From: Dr Balwinder S Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-08-01T20:16:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

On 08/01/2005 03:24 PM, Pit Capitain wrote:
> Balwinder Singh Dheeman schrieb:
> 
>> Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
>> ...
>> 71 people posted for the first time this period.
>> They went on to post 145 articles altogether
> 
> 
> I'm not buying those numbers. How do you determine the first time posters?

1. Normally all these who have never posted in the newsgroup in question 
are considered new posters.

2. If a poster does not post anything within a set period (say 8 weeks) 
of time, he/she is considered to have left the newsgroup; on his return 
he/she will also be considered a new poster.

For any further details you can have a look at source code available at 
http://rubyforge.org/projects/newsstats

Hope that helps,

Regards,
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