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 30 54.8 Cameron Kerr cameron.kerr@paradise.net
2 9 29.1 P Gentry rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
3 9 21.5 Clifford Kite kite@see.signature.id
4 7 14.8 Bob Hauck postmaster@localhost.loca
5 7 13.7 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
6 6 15.8 Phisherman nobody@noone.com
7 6 12.3 Owen Jacobson angstrom@lionsanctuary.ne
8 5 20.6 Karthikesh Raju karthik@james.hut.fi
9 5 15.9 Joachim =?iso-8859-1?q? jm-news@profine.net
10 5 14.3 Chris Carlen crcarle@BOGUS.sandia.gov
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89 212.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
185 posters
378 articles
812.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.4% of the posters
23.5% of the articles
26.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.4 kbytes / poster

107 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 158 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
57.8% of the posters
41.8% of the articles
40.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
16 41.6 Linux has a long way to go before it becomes the major OS
11 26.9 wvdial won't dial, Kermit dials, Please help
10 23.5 cannot connect to http server
10 18.2 How secure is VNC?
10 17.3 tcp wrapper vs xinetd
10 16.1 Home Email server
9 35.0 wlan set - problems
8 19.4 Real-Time UDP non-blocking sockets in Linux
8 16.1 Trouble with Postfix
7 20.1 FTP hell: Active/Passive/EPSV not understood

378 articles on 138 subjects
269 were followups (71.2%)
30 were crossposts (7.9%)

811.9 kbytes total
headers: 375.1kb 46.2%
quoted text: 151.2kb 18.6%
original text: 267.7kb 33.0%
signatures: 17.9kb 2.2%

Averages:
2.7 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
5.9 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
57 (15.1%) microsoft 34 18.4%
56 (14.8%) tin 12 6.5%
38 (10.1%) mozilla 22 11.9%
33 (8.7%) slrn 14 7.6%
29 (7.7%) knode 15 8.1%
27 (7.1%) pan 12 6.5%
22 (5.8%) forte 13 7.0%
13 (3.4%) gnus 6 3.2%
8 (2.1%) opera7.23 4 2.2%
7 (1.9%) nn 1 0.5%

19 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...