Just as a quick and dirty data point, I took the frequency of postings for various authors from the <a href="http://lists.openid.net">lists.openid.net</a> archives for this group for November and did a very quick and dirty histogram:<div>
<br></div><div><div><div>$ awk '{print $NF,",",$(NF-1)}' </tmp/t | uniq -c | sort -n -r</div><div> 62 Rajan , Santosh</div><div> 37 Admin , SitG</div><div> 18 Williams , Peter</div><div> 16 Bradley , John</div>
<div> 11 Panzer , John</div><div> 10 Kemp , John</div><div> 9 Messina , Chris</div><div> 7 Norris , Will</div><div> 7 Hammer-Lahav , Eran</div><div> 4 McDowell , Brett</div><div> 4 Madsen , Paul</div><div> 4 Kissel , Brian</div>
<div> 4 H , James</div><div> 4 Balfanz , Dirk</div><div> 4 Arnott , Andrew</div><div> 3 Weintraub , Etan</div><div> 3 Tom , Allen</div><div> 3 Livingstone-Perez , Steven</div><div> 3 Jain , Ashish</div><div>
3 CROCKER , Dave</div><div> 2 Tschofenig , Hannes</div><div> 2 Sakimura , Nat</div><div> 2 Henry , Story</div><div> 2 ED) , (OIDF</div><div> 2 Davis , Peter</div><div> 2 Cappelaere , Pat</div><div> 1 Shupp , Bill</div>
<div> 1 Sachs , Eric</div><div> 1 Russell , Terrell</div><div> 1 Rosenstock , Lukas</div><div> 1 Recordon , David</div><div> 1 Nat , "acct:"</div><div> 1 Mona , Anderson,</div><div> 1 Medeiros , de</div>
<div> 1 Klingenstein , Nate</div><div> 1 Ehrig , John</div><div> 1 Biering , Henrik</div></div></div><div><br clear="all">--<br>John Panzer / Google<br><a href="mailto:jpanzer@google.com">jpanzer@google.com</a> / <a href="http://abstractioneer.org">abstractioneer.org</a> / @jpanzer<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Bill Shupp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hostmaster@shupp.org">hostmaster@shupp.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The signal to noise ratio on this list is getting a bit low. I, for one, wouldn't mind the list administrators doing more about it.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Bill Shupp<br>
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