Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/30/05


Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 00:03:44 +0200

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 30 47.9 Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.
   2 14 25.9 justme gonzyyyy@hotmail.com
   3 10 21.6 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   4 9 21.9 Gaute Hope gaute.hope@gmail.com
   5 8 17.5 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   6 7 10.6 George Jones IV georgejonesiv@cox.net
   7 6 11.8 Patrick sales@linuxfree.net
   8 4 8.6 J Smith halfanorange@gmail.com
   9 4 8.5 Mihai Osian zzz@zzz.com
  10 4 8.2 BenneJezzerette jennifer755@cox.net
       --- -----
        96 182.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  100 posters
  239 articles
  450.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 10.0% of the posters
 40.2% of the articles
 40.5% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.4 articles / poster
  1.9 kbytes / article
  4.5 kbytes / poster

66 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 126 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   66.0% of the posters
   52.7% of the articles
   51.1% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 20 41.3 /dev/random not generating random data
 20 33.4 suggested boot from cd linux
 17 31.5 sudo, chroot
 12 17.2 Which home distribution would you recommend?
 10 20.5 Default file permissions
 10 16.0 Fedora - how to set up start X permanently.
  9 13.5 KDE 3.3 SARGE
  7 19.2 FTP & SAMBA
  6 9.9 shell script problem
  6 9.7 remote X setup

239 articles on 62 subjects
  191 were followups (79.9%)
  26 were crossposts (10.9%)

450.4 kbytes total
  headers: 230.8kb 51.2%
  quoted text: 72.4kb 16.1%
  original text: 133.4kb 29.6%
  signatures: 13.7kb 3.0%

Averages:
  3.9 articles / subject
  1.9 kbytes / article
  7.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 45 ****
  Tuesday 44 ****
  Wednesday 31 ***
  Thursday 25 **
  Friday 52 *****
  Saturday 26 **
  Sunday 16 *
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  43 (18.0%) slrn 9 9.0%
  36 (15.1%) mozilla 21 21.0%
  30 (12.6%) microsoft 15 15.0%
  27 (11.3%) pan 15 15.0%
  25 (10.5%) g2 12 12.0%
  20 (8.4%) knode 12 12.0%
  17 (7.1%) forte 3 3.0%
  10 (4.2%) nn 1 1.0%
   9 (3.8%) tin 3 3.0%
   7 (2.9%) gnus 2 2.0%

18 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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