Re: Staying on the Looping topic

[Kevin <kevin@TheNettles.com>]

At 06:53 PM 7/26/2006, Kim Flint wrote:
>Some individuals post constantly, yet almost never post about looping at 
>all.

I took off my music geek hat and put on my computer geek hat and 
wrote the following program in Cygwin:
$ awk '/^From:/ {from[$0]++}
END {for (person in from)
print from[person] " " person}' julyld.txt | sort -nr

 From this program here are the posters who emailed Looper's Delight 
10 or more times in July in descending order.  The first number is 
the number of times they posted this month based on the raw archive:

110 From: "Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>
39 From: mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>
39 From: "Buzap Buzap" <buzap@gmx.net>
37 From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
31 From: "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>
26 From: Joshua Carroll <josh@infinivert.com>
25 From: "Timothy Mungenast" <mungenast@earthlink.net>
21 From: mech <mech@m3ch.net>
19 From: goddard.duncan@mtvne.com
18 From: "Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>
17 From: Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>
16 From: Jeff Kaiser <loopersdelight@pfmentum.com>
16 From: "mark t" <aleatoric12@gmail.com>
15 From: a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>
13 From: rune fagereng <rune_fagereng@yahoo.no>
13 From: daniel stevenson <stillllscary@yahoo.com>
13 From: Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
13 From: "Gary Lehmann" <hqr@cox.net>
12 From: Jeffrey Larson <jeff@zonemobius.com>
12 From: Bill Fox <billyfox@soundscapes.us>
12 From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
11 From: johnsrude@peak.org
11 From: Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>
11 From: "Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>
10 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?tEd_=AE_kiLLiAn?= <tedkillian@charter.net>

What's my point?  The first point depends on whether you think 
frequent posting is a good thing or bad thing--it also depends on 
whether you think the top ten folks post about looping or not.  The 
second point is how ridiculously easy it is for spammers to harvest 
email addresses from the LD archives.  The third point is that data 
is always good. ;-)

Peace,
Kevin

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