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 4 10.6 Joachim Schipper <jDOTschipper@math.uu.nl>
2 4 6.7 Aaron Gray <ang-usenet@gmail.com>
3 4 6.1 Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>
4 4 5.8 pand0ra <pand0ra.usa@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid>
5 4 5.6 Protagoras <protagoras@miworld.net>
6 3 6.1 Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>
7 2 4.1 Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com>
8 2 3.8 John Thompson <john@starfleet.os2.dhs.org>
9 2 1.7 Gass141 <Gass141@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid>
10 1 3.9 Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net>
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30 54.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
25 posters
45 articles
80.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
40.00% of the posters
66.67% of the articles
67.52% of the bytes

Averages:
1.80 articles / poster
1.79 kbytes / article
3.23 kbytes / poster

15 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 26 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
60.00% of the posters
57.78% of the articles
50.65% of the bytes

smallest post was 0.752 kbytes by Gass141 <Gass141@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid>
largest post was 5.191 kbytes by Joachim Schipper <jDOTschipper@math.uu.nl>*

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
13 28.5 FC4 root access via user account
6 10.7 spyware/malware and linux?
4 7.0 Firewall software for Linux?
3 4.9 Setting CPU limits
3 4.9 highly secure live CD distro
2 3.3 chkrootkit wted warning
2 3.0 newbie at GPG (GnuPG)
2 2.4 SSH RSA DSA KEYS
2 1.7 re:mysql and snort
1 3.9 Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)

45 articles on 17 subjects
29 were followups (64.44%)
1 were crossposts (2.22%)

80.8 kbytes total
headers: 40.3kb 49.87%
quoted text: 6.9kb 8.60%
original text: 30.0kb 37.15%
signatures: 1.3kb 1.66%

Averages:
2.65 articles / subjetc
1.79 kbytes / article
4.75 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 2
Tuesday 4
Wednesday 1
Thursday 4
Friday 25 ***
Saturday 6 *
Sunday 3
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
6 (13.33%) slrn 3 12.00%
6 (13.33%) newssync 2 8.00%
5 (11.11%) thunderbird 4 16.00%
5 (11.11%) nn 2 8.00%
5 (11.11%) knode 2 8.00%
4 ( 8.89%) outlook 1 4.00%
4 ( 8.89%) wanadoo 1 4.00%
2 ( 4.44%) g2 2 8.00%
1 ( 2.22%) pan 1 4.00%
1 ( 2.22%) private 1 4.00%

16 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a grain of salt, quantity might not always
denote any quality; people who are not among the top posters also often have
very important and interesting things to say, though they are not listed
here by name.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!