More usenet usage statistics, by programming language

[Aaron K. Johnson]

In message <b0vfiq$2gi$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:

> Actually, I think a better measure might be counting distinct posters with a
> minimum of two posts. This would indicate interest (e.g., dialog or more
> than
> one question) more strongly than a single post, IWT. A table including both
> would be interesting. I agree on time interval vs flat latest count also.
> I guess you might expect spikes around significant announcements (good or
> bad)
> which could skew results from different languages.
> 
> Another interesting measure might be the aggregate volume of unquoted text
> vs total,
> and those numbers divided by number of unique posters, for average level of
> interest.
> 
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter

I already correct the script to do flat time vs. posts.

See the results for december in the 'December 2002 comp.lang.* stats ' thread.

Your other ideas are interesting...thanks....

Best,
Aaron.