[sumo] Number of posts

[Barbara]

Kuramarujo wrote:
> 	For the sake of geekness, I'd be interested in knowing what search
> feature you used.  I used a combination of awk and grep (with a little
> manual massaging of names/Shikona.
> K-jo

I have an archive on my computer of all messages since mid 2004 in 
Thunderbird format, the email client I use.  Using Thunderbird I viewed 
all sumo messages in the time period and did a sort by name.  I then 
went through the sorted names and located all names which had more than 
about 110 messages from them.  I then used Thunderbird's search feature 
to search the sumo messages for each such name, which resulted in a list 
and a total for that name. Then I examined the list to see if all looked 
correct, then saved the total for that name.  When I knew of multiple 
handles (as with Barbara Ann) I consolidated the numbers under one name. 
Then I took the hand-written list and pasted it into an Excel worksheet 
to do a sort by number, then copied it out and pasted it into the 
mailing list message which I was writing.

I am rather fastidious about doing backups of my archived email and data 
files.  Usually I do an incremental backup every day, with solid backups 
every month or two.  Without the frequent backups I would have lost all 
my databases at least 3-4 times due to computer failure in the time 
since mid 2004. But because of my backups, I have all my personal email 
back to 1996 still on my computer.

Barbara Murasakihana