Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 54 92.6 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 30 69.5 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
3 23 38.0 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
4 21 47.7 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
5 20 49.4 Andy Baxter news3@earthsong.null.free
6 20 40.5 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 16 31.2 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
8 15 37.3 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@u
9 11 26.8 Jean-David Beyer j@d.b
10 11 21.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
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221 453.9 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
298 posters
818 articles
1832.6 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.4% of the posters
27.0% of the articles
24.8% of the bytes
Averages:
2.7 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
6.1 kbytes / poster
141 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 237 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
47.3% of the posters
29.0% of the articles
24.3% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
30 66.9 seek within a large file
29 67.5 bash question
22 39.7 chicken and egg
21 49.4 dd and mac floppies
20 45.6 First Linux, then WinXp, is it possible on the same disk
19 32.7 Buying new mobo/CPU
18 48.0 Choosing Linux Package? Advice Please.
18 31.9 lilo with /dev/hdc and /dev/sda
17 44.1 how to read postscript files in linux?
16 30.0 fortune for RHL (was Re: quote of the day in Linux)
818 articles on 171 subjects
688 were followups (84.1%)
109 were crossposts (13.3%)
1830.8 kbytes total
headers: 792.3kb 43.3%
quoted text: 324.0kb 17.7%
original text: 659.9kb 36.0%
signatures: 54.7kb 3.0%
Averages:
4.8 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
10.7 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
139 (17.0%) knode 34 11.4%
116 (14.2%) slrn 38 12.8%
106 (13.0%) pan 35 11.7%
104 (12.7%) mozilla 47 15.8%
54 (6.6%) microsoft 23 7.7%
50 (6.1%) tin 17 5.7%
42 (5.1%) gnus 15 5.0%
24 (2.9%) forte 12 4.0%
13 (1.6%) trn 3 1.0%
11 (1.3%) nn 5 1.7%
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...
