Re: Idea for The List Archves

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Tue Nov 16 2004 - 11:43:41 EST

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Terrible Tom <SilverEightynine@aol.com> wrote:

: Hey Jon? I was browsing through my Moilla BBS reader, looking over all
: the posts sorted by user name - and had an idea. Just for kicks, would
: there be a way to write up a little script to sort and count all the
: arvhice posts by who sent them - and how many posts a certain user made?

: Granted if you were to use the "user name" for search and sort criteria
: - you would get slightly inaccurate results due to people changing user
: names or posting from multiple sources. I know you some times post as
: "Jon" and more frequently "jon@dakota-truck.net" - see my point?

: Was just an idea I had!

Yep, here ya go. :-) As you guessed, it has some problems, the biggest
of which is that it doesn't actually count the posts from a particular
person per-se, but from a particular e-mail address. For example, I used
to post as stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu, but now its jon@dakota-truck.net. So
I'm listed as 2 people with totals of 2675 and 2279, instead of the reality
of one person with a total of 4954. I know there are several people who have
changed their e-mail addresses that this would apply to. It would probably
be possible to modify the script to recognize these changes such that if
someone let me know the e-mail addresses they have used in the past, I could
alter it to put all those posts under their current e-mail address. If this
is something that people find interesting, I will devote some time to doing
that, but if not, and for now, you'd just have to search through the list for
your curent and past e-mail addresses and add 'em together for the real total.

Here are the totals from the beginning of time (errr, the beginning of
the DML - same difference) ;-) up to yesterday evening:

276222 total posts

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