Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 40 80.1 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
2 26 49.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 20 36.3 Kenny McCormack gazelle@yin.interaccess.c
4 17 40.8 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@u
5 16 38.9 Jim Richardson warlock@eskimo.com
6 14 49.0 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 12 29.7 Michael W. Cocke cocke@catherders.com
8 12 24.1 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
9 12 23.6 Kirk Strauser kirk@strauser.com
10 12 17.7 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
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181 389.5 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
255 posters
744 articles
1684.3 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.9% of the posters
24.3% of the articles
23.1% of the bytes
Averages:
2.9 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
6.6 kbytes / poster
128 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 210 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
50.2% of the posters
28.2% of the articles
24.6% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
68 147.8 [OT] Fed Up With The Web!
47 82.6 Linux Text editors.
25 51.6 Fighting SPAM
24 45.1 Which text editor is better for writing scientific papers?
20 37.5 sorting filenames
19 34.6 what's the best newsreader for slackware/vectorlinux?
16 32.0 ISO: Linux app to do Yahoo Instant Messaging?
16 27.0 SCO - corporate schitzophrenia
14 23.4 SCO: Linux users face licence cash call, bbc.co.uk
13 26.3 linux a unix?
744 articles on 153 subjects
624 were followups (83.9%)
49 were crossposts (6.6%)
1682.7 kbytes total
headers: 734.7kb 43.7%
quoted text: 294.9kb 17.5%
original text: 605.7kb 36.0%
signatures: 47.5kb 2.8%
Averages:
4.9 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
11.0 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
136 (18.3%) slrn 22 8.6%
80 (10.8%) pan 24 9.4%
75 (10.1%) mozilla 35 13.7%
73 (9.8%) knode 33 12.9%
70 (9.4%) gnus 19 7.5%
53 (7.1%) tin 7 2.7%
51 (6.9%) microsoft 24 9.4%
24 (3.2%) forte 11 4.3%
9 (1.2%) yarn 1 0.4%
9 (1.2%) vsoup 1 0.4%
31 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...
