Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 51 123.5 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
2 25 43.3 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
3 19 46.5 Andy Baxter news3@earthsong.null.free
4 18 28.4 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
5 17 50.7 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
6 14 31.4 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
7 13 36.2 Peter T. Breuer ptb@it.uc3m.es
8 13 35.3 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
9 13 27.0 Dave Brown dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.ne
10 11 22.3 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
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194 444.6 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
225 posters
667 articles
1607.3 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
4.4% of the posters
29.1% of the articles
27.7% of the bytes
Averages:
3.0 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
7.1 kbytes / poster
101 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 156 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
44.9% of the posters
23.4% of the articles
19.7% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
84 223.4 [OT] The PGP Signed Posts Farce
59 123.4 minimal /dev devices
25 59.3 chicken and egg
18 36.5 Setting The System Clock [Linux]
18 36.4 Why Other Linux do not have Auto-Configure as Knoppix?
16 37.4 PGP/GPG
16 36.6 XON/XOFF communication problem
15 29.2 filesystem reliability
14 42.5 MSN Zone on Linux?
13 28.7 Building a Smart Home
667 articles on 121 subjects
577 were followups (86.5%)
53 were crossposts (7.9%)
1605.6 kbytes total
headers: 674.1kb 42.0%
quoted text: 307.4kb 19.1%
original text: 581.8kb 36.2%
signatures: 42.4kb 2.6%
Averages:
5.5 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
13.3 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
128 (19.2%) slrn 23 10.2%
87 (13.0%) pan 26 11.6%
81 (12.1%) knode 22 9.8%
64 (9.6%) tin 13 5.8%
61 (9.1%) mozilla 26 11.6%
60 (9.0%) microsoft 28 12.4%
41 (6.1%) gnus 13 5.8%
17 (2.5%) forte 7 3.1%
14 (2.1%) trn 5 2.2%
9 (1.3%) xnews 4 1.8%
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...
