Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 49 116.7 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
2 28 57.2 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
3 27 42.2 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
4 17 34.4 Peter =?ISO-8859-15?Q?K Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.
5 15 33.8 Hactar ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.
6 14 28.8 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
7 14 28.6 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
8 13 25.5 Dave Brown dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.ne
9 11 34.0 Peter T. Breuer ptb@it.uc3m.es
10 10 24.4 Keith Keller kkeller-usenet@wombat.san
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198 425.6 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
262 posters
758 articles
1782.8 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.8% of the posters
26.1% of the articles
23.9% of the bytes
Averages:
2.9 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
6.8 kbytes / poster
129 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 213 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
49.2% of the posters
28.1% of the articles
23.7% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
66 169.6 PGPsigs: the Choice of Con Artists
56 151.5 [OT] The PGP Signed Posts Farce
38 94.6 Setting The System Clock [Linux]
34 68.2 Debian, SuSe or RedHat ?
30 89.6 CRT randomly loses power?
30 59.7 How to move/copy linux installation ...
21 44.8 PGP/GPG
17 31.7 bash question
15 26.7 favorite non-standard app
13 28.0 Call Perl Scripts from Other Dir in Linux, Path Messed Up
758 articles on 150 subjects
635 were followups (83.8%)
82 were crossposts (10.8%)
1780.9 kbytes total
headers: 767.8kb 43.1%
quoted text: 301.9kb 17.0%
original text: 664.3kb 37.3%
signatures: 46.9kb 2.6%
Averages:
5.1 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
11.9 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
151 (19.9%) slrn 33 12.6%
99 (13.1%) knode 32 12.2%
92 (12.1%) mozilla 43 16.4%
76 (10.0%) pan 24 9.2%
52 (6.9%) microsoft 24 9.2%
48 (6.3%) gnus 11 4.2%
47 (6.2%) tin 12 4.6%
28 (3.7%) trn 5 1.9%
22 (2.9%) forte 9 3.4%
8 (1.1%) xnews 3 1.1%
29 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...