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Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 5 Oct 1999 13:47:57 GMT
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On Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:40:31 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) wrote:

Ok, this is really rough because my comprehension of gnuplot is fairly low,
but I thought y'all might be interested in looking anyway.

<URL:http://www.mattdm.org/mindstorms/rtlbyweek.gif>

is a graph of number of posts per week to rec.toys.lego for as long back as
Deja News can remember. (Minus some mysteriously missing data early in 1996.)

[snipped way-cool graph]

Very interesting.  I hadn't thought of "draining" in terms of number of
messages, I was thinking in terms of signal-to-noise.  Which is a bit
harder to graph.  But the anecdotal evidence seems to suggest LUGNET is
having an impact on RTL.  A *positive* impact for all readers, I think. :)

Can you do any analysis in terms of messages-per-thread?  That might
indicate content-depth, and the level of community.

Steve



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  Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
 
(...) Yeah, number-of-messages seemed like the easiest to graph. I'm also getting data on number of messages containing "auction|sale", "mindstorms", or "star wars", with that sort of in mind. Signal is hard to describe simply. (...) Hmmm, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
 
[ (X)FUT lugnet.off-topic.geek and lugnet.admin.general ] Steve: [...] (...) Few or many messages per thread? - few messages per thread could mean - quick correct answers - nobody cares to discuss anything - many messages per thread could mean - (...) (25 years ago, 5-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  RTL posting stats (was Re: Lugnet Newsgroups Anniversary!)
 
Ok, this is really rough because my comprehension of gnuplot is fairly low, but I thought y'all might be interested in looking anyway. <URL:(URL) is a graph of number of posts per week to rec.toys.lego for as long back as Deja News can remember. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)

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