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 35 85.7 Cameron Kerr cameron.kerr@paradise.net
2 9 18.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 9 17.1 Antoine EMERIT reply_to_replay@daubededa
4 8 25.9 Clifford Kite kite@see.signature.id
5 7 20.6 P Gentry rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
6 7 18.2 Michael Collard quadfour@iinet.net.au
7 5 14.9 Dariusz =?iso-8859-2?Q? spam_goes_here@takeda.tk
8 5 10.7 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
9 5 10.1 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
10 5 10.1 Mark Voss voss001@yahoo.com.not4spa
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95 231.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
143 posters
316 articles
728.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.0% of the posters
30.1% of the articles
31.8% of the bytes

Averages:
2.2 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.1 kbytes / poster

91 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 149 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
63.6% of the posters
47.2% of the articles
45.8% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 51.7 Linux is impossibly complicated
11 30.8 PPP not exiting
11 22.9 With iptables, why do we need other firewall software
11 22.7 Address already in use error
9 18.4 Cannot reach a RH9
8 18.3 silly question - UTP or STP cables ???
7 16.3 iptables transparent proxy
7 14.4 cool console stuff?
6 14.3 Samba damn slow
5 14.1 Linksys CableDsl Router and DHCP etc.

316 articles on 115 subjects
230 were followups (72.8%)
26 were crossposts (8.2%)

727.7 kbytes total
headers: 298.2kb 41.0%
quoted text: 144.6kb 19.9%
original text: 267.5kb 36.8%
signatures: 17.4kb 2.4%

Averages:
2.7 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
62 (19.6%) microsoft 35 24.5%
58 (18.4%) tin 8 5.6%
30 (9.5%) pan 14 9.8%
24 (7.6%) mozilla 14 9.8%
16 (5.1%) slrn 8 5.6%
14 (4.4%) knode 11 7.7%
12 (3.8%) xnews 3 2.1%
12 (3.8%) forte 5 3.5%
9 (2.8%) 40tude_dialog 2 1.4%
8 (2.5%) gnus 4 2.8%

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...