Mailing list message stats for October 2004

[Scot L. Harris]

Here is this months message stats.  Total of 63 items were reported as
solved.  Good job everyone!

Total messages 6262

63 items marked as solved

Subject: Fedora Core 2 Upgraded Kernel Won't Boot [SOLVED]
Subject: Is "The FC2-Windows installation issue"  solved ?
Subject: Minimum DNS Config - SOLVED
Subject: Problem with RHBG (partially solved)
Subject: Re: Apache, FC2 and Virtual Servers [RESOLVED...in part]
Subject: Re: apt-get problem (solved)
Subject: Re: automount seems not to work SOLVED
Subject: RE: Changing mta in /etc/alternatives : how? [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: Choosing kernel automatically at Boot - Beginner -
[resolved!]
Subject: Re: Digital camera woes [resolved]
Subject: Re: DVD in xine [SOLVED}
Subject: Re: Evolution problem - Solved!
Subject: Re: FC1 slowing down - SOLVED
Subject: Re: fc2 installation freezes on athlon-xp [solved]
Subject: Re: [FC2] OT - Desert Combat F-16 bug - SOLVED!
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 3 test 2 performance [SOLVED!]
Subject: Re: firefox update problems with FC2 [resolved]
Subject: RE: forcing a specific IP [RESOLVED]
Subject: Re: free space advice. (solved)
Subject: RE: Fstab setup [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: Gnome panel and desktop icons mysteriously changed: SOLVED
Subject: RE: Help with first bash script please [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: How to automatically load kernel modules SOLVED
Subject: Re: How to find missing libraries when compiling apps [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: ipchains -> iptables SOLVED :)
Subject: Re: KDE occupies GDM [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: Minimum DNS Config - SOLVED
Subject: Re: Mouse copy-paste [SOLVED]
Subject: RE: Nagging X problem - SOLVED
Subject: Re: problem installing firefox <resolved!>
Subject: Re: problems with upgrade from RH9 to FC2 [solved, sort of]
Subject: Re: Problem with RHBG (partially solved) (update)
Subject: Re: problem with xine freshly installed [SOLVED]
Subject: Re: SOLVED: Fedora Core 2 on Compaq (HP) Proliant DL360 G2
Subject: RESOLVED [Fwd: Screaming Interrupt [Was: Post-logoff
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] kernel linux-2.6.8-1.521 locks when leaving X11
Subject: Re: [SOLVED} network woes with laptop and pc card ethernet
Subject: {RESOLVED} Re: AD + Openldap, change passwd failed
Subject: RESOLVED: Re: how to config XFree86 on FC1 with i865 video card
and
Subject: RESOLVED: Re: How to mount samba folder within a NT Domain
network?
Subject: Re: / space usage [SOLVED!]
Subject: Re: squirrelmail does not display anything but inbox (solved.
Subject: Res: Re: [THANKS-SOLVED] kernel linux-2.6.8-1.521 locks
Subject: Re: SSH question SOLVED
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour non-linux partitions: SOLVED
Subject: Re: [THANKS-SOLVED] kernel linux-2.6.8-1.521 locks when leaving
Subject: Re: Unable to open USB device - a second time - SOLVED for
Subject: Re: Using iptables to foward vnc SOLVED-ish
Subject: SOLVED: Change of Intel to AMD motherboard
Subject: SOLVED:  Fedora Core 2 on Compaq (HP) Proliant DL360 G2
Subject: SOLVED: HELP: GRUB or Part. Table damaged by QTPARTED!!
Subject: [SOLVED] network card : device not present
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: Almost ALSA!
Subject: <SOLVED> Re: Boot after kernel recompile
Subject: <SOLVED> Re: Clock delay
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: FC2 won't boot on battery!!
Subject: <SOLVED> Re: IP Forwarding
Subject: <SOLVED> Re: Network device on IRQ 10 after kernel recompile
Subject: [SOLVED] Re: yum-applet-gui non-functional
Subject: [SOLVED]:Seagate SATA disk on Sil3112 controller performance on
Subject: SOLVED Smart_Host vs FALLBACK_MX Was [Re: More on Masquerading]
Subject: [SOLVED-using Rsync] Re: Partial content support in SCP?
Subject: sometime sound in FC2? [SOLVED]

Top 25 posters

Number of posts 	Poster

385		Alexander Dalloz
  212		Paul Howarth
  100		Scot L. Harris
  92		W. Guy Thomas
  89		James Wilkinson
  85		Matthew Miller
  85		Filippos Klironomos
  81		Rodolfo J. Paiz
  76		Nifty Hat Mitch
  69		Michael Schwendt
  68		Brian Fahrlander
  62		Timothy Payne
  61		Ow Mun Heng
  54		[e-mail]

