Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 35 82.6 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 27 58.5 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
3 25 55.5 Alan Connor xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
4 21 54.3 Hactar ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.
5 14 39.7 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com
6 14 37.1 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
7 12 22.5 Dave Brown dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.ne
8 11 23.5 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
9 10 14.9 Juha Kustaa Siltala jsiltala@cc.helsinki.fi
10 9 29.1 Tobias Brox tobias@stud.cs.uit.no
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178 417.7 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
302 posters
780 articles
1676.7 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.3% of the posters
22.8% of the articles
24.9% of the bytes
Averages:
2.6 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
5.6 kbytes / poster
166 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 273 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
55.0% of the posters
35.0% of the articles
32.8% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
41 94.7 M$ Virus takes down Grid
29 80.7 Linux Replacing Windows on the Desktop, I Think Not! (was Re: S
27 79.2 How to associate icon with file programmatically
25 75.2 Small database recommendations ?
20 46.5 Mount NTFS drive in Linux
19 42.2 grep problem
16 27.0 M$ proves its inadequacy again
15 39.9 Disk Imaging Solution
14 27.1 graphical rpm utility for RH9
13 34.5 Linux file system is unstable
780 articles on 174 subjects
640 were followups (82.1%)
106 were crossposts (13.6%)
1674.6 kbytes total
headers: 769.6kb 46.0%
quoted text: 362.8kb 21.7%
original text: 504.3kb 30.1%
signatures: 37.8kb 2.3%
Averages:
4.5 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
9.6 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
116 (14.9%) mozilla 50 16.6%
111 (14.2%) slrn 35 11.6%
88 (11.3%) microsoft 46 15.2%
82 (10.5%) pan 25 8.3%
71 (9.1%) knode 31 10.3%
68 (8.7%) tin 11 3.6%
35 (4.5%) gnus 15 5.0%
29 (3.7%) forte 13 4.3%
24 (3.1%) trn 3 1.0%
14 (1.8%) tknews 1 0.3%
31 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...
