From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T01:20:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Dr Balwinder S Dheeman schrieb:
> 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,

Thanks for the infos.

Regards,
Pit