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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 19 42.9 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
2 17 33.7 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
3 8 20.8 Saurav saurav1b@gmail.com
4 7 33.7 noalternative noalternative@REMOVETHESE
5 7 15.9 Ramon F Herrera ramon@conexus.net
6 7 14.7 Douglas Mayne doug@slack-1a.localnet
7 7 12.9 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
8 6 16.2 Dances With Crows danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@g
9 6 14.7 JimR kd1yv8@notreallymyemail.c
10 6 13.1 Dan Espen daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcor
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90 218.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
183 posters
407 articles
867.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.5% of the posters
22.1% of the articles
25.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.2 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

98 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 155 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
53.6% of the posters
38.1% of the articles
37.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
23 53.1 a few queries
11 23.6 SUID related (newbie) question
11 19.0 Recording a sound file
10 40.4 errors trying to install mplayerplug-in from source
10 21.4 pdf prints problem Verizon statement
10 19.7 Disk label and /etc/fstab entry?
10 15.0 suse supports windows key
10 13.8 jail ssh user
9 16.4 free browser-based linux access?
9 15.5 The nerve of some idiots!

407 articles on 113 subjects
319 were followups (78.4%)
31 were crossposts (7.6%)

866.8 kbytes total
headers: 440.6kb 50.8%
quoted text: 172.5kb 19.9%
original text: 232.9kb 26.9%
signatures: 20.7kb 2.4%

Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
7.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 94 *********
Tuesday 53 *****
Wednesday 49 ****
Thursday 64 ******
Friday 58 *****
Saturday 50 *****
Sunday 38 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
124 (30.5%) g2 64 35.0%
65 (16.0%) slrn 26 14.2%
38 (9.3%) pan 16 8.7%
36 (8.8%) thunderbird 16 8.7%
29 (7.1%) mozilla 6 3.3%
20 (4.9%) gnus 11 6.0%
17 (4.2%) icedove 1 0.5%
14 (3.4%) microsoft 8 4.4%
13 (3.2%) tin 5 2.7%
10 (2.5%) nn 3 1.6%

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...