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 13 30.0 tom wolfemet@ameritech.net
2 13 27.0 David Efflandt efflandt@xnet.com
3 13 24.9 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
4 9 17.5 ynotssor "ynotssor"
5 7 19.1 ERACC junkmail@eracc.com
6 7 11.3 Joe Dunning joe@blahblah.invalid
7 7 10.7 Buck Turgidson jc_va@hotmail.com
8 6 12.0 Jacob Westenbach westy528@yahoo.com
9 6 11.0 Vitamx vitamx@aol.com
10 6 10.3 Mike Jagdis mjagdis@eris-associates.c
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87 173.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
200 posters
382 articles
767.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.0% of the posters
22.8% of the articles
22.7% of the bytes

Averages:
1.9 articles / poster
2.0 kbytes / article
3.8 kbytes / poster

143 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 203 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
71.5% of the posters
53.1% of the articles
53.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 34.6 Simple name windows linux question
14 26.3 What's the simplest way to copy files between networked PCs?
13 33.4 Anyone - M$ Term Server behind iptables?
12 25.5 win98 and telnet into linux box
10 20.0 Routing
10 14.8 Network Speed
9 14.2 Telnet problems
8 21.8 telnet, ftp and Win98 possible?
8 17.6 guaranteed pingable ip address?
8 15.8 A Linux newbee

382 articles on 130 subjects
275 were followups (72.0%)
25 were crossposts (6.5%)

767.0 kbytes total
headers: 355.1kb 46.3%
quoted text: 162.5kb 21.2%
original text: 229.8kb 30.0%
signatures: 19.7kb 2.6%

Averages:
2.9 articles / subject
2.0 kbytes / article
5.9 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
83 (21.7%) microsoft 37 18.5%
60 (15.7%) slrn 14 7.0%
59 (15.4%) mozilla 31 15.5%
24 (6.3%) knode 19 9.5%
19 (5.0%) pan 12 6.0%
19 (5.0%) forte 14 7.0%
12 (3.1%) tin 7 3.5%
7 (1.8%) m$ 0 0.0%
7 (1.8%) gnus 3 1.5%
6 (1.6%) xnews 3 1.5%

21 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...