100,000 messages celebration?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <mailman.997468581.20816.python-list at python.org>, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Just van Rossum]
>> What he says. Here's a nice-looking graph, though:
>>
>>   http://starship.python.net/~just/comp.lang.python/
> 
> [Grant Edwards]
>> Is the Y axis a cumulative total, or messages per unit time.
> 
> If it were cumulative, how would you account for it going down some months?

Doh!

> Aha!  Broken integer division <wink>.

If some messages actually contain a negative amount of content,
in a particularly bad month, the total could drop?

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