53		ne...
  53		Thornton
  51		HaJo Schatz
  47		Kevin J. Cummings
  47		Jeff Vian
  46		Trevor Smith
  44		Robin Laing
  42		Yang Xiao
  42		Andrey Andreev
  41		Robert P. J. Day
  41		Giulio Sorrentino

Top 25 subjects

Number of posts 	Subject

107		FLAME____ Why is the kernel source not included
  95		cant mount drive
  51		I've had enough
  45		More SSH 'trolling'
  45		OT: spammers are using my domain again
  40		text vs html posts on this list...
  40		OT Why is everyone so grouchy?
  39		Digitally signed emails
  38		Looking for backup software of complete system
  38		can I sell fedora?
  37		Some thoughts about yum and repositories
  36		mysql 4.x and fedoracore2
  35		Surveillance
  35		Security....
  33		Enabling VNC
  29		upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!
  28		System of Fedora Core
  28		OT but pretty cool - $750 off Inspirons today only
  27		OT (ish): How to copy hidden files/directories
  27		Anti-Virus Software ?
  27		ISO Image Problem
  26		Mysql version question
  26		A welcoming email
  25		Setting up SMTP?
  25		openoffice.org-i18n 615 megabytes!!!

Clients used

1558		Ximian Evolution
  664		Mozilla Thunderbird
  550		Mozilla/5.0 (X11;
  326		Mutt/1.4.1i
  254		Microsoft Outlook
  212		Evolution 2.0.2
  177		KMail/1.7
  122		Mozilla/5.0 (Windows;
  107		Sylpheed version
  100		Evolution 2.0.1
  84		Microsoft Office
  77		KMail/1.6.2
  69		Microsoft Outlook,
  53		PINE 4.53
  52		KMail/1.5.4
  40		SquirrelMail/1.4.3a
  36		SquirrelMail/1.4.3a-1
  35		ELM [version
  34		PINE 4.61
  34		SquirrelMail/1.5.1 [CVS]
  33		Earthlink Zoo
  32		SquirrelMail/1.4.3a-0.f1.1
  29		KNode/0.8.0
  28		Evolution 2.0.0
  25		Pan/0.14.2 (This

Message Content Types

7375		text/plain
  1023		multipart/mixed
  811		multipart/signed
  777		application/pgp-signature
  164		text/html
  162		multipart/alternative
  33		application/x-pkcs7-signature
  17		text/x-vcard
  8		application/ms-tnef
  7		application/octet-stream
  6		text/enriched
  4		message/rfc822
  2		multipart/related
  2		text/x-fortran
  2		application/x-perl
  2		image/gif
  1		text/x-log
  1		image/jpeg
  1		application/x-shellscript
  1		application/loaf
  1		text/x-patch

[Craig Thomas]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 08:59, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> Total messages 6262
> Message Content Types
>
> 7375		text/plain

Please forgive me if this has been asked and answered before, but these
numbers confuse me. How can there be more mime types than messages? 
attachments?  what am I missing.

As always, very interesting stats.

[James Wilkinson]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 08:59, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> Total messages 6262
> Message Content Types
>
> 7375		text/plain

Craig Thomas wrote:
> Please forgive me if this has been asked and answered before, but these
> numbers confuse me. How can there be more mime types than messages? 
> attachments?  what am I missing.

It's to do with the way the list software works, and, I suspect, how the
counting software works.

In particular, it is trivial to get list software to add a standard
signature to a plain text e-mail. However, it is distinctly less than
trivial to add a standard list signature to signed e-mails, and to mixed
HTML/plain text e-mails, or e-mails with attachments.

You should understand that with these e-mails (sent using the MIME,
Multipart Internet Mail Extensions, IIRC RFC 2045 and following), each
part of the mail has its own content-type: the plain text version, the
HTML version, any signed e-mails where the signature uses MIME to hold
the signature, and the attachment. I suspect the counting script counts
all these content types.

What the list software seems to do, when the e-mail is any more
complicated than plain text, is to put the existing e-mail into a MIME
multipart/mixed structure, and append a text/plain signature. In those
cases, you'll get one text/plain for the main e-mail, and one for the
signature.

It seems to work.

James.

[Scot L. Harris]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 12:15, Craig Thomas wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 08:59, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > Total messages 6262
> > Message Content Types
> >
> > 7375		text/plain
>
> Please forgive me if this has been asked and answered before, but these
> numbers confuse me. How can there be more mime types than messages? 
> attachments?  what am I missing.
>
> As always, very interesting stats.

It confuses me at times also.  :)

I believe some clients send out multi part messages vs. individual
message count and my script is currently fairly dumb on how it counts
this stuff up.  Probably a combination of multi part messages and my
poor script writing.  I need to rework several portions to produce more
interesting and usable results.  Like counting the number of different
clients used instead of the number of messages sent by each client. 
Just have not had time to set that up yet.