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Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Posted by Michael Heiming on July 6th, 2003


Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 43 90.1 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 35 66.0 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
3 19 49.8 Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org
4 18 37.8 morden morden@shadows.net
5 15 35.3 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
6 13 25.5 Vwakes vwakeNOSPAM100@softhome.n
7 11 25.8 Dances With Crows danceswithcrows@usa.net
8 10 30.3 Roodwriter@core.com Roodwriter@core.com
9 10 19.2 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
10 9 18.7 Jim Kroger jimkkREMOVEME@umich.edu
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183 398.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
239 posters
646 articles
1318.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
4.2% of the posters
28.3% of the articles
30.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.7 articles / poster
2.0 kbytes / article
5.5 kbytes / poster

117 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 186 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
49.0% of the posters
28.8% of the articles
28.7% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
57 121.0 Linux and spyware?
30 47.3 /bin/bash
25 55.6 How has SuSE coopted Linux?
25 54.1 Encrypted file system for linux like CFS?
20 42.8 G5 dual vs Xeon dual speed: Where WILL I be able to find trustw
20 39.1 Server Automatic Restart
16 47.3 wu-ftpd problem with time in the logs
16 31.6 Toshiba Satellite Pro 420 CDT, hard drive problem
12 28.2 tar terminates unexpectedly when piped to dd ?
11 29.7 DVD-R that plays fine in Windoze won't even mount under Linux

646 articles on 138 subjects
540 were followups (83.6%)
88 were crossposts (13.6%)

1316.6 kbytes total
headers: 626.6kb 47.6%
quoted text: 292.5kb 22.2%
original text: 356.4kb 27.1%
signatures: 41.1kb 3.1%

Averages:
4.7 articles / subject
2.0 kbytes / article
9.5 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
104 (16.1%) mozilla 39 16.3%
90 (13.9%) slrn 32 13.4%
80 (12.4%) knode 23 9.6%
77 (11.9%) tin 14 5.9%
51 (7.9%) pan 17 7.1%
46 (7.1%) microsoft 25 10.5%
30 (4.6%) gnus 12 5.0%
20 (3.1%) forte 12 5.0%
14 (2.2%) mt-newswatcher 5 2.1%
12 (1.9%) pine 1 0.4%

23 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

Have a lot of fun...