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 20 46.8 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
2 19 46.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 18 24.3 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
4 13 20.2 Laurenz Albe albe@culturallNOSPAM.com
5 11 26.7 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
6 10 20.0 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
7 10 15.2 jose_luis_fdez_diaz_new jose_luis_fdez_diaz_news@
8 9 21.4 Bill Chapman nowhere@nospam.net
9 9 17.3 Mike Mol mikemol@gmail.com
10 9 16.1 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
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128 254.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
184 posters
473 articles
1177.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.4% of the posters
27.1% of the articles
21.6% of the bytes

Averages:
2.6 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
6.4 kbytes / poster

92 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 139 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
50.0% of the posters
29.4% of the articles
25.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 41.2 Modem Problem.
19 35.7 LineEndings.c
16 41.9 Why are printers such a hassle?
16 29.3 Hardware Noise Under Linux But Not XP
15 54.2 Netmasks for dummies
13 31.0 Extreme Slowdown
12 24.2 Sco claim is Invalid.
12 21.0 Utility for finding absolute path of file?
11 18.0 Problems installing Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4.0) Client on Linux Fedor
10 21.3 Security Cams

473 articles on 120 subjects
378 were followups (79.9%)
42 were crossposts (8.9%)

1176.4 kbytes total
headers: 458.3kb 39.0%
quoted text: 188.9kb 16.1%
original text: 499.4kb 42.5%
signatures: 29.8kb 2.5%

Averages:
3.9 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
9.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 76 *******
Tuesday 115 ***********
Wednesday 74 *******
Thursday 62 ******
Friday 62 ******
Saturday 54 *****
Sunday 30 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
70 (14.8%) slrn 17 9.2%
67 (14.2%) g2 28 15.2%
65 (13.7%) mozilla 33 17.9%
56 (11.8%) tin 9 4.9%
38 (8.0%) knode 18 9.8%
28 (5.9%) pan 15 8.2%
26 (5.5%) microsoft 16 8.7%
25 (5.3%) gnus 10 5.4%
12 (2.5%) sylpheed 3 1.6%
9 (1.9%) nn 1 0.5%

28 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...