Stats alt.os.linux.suse (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:02:36 +0100

Stats alt.os.linux.suse (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 112 182.5 houghi houghi@houghi.org.invalid
   2 109 140.7 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
   3 58 112.2 Kevin Nathan knathan@project54.com
   4 36 68.7 David Wright david_c_wright@hotmail.co
   5 25 57.1 Nick Holum spam@spamsucks.com
   6 23 38.9 James Knott james.knott@rogers.com
   7 22 54.1 Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com
   8 16 27.0 Perfect Reign theperfectreign@yahoo.com
   9 14 27.2 Pickles The Cat pickles@his.firehouse
  10 14 25.1 Gregory Toomey nospam@bigpond.com
       --- -----
       429 733.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  268 posters
  1073 articles
  1915.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  3.7% of the posters
 40.0% of the articles
 38.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  4.0 articles / poster
  1.8 kbytes / article
  7.1 kbytes / poster

118 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 280 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   44.0% of the posters
   26.1% of the articles
   27.3% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 76 161.2 Where did Suse go?
 49 106.1 Installing SuSE from CD or DVD
 42 73.2 What Linux tool should I use to view newsgroups?
 30 47.9 Updating Packages
 26 54.8 Graphics Card Choices
 26 39.0 Suse kernel sources for 9.1
 24 35.1 Downloading Patches for 9.1
 19 53.5 Seriously, Need To Find Where The Mail Is Going
 19 35.0 apache conf issues
 18 29.8 Ripping CDs to .MP3

1073 articles on 218 subjects
  909 were followups (84.7%)
  13 were crossposts (1.2%)

1913.8 kbytes total
  headers: 1051.7kb 55.0%
  quoted text: 360.8kb 18.9%
  original text: 439.7kb 23.0%
  signatures: 61.5kb 3.2%

Averages:
  4.9 articles / subject
  1.8 kbytes / article
  8.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 130 *************
  Tuesday 169 ****************
  Wednesday 178 *****************
  Thursday 160 ****************
  Friday 123 ************
  Saturday 195 *******************
  Sunday 118 ***********
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
 373 (34.8%) knode 88 32.8%
 217 (20.2%) mozilla 72 26.9%
 150 (14.0%) slrn 6 2.2%
  82 (7.6%) pan 33 12.3%
  58 (5.4%) sylpheed-claws 1 0.4%
  57 (5.3%) microsoft 23 8.6%
  46 (4.3%) g2 16 6.0%
  22 (2.1%) forte 6 2.2%
  12 (1.1%) tin 4 1.5%
   6 (0.6%) macsoup 2 0.7%

24 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...



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