King" RAHenry VIII.
>(With 0 loss of signal).
>42+% by filtering out messages with the "CDR" prefix (at the expense of
>one high signal message).
>64+% by filtering out messages under 6k (at the expense of 3 high/medium
>signal messages [50%]).
>
>Draw your own conclusions.