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Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Posted by Michael Heiming on August 3rd, 2003


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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 43 82.8 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 22 43.1 Alan Connor xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
3 16 32.6 Juha Kustaa Siltala jsiltala@cc.helsinki.fi
4 15 26.7 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
5 14 27.0 Jeroen Geilman maybe_someday@NEPadaptr.n
6 14 22.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
7 12 26.5 Vwakes vwakeNOSPAM100@softhome.n
8 11 29.7 Jesse F. Hughes jesse@phiwumbda.org
9 11 20.7 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
10 9 18.0 Lenard lenard@127.0.0.1
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167 329.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
265 posters
650 articles
1485.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
3.8% of the posters
25.7% of the articles
22.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.5 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.6 kbytes / poster

134 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 227 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
50.6% of the posters
34.9% of the articles
32.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
25 58.8 newbie: questions about linux and knoppix
24 58.4 Bottom Posting Considered Harmful
13 34.5 blocking annoying login popup applets
13 25.5 cntrl-alt-f7 on redhat 7.3
13 24.7 FS inconsistency
12 25.9 Linux Library List
12 20.9 Installing Linux on 100 megs or less
11 21.8 Top - Mem: 119212k used
11 21.1 Multiple time zones 1 server?
11 20.6 Problems restoring data from Travan tapes

650 articles on 175 subjects
512 were followups (78.8%)
74 were crossposts (11.4%)

1484.1 kbytes total
headers: 624.2kb 42.1%
quoted text: 257.7kb 17.4%
original text: 573.0kb 38.6%
signatures: 29.1kb 2.0%

Averages:
3.7 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
8.5 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
103 (15.8%) slrn 31 11.7%
81 (12.5%) mozilla 42 15.8%
72 (11.1%) tin 11 4.2%
70 (10.8%) pan 24 9.1%
54 (8.3%) microsoft 33 12.5%
41 (6.3%) gnus 11 4.2%
40 (6.2%) knode 24 9.1%
24 (3.7%) forte 11 4.2%
14 (2.2%) microplanet 1 0.4%
13 (2.0%) nn 6 2.3%

28 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...