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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 19 43.0 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
2 14 26.3 Rahul nospam@nospam.invalid
3 14 21.1 Maxwell Lol nospam@com.invalid
4 13 30.4 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
5 11 19.7 stan@worldbadminton.com stan@worldbadminton.com
6 8 25.6 General Schvantzkopf schvantzkopf@yahoo.com
7 8 16.8 Dan Espen daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcor
8 7 24.7 Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com
9 7 18.4 phil-news-nospam@ipal.n phil-news-nospam@ipal.net
10 7 16.3 Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8@verizon.net
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108 242.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
102 posters
293 articles
626.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
9.8% of the posters
36.9% of the articles
38.7% of the bytes

Averages:
2.9 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
6.1 kbytes / poster

2 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 2 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
2.0% of the posters
0.7% of the articles
0.4% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
45 106.8 Distance to W-LAN points
36 82.3 32 bit OS, 4 GB limit?
22 49.8 converting bash-scripts into GUI's
17 26.1 Help: Arg list too long Problem
15 26.5 restricted shell
13 26.9 4 da 5th time--pleez--what distro for an old 'puter?
12 21.1 Non-Vapor ROAD?
10 23.4 Please, for the SIXTH time, can somebody recommend a Linux dist
10 16.4 Why I don't use reiserfs
9 24.5 What do people think about SELINUX? pros and cons

293 articles on 47 subjects
267 were followups (91.1%)
55 were crossposts (18.8%)

626.1 kbytes total
headers: 339.4kb 54.2%
quoted text: 141.9kb 22.7%
original text: 122.6kb 19.6%
signatures: 22.1kb 3.5%

Averages:
6.2 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
13.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 25 **
Tuesday 24 **
Wednesday 25 **
Thursday 33 ***
Friday 65 ******
Saturday 65 ******
Sunday 56 *****
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
21 googlegroups.com 7.2%
19 motzarella.org 6.5%
19 clara.net 6.5%
14 com.invalid 4.8%
13 posted.visi 4.4%
13 90.236 4.4%
11 sonic.net 3.8%
11 aioe.org 3.8%
8 verizon.net 2.7%
8 comcast.com 2.7%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
60 (20.5%) slrn 23 22.5%
46 (15.7%) thunderbird 11 10.8%
29 (9.9%) tin 7 6.9%
25 (8.5%) pan 12 11.8%
21 (7.2%) g2 14 13.7%
18 (6.1%) knode 9 8.8%
15 (5.1%) xnews 4 3.9%
14 (4.8%) hidden 1 1.0%
12 (4.1%) gnus 2 2.0%
10 (3.4%) mozilla 5 4.9%

21 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

Have lots of fun...