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Re: 'My recent LUGNET Posts' idea
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Date: 
Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:28:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
When I say "a large percentage" above, I mean that roughly, say, 80% are
crystal clear match-ups.  That leaves, say, 20% which aren't, and should be
checked by hand.  As there are 5200 registered 'From:' lines and 850 members,
we're talking about matching across a set of more than 6000 names, and it's
not a 1-to-1 mapping.  The number of nodes that will need to be either matched
or checked by hand is definitely in the hundreds.  I happen to know that there
are two people in the community both named David Ellis, so I'm sure there must
be other overlaps as well.

Yeah, there's similar-names problems too, like Mark Nelson and Marc Nelson,
Jr. (which confused me at first until I met one of them in person).

-Shiri.



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(...) When I say "a large percentage" above, I mean that roughly, say, 80% are crystal clear match-ups. That leaves, say, 20% which aren't, and should be checked by hand. As there are 5200 registered 'From:' lines and 850 members, we're talking (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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