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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 23 42.7 Michael DeBusk chinos6398@mypacks.net
2 15 49.9 thecoolone jahan9@gmail.com
3 15 41.9 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
4 15 36.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 14 31.4 Tony Lawrence pcunix@gmail.com
6 14 29.9 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
7 12 32.7 Aragorn stryder@telenet.invalid
8 12 22.5 The87Boy the87boy@gmail.com
9 12 21.5 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
10 11 30.2 Dan Espen daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcor
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143 338.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
154 posters
474 articles
994.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.5% of the posters
30.2% of the articles
34.1% of the bytes

Averages:
3.1 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
6.5 kbytes / poster

61 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 108 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
39.6% of the posters
22.8% of the articles
21.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
45 90.5 File system under Linux
43 109.2 How to set /etc/fstab again after system has started
24 41.0 digital camera raw files
21 44.7 Host key verification failed
17 28.8 auto DNS
15 28.2 Amiga File System under Linux?
13 27.5 can i copy rc3.d to rc5.d?
13 23.9 "behind the scenes"
12 31.1 Why is linux slower than Windows (Firefox)?
12 20.3 Linux

474 articles on 87 subjects
399 were followups (84.2%)
24 were crossposts (5.1%)

993.1 kbytes total
headers: 528.2kb 53.2%
quoted text: 189.0kb 19.0%
original text: 249.7kb 25.1%
signatures: 26.2kb 2.6%

Averages:
5.4 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
11.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 36 ***
Tuesday 56 *****
Wednesday 95 *********
Thursday 83 ********
Friday 67 ******
Saturday 86 ********
Sunday 50 *****
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
112 (23.6%) slrn 20 13.0%
112 (23.6%) g2 53 34.4%
37 (7.8%) gnus 6 3.9%
34 (7.2%) thunderbird 16 10.4%
33 (7.0%) knode 14 9.1%
23 (4.9%) tin 5 3.2%
20 (4.2%) mozilla 4 2.6%
19 (4.0%) pan 8 5.2%
13 (2.7%) microsoft 7 4.5%
12 (2.5%) icedove 1 0.6%

23 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...