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

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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 8 21.7 David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
2 6 9.0 David Shen davidshen84@googlemail.co
3 5 12.7 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
4 5 7.1 Greg Russell me@privacy.net
5 4 6.3 Burkhard Ott news@derith.de
6 4 6.2 Burkhard Ott postmaster@derith.de
7 3 9.8 Dan Stromberg dstromberglists@gmail.com
8 3 9.7 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
9 3 9.0 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com
10 3 8.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
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44 100.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
52 posters
113 articles
244.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.2% of the posters
38.9% of the articles
41.1% of the bytes

Averages:
2.2 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
3.8% of the posters
1.8% of the articles
1.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 32.9 --state NEW for UDP?
16 40.9 Silent data corruption despite TCP
10 20.2 Pros and Cons of using ftp vs. rsync?
9 17.8 DNS not working well on ubuntu8
5 14.7 How to use command line (!) ftp WITH TLS resp SSH encryption?
5 14.0 Slow telnet/pop3 connection
5 10.8 localhost optimization
5 9.2 Linux NFS fsync problems
4 13.7 Basic Samba Question from Newbie
4 11.6 Internet connection on Linux

113 articles on 29 subjects
89 were followups (78.8%)
24 were crossposts (21.2%)

244.3 kbytes total
headers: 126.5kb 51.8%
quoted text: 47.1kb 19.3%
original text: 67.6kb 27.7%
signatures: 3.0kb 1.2%

Averages:
3.9 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
8.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 25 **
Tuesday 8
Wednesday 12 *
Thursday 7
Friday 29 **
Saturday 14 *
Sunday 18 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
29 googlegroups.com 25.7%
9 aioe.org 8.0%
7 eastlink.de 6.2%
5 individual.net 4.4%
4 co.uk 3.5%
3 tagonline.com 2.7%
3 sbc.com 2.7%
3 nerim.net 2.7%
3 megapath.net 2.7%
3 localnet.localnet 2.7%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
29 (25.7%) g2 15 28.8%
19 (16.8%) pan 6 11.5%
11 (9.7%) thunderbird 5 9.6%
9 (8.0%) tin 6 11.5%
8 (7.1%) slrn 5 9.6%
7 (6.2%) mozilla 3 5.8%
5 (4.4%) nn 1 1.9%
3 (2.7%) xrn 1 1.9%
3 (2.7%) trn 2 3.8%
3 (2.7%) tknews 1 1.9%

16 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...