Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/29/05


Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:03:40 +0200

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 30 68.0 Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.
   2 16 40.2 Ivan Marsh annoyed@you.now
   3 15 25.7 Patrick Grimbergen patrick@grimweb.info
   4 11 21.1 ac "aec$news"@candt.demon.co
   5 10 20.3 Andy Fraser andyfraser31@hotmail.com
   6 10 20.1 d kevindu28@yahoo.com
   7 9 17.9 John ammo1@hotmail.com
   8 7 17.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   9 7 10.3 zekolas zekolas@cableone.net
  10 6 15.6 JDS jeffrey@example.invalid
       --- -----
       121 256.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  99 posters
  289 articles
  609.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 10.1% of the posters
 41.9% of the articles
 42.1% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.9 articles / poster
  2.1 kbytes / article
  6.2 kbytes / poster

50 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 137 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   50.5% of the posters
   47.4% of the articles
   44.2% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 38 75.8 Linux for an older PC
 17 40.6 Ooops, I killed a hard drive. Any ideas on how I can get the da
 16 34.1 Samba file writing
 15 21.8 new comer to linux
 14 35.5 Dyndns.org configuration
 13 22.9 OFFLINE newsreader for Linux?
 13 21.2 Test out my Linux distro chooser!
  9 11.6 Anti-Linux ad
  8 14.2 Uni Leicester switches
  7 27.0 Linux - Free for Business?

289 articles on 62 subjects
  247 were followups (85.5%)
  38 were crossposts (13.1%)

608.7 kbytes total
  headers: 291.6kb 47.9%
  quoted text: 116.7kb 19.2%
  original text: 183.6kb 30.2%
  signatures: 16.7kb 2.7%

Averages:
  4.7 articles / subject
  2.1 kbytes / article
  9.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 40 ****
  Tuesday 23 **
  Wednesday 60 ******
  Thursday 53 *****
  Friday 46 ****
  Saturday 28 **
  Sunday 38 ***
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  54 (18.7%) mozilla 20 20.2%
  51 (17.6%) pan 15 15.2%
  49 (17.0%) slrn 9 9.1%
  35 (12.1%) knode 12 12.1%
  31 (10.7%) microsoft 15 15.2%
  29 (10.0%) g2 12 12.1%
   8 (2.8%) tin 2 2.0%
   6 (2.1%) macsoup 1 1.0%
   3 (1.0%) sylpheed 1 1.0%
   3 (1.0%) debian 14 14.1%

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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