Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:03:41 +0100

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 16 35.7 MikeyD m_donaghy50@hotmail.com
   2 9 15.1 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
   3 8 19.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   4 6 12.6 Patrick J. McLaughlin J pat@mclent.com
   5 6 11.8 ray ray@zianet.com
   6 6 11.3 Curt curty@free.fr
   7 6 10.1 Shabam chalupa@yomama-nospam.com
   8 6 7.7 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
   9 5 13.1 Enkidu enkidu.com@com.cliffp.com
  10 5 9.7 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
       --- -----
        73 146.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  92 posters
  207 articles
  419.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 10.9% of the posters
 35.3% of the articles
 35.0% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.2 articles / poster
  2.0 kbytes / article
  4.6 kbytes / poster

41 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 64 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   44.6% of the posters
   30.9% of the articles
   28.2% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 26 46.6 Ethereal
 15 25.0 Newbie question - linux configuration
 12 28.5 httpd dead but subsys locked -- message in FC3
 11 23.9 tiny linux distr. with dvdplayer only
 10 16.6 Prevent "history" from being reset
  9 25.6 permission denied - PHP code
  9 17.7 Highly Graphic intensive Linux?
  8 16.5 Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Compiling from Linux Source Code
  8 13.9 Newbie question on Dual Boot XP/Linux
  7 10.1 Console and Terminal

207 articles on 47 subjects
  174 were followups (84.1%)
  38 were crossposts (18.4%)

419.6 kbytes total
  headers: 215.5kb 51.4%
  quoted text: 85.2kb 20.3%
  original text: 110.4kb 26.3%
  signatures: 8.5kb 2.0%

Averages:
  4.4 articles / subject
  2.0 kbytes / article
  8.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 60 ******
  Tuesday 36 ***
  Wednesday 38 ***
  Thursday 16 *
  Friday 17 *
  Saturday 11 *
  Sunday 29 **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  47 (22.7%) mozilla 29 31.5%
  33 (15.9%) pan 12 13.0%
  27 (13.0%) knode 10 10.9%
  23 (11.1%) slrn 9 9.8%
  22 (10.6%) microsoft 11 12.0%
  20 (9.7%) tin 4 4.3%
  11 (5.3%) forte 4 4.3%
   6 (2.9%) gnus 1 1.1%
   3 (1.4%) g2 3 3.3%
   2 (1.0%) post-direct 1 1.1%

16 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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