Here's some list specific stats for those who are interested in collecting useless information (like me evidently). The program (link below) can collect an immense amount of information. This is just a sampling. I got the program courtesy of APT. Overall statistics ------------------ Statistics created on: Sat Mar 12 10:43:09 2005 First message was written at: Wed Mar 2 21:18:31 2005 Last message was written at: Sun Mar 13 02:09:11 2005 Total number of messages: 1156 Number of messages that is a reply: 885 (76.56%) Total size: 4054537 Average size: 3507 Average response time: 22:53:59 Number of PGP signed messages: 35 (3.03%) Most busy day in # msgs: 2005-03-10 (175 msgs, 594427 bytes) Most busy day in # bytes: 2005-03-10 (175 msgs, 594427 bytes) Total number of writers: 334 Number of people who wrote >1 message: 160 (47.90%) Total number of lines: 48435 Average lines per message: 41 Total header length (lines): 54574 Average header length (lines): 47 (112.67%) Average line length: 32 The header is 61.57% bytes in size of the total. Total number of unique user-agents: 39 Total number of unique organisations: 44 Total number of unique top-level domains: 31 Average spam score: 0.05 Spammiest writer: thomas beasley <beesknees@earthlink.net> (0.33) (# ummmm......still teaching spamassasin. :>) Top writers | # msgs|av size| total|time | e-mail address ---+-------+-------+------+-----+-------------------------------- 1] 59| 3475|205079|14:51| ken schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> 2] 55| 3039|167185|14:57| anders johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> 3] 47| 2967|139464|13:06| james knott <james.knott@rogers.com> 4] 35| 3404|119172|11:48| "carlos e. r." <robin1.listas@tiscali.es> 5] 27| 3400| 91814|12:29| bruce marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> 6] 24| 3227| 77448|15:18| patrick shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> 7] 23| 3259| 74972|12:40| jerry feldman <gaf@blu.org> 8] 21| 3218| 67587|12:30| randall r schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> 9] 20| 4491| 89834|12:14| kevanf1 <kevanf1@gmail.com> 10] 18| 4323| 77814|11:01| brad bourn <brad@summitrd.com> Top subjects | # msgs|av size| total|time | subject ---+-------+-------+------+-----+-------------------------------- 1] 46| 3757|172853|13:12| [sle] an apology to the list 2] 33| 3137|103529|14:42| [sle] 9.3 preorder now available.. 3] 24| 4108| 98608|14:45| [sle] problem with you 4] 23| 3411| 78465|15:17| [sle] stupid dependencies 5] 22| 4946|108830|13:30| [sle] unsubscription 6] 22| 3364| 74020|12:45| [sle] maximum swap size 7] 21| 3249| 68230|15:05| [sle] redhat to suse migration 8] 18| 3618| 65132|16:08| [sle] replacing a motherboard 9] 18| 3405| 61297|15:35| [sle] suse 9.2 pro 10] 17| 3508| 59646|13:06| [sle] *&^^%$ resmgr again Top of top-level-domain ---------------------------------------------------------- 1] com (1569026) 433 2] net (1017231) 298 3] org (255617) 78 4] nl (150400) 47 5] de (154784) 45 6] es (135347) 40 7] uk (146484) 37 8] au ( 80477) 23 9] be ( 61013) 21 10] ca ( 70769) 20 Timezones ---------------------------------------------------------- 1] 339 (1199540) -0500 2] 303 (1032769) +0100 3] 127 (449568) -0600 4] 123 (424379) +0000 5] 88 (282002) -0800 6] 46 (145126) +0200 7] 33 (128438) -0700 8] 21 ( 73239) +1100 9] 21 ( 71593) +0700 10] 14 ( 57132) -0900 Top organisations ---------------------------------------------------------- 1] 24 ( 77448) ptilopteri in pandemonium 2] 23 ( 74972) boston linux and unix 3] 15 ( 46116) sagacit (pty) ltd 4] 13 ( 42707) new tribes mission 5] 12 ( 33265) epicuri@ 6] 10 ( 43749) norrbring consulting 7] 8 ( 34515) http://gilweber.com 8] 7 ( 28423) c. e. hartung business development & support services 9] 7 ( 19587) lsb 10] 7 ( 19852) linuxteam Top user-agents ---------------------------------------------------------- 1] 32 (584969) kmail/1.7.1 2] 31 (262211) mozilla 3] 22 (288811) kmail/1.7.2 4] 19 (356205) mozilla/5.0 5] 15 (208223) kmail/1.6.2 6] 13 (194542) microsoft 7] 13 (108759) evolution 8] 9 (312653) ximian 9] 8 (302064) kmail/1.8 10] 7 (119581) mutt/1.5.6i Messages per day ---------------------------------------------------------- Sunday 101 (353348)********** Monday 140 (479045)************** Tuesday 106 (351819)*********** Wednesday 136 (469815)************** Thursday 330 (1172572)******************************** Friday 237 (850752)*********************** Saturday 103 (341842)********** Messages per hour ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 17 ( 57745)******** 2 14 ( 47614)****** 3 20 ( 63537)********* 4 10 ( 33309)***** 5 13 ( 42332)****** 6 22 ( 69864)********** 7 32 (108539)************** 8 56 (195227)************************ 9 95 (344527)**************************************** 10 75 (255081)******************************** 11 67 (234105)***************************** 12 63 (218766)*************************** 13 65 (227410)**************************** 14 53 (185807)*********************** 15 73 (290378)******************************* 16 66 (230731)**************************** 17 65 (207347)**************************** 18 59 (209047)************************* 19 47 (155804)******************** 20 62 (215390)*************************** 21 51 (179837)********************** 22 61 (203185)************************** 23 34 (122322)*************** (# based on my being -5 GMT, I suppose) Created with mboxstats v2.5; written by folkert@vanheusden.com http://www.vanheusden.com/mboxstats/