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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

MUSCLE mailing list statistics for 2012

A new year is a good time for analysis of the past. As I did in 2009, 2010 and 2011 I propose some statistics of the MUSCLE mailing list usage.

Year Total number of messages Progression
2009603
2010718+19%
2011999+39%
2012207-79%



You can notice a huge drop in the number of messages.

I have no real explanation in this drop of number of messages:
  • Maybe PC/SC on Unix is mature enough and problems are now solved (or with solutions available from the mailing list archives, blogs, etc.).
  • Maybe PC/SC is a dead API, smart card is a dying technology and people are moving to something else/newer/more fun like NFC
  • I also note that the activity of the PC/SC workgroup is very limited. Microsoft is no more a member of the PC/SC workgroup. Do not expect many changes in the Windows PC/SC layer.
If you have an explanation to the decrease of messages please add a comment to this article.

Statistics from 3.1.2012 to 11.12.2012
for muscle@lists.musclecard.com



People who have written most messages:


 Author  Msg  Percent
1ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com6631.88 %
2jmpoure@gooze.eu136.28 %
3helpcrypto@gmail.com125.80 %
4frank@apsu.be104.83 %
5martin@martinpaljak.net62.90 %
6muscle-bounces@lists.musclecard.com62.90 %
7mvogt1@googlemail.com52.42 %
8richter@ecos.de52.42 %
9godfreyhkchung@gmail.com41.93 %
10quannguyen@mbm.vn41.93 %
11opensc@secure-edge.com41.93 %
1200cpxxx@gmail.com41.93 %
13gladion89@live.com31.45 %
14s.ferey@wanadoo.fr31.45 %
15s4ms0n0v@gmail.com31.45 %
16diegobravoestrada@hotmail.com31.45 %
17james@thesouthwells.com31.45 %
18john@darrington.wattle.id.au31.45 %
19sebastien@lorquet.fr31.45 %
20mstjohns@comcast.net20.97 %
21h0wdyd3wdy@gmail.com20.97 %
22mvogt1@gmail.com20.97 %
23amiad.salton@gmail.com20.97 %
24folkert@vanheusden.com20.97 %
25raghavendhra.chowdary@geodesic.com20.97 %
26jcristiano.c@gmail.com20.97 %
27deengert@anl.gov20.97 %
28detlef.graef@yahoo.de10.48 %
29anze.stojilkovic@policija.si10.48 %
30guilherme.a.welter@gmail.com10.48 %
other2813.53 %

Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting):


 Author  KBytes
1ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com375.8
2iulian.roman@gmail.com288.9
3jmpoure@gooze.eu113.1
4helpcrypto@gmail.com71.0
5frank@apsu.be64.2
6muscle-bounces@lists.musclecard.com51.3
7rns_course@yahoo.com27.9
8cyberurchin@gmail.com26.0
9richter@ecos.de25.6
10martin@martinpaljak.net24.1
11mvogt1@gmail.com21.2
12raghavendhra.chowdary@geodesic.com21.0
13deengert@anl.gov19.8
14mikko.hurskainen@notava.com18.8
15gladion89@live.com18.4
16quannguyen@mbm.vn17.4
17marti@juffo.org14.6
18roger.brown@snapper.co.nz14.5
19mstjohns@comcast.net12.5
20s.ferey@wanadoo.fr12.2
21diegobravoestrada@hotmail.com11.9
22sebastien@lorquet.fr11.5
23h0wdyd3wdy@gmail.com11.5
24dani.nicolo@gmail.com11.1
25godfreyhkchung@gmail.com10.1
26mvogt1@googlemail.com9.6
27amiad.salton@gmail.com9.0
28folkert@vanheusden.com8.9
29james@thesouthwells.com8.8
30guilherme.a.welter@gmail.com7.9

Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting):


 Author  bytes
1iulian.roman@gmail.com295863
2rns_course@yahoo.com28619
3cyberurchin@gmail.com26609
4mikko.hurskainen@notava.com19284
5marti@juffo.org14903
6roger.brown@snapper.co.nz14797
7dani.nicolo@gmail.com11336
8mvogt1@gmail.com10862
9raghavendhra.chowdary@geodesic.com10765
10deengert@anl.gov10139
11jmpoure@gooze.eu8908
12muscle-bounces@lists.musclecard.com8760
13guilherme.a.welter@gmail.com8050
14pakorodri@gmail.com7962
15frank@apsu.be6575
16mstjohns@comcast.net6410
17gladion89@live.com6269
18helpcrypto@gmail.com6055
19andreas.schwier@cardcontact.de5889
20h0wdyd3wdy@gmail.com5873
21ludovic.rousseau@gmail.com5830
22Shilpa.Shilpa@shell.com5571
23rivoli.durand@laposte.net5491
24richter@ecos.de5252
25detlef.graef@yahoo.de4831
26fmauraton@insidefr.com4679
27amiad.salton@gmail.com4584
28folkert@vanheusden.com4544
29quannguyen@mbm.vn4460
30goister@gmail.com4290

Table showing the most successful subjects:


