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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 20 54.8 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
2 17 30.7 Michael Mol mikemol@gmail.com
3 16 48.3 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
4 11 18.8 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
5 10 21.2 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
6 9 21.8 Dan Espen daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcor
7 7 22.9 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
8 7 17.4 Killi killixxxxxxx@hooya.com
9 7 14.7 Bob Martin bob.martin@excite.com
10 7 13.2 ray ray@zianet.com
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111 263.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
151 posters
409 articles
951.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.6% of the posters
27.1% of the articles
27.7% of the bytes

Averages:
2.7 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / poster

74 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 127 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
49.0% of the posters
31.1% of the articles
29.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
28 66.6 Manualinux 6.2 is out
20 49.5 CUPS+PDF Letterhead?
20 39.9 Partimage backup / restore problem
16 40.0 How to determine incoming, good or bad?
15 47.8 Problem setting up dialup connection in Red Hat 7.2
14 41.8 Multibooting Fedora and Ubuntu with Windows XP
14 26.7 Install linux directly through a internet connection?
13 28.5 Linux Replaces ProTools.
13 25.5 Need Good Source re Daylight Savings Time Modification
12 19.4 problems installing kernel 2.6.20

409 articles on 81 subjects
346 were followups (84.6%)
27 were crossposts (6.6%)

947.6 kbytes total
headers: 448.7kb 47.3%
quoted text: 228.6kb 24.1%
original text: 246.9kb 26.1%
signatures: 23.5kb 2.5%

Averages:
5.0 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
11.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 61 ******
Tuesday 57 *****
Wednesday 69 ******
Thursday 62 ******
Friday 60 ******
Saturday 55 *****
Sunday 45 ****
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
80 (19.6%) g2 45 29.8%
70 (17.1%) slrn 17 11.3%
40 (9.8%) thunderbird 12 7.9%
40 (9.8%) pan 14 9.3%
32 (7.8%) mozilla 10 6.6%
24 (5.9%) knode 10 6.6%
18 (4.4%) microsoft 10 6.6%
18 (4.4%) gnus 4 2.6%
16 (3.9%) tin 6 4.0%
14 (3.4%) icedove 2 1.3%

20 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...