[Teammetrics-discuss] List archives -- improving an existing metric.

[Sukhbir Singh]

Hi,

I noticed something today, while browsing around DebConf lists and I
thought why didn't we think of this before!

For the list archives metric in which we measure the length of the
message body, we should perhaps add another metric that is:

    The length of the message body up to the point of '--'.

That is, the length of the message body, excluding signatures. I
noticed this today when I saw that most Debian developers have long
signatures. So we should have a metric that measures the length up to
'--' and nothing after it.

Thoughts?