Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 42 71.2 mjt mjtobler@ERASE-THISmail.r
2 32 54.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 23 53.5 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
4 19 42.4 Hactar ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.
5 13 32.2 Noi noi@siam.com
6 11 22.1 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
7 11 19.3 spike1@freenet.co.uk spike1@freenet.co.uk
8 10 24.4 Chris F.A. Johnson c.fa.johnson@rogers.com
9 10 21.6 Dave Brown dhbrown@hobbes.dhbrown.ne
10 10 21.0 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
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181 362.2 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
268 posters
719 articles
1616.5 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.7% of the posters
25.2% of the articles
22.4% of the bytes
Averages:
2.7 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
6.0 kbytes / poster
148 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 263 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
55.2% of the posters
36.6% of the articles
31.5% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
63 130.9 What a day after deleting "libc.so.6"!
33 69.5 Good terminal emulator, editor, for cutting and pasting
21 39.5 DOS equivalent of Unix 'rename'?
20 43.7 linux fail to detect modem
20 35.4 Which version of linux do you all prefer?
18 35.4 floppy formatting
16 36.1 tar'ing a entire system to a file
14 24.4 Does SUID require specific programming ?
13 33.8 Envelope addressing software?
13 17.6 BASH question
719 articles on 172 subjects
582 were followups (80.9%)
68 were crossposts (9.5%)
1614.8 kbytes total
headers: 714.8kb 44.3%
quoted text: 270.7kb 16.8%
original text: 580.8kb 36.0%
signatures: 48.5kb 3.0%
Averages:
4.2 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
9.4 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
107 (14.9%) slrn 25 9.3%
94 (13.1%) mozilla 44 16.4%
77 (10.7%) pan 29 10.8%
60 (8.3%) tin 10 3.7%
56 (7.8%) knode 33 12.3%
50 (7.0%) sylpheed 3 1.1%
50 (7.0%) microsoft 27 10.1%
39 (5.4%) gnus 17 6.3%
34 (4.7%) forte 14 5.2%
21 (2.9%) trn 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...