Posting rates [was Re: [R] Size of R user base]

[Peter Dalgaard]

Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at myway.com> writes:
> 
> > P.S.  The following web page gives the number of messages per day over
> > the last few days as a graph:
> > 
> > 	http://gmane.org/info.php?group=gmane.comp.lang.r.general
> 
> Interesting graphs.  Thanks for pointing out this URL.
> 
> Notice the very high posting/spam rates, which are a testament to the
> effectiveness of the filters that Martin Maechler has installed on the
> mailing list.

...except that there seems to be something wrong with their graphs:
The posting/spam curve looks identical to the postings curve, and
according to the spam curve, the former should give a division by zero
for most of the range.

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