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 8 30.1 Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
2 5 16.0 Barton L. Phillips <bartonphillips@sbcglobal.net>
3 4 13.5 Robert Glueck <rglk@web.de>
4 4 10.7 Rowdy Yates <rowdy_yates@upyours.com>
5 4 7.5 azuredu <xiao@unice.fr>
6 3 13.3 Mike <honey@michaelmoyse.co.uk>
7 3 9.6 Darko Gavrilovic <darkogAThushmailDOTcom>
8 3 4.5 Solbu <solbu@ugyldig.start.no>
9 3 4.3 Alan <a__l__a__n@hotmail.com>
10 3 4.0 muxaul@lenta.ru <muxaul@lenta.ru>
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40 113.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
63 posters
109 articles
256.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
15.87% of the posters
36.70% of the articles
44.19% of the bytes

Averages:
1.73 articles / poster
2.35 kbytes / article
4.07 kbytes / poster

34 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 47 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
53.97% of the posters
43.12% of the articles
34.22% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
15 46.6 Linux Firewall Suggestion
11 33.5 Security Experts, help, what is this (bad stuff)?
9 17.9 Is there a trojan in the Linux kernel?
7 19.2 Anybody interested in building an absolutely secure linu
7 14.2 ssh: Repeated breakin attempts
7 11.0 Please ignore - testing my usenet provider
5 24.4 Debian's policy regarding security updates
5 9.6 Monitoring make
5 9.2 IPTABLES & APACHE
4 7.6 VPN Client behind linux firewall

109 articles on 27 subjects
91 were followups (83.49%)
17 were crossposts (15.60%)

256.6 kbytes total
headers: 111.0kb 43.24%
quoted text: 37.2kb 14.50%
original text: 97.8kb 38.12%
signatures: 4.0kb 1.56%

Averages:
4.04 articles / subjetc
2.35 kbytes / article
9.50 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 21 **
Tuesday 19 **
Wednesday 14 *
Thursday 13 *
Friday 10 *
Saturday 18 **
Sunday 14 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
23 (21.10%) thunderbird 12 19.05%
21 (19.27%) g2 12 19.05%
12 (11.01%) xnews 5 7.94%
10 ( 9.17%) tin 2 3.17%
8 ( 7.34%) knode 6 9.52%
6 ( 5.50%) pan 5 7.94%
5 ( 4.59%) slrn 4 6.35%
5 ( 4.59%) forte 3 4.76%
3 ( 2.75%) gnus 2 3.17%
3 ( 2.75%) mozilla 2 3.17%

20 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!