Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
1 15 31.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
2 15 30.9 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
3 13 37.3 Nick Landsberg hukolau@NOSPAM.att.net
4 13 23.3 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
5 11 19.4 Chris F.A. Johnson c.fa.johnson@rogers.com
6 9 24.3 Steve stevesusenet@yahoo.com
7 9 19.9 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@u
8 9 19.0 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
9 9 17.3 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
10 8 24.5 Milica Medved positively_no_spam@yahoo.
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111 247.5 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
277 posters
649 articles
1486.9 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.6% of the posters
17.1% of the articles
16.6% of the bytes
Averages:
2.3 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.4 kbytes / poster
133 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 247 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
48.0% of the posters
38.1% of the articles
32.7% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
25 51.8 Mandrake v. Radhat
21 59.6 make Makefile
17 43.0 vi .swp recovery file corrupted: "unable to read block 1...", o
16 35.6 lilo's absurd documentation.
13 30.6 Personal information handling in linux?
13 18.6 any simple stats programs via shareware for linux
12 36.5 need bash mail syntax help
11 18.8 Total newbie question
11 15.1 user editable hosts file
10 24.7 Question about variables in a makefile
649 articles on 167 subjects
511 were followups (78.7%)
68 were crossposts (10.5%)
1485.6 kbytes total
headers: 626.4kb 42.2%
quoted text: 252.2kb 17.0%
original text: 569.7kb 38.3%
signatures: 37.3kb 2.5%
Averages:
3.9 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
8.9 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
124 (19.1%) mozilla 50 18.1%
88 (13.6%) slrn 31 11.2%
79 (12.2%) knode 41 14.8%
74 (11.4%) pan 29 10.5%
48 (7.4%) microsoft 27 9.7%
42 (6.5%) tin 11 4.0%
29 (4.5%) gnus 13 4.7%
14 (2.2%) nn 3 1.1%
14 (2.2%) forte 9 3.2%
6 (0.9%) trn 2 0.7%
27 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...
