Subject: Re: Death of a Troll
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:07:38 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <4ZKdnctPNpbHutbXnZ2dnUVZ_r2dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Vassil Nikolov  <vnikolov@pobox.com> wrote:
+---------------
| As far as <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/about>'s
| statistics are telling us as of this writing [*], and assuming none
| of these "from" addresses were faked, Kenny Tilton has posted 6384
| times on comp.lang.lisp, Pascal Costanza has posted 5191 times, Erik
| Naggum 4877 times, and Kent Pitman 4127 times.  ...
| isn't any good answer to "so what?" as a reaction to the above...
| [*] "All time
|     4127      pit...@world.std.com
|     3768      ktil...@nyc.rr.com
|     3692      p...@informatimago.com
|     3126      p...@p-cos.net
|     2822      e...@naggum.no
|     2616      kentil...@gmail.com
|     2332      t...@cley.com
|     2277      r...@rpw3.org
|     2065      costa...@web.de
|     2055      e...@naggum.net"
+---------------

Several of those addresses are different only because they changed
at some point. Aggregating the well-known ones that are obviously
the same person, one gets this list instead:

    6384   ktil...@nyc.rr.com / kentil...@gmail.com
    5191   costa...@web.de / p...@p-cos.net
    4877   e...@naggum.net / e...@naggum.no
    4127   pit...@world.std.com
    3692   p...@informatimago.com
    2332   t...@cley.com
    2277   r...@rpw3.org

But to do this "properly" would require starting with a *very* much
longer list, and then aggregating all of the obviously-identical people.


-Rob

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