Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 93 274.8 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 40 83.8 Ken Loomis kloomis@notarealaddress.c
3 30 69.5 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
4 23 49.7 Alan Connor xxxxxx@xxxx.xxx
5 22 47.2 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
6 19 37.3 Dave Brown dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.ne
7 18 61.3 Joerg Schilling js@cs.tu-berlin.de
8 14 29.2 John Winters newstmp@linuxemporium.co.
9 10 23.5 Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org
10 9 21.8 Scott M. Navarre smn@asus.net
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278 698.2 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
287 posters
841 articles
1991.7 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.5% of the posters
33.1% of the articles
35.1% of the bytes
Averages:
2.9 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
6.9 kbytes / poster
142 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 269 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
49.5% of the posters
32.0% of the articles
26.8% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
88 195.4 Help w/ Not-booting Problem
63 228.6 tar -cvfX save.tar foo ./dirtosave/..
44 75.8 Poor people's OS?
30 88.6 Software submission for Linux distributions
24 48.9 The Hacker's Blocked-Senders List
22 51.4 Procmail vs SPAM
20 40.2 scsi dat drive help
17 39.3 Will Linux be ready too late? The Knoppix-Debian adventure.
15 38.3 Linux Replacing Windows on the Desktop, I Think Not! (was Re: S
15 23.9 Linux slideshow with better scaling ?
841 articles on 169 subjects
722 were followups (85.9%)
109 were crossposts (13.0%)
1990.0 kbytes total
headers: 855.0kb 43.0%
quoted text: 404.9kb 20.3%
original text: 685.0kb 34.4%
signatures: 45.1kb 2.3%
Averages:
5.0 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
11.8 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
133 (15.8%) tin 15 5.2%
106 (12.6%) slrn 33 11.5%
89 (10.6%) pan 35 12.2%
86 (10.2%) mozilla 48 16.7%
66 (7.8%) knode 34 11.8%
63 (7.5%) microsoft 26 9.1%
58 (6.9%) forte 7 2.4%
22 (2.6%) mr 1 0.3%
22 (2.6%) gnus 11 3.8%
12 (1.4%) trn 4 1.4%
32 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...
