Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)

Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 9 25.5 Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca>
2 9 23.7 Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>
3 9 16.5 hans_schulze98@yahoo.de <hans_schulze98@yahoo.de>
4 8 33.0 Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>
5 8 25.6 Robert Bravery <robert@db2k.co.za>
6 8 24.3 prg <rdgentry1@cablelynx.com>
7 6 11.9 Julia Thorne <rimbaldi@nospam.tld>
8 4 7.7 Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <jkerouac@bgsec.com>
9 3 6.7 Darko Gavrilovic <dgavrilovicAThushmailDOTcom>
10 3 6.4 noi <noi@siam.com>
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67 181.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
65 posters
138 articles
320.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
15.38% of the posters
48.55% of the articles
56.53% of the bytes

Averages:
2.12 articles / poster
2.33 kbytes / article
4.94 kbytes / poster

43 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 75 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
66.15% of the posters
54.35% of the articles
47.98% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
41 102.6 dangerous to leave root logged in?
21 66.2 allowing only packets from a certain ip address
12 24.3 Repost: Linux is Secure - HAHA, Maybe not!!
9 15.1 enables access to .config
8 15.3 Linux penetration testing
6 17.6 Five Linux Security Myths
5 11.5 DMZ routing issues - HELP PLEASE
5 7.8 Red Hat ES3.0 Security
5 7.2 hooking disk accesses
4 10.3 Need a good tutorial on LDAP replication

138 articles on 21 subjects
121 were followups (87.68%)
12 were crossposts (8.70%)

320.9 kbytes total
headers: 140.2kb 43.69%
quoted text: 50.5kb 15.74%
original text: 115.7kb 36.07%
signatures: 6.1kb 1.90%

Averages:
6.57 articles / subjetc
2.33 kbytes / article
15.28 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 28 ***
Tuesday 25 ***
Wednesday 25 ***
Thursday 13 *
Friday 18 **
Saturday 11 *
Sunday 18 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
23 (16.67%) g2 7 10.77%
18 (13.04%) slrn 13 20.00%
18 (13.04%) unknown 3 4.62%
16 (11.59%) outlook 7 10.77%
13 ( 9.42%) thunderbird 8 12.31%
9 ( 6.52%) nn 1 1.54%
8 ( 5.80%) knode 7 10.77%
8 ( 5.80%) pan 5 7.69%
6 ( 4.35%) 40tude_dialog 1 1.54%
4 ( 2.90%) forte 4 6.15%

17 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!