The different categories are counts of posts containing relevant keywords.
(Sales & Auctions = "sale|auction", Mindstorms = "mindstorms", etc.) I plan
do redo this with the addition of looking for "FS" and "FA" in the subject.
Hmm, there is a spike right after the first of the year. I bet that is caused by new users fresh from their dark ages after buying holiday presents for younger relatives... KL (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
Matthew Miller: (...) Thanks. It looks like the ration of "commercial" posts is increasing steadily. Could you also plot the different categories as percentages of the total? (I can do it myself if you publish the raw numbers ;-) Play well, Jacob (...) (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
(...) Cool! My guess is that plenty of sale/auction posts are still not being captured. FS/FA will help with that. Steve (25 years ago, 7-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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)