From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T08:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?

On Oct 14, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:

> On Oct 14, 11:52 am, James Edward Gray II <ja...@grayproductions.net>
> wrote:
>> On Oct 13, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:
>>> Do you have any stats for the percentage of mailing list posts that
>>> don't make it to comp.lang.ruby?
>>
>> I just did a simple grep of the logs for a period of a little over
>> the last month.  It looks like we average about eight rejected
>> messages a day (for an "HTML post" reason).
>>
>>> Also, do you have stats for the percent of messages originating from
>>> usenet vs. from the mailing list?
>>
>> Over the same time period, the gateway saw 1,071 posts from Usenet
>> and 5,126 from the mailing list.
>
> 8 msgs/day * ~30 days / 5,126 is ~5%; that's a little higher than I
> was hoping :(

The log I used actually went back to 9-6-2007, so it was closer to 38  
days, but yeah.  It was higher than I would have guessed too.

James Edward Gray II