Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 97 357.5 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 74 192.0 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
3 69 183.3 Alan Connor alanconnor@earthlink.net
4 55 100.2 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
5 27 98.0 Rod Smith rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks
6 24 68.4 Alan Connor address@web.site
7 23 55.4 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
8 18 36.1 Tobias Brox tobias@stud.cs.uit.no
9 18 32.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
10 17 36.1 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
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422 1159.1 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
321 posters
1187 articles
2959.0 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.1% of the posters
35.6% of the articles
39.2% of the bytes
Averages:
3.7 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
9.2 kbytes / poster
176 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 443 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
54.8% of the posters
37.3% of the articles
37.9% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
275 922.6 Why can't ISPs stop spam/virus ?!
52 114.4 The SpamSite: A Proposal
46 98.5 How to make a script run every 10 minutes?
40 86.5 Is it just me that is being picked on?
35 83.2 I am getting hammered by the MS Security Patch Spam.
29 65.4 linux in local partition??
27 60.1 Automated FTP file check/retrieval.
24 43.1 How do I find files with certain text?
21 47.7 Filtering SPAM with Fetchmail
18 38.2 why no undelete?
1187 articles on 192 subjects
1034 were followups (87.1%)
74 were crossposts (6.2%)
2955.3 kbytes total
headers: 1235.1kb 41.8%
quoted text: 664.6kb 22.5%
original text: 947.6kb 32.1%
signatures: 107.9kb 3.7%
Averages:
6.2 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
15.4 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
224 (18.9%) knode 36 11.2%
222 (18.7%) slrn 44 13.7%
141 (11.9%) pan 34 10.6%
131 (11.0%) mozilla 52 16.2%
92 (7.8%) tin 18 5.6%
60 (5.1%) microsoft 31 9.7%
45 (3.8%) gnus 12 3.7%
28 (2.4%) knews 3 0.9%
23 (1.9%) mr 1 0.3%
23 (1.9%) forte 13 4.0%
34 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...
