how I can't shut up on the @lettersapp mailing lists

output

# #### email-init
# Caio Chassot....: 18.4%  ==================
# Jonas Wisser....:  6.8%  =======
# Paul Ward.......:  4.7%  =====
# Gavin Eadie.....:  4.0%  ====
# Jesper..........:  3.7%  ====
# Michael Ströck..:  3.6%  ====
# Faisal N Jawdat.:  3.4%  ===
# Mo McRoberts....:  3.3%  ===
# Brent Simmons...:  3.1%  ===
# Joe Hildebrand..:  3.1%  ===

# #### letters-dev
# Caio Chassot......: 29.0%  =============================
# Gus Mueller.......: 12.9%  =============
# Michael Ströck....: 11.8%  ============
# Michael McCracken.: 11.8%  ============
# YC................:  7.5%  ========
# Mo McRoberts......:  6.5%  ======
# brian pink........:  3.2%  ===
# Jim Puls..........:  3.2%  ===
# Duncan Wilcox.....:  3.2%  ===
# Brent Simmons.....:  2.2%  ==

talkatively.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby1.9 -ryaml
# encoding: UTF-8
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

%w[
  http://lists.ranchero.com/pipermail/email-init-ranchero.com/2010-January/author.html
  http://lists.ranchero.com/pipermail/letters-dev-ranchero.com/2010-January/author.html
].each do |url|
  hcount     = (Hpricot(open(url)) / "//body/ul/li/i/").inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h, s| h[s.to_s.strip] += 1; h }
  total      = hcount.values.inject(0, &:+)
  uppercut   = hcount.entries.sort_by(&:last).reverse[0, 10]
  namelen    = uppercut.map(&:first).map(&:length).max
  percentage = uppercut.map { |name, count| [name, (count * 100.0 / total)] }

  puts '#### ' + url[/\/([\w-]+)-ranc/, 1]
  puts percentage.map { |s, f|
    ("%-#{namelen}s : %4.1f%%  " % [s, f] + "=" * f.round).sub(/( +)(?=:)/) { $1.gsub(/ /, ".") } }
  puts
end