Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 39 82.2 Mxsmanic mxsmanic@hotmail.com
2 28 45.8 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
3 26 58.3 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
4 24 49.6 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
5 24 48.2 Peter =?ISO-8859-15?Q?K Peter.Koehlmann@t-online.
6 24 45.5 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
7 23 51.3 Kingbarry2000 kingbarrypublic@hotmail.c
8 23 44.8 David Douthitt ssrat@mailbag.com
9 21 60.1 Jason Dont@Mail.ME
10 21 44.9 Randy Myers rm@whoknows.org
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253 530.5 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
311 posters
969 articles
2174.9 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.2% of the posters
26.1% of the articles
24.4% of the bytes
Averages:
3.1 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
7.0 kbytes / poster
166 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 395 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
53.4% of the posters
40.8% of the articles
37.5% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
179 412.1 FAQ: Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines
40 97.1 Migrating from RedHat to Debian
37 79.9 PGP protection
34 61.6 favorite non-standard app
28 54.0 Red Hat Linux discontinuing ?
23 49.4 Is Redhat shooting themselves in the foot?
23 42.3 Are sysadmins going to jump the RH ship?
20 40.7 benefits of using linux??
18 32.9 regular expressions
18 30.2 Suse 8.2 Won't Recognize CD Burner
969 articles on 164 subjects
839 were followups (86.6%)
275 were crossposts (28.4%)
2172.6 kbytes total
headers: 1052.3kb 48.4%
quoted text: 391.2kb 18.0%
original text: 672.2kb 30.9%
signatures: 56.9kb 2.6%
Averages:
5.9 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
13.2 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
144 (14.9%) slrn 54 17.4%
137 (14.1%) mozilla 48 15.4%
126 (13.0%) microsoft 33 10.6%
101 (10.4%) knode 32 10.3%
94 (9.7%) tin 14 4.5%
92 (9.5%) pan 31 10.0%
72 (7.4%) forte 9 2.9%
22 (2.3%) gnus 14 4.5%
14 (1.4%) sylpheed 3 1.0%
10 (1.0%) trn 2 0.6%
33 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...
