Listat

(Listat = List + Stat)
http://wordsmith.org/anu/listat

Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Anu Garg (garg at wordsmith.org).

What is Listat?
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Listat is a package to generate interesting statistics on email mailing list
addresses. It creates demographics reports both in text as well as HTML
form suitable for publishing on the web. The sample reports sample.txt
and sample.html are enclosed with Listat distribution.

Listat creates three reports:

o Domain Report
o Subdomain Report
o Stats Report

Domain Report
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The format of this report is:
     Domain name    Count    Percentage   Country

This report has following features:
   - The report can be sorted by the domain name or by the number of subscribers
     from a domain name.
   - Flag images for the countries are included in the HTML stats.
   - Reports on unrecognized domains and invalid addresses.
   - User configurable domain file: can be extended if more domain names are
     added.

Subdomain Report
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The format of this report is:
      Subdomain  Count   %age  Description

This report has following features:
   - Can be generated on any subdomain
   - Top n (user configurable) subdomains can be listed
   - Subdomain description is listed

Stats Report
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This report includes following statistical information:

    Email addresses:
    - Longest
    - Shortest
    - Mean
    - Median
    - Mode
    - Standard Deviation


History:
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Listat grew out of a sed, awk and shell hack I put together to generate the
stats on A.Word.A.Day ( http://wordsmith.org/awad/ ), a mailing list
I run. It is the largest non-commercial mailing list on the Internet and
thus its stats are closely following by many. A number of other list owners
showed interest in generating similar stats for their lists so I ported the
scripts to Perl, and create a self contained package, now known as Listat.
Today, Listat has many new features including full HTML support, subdomain
report, statistical report etc.


Feedback:
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Your feedback on Listat is solicited. I welcome any questions or comments
regarding improving Listat. Please contact me if you have feature
suggestions, bug reports or if you notice any problems with the documentation.
Contact:
Anu Garg (garg at wordsmith.org)
http://wordsmith.org/anu

Credits:
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Listat is created by Anu Garg (garg at wordsmith.org) http://wordsmith.org/anu
Flag images are thanks to the CIA World Factbook.
Thanks to Listat users for their suggestions.
