I don't think posting message size is quite appropriate as part of your statistics and even more particularly as a criteria to order the list. Unless I'm mistaken you're calculating bytes for entire message but often > 75% comes from another message being replied to and so you can't really judge amount of input the actual poster added to the message. If you want message bytes statistics, you could try to see what parts of that were not from previous message and only calculate size based on that. On Fri, 30 May 2003, Rob Austein wrote: > Traffic statistics (as seen from my cave, your milage may vary) for > the last seven days on the ietf@ietf.org mailing list. > > Conclusions, if any, are left as an exercise for the reader. > > > Messages | Bytes | Who > -------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------ > 11.4% | 53 | 13.9% | 233614 | dean@av8.com > 12.2% | 57 | 10.1% | 170963 | anthony@atkielski.com > 7.5% | 35 | 7.2% | 121074 | ehall@ehsco.com > 3.0% | 14 | 4.8% | 80253 | pdeutsch@earthlink.net > 3.9% | 18 | 3.6% | 60755 | valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu > 3.4% | 16 | 3.5% | 58293 | alh-ietf@tndh.net > 3.6% | 17 | 2.6% | 43278 | michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us > 2.8% | 13 | 2.2% | 37288 | moore@cs.utk.edu > 2.4% | 11 | 2.3% | 37930 | dwm@xpasc.com > 2.1% | 10 | 2.2% | 37479 | vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com > 2.1% | 10 | 2.2% | 36561 | iljitsch@muada.com > 2.1% | 10 | 1.9% | 31676 | l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk > 1.9% | 9 | 1.8% | 31053 | shogunx@sleekfreak.ath.cx > 1.9% | 9 | 1.8% | 31016 | vixie@vix.com > 1.9% | 9 | 1.7% | 27856 | dhc2@dcrocker.net > 1.9% | 9 | 1.6% | 27349 | dja2003@hotpop.com > 1.9% | 9 | 1.5% | 24511 | sbwoodside@yahoo.com > 1.1% | 5 | 2.1% | 34761 | steflist@thor.nma.com > 1.7% | 8 | 1.3% | 21321 | jnc@ginger.lcs.mit.edu > 1.3% | 6 | 1.7% | 28495 | richard@shockey.us > 1.3% | 6 | 1.2% | 19636 | tomson_eric@yahoo.fr > 1.3% | 6 | 1.1% | 19259 | jstracke@centive.com > 0.9% | 4 | 1.5% | 24586 | john-ietf@jck.com > 1.1% | 5 | 1.0% | 16989 | mat@cisco.com > 0.9% | 4 | 0.9% | 15992 | avi@bridgewatersystems.com > 0.9% | 4 | 0.9% | 14418 | huitema@windows.microsoft.com > 0.9% | 4 | 0.8% | 13896 | phoffman@imc.org > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 12281 | dee3@torque.pothole.com > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 11323 | ietf@soaring.demon.co.uk > 0.9% | 4 | 0.7% | 11275 | tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk > 0.6% | 3 | 0.8% | 13511 | darkuncle@darkuncle.net > 0.6% | 3 | 0.7% | 12302 | harald@alvestrand.no > 0.4% | 2 | 0.9% | 14402 | dws@hunnysoft.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.8% | 14209 | mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp > 0.6% | 3 | 0.6% | 10191 | wessorh@ar.com > 0.6% | 3 | 0.6% | 10181 | rwelty@averillpark.net > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 9109 | lear@cisco.com > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 8328 | john.loughney@kolumbus.fi > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 7803 | sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us > 0.6% | 3 | 0.5% | 7584 | billc44@citynet.net > 0.6% | 3 | 0.4% | 6866 | randy@psg.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.8% | 13680 | soohong.park@samsung.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 8935 | stephen@sprunk.org > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 7722 | tytso@mit.edu > 0.4% | 2 | 0.5% | 7620 | rra@stanford.edu > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6916 | jmorris@cdt.org > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6630 | dank@hq.lindsayelec.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6470 | dominic.pinto@ieee.org > 0.4% | 2 | 0.4% | 6156 | zefram@fysh.org > 0.2% | 1 | 0.6% | 9711 | awduche@awduche.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 5077 | bmanning@isi.edu > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4924 | fritz_saad@hotmail.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4618 | ekr@rtfm.com > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4576 | cdel@firsthand.net > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4438 | anewton@ecotroph.net > 0.4% | 2 | 0.3% | 4335 | garmitage@swin.edu.au > 0.2% | 1 | 0.5% | 7750 | alain.durand@sun.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 7195 | dws+001@hunnysoft.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6953 | bob@wyman.us > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6315 | ggm@apnic.net > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6293 | et7563@sbc.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 6003 | atul.sabharwal@intel.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5766 | hardie@qualcomm.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5699 | dhc@dcrocker.net > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 5206 | cchaplin@sj.symbol.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4923 | peterf@exchange.microsoft.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4425 | page@mail.msen.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4388 | braendt@hotmail.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.3% | 4306 | gk@ninebynine.org > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 4096 | jorge.contreras@haledorr.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3465 | inanbe@xs4all.nl > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3310 | hinden@iprg.nokia.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3214 | smb@research.att.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3194 | gray@washington.edu > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3085 | ole@cisco.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 3077 | rod.walsh@nokia.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2958 | msa@burp.tkv.asdf.org > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2946 | vinton.g.cerf@mci.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2782 | swb@employees.org > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2761 | jtk@depaul.edu > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2661 | bob.natale@appliedsnmp.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.2% | 2621 | spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2510 | glc@cisco.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2416 | klensin@jck.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2323 | braden@isi.edu > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2303 | kent@bbn.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2265 | andy.malis@vivacenetworks.com > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2259 | jfbauer@comcast.net > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 2175 | benson.schliesser@savvis.net > 0.2% | 1 | 0.1% | 1789 | noc@nso.org > -------+-----+-------+---------+------------------------ > 100.0% | 466 |100.0% | 1684907 | Total >