Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 40 100.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 28 51.9 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
3 22 38.5 Xyerp Xyerp@hotmail.com
4 18 34.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 17 49.5 Rod Smith rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks
6 17 40.0 Dances With Crows danceswithcrows@usa.net
7 14 38.8 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
8 13 25.4 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
9 12 25.0 V. Turner renrutv@yahoo.com
10 11 14.7 Dave Uhring daveuhring@yahoo.com
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192 418.9 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
268 posters
756 articles
1692.4 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.7% of the posters
25.4% of the articles
24.8% of the bytes
Averages:
2.8 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / poster
131 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 230 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
48.9% of the posters
30.4% of the articles
24.6% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
101 230.2 "Bugbear" virus in Linux?
20 49.5 usb adsl doesn't connect
17 54.2 Server Automatic Restart
16 31.9 How to use a Linux box as an ASCII terminal for an SGI server v
15 24.3 Looking for one GUI program for both email and news
12 40.0 Low Memory Problem
12 21.4 Dual-boot: LILO problem.
12 20.2 How to set the default shell to tcsh; how to set the DISPLAY to
12 18.1 automatic adjusting date/time
11 18.3 Which Redhat version performs the best?
756 articles on 173 subjects
620 were followups (82.0%)
79 were crossposts (10.4%)
1690.1 kbytes total
headers: 709.8kb 42.0%
quoted text: 341.6kb 20.2%
original text: 599.5kb 35.5%
signatures: 39.2kb 2.3%
Averages:
4.4 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
9.8 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
98 (13.0%) slrn 36 13.4%
96 (12.7%) tin 14 5.2%
91 (12.0%) mozilla 38 14.2%
89 (11.8%) knode 27 10.1%
74 (9.8%) pan 32 11.9%
61 (8.1%) microsoft 29 10.8%
31 (4.1%) gnus 13 4.9%
22 (2.9%) forte 11 4.1%
17 (2.2%) knews 2 0.7%
7 (0.9%) pine 1 0.4%
25 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...
