I have the 21,581 messages we’ve exchanged in the Linux User Group of Mauritius mailing list since I sent the first one on 18 Nov 2000.
By using some homebrew shell scripts, I analysed the emails and found out that some of us have been contributed a lot in the discussions. For posterity, here are those who have contributed more than 1000 postings:
| Name | Posts | % |
| Kwang Poon | 2701 | 12.5 |
| Avinash Meetoo | 2332 | 10.8 |
| Kalevi Nyman | 1335 | 6.1 |
| Yash Nursinghdass | 1248 | 5.8 |
| Eddy Young | 1110 | 5.1 |
| Stéphane Lee | 1087 | 5.0 |
| Total | 45.3 | |
Bloody hell. The 6 of us have contributed nearly half of the posts!!! With (only) 315 postings, Aadil has a long way to go to catch us :-)
(PS: As discussed during yesterday’s LUGM meeting, I believe that some of those 21,851 emails contain gems that we should not lose. I am looking for an open source program (preferably) which will thread those emails and present them in such a way that it becomes easy to select which of those threads are worth reading. Any idea? Thanks)
You can have all the posting glory, I am competing for teh kick ass karate national championship in teh senior non-black belt category! :p
Wait, wait, we all know Kwang Poon is an advanced MLUG posting bot, and Kalevi is an extremist.
That must mean I’m #2, at least.
;p
Aadil, Karate is _not_ about championships, despite what other people would love to make you believe. Be careful, you’re already straying…
I am looking for an open source program (preferably) which will thread those emails and present them in such a way that it becomes easy to select which of those threads are worth reading. Any idea? Thanks)
If only you had the bright idea of using a forum at that time :p
Mailinglist is for oldies :) and strangely.. only old persons are in the top 6 position :p hahaha
Or are we among the top first because we have so many things to say because of our profound experience of life :-)