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 32.9 Scott R. Haven not.real@paisleysystems.c
2 9 20.7 Mark Adams mark9117@hotmaildot.com
3 8 24.2 darjus@gmail.com darjus@gmail.com
4 8 18.8 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 8 13.8 chris-usenet@roaima.co. chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk
6 7 18.5 js noone@noone.org
7 6 13.7 Giovanni lsodgf0@home.net.it
8 6 11.2 slackware guy dgbrown1@cox.net
9 6 8.6 Datha datha.krishnabhat@gmail.c
10 5 9.7 Menno Duursma menno@desktop.lan
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77 172.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
95 posters
204 articles
442.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
10.5% of the posters
37.7% of the articles
38.9% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

59 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 102 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
62.1% of the posters
50.0% of the articles
52.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
17 40.3 filtering access via hosts.allow
15 32.4 Squid blocking server hostname?
13 23.6 Using DHCP Client to get a POP server
12 32.2 Very weird nat problem!
7 12.8 How to force dhcpd to ignore MAC address?
7 10.9 A <= ping => B => OK A <= TCP => B => FAILS
7 10.5 I am not able to find the file /etc/networks
6 13.4 W98 serial server -> Linux
6 8.7 Like VNC in windows, Is there any Software available in Linux
5 15.0 autofs NFS mounts and Mandriva 2006.0

204 articles on 69 subjects
153 were followups (75.0%)
20 were crossposts (9.8%)

442.3 kbytes total
headers: 219.0kb 49.5%
quoted text: 84.8kb 19.2%
original text: 130.8kb 29.6%
signatures: 7.7kb 1.8%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
6.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 25 **
Tuesday 23 **
Wednesday 35 ***
Thursday 64 ******
Friday 34 ***
Saturday 12 *
Sunday 11 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
65 (31.9%) g2 33 34.7%
49 (24.0%) mozilla 19 20.0%
19 (9.3%) tin 6 6.3%
19 (9.3%) slrn 8 8.4%
15 (7.4%) knode 8 8.4%
12 (5.9%) microsoft 6 6.3%
9 (4.4%) pan 4 4.2%
5 (2.5%) forte 4 4.2%
2 (1.0%) opera 1 1.1%
2 (1.0%) nn 1 1.1%

14 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...