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 35 117.7 Ohmster <notareal@emailaddress.com>
2 13 44.5 Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>
3 10 24.8 Bev A. Kupf <bevakupf@myhome.net>
4 6 21.0 Barton L. Phillips <bartonphillips@sbcglobal.net>
5 6 17.2 prg <rdgentry1@cablelynx.com>
6 6 12.9 Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>
7 6 8.5 m <sq8ijk@poczta.onet.pl>
8 5 10.5 Rincewind <rinso@unseen.edu>
9 4 10.4 Robert Glueck <rglk@web.de>
10 4 8.0 Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>
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95 275.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
52 posters
148 articles
397.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.23% of the posters
64.19% of the articles
69.37% of the bytes

Averages:
2.85 articles / poster
2.68 kbytes / article
7.64 kbytes / poster

24 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 35 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
46.15% of the posters
23.65% of the articles
17.76% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
32 114.9 sendmail compromised - Somebody help me!
19 46.1 How do you use md5sum?
18 42.7 apache compromised to send spam, need way to check file
16 45.2 Security Experts, help, what is this (bad stuff)?
12 46.2 Still after the apache spammer, more info
7 11.1 cryptoloop and ds-crypt
6 16.3 Firewall hits passing through a NAT router - How does th
6 12.2 Was I hacked?
6 11.7 services behind NAT and firewall
3 6.1 Safe Usenet (was Re: How do you use md5sum?)

148 articles on 24 subjects
128 were followups (86.49%)
2 were crossposts (1.35%)

397.3 kbytes total
headers: 171.9kb 43.28%
quoted text: 65.4kb 16.47%
original text: 145.9kb 36.72%
signatures: 4.9kb 1.23%

Averages:
6.17 articles / subjetc
2.68 kbytes / article
16.55 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 32 ***
Tuesday 24 **
Wednesday 16 **
Thursday 17 **
Friday 16 **
Saturday 29 ***
Sunday 14 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
43 (29.05%) xnews 6 11.54%
26 (17.57%) thunderbird 9 17.31%
19 (12.84%) slrn 8 15.38%
16 (10.81%) pan 7 13.46%
13 ( 8.78%) unknown 1 1.92%
12 ( 8.11%) g2 7 13.46%
6 ( 4.05%) nn 1 1.92%
5 ( 3.38%) knode 5 9.62%
3 ( 2.03%) tin 2 3.85%
1 ( 0.68%) outlook 1 1.92%

14 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!