[clug] [social] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?

[Andrew Janke]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:46, Hugh Fisher <hugh.fisher at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Alex Satrapa wrote:
>
>> I wonder if people commenting on social aspects could be disciplined
>> enough to insert [social] into the subject?
>
> If so, we'd be the first such group in the history of the Internet.
> <http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html>

<chortle>

> Nice idea, but very unlikely to work.

Well like most groups people tend to copy what others do in order to
"fit in".  So in the spirit of FOSS (Just do it), why not? e.g. I have
a habit of replying with '+1'. As of late I've noticed a few others
have picked up on it, I am certainly not claiming that I invented
this, no doubt I saw it somewhere else too.

So lesse...  <tikka tikka>

---
#! /bin/sh

lynx -dump http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux/ > page.txt

mkdir -p gz
for i in `grep txt.gz page.txt  | cut -f2- -d\. | cut -f2 -d\ `
do
   name=`basename $i`;
   curl $i > gz/$name
   gunzip gz/$name
done

# count numbers
egrep "(\+1$)|(\+1\ )" gz/*.txt | grep -v fax | less | cut -f1 -d\: |
sort | uniq -c
---

gives:

      1 gz/2002-April.txt
     10 gz/2003-December.txt
      4 gz/2003-February.txt
      1 gz/2003-January.txt
      2 gz/2003-July.txt
      2 gz/2003-October.txt
      2 gz/2004-August.txt
      1 gz/2004-May.txt
      1 gz/2005-July.txt
      1 gz/2005-November.txt
      2 gz/2007-October.txt
      1 gz/2008-April.txt
      1 gz/2008-December.txt
      1 gz/2008-February.txt
      3 gz/2008-July.txt
      3 gz/2008-June.txt
      2 gz/2008-May.txt
      2 gz/2008-October.txt
      3 gz/2008-September.txt
      2 gz/2009-April.txt
      7 gz/2009-August.txt
      7 gz/2009-July.txt
     15 gz/2009-June.txt
      7 gz/2009-March.txt
     10 gz/2009-May.txt
      4 gz/2009-September.txt

I joined clug in 2007'ish:  <tikka tikka>

ben:clug$ grep "From: a.janke" gz/*.txt | grep -v fax | less | cut -f1
-d\: | sort | uniq -c
      6 gz/2007-April.txt
     12 gz/2007-August.txt
      3 gz/2007-December.txt
     13 gz/2007-July.txt
      7 gz/2007-June.txt
      1 gz/2007-March.txt
      9 gz/2007-May.txt
     13 gz/2007-November.txt
      7 gz/2007-October.txt
      9 gz/2007-September.txt
     16 gz/2008-August.txt
     11 gz/2008-December.txt
      4 gz/2008-February.txt
      3 gz/2008-January.txt
      7 gz/2008-July.txt
     17 gz/2008-June.txt
      2 gz/2008-May.txt
     28 gz/2008-November.txt
     18 gz/2008-October.txt
      6 gz/2008-September.txt
     15 gz/2009-April.txt
     25 gz/2009-August.txt
     18 gz/2009-February.txt
     13 gz/2009-January.txt
      5 gz/2009-July.txt
     27 gz/2009-June.txt
     18 gz/2009-March.txt
     27 gz/2009-May.txt
     12 gz/2009-September.txt

So I lay claim to re popularising it! :)


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