Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 16 33.2 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
2 14 31.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 13 31.0 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@u
4 13 25.8 John Thompson john@starfleet.os2.dhs.or
5 12 21.8 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
6 11 23.4 Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org
7 10 33.6 Nick Landsberg hukolau@NOSPAM.att.net
8 10 22.0 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
9 10 18.0 Johan Lindquist spam@smilfinken.net
10 9 25.9 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com
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118 265.8 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
298 posters
677 articles
1586.5 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.4% of the posters
17.4% of the articles
16.8% of the bytes
Averages:
2.3 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / poster
144 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 233 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
48.3% of the posters
34.4% of the articles
29.7% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
22 44.1 VMware's use of /tmp
21 46.6 WHAT THE - No caps or '.' in RH 9.0 ?
17 27.5 Configurable Desktop
16 36.4 Win4Lin vs. VMWare (Was: Re: Win4Lin futures)
16 30.7 USB Pen Drives and Linux
16 25.7 Visual Basic Equivalent??
15 29.2 primary vs. extended partions - pros and cons?
15 27.0 cat output to two files?
12 25.0 Java Path and Gnome
11 29.7 backup of disk image to tape but i need some flexiblity when re
677 articles on 190 subjects
531 were followups (78.4%)
87 were crossposts (12.9%)
1584.8 kbytes total
headers: 652.4kb 41.2%
quoted text: 299.9kb 18.9%
original text: 589.3kb 37.2%
signatures: 43.2kb 2.7%
Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
8.3 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
107 (15.8%) slrn 29 9.7%
102 (15.1%) mozilla 47 15.8%
74 (10.9%) pan 34 11.4%
70 (10.3%) knode 31 10.4%
48 (7.1%) microsoft 34 11.4%
32 (4.7%) tin 11 3.7%
31 (4.6%) gnus 15 5.0%
24 (3.5%) forte 11 3.7%
11 (1.6%) sylpheed 4 1.3%
10 (1.5%) trn 2 0.7%
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...
