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Re: 2004 posting statistics (was Re: Posting statistics)
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Fri, 21 Jan 2005 12:42:50 GMT
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 05:10:07AM +0000, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Dan Boger wrote:
> > That's correct - each newsgroup is stored in a seperate file, so a
> > single message posted to multiple newsgroups will have multiple
> > copies, and will be counted multiple times.
>
> There's a little trick I use a lot to weed out duplicates: If the
> article being examined is in a group that's not the first one listed
> in the |Newsgroups:| header, then ignore that article, because it'll
> be examined in another directory. I'm pretty sure the first-annual
> "noisemakers" posting used this method to enumerate the articles.
That's some pretty smart thinking. Of course, now I'm tempted to just
throw the data into an SQL db... Hmmm.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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