Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 10 24.5 Dances With Crows danceswithcrows@usa.net
2 10 14.4 pk pk@pk.invalid
3 9 37.2 Gunner Asch gunner@NOSPAMlightspeed.n
4 9 23.4 Mark Hobley markhobley@hotpop.donotty
5 8 20.3 Ignoramus10392 ignoramus10392@NOSPAM.103
6 8 15.9 Tom Newton tom@server.invalid
7 6 13.9 A born.to.b.wyld@gmail.com
8 6 8.0 h.stroph me@privacy.net
9 5 13.8 Ignoramus9437 ignoramus9437@NOSPAM.9437
10 5 11.5 John Thompson john@vector.os2.dhs.org
--- -----
76 182.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
136 posters
292 articles
725.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.4% of the posters
26.0% of the articles
25.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / poster

6 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 6 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
4.4% of the posters
2.1% of the articles
2.8% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
34 91.8 How to PREVENT a user from logging in through SSH
28 95.6 For Non-Muslims
14 24.1 This spam is getting ridiculous.
10 35.7 Yikes! Where is my prompt config hiding?
9 21.2 Debian etch has suddenly upgraded to unstable
9 20.3 Linux on AMD 386SXNow
8 27.9 file descriptor xx left open - problem with LVM
8 17.7 Hardy install on a Thumb drive
7 14.8 Ubuntu Hardy and "Printer Sharing" -- securiry question
7 13.5 Best way of copying large folders across a network?

292 articles on 78 subjects
222 were followups (76.0%)
68 were crossposts (23.3%)

725.1 kbytes total
headers: 344.4kb 47.5%
quoted text: 139.0kb 19.2%
original text: 227.2kb 31.3%
signatures: 14.5kb 2.0%

Averages:
3.7 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
9.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 68 ******
Tuesday 57 *****
Wednesday 28 **
Thursday 28 **
Friday 38 ***
Saturday 34 ***
Sunday 38 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
71 (24.3%) g2 47 34.6%
61 (20.9%) slrn 20 14.7%
26 (8.9%) tin 9 6.6%
25 (8.6%) pan 11 8.1%
24 (8.2%) thunderbird 10 7.4%
12 (4.1%) knode 3 2.2%
12 (4.1%) forte 4 2.9%
8 (2.7%) mozilla 6 4.4%
8 (2.7%) gnus 6 4.4%
6 (2.1%) trn 4 2.9%

22 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...

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:05:19 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

| Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

Any chance of adding a stat for frequency of post by registered domain name
extracted from the Message-ID header?

--
|WARNING: Due to extreme spam, I no longer see any articles originating from |
| Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by more readers |
| you will need to find a different place to post on Usenet. |
| Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at ipal.net) |

In comp.os.linux.misc phil-news-nospam@ipal.net:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:05:19 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

> | Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

> Any chance of adding a stat for frequency of post by registered domain name
> extracted from the Message-ID header?

Why not, the question remains where to cut of? Taking the
complete domain a quick check would look like this:

92 mid.individual.net
56 4ax.com
40 giganews.com
34 reader1.news.saunalahti.fi
32 crow202.dyndns.org
29 neptune.markhobley.yi.org
27 treeoflife.3v8l2x.net
25 registered.motzarella.org
22 earthlink.com
17 85.214.90.236

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#bofh excuse 224: Jan 9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded
for .... on /dev/pts/1

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:48 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

| In comp.os.linux.misc phil-news-nospam@ipal.net:
|> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:05:19 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
|
|> | Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
|
|> Any chance of adding a stat for frequency of post by registered domain name
|> extracted from the Message-ID header?
|
| Why not, the question remains where to cut of? Taking the
| complete domain a quick check would look like this:
|
| 92 mid.individual.net
| 56 4ax.com
| 40 giganews.com
| 34 reader1.news.saunalahti.fi
| 32 crow202.dyndns.org
| 29 neptune.markhobley.yi.org
| 27 treeoflife.3v8l2x.net
| 25 registered.motzarella.org
| 22 earthlink.com
| 17 85.214.90.236
|

It would be nice to be able to combine the multitude of servers at places
like googlegroups.com to see just how significant the traffic is from there
as compared to the others. Do your stats filter out spam before counting?
The stats might also assist people looking for a place to post through.

--
|WARNING: Due to extreme spam, I no longer see any articles originating from |
| Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by more readers |
| you will need to find a different place to post on Usenet. |
| Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at ipal.net) |

In comp.os.linux.misc phil-news-nospam@ipal.net:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:48 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

> | In comp.os.linux.misc phil-news-nospam@ipal.net:
> |> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:05:19 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> |
> |> | Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
> |
> |> Any chance of adding a stat for frequency of post by registered domain name
> |> extracted from the Message-ID header?
[..]

> It would be nice to be able to combine the multitude of servers at places
> like googlegroups.com to see just how significant the traffic is from there
> as compared to the others. Do your stats filter out spam before counting?

"Enhanced" cross posting is filtered out, as well as cross
postings to certain groups, though I don't maintain this filter
very often. Have kill filed g2/* through tin, as it would
obviously disorder the stats if I did it via leafnode. ;-)

> The stats might also assist people looking for a place to post through.

Unsure if this would work out?

However, this would leave us with something like this:

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
102 googlegroups.com 15.5%
92 4ax.com 13.9%
46 supernews.com 7.0%
30 individual.net 4.5%
30 glorb.com 4.5%
28 sorbs.net 4.2%
21 rhyolite.com 3.2%
17 rrclark.net 2.6%
17 localhost.localdomain 2.6%
16 ncf.ca 2.4%

I'll leave that for now right like this. The above is from
another group, just used to test, not relevant to colm.

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mail: echo zvpunry@urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 66: bit bucket overflow

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:06:28 +0200 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

| Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):
|
| posts domain
| 102 googlegroups.com 15.5%
| 92 4ax.com 13.9%
| 46 supernews.com 7.0%
| 30 individual.net 4.5%
| 30 glorb.com 4.5%
| 28 sorbs.net 4.2%
| 21 rhyolite.com 3.2%
| 17 rrclark.net 2.6%
| 17 localhost.localdomain 2.6%
| 16 ncf.ca 2.4%
|
| I'll leave that for now right like this. The above is from
| another group, just used to test, not relevant to colm.

I think that's the right concept. Since it is another group, I don't know if
the top score there represents posting popularity or spam volume. Over time
it can be telling.

--
|WARNING: Due to extreme spam, I no longer see any articles originating from |
| Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by more readers |
| you will need to find a different place to post on Usenet. |
| Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at ipal.net) |