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 11 36.9 kmwkawrt@yahoo.com kmwkawrt@yahoo.com
2 10 21.1 Dances With Crows danceswithcrows@usa.net
3 6 10.6 Bill Marcum marcumbill@bellsouth.net
4 5 14.2 kbkbkbkbk@gmail.com kbkbkbkbk@gmail.com
5 5 9.1 Mark Hobley markhobley@hotpop.donotty
6 5 6.1 Pandaeatsbamboo mr.wong.and.mrs.wong@gmai
7 4 18.8 hugo_hurtig@hotmail.com hugo_hurtig@hotmail.com
8 4 9.2 zhengquan zhang.zhengquan@gmail.com
9 4 8.9 Todd nobody@nowhere.net
10 4 8.3 Ignoramus18547 ignoramus18547@NOSPAM.185
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58 143.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
134 posters
225 articles
520.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.5% of the posters
25.8% of the articles
27.5% of the bytes

Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
3.9 kbytes / poster

2 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 2 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
1.5% of the posters
0.9% of the articles
2.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 32.0 make cron send an email only when my command goes wrong
14 26.3 Linux hits 1.05% on March!
13 24.8 What to backup on a Linux system an what not?
11 22.0 Real mode BIOS call in x86_64 Linux environment
8 18.9 Hardy install on a Thumb drive
6 17.1 Linux stopped reading my 2nd HDD - Help!!
6 8.9 Desktop Effects - cube
5 14.3 Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
5 8.0 formatting fortran code in vi
4 9.2 copy files with sizes smaller than a number

225 articles on 98 subjects
137 were followups (60.9%)
57 were crossposts (25.3%)

520.5 kbytes total
headers: 243.7kb 46.8%
quoted text: 79.9kb 15.4%
original text: 187.5kb 36.0%
signatures: 9.4kb 1.8%

Averages:
2.3 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 28 **
Tuesday 18 *
Wednesday 41 ****
Thursday 26 **
Friday 28 **
Saturday 46 ****
Sunday 38 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
70 googlegroups.com 31.1%
20 greatnowhere.com 8.9%
10 dyndns.org 4.4%
7 giganews.com 3.1%
7 4ax.com 3.1%
6 lark.localnet 2.7%
5 yi.org 2.2%
5 comcast.com 2.2%
4 clara.net 1.8%
4 arcor-online.net 1.8%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
70 (31.1%) g2 53 39.6%
45 (20.0%) slrn 20 14.9%
18 (8.0%) thunderbird 10 7.5%
16 (7.1%) pan 12 9.0%
9 (4.0%) tin 3 2.2%
8 (3.6%) knode 6 4.5%
7 (3.1%) forte 3 2.2%
4 (1.8%) xnews 2 1.5%
4 (1.8%) gnus 3 2.2%
3 (1.3%) mozilla 3 2.2%

18 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

Have lots of fun...