From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 05:20:59 MST
Charlie Stross writes:
> It's a good idea but it's not as trivial as you think. For starters, how
> do you correlate with time zone distribution? You can't do it by simply
Absolute time, taking some point of reference. Not important, which.
> assuming people in non-US domains are in the appropriate time zone and
> people in TLDs are in CONUS -- I post from a .org, but I'm in Scotland,
> for example. To actually understand how posting levels are going, you
I was actually talking about raw subscriber count.
But of course having a fake user which just counts posts would be
nice, as well.
> need either to go for a long-term approach ( >24 hours) or take into
> account geographical distribution.
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