Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/13/05 

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:03:34 +0200

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 24 51.3 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D0=A5=F mekamutt@blewfalcun.net
   2 14 23.4 Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.
   3 14 23.1 Dan C youmustbejoking@invalid.l
   4 11 26.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   5 7 21.8 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
   6 7 14.0 Ivan Marsh annoyed@you.now
   7 6 12.9 Andy Fraser andyfraser31@hotmail.com
   8 6 11.3 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
   9 6 11.1 Mike spamdump@fensoft.co.uk
  10 5 11.3 Michael B. Trausch fdZEROman+spam@gmail.nosp
       --- -----
       100 207.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  79 posters
  224 articles
  503.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 12.7% of the posters
 44.6% of the articles
 41.2% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.8 articles / poster
  2.2 kbytes / article
  6.4 kbytes / poster

30 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 56 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   38.0% of the posters
   25.0% of the articles
   23.0% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 39 79.4 Should Linux worry of Apple's Switch?
 28 60.8 Maximum Swap Partition Size
 21 45.0 MBR, GRUB, LILO, DEBIAN, DOS
 17 49.3 Is my directory corrupted?
 12 21.7 single CD distro's ?
  8 14.4 please help
  8 13.3 please help
  7 11.9 Byte Level Backup for Linux / Windows
  7 11.7 fork(),parent-child-family etc.
  6 18.8 An Open Letter To The Linux Enthusiasts.

224 articles on 40 subjects
  198 were followups (88.4%)
  11 were crossposts (4.9%)

502.6 kbytes total
  headers: 246.7kb 49.1%
  quoted text: 114.8kb 22.8%
  original text: 129.0kb 25.7%
  signatures: 12.1kb 2.4%

Averages:
  5.6 articles / subject
  2.2 kbytes / article
  12.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 24 **
  Tuesday 48 ****
  Wednesday 52 *****
  Thursday 34 ***
  Friday 17 *
  Saturday 24 **
  Sunday 25 **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  48 (21.4%) mozilla 25 31.6%
  36 (16.1%) pan 10 12.7%
  34 (15.2%) knode 7 8.9%
  29 (12.9%) slrn 6 7.6%
  22 (9.8%) microsoft 10 12.7%
  16 (7.1%) tin 2 2.5%
   7 (3.1%) xnews 4 5.1%
   6 (2.7%) macsoup 1 1.3%
   4 (1.8%) gnus 1 1.3%
   4 (1.8%) g2 3 3.8%

20 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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