24. A system for tracking message activity levels in a plurality of electronic discussion forums, comprising: a database storing a series of topics, wherein each of the electronic discussion forums is associated with a topic from the series of topics; a computer implemented message collector for collecting messages from the plurality of electronic discussion forums; and a computer including a message categorizer for computing numerical relevance scores of the messages, wherein at least one numerical relevance score is computed based on the associated topic for a source forum of a collected message and wherein the numerical relevance scores are determined based on a set of rules, the rules having a plurality of conditions defining information relevant to the series of topics and having an associated weighting to indicate the strength a particular condition should have in determining the relevance of the messages with respect to the series of topics; and a computer implemented report generator for generating a report on the associated topic reflecting, at least indirectly, the numerical relevance scores; wherein the at least one numerical relevance score rates the relevance of the collected message to the topic on a numerical scale; wherein at least one of the message collector or the message categorizer is adapted to extract a pseudonym author of the collected message to track a plurality of pseudonyms; wherein at least one of the message collector or the message categorizer is adapted to compute a numerical influence score for the extracted pseudonym author, and wherein the influence score rates the influence of the extracted pseudonym author on a numerical scale, and the report at least indirectly reflects the numerical influence score; and wherein at least one of the message collector and the message categorizer is adapted to compute a numerical buzz score for a topic or group of topics from the series of topics, and the report at least indirectly reflects the numerical buzz score.
26. The system of claim 24 , wherein the at least one numerical relevance score comprises multiple relevance scores corresponding to multiple associated topics, and wherein the highest one of the multiple relevance scores is maintained and the other of the multiple relevance scores are discarded or ignored.