[OpenID] SNR

[Dave CROCKER]

John Panzer wrote:
> Just as a quick and dirty data point, I took the frequency of postings 
> for various authors from the lists.openid.net <http://lists.openid.net> 
> archives for this group for November and did a very quick and dirty 
> histogram:
> 
> $ awk '{print $NF,",",$(NF-1)}' </tmp/t | uniq -c | sort -n -r


I've seen a few lists that publish this sort of statistics report regularly. 
For an active list, that's usually every week.

It seems to provide a constructive bit of passive guidance, in that most 
reasonable participants pay attention to their own pattern of postings and 
modify their behavior according to their own sense of what is appropriate.

Obviously, it won't do much for participants who are impervious to social 
concerns.  But for most of us, it causes us to reflect on whether we are getting 
carried away with our enthusiasm and, instead, might want to throttle back.

d/
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net