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 26.3 Sundial Services info@sundialservices.com
2 10 30.2 Felix Miata UgaddaBkidding.due2UCE@de
3 10 28.8 Norm Dresner ndrez@att.net
4 8 30.4 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
5 8 19.2 Clarence no@No.com
6 8 14.1 /dev/null dev.null@BeginThread.com
7 8 10.4 Davide Bianchi davideyeahsure@onlyforfun
8 6 16.4 HisNameWasRobertPaulson kalis_anon_REMOVE_@hotmai
9 6 14.3 Alexander Clouter alex@digriz.junk-this.org
10 5 19.8 Ben Halicki bhalicki@dodo.com.au
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83 209.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
152 posters
323 articles
768.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.6% of the posters
25.7% of the articles
27.3% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
5.1 kbytes / poster

105 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 186 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
69.1% of the posters
57.6% of the articles
56.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
40 89.5 OT:: Is this political or linguistic?
18 44.5 3 nics in one box
15 30.9 mount fails
13 26.5 Help! Ipsec-tools/Racoon link through NAT .. "ip route" fails
12 33.6 Where is this bootup/log message printed?
11 23.1 Complete idiot needs help setting up sshd
8 28.8 disabling aaaa queries
8 16.8 Help! HELP! Can't "make" ipsec-tools on Red Hat!
7 34.8 Setting up a Linux network storage cluster
7 16.2 Firing up Time Synchronization Between Win XP and RH Linux?

323 articles on 89 subjects
253 were followups (78.3%)
56 were crossposts (17.3%)

767.9 kbytes total
headers: 328.1kb 42.7%
quoted text: 181.8kb 23.7%
original text: 241.6kb 31.5%
signatures: 16.4kb 2.1%

Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
8.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 36 ***
Tuesday 41 ****
Wednesday 71 *******
Thursday 59 *****
Friday 31 ***
Saturday 46 ****
Sunday 37 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
70 (21.7%) mozilla 36 23.7%
52 (16.1%) microsoft 22 14.5%
42 (13.0%) hidden 1 0.7%
28 (8.7%) knode 13 8.6%
27 (8.4%) slrn 10 6.6%
20 (6.2%) pan 13 8.6%
17 (5.3%) tin 6 3.9%
16 (5.0%) forte 9 5.9%
5 (1.5%) nn 2 1.3%
5 (1.5%) g2 3 2.0%

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...