Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 33 57.0 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
2 27 65.3 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
3 17 73.5 Gerhard W. Gruber sparhawk@gmx.at
4 17 58.1 Eirik hannibalkannibal@yahoo.no
5 17 43.6 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@u
6 14 28.2 Lloyd Sumpter lsumpter@dccnet.com
7 13 65.7 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com
8 13 28.9 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
9 12 29.6 Doug Laidlaw laidlaws@myaccess.com.au
10 12 24.6 ynotssor "ynotssor"
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175 474.4 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
262 posters
726 articles
1742.9 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.8% of the posters
24.1% of the articles
27.2% of the bytes
Averages:
2.8 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
6.7 kbytes / poster
123 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 224 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
46.9% of the posters
30.9% of the articles
26.2% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
32 58.8 OT: The real SCO Conspiracy?
29 55.4 X-windows for Dummies
24 44.5 Byte data interchangability between endian machines
23 103.8 486 and Linux
22 52.5 Anti-spam measures.
16 27.8 Can linux be ghosted
14 37.2 Shell script problem
13 36.4 Password only in ncftp bookmarks and encrypted
13 31.0 Internet Connection
13 28.9 Best way to share printer/Scanner with Win98?
726 articles on 169 subjects
600 were followups (82.6%)
107 were crossposts (14.7%)
1741.4 kbytes total
headers: 708.8kb 40.7%
quoted text: 297.4kb 17.1%
original text: 684.0kb 39.3%
signatures: 51.2kb 2.9%
Averages:
4.3 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
10.3 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
113 (15.6%) slrn 34 13.0%
93 (12.8%) microsoft 31 11.8%
81 (11.2%) pan 27 10.3%
69 (9.5%) mozilla 32 12.2%
56 (7.7%) knode 29 11.1%
40 (5.5%) sylpheed 4 1.5%
40 (5.5%) gnus 10 3.8%
32 (4.4%) forte 5 1.9%
28 (3.9%) tin 13 5.0%
19 (2.6%) trn 7 2.7%
32 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...
