Re: DML Stats Page

From: Jason Bleazard (dml@bleazard.net)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 10:31:24 EST


On Thu, March 6, 2008 5:42 pm, jon@dakota-truck.net said:
>
> Still, 2nd out of 4,266 isn't bad. :-)

I guess nobody else from back then has stuck around. I was kind of surprised
to see that.

> BTW, if you're sorting by
> years of membership and you look at #3, you will discover a weakness
> in the years of membership calculation. Its an e-mail address which
> appears to have posted only 16 times, but since the first was in 1996
> and the last was in 2007, they are credited with over 11 years of
> membership, which *probably* isn't fair.

Yeah, I noticed that. The archives also can't account for lurkers since they
don't keep track of e-mail addresses that subscribe but don't post. Oh, well.
 It's just for fun anyway, so it's not a serious problem.

> (Speaking of which, I don't know if you noticed or not,
> but the next time Norah posts to the DML, she's going to move past you
> into the #2 spot.) ;-)

No she's not. My first post was September 18, 1996. She didn't post until
November 8. Besides, we're both just using dml@bleazard.net now. We've
shared e-mail addresses in the past as well (janor@ican.net and
janor@home.com), so I'm probably getting credit for about half of her posts
over the years.

Since all of our e-mail goes through one inbox, I figured it was more
efficient to just get one copy of all the DML messages and let my server turn
them in to two copies after downloading them. It's a small gain, but it was
easy to implement. Unfortunately it also breaks the stats in a different way
(sorry).

-- 
Jason Bleazard  http://drazaelb.blogspot.com  Burlington, Ontario
his:  '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white
hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black



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