Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 29 73.9 Jim Richardson warlock@eskimo.com
2 29 70.5 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
3 24 47.9 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
4 23 68.7 Noi noi@siam.com
5 20 51.9 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
6 20 44.3 Kirk Strauser kirk@strauser.com
7 20 37.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
8 19 36.8 Chris F.A. Johnson c.fa.johnson@rogers.com
9 17 36.6 LEE Sau Dan danlee@informatik.uni-fre
10 16 45.8 Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org
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217 513.4 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
320 posters
904 articles
2254.6 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.1% of the posters
24.0% of the articles
22.8% of the bytes
Averages:
2.8 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
7.0 kbytes / poster
179 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 289 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
55.9% of the posters
32.0% of the articles
28.8% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
74 196.3 Paying developers to get features faster
64 129.9 Fighting SPAM
35 83.3 Which text editor is better for writing scientific papers?
21 43.2 Accounting program for linux
19 32.1 changing a file's name
18 38.4 Which router For Linux MDK 9.2
17 29.4 Mike releases the "home" command under the GPL
17 28.3 difficulties with linux script
16 42.0 Correctness vs. speed
16 36.7 sorting filenames
904 articles on 181 subjects
770 were followups (85.2%)
107 were crossposts (11.8%)
2252.3 kbytes total
headers: 912.7kb 40.5%
quoted text: 448.4kb 19.9%
original text: 824.8kb 36.6%
signatures: 66.4kb 2.9%
Averages:
5.0 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
12.4 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
123 (13.6%) mozilla 47 14.7%
122 (13.5%) slrn 37 11.6%
103 (11.4%) gnus 19 5.9%
101 (11.2%) pan 28 8.8%
74 (8.2%) knode 37 11.6%
69 (7.6%) tin 15 4.7%
34 (3.8%) microsoft 22 6.9%
31 (3.4%) forte 13 4.1%
29 (3.2%) mr 1 0.3%
19 (2.1%) nn 7 2.2%
30 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...
