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 8 26.9 David Brown david.brown@hesbynett.rem
2 7 25.7 Norbert Kolvenbach noko4711@t-online.de
3 6 11.1 Mark Hobley markhobley@hotpop.deletet
4 6 8.6 ray ray@zianet.com
5 5 14.2 Sir Jackery roehrig@cs.ucdavis.edu
6 5 10.9 bastian bastian4de@postdienst.net
7 5 9.6 Rick Jones rick.jones2@hp.com
8 4 13.8 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
9 4 11.8 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
10 4 10.2 Ian Northeast ian@house-from-hell.demon
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54 142.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
93 posters
172 articles
441.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
10.8% of the posters
31.4% of the articles
32.4% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.6 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

55 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 74 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.1% of the posters
43.0% of the articles
41.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
17 50.0 OS fingerprinting and traffic shaping with iptables?
11 43.4 How to resolve names
11 23.7 nfs client does not find nfs server
9 14.0 Howto determine if a system is using DHCP or STATIC IP
8 21.6 How to looparound and not loopback?
6 14.2 How to transfer data remotely to PCs in LAN via SFTP?
6 13.0 What did aptitude fail to do when it installed telnetd?
5 10.5 WiFi won't link
5 8.1 looking fo linux administrator job
4 30.4 Why does pppd (pppoe) go to 95% to 100% of CPU?

172 articles on 55 subjects
133 were followups (77.3%)
6 were crossposts (3.5%)

441.1 kbytes total
headers: 190.3kb 43.1%
quoted text: 118.4kb 26.8%
original text: 126.7kb 28.7%
signatures: 5.8kb 1.3%

Averages:
3.1 articles / subject
2.6 kbytes / article
8.0 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 38 ***
Tuesday 34 ***
Wednesday 22 **
Thursday 17 *
Friday 24 **
Saturday 19 *
Sunday 18 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
49 (28.5%) g2 31 33.3%
32 (18.6%) thunderbird 20 21.5%
18 (10.5%) pan 7 7.5%
15 (8.7%) tin 5 5.4%
13 (7.6%) slrn 7 7.5%
12 (7.0%) knode 3 3.2%
9 (5.2%) microsoft 6 6.5%
5 (2.9%) gnus 4 4.3%
4 (2.3%) nn 1 1.1%
2 (1.2%) mozilla 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...