Source of Stats (was Re: Retreating to the safety of OTChatter)

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter David  wrote:
> The posting rate is, in fact, about 800 a day at the moment.  
There 
> were over 180 posts in the first three hours after the list 

> The join rate is between 100 and 150 a day

Where do these stats come from? Surely not from the search engine 
that should not be named. Do people keep comprehensive alternate 
back-ups of all the email? Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I've often thought that if I had a Time Turner I'd like to do a 
NetScan <http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/reportcard.asp?
NGName=alt.fan.harry-potter> like analyzer of the HPforGrownUps 
lists. It shows who the key posters are and what the important 
threads are automatically. 

Cheers,

Dumbledad