Valdis Kletnieks wrote, in part:

> At the moment, we have 4,888 lists on our Listserv.  The breakdown by
> length of names is:
>
> % find . -name '*.list' | awk '{printf length($0) -5 "\n"}' | sort -n | uniq -c


Buglet?  At least on my linux machine, the find returns names of the form...

    ./listname.list

so the "-5" should be "-7".

Interestingly, the mean, media and mode of my 229 lists is one and the
same number: 8.

cheers, wayne