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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 17 25.5 Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.
   2 12 26.2 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
   3 10 24.4 Matt_left_coast not@chance.org
   4 10 17.5 Shabam chalupa@yomama-nospam.com
   5 9 22.6 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   6 9 16.4 Dan C youmustbejoking@invalid.l
   7 9 15.5 ray ray@zianet.com
   8 8 13.3 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
   9 7 15.3 Java Jive java@evij.com
  10 6 11.3 MikeyD m_donaghy50@hotmail.com
       --- -----
        97 188.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  121 posters
  277 articles
  597.1 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  8.3% of the posters
 35.0% of the articles
 31.5% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.3 articles / poster
  2.2 kbytes / article
  4.9 kbytes / poster

65 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 102 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   53.7% of the posters
   36.8% of the articles
   37.2% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 24 52.8 what distro can compare to Win98 (read before you laugh)
 21 31.1 Laptop LiveCD
 20 43.8 Some personal linux observations
 17 29.0 Help my system is messed up
 14 35.0 Sponatenous reboot while copying large files - 2.4.29
 11 32.6 Is LINUX better than UNIX
 10 28.3 Windoze VS Linux
  9 21.1 Are Killfiles for morons ?
  8 20.7 Media Center Linux and is Tivo linux?
  8 14.4 Linux on IPAQ

277 articles on 61 subjects
  236 were followups (85.2%)
  54 were crossposts (19.5%)

596.6 kbytes total
  headers: 281.9kb 47.3%
  quoted text: 110.8kb 18.6%
  original text: 190.1kb 31.9%
  signatures: 13.8kb 2.3%

Averages:
  4.5 articles / subject
  2.2 kbytes / article
  9.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 56 *****
  Tuesday 58 *****
  Wednesday 26 **
  Thursday 37 ***
  Friday 69 ******
  Saturday 22 **
  Sunday 8
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  46 (16.6%) mozilla 29 24.0%
  37 (13.4%) slrn 15 12.4%
  34 (12.3%) microsoft 15 12.4%
  33 (11.9%) knode 14 11.6%
  28 (10.1%) tin 5 4.1%
  25 (9.0%) pan 7 5.8%
  19 (6.9%) g2 10 8.3%
  14 (5.1%) forte 9 7.4%
   8 (2.9%) gnus 1 0.8%
   6 (2.2%) xnews 3 2.5%

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...



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