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 14 38.5 David Efflandt efflandt@xnet.com
2 9 27.0 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
3 8 26.7 Matthew flame@grovemidnightsun.co
4 8 19.1 Neil Horman nhorman@rNeOdShPaMt.com
5 7 18.5 Leon. noemail@noemail.noemail.c
6 6 11.4 Steven Wong gndm_2001@yahoo.com
7 6 9.7 Antoine EMERIT antoine.emerit@online.fr
8 5 10.7 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
9 5 9.0 s root@localhost.localdomai
10 4 25.6 Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com
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72 196.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
177 posters
320 articles
758.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.6% of the posters
22.5% of the articles
25.9% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
4.3 kbytes / poster

115 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 180 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
65.0% of the posters
56.2% of the articles
55.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
15 47.4 RAID 1
13 26.4 newbie: setting NIC speed?
11 22.8 Looking for the terminology.
10 19.6 hangs on starting eth0
8 30.9 smtp problems
7 18.3 Linux router howto - not just NAT
6 14.7 PPPoE switched into the LAN (no dedicated NIC)
6 11.5 ARP Scans
6 11.5 Help with NAT
6 9.1 How to serve atomic time to windows comptuters

320 articles on 117 subjects
224 were followups (70.0%)
40 were crossposts (12.5%)

757.7 kbytes total
headers: 307.3kb 40.6%
quoted text: 208.1kb 27.5%
original text: 230.9kb 30.5%
signatures: 11.4kb 1.5%

Averages:
2.7 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
6.5 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
72 (22.5%) microsoft 43 24.3%
64 (20.0%) mozilla 29 16.4%
31 (9.7%) slrn 11 6.2%
24 (7.5%) pan 18 10.2%
21 (6.6%) knode 12 6.8%
14 (4.4%) xnews 7 4.0%
13 (4.1%) tin 4 2.3%
12 (3.8%) forte 9 5.1%
3 (0.9%) opera7.20 1 0.6%
2 (0.6%) nn 2 1.1%

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 a lot of fun...