Quoting behaviour exposed

So, I had a look at whether pure numbers would support the suggestion that quoting behaviour was not up to speed on this list. Considering the last 888 emails to php-dev, the script found the following quoted/original ratio: 1%: >= 17.25 5%: >= 6.25 10%: >= 3.50 15%: >= 2.75 I.e. 5% of the emails contain at least 6.25 quoted lines per single original line. (Empty original/quoted lines are dropped.) The script also looked at 10% of the messages with the highest ratio. It computed the average ratio for these messages per sender. The top 10 follows :-) Marcus Börger avg of 13.02 in 11 postings Markus Fischer avg of 11.05 in 2 postings Ilia A. avg of 10.85 in 4 postings Andrei Zmievski avg of 10.16 in 3 postings Andi Gutmans avg of 8.97 in 14 postings John Coggeshall avg of 8.43 in 6 postings Moriyoshi Koizumi avg of 8.27 in 10 postings George Schlossnagle avg of 7.69 in 3 postings Jani Taskinen avg of 7.31 in 3 postings Xavier Spriet avg of 7.27 in 2 postings (For a realistic picture, I dropped records with a single posting, because those are true accidents. Otherwise, Thies would have won with a ratio of 60.08 in one posting.) - Sascha