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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 17 52.6 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
2 13 32.2 Dan Espen daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcor
3 13 20.1 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
4 11 22.1 CptDondo yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com
5 11 19.5 rh00 rh00667@gmail.com
6 10 28.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
7 10 17.1 Yvan me@privacy.net
8 8 25.2 asesrrc@gmail.com asesrrc@gmail.com
9 8 20.1 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
10 8 19.3 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
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109 256.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
155 posters
403 articles
871.1 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.5% of the posters
27.0% of the articles
29.5% of the bytes

Averages:
2.6 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
5.6 kbytes / poster

86 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 161 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
55.5% of the posters
40.0% of the articles
38.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
29 66.3 Linux Replaces ProTools.
22 41.2 Very good lunux compatible printer?
18 45.0 How to DELETE mail - Was How to stop spam?
17 36.3 Basic VMWare Question
17 34.9 Break Audio file into statements
16 35.3 Software for dual core processors?
14 40.5 HELP!! cannot execute binary file
11 28.3 Speed of USB drives?
11 17.1 how can i send an attached file from command line?
10 18.3 bash script problem

403 articles on 80 subjects
333 were followups (82.6%)
39 were crossposts (9.7%)

869.2 kbytes total
headers: 436.9kb 50.3%
quoted text: 186.5kb 21.5%
original text: 220.1kb 25.3%
signatures: 25.7kb 3.0%

Averages:
5.0 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
10.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 60 ******
Tuesday 56 *****
Wednesday 54 *****
Thursday 67 ******
Friday 87 ********
Saturday 38 ***
Sunday 41 ****
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
89 (22.1%) slrn 26 16.8%
77 (19.1%) g2 43 27.7%
41 (10.2%) gnus 7 4.5%
33 (8.2%) thunderbird 11 7.1%
27 (6.7%) pan 13 8.4%
25 (6.2%) mozilla 9 5.8%
15 (3.7%) microsoft 8 5.2%
15 (3.7%) knode 8 5.2%
13 (3.2%) tin 3 1.9%
8 (2.0%) forte 4 2.6%

25 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...