 Subject  Msg  Percent
1[Muscle] acsccid 1.0.3 Released125.80 %
2[Muscle] Is there a way to know if a reader is contactless?115.31 %
3[Muscle] CryptoStick (OpenPGP card) fail with USB 3.094.35 %
4[Muscle] Re: WriteUSB() write failed (2/85): -4 No such device73.38 %
5[Muscle] [PATCH] fix deadlock in PCSC-Lite62.90 %
6[opensc-devel] [Muscle] Ubuntu 12.04 smartcard reader install?52.42 %
7[Muscle] pcscd: Misleading error message41.93 %
8[Muscle] Compiling ccid-1.4.5 under Mac OS X Lion41.93 %
9[Muscle] "Reader name too long" + suggested workaround41.93 %
10[Muscle] pcscd is not launched autmatically41.93 %
11[Muscle] MUSCLE mailing list disruption. Now back to normal.41.93 %
12[Muscle] Re: Android Smartcard reader for Smasung Galaxy31.45 %
13[Muscle] Gemalto smartcard31.45 %
14[Muscle] Puzzling limit on number of created threads in PCSC:31.45 %
15[Muscle] ANY possibilities of using google chrome with cac reader?31.45 %
16[Muscle] Problem with PCSC reader from dealextreme31.45 %
17[Muscle] Frequency of polling by PCSCD31.45 %
18[Muscle] Starting pcscd hang when KOBIL KAAN SIM III is connected31.45 %
19[Muscle] Remove of token fails (was: Starting pcscd hang when31.45 %
20[Muscle] How to identify a smartcard reader serial number31.45 %
21[Pcsclite-muscle] Insufficient buffer error message31.45 %
22[Muscle] Gemalto USB Shell Token and OS X 10.720.97 %
23[Muscle] Error loading MuscleCard Applet20.97 %
24[Muscle] Problem encountered on SCardEstablishContext20.97 %
25[Muscle] Hang when using SCardCancel? (Ubuntu 10.04.04)20.97 %
26[Muscle] Submission on pcsc-lite 1.8.2 to backports20.97 %
27[MUSCLE] encryption problems20.97 %
28[Muscle] IfdHandler Lun parameter20.97 %
29[Muscle] IfdHandler Lun parameter

20.97 %
30[Muscle] Any advise running a farm with 77 readers attached20.97 %
other8943.00 %

Most used email clients:


 Mailer  Msg  Percent
1(unknown)13665.70 %
2Mozilla/5.x3717.87 %
3Evolution 3.2.2-1 94.35 %
4Zarafa 7.0.4-3123552.42 %
5Mutt52.42 %
6QUALCOMM Windows Eudora20.97 %
7Evolution 3.2.2-1+b1 20.97 %
8Microsoft Outlook 14.020.97 %
9Apple Mail (2.1257)20.97 %
10Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/)10.48 %
11Evolution 3.4.3 (3.4.3-1.fc17)10.48 %
12Evolution 3.4.3-1 10.48 %
13slrn/0.9.9p1 (FreeBSD)10.48 %
14YahooMailWebService/0.8.123.46010.48 %
15Evolution 3.4.4-1 10.48 %
other10.48 %

Table of maximal quoting:


 Author  Percent
1james@thesouthwells.com74.83 %
2mathieu.renversade@hmn.aphp.fr67.11 %
3fgrieu@gmail.com45.89 %
400cpxxx@gmail.com43.30 %
5dimitris.zenios@gmail.com30.15 %
6godfreyhkchung@gmail.com29.94 %
7martin@martinpaljak.net29.44 %
8h0wdyd3wdy@gmail.com28.88 %
9diegobravoestrada@hotmail.com28.32 %
10xoanteis@gmail.com25.67 %
11anze.stojilkovic@policija.si24.73 %
12Shilpa.Shilpa@shell.com24.36 %
13cyriltan@digisafe.com23.73 %
14gladion89@live.com23.02 %
15s.ferey@wanadoo.fr22.35 %
16s4ms0n0v@gmail.com22.14 %
17opensc@secure-edge.com21.63 %
18mvogt1@googlemail.com20.74 %
19mstjohns@comcast.net20.33 %
20pika1021@gmail.com18.12 %
21raghavendhra.chowdary@geodesic.com17.60 %
22corcordt@me.com16.70 %
23saper@saper.info16.32 %
24jmpoure@gooze.eu16.13 %
25deengert@anl.gov15.02 %
26goister@gmail.com14.77 %
27dani.nicolo@gmail.com14.34 %
28frank.r.peters@gmx.net13.88 %
29muscle-bounces@lists.musclecard.com13.78 %
30andreas.schwier@cardcontact.de13.58 %
average11.06 %

Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day:


msgs3
|		2
|		1
|		0
|		0
|		1
|		1
|		2
|		4
|		19
|		17
|		12
|		15
|		18
|		22
|		18
|		21
|		9
|		13
|		7
|		5
|		9
|		4
|		3
|
hour 01234567891011121314151617181920212223

Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.


Graph showing number of messages written during days of month:


msgs4
|		3
|		8
|		5
|		14
|		8
|		11
|		4
|		8
|		4
|		13
|		7
|		1
|		4
|		0
|		5
|		4
|		12
|		6
|		5
|		6
|		8
|		7
|		8
|		7
|		8
|		4
|		11
|		8
|		6
|		7
|
day 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031

Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.


Graph showing number of messages written during days of week:


msgs21
|		50
|		31
|		48
|		28
|		16
|		12
|

MonTueWedThuFriSatSun

Warning: 1 message(s) not counted.


Maximal quoting:


Author : james@thesouthwells.com
Subject : [Muscle] Fwd: pcscd / firefox / ubuntu on android

Date : Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:09:58 -0400

Quote ratio: 86.35% / 30237 bytes

Longest message:


Author : iulian.roman@gmail.com
Subject : [Pcsclite-muscle] Insufficient buffer error message
Date : Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:02:44 +0100
Size : 296927 bytes

Most successful subject:


Subject : [Muscle] acsccid 1.0.3 Released
No. of msgs: 12
Total size : 105652 bytes

Final summary:


Total number of messages: 207
Total number of different authors: 57
Total number of different subjects: 105
Total size of messages (w/o headers): 1662908 bytes
Average size of a message: 8033 bytes


Input file last updated: Wed Jan 9 14:43:34 2013Generated by MailListStat v1.3