Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:04:31 +0100

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 10 21.8 Ivan Marsh annoyed@you.now
   2 9 20.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   3 7 9.5 mst mstg@linuxMYSHOESmail.org
   4 5 15.1 Frederick Wilson faNOTTHISwilson@comcast.n
   5 5 12.0 Jim Showalter jshowalter@gmail.com
   6 5 8.1 Dan C youmustbejoking@invalid.l
   7 5 7.0 Patrick Grimbergen patrick@grimweb.info
   8 4 10.3 noi noi@siam.com
   9 4 8.5 philo philo@privacy.net
  10 4 7.8 Menno Duursma menno@desktop.lan
       --- -----
        58 120.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  103 posters
  202 articles
  439.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  9.7% of the posters
 28.7% of the articles
 27.4% of the bytes

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

57 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 88 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   55.3% of the posters
   43.6% of the articles
   45.6% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 38 69.3 Nomination of Linus Torvalds for Internet Samaritan Award
 14 25.5 is there a trojan for linux that can affect windows xp system?
 12 18.8 Programmers - what's the best way to do this?
 11 27.7 NOMINATION: ~Richard M. Stallman~ for Internet Samaritan (Re: N
 10 16.5 How do I get decent fonts on Linux?
  9 22.5 problem with 'exclude' in tar
  8 24.2 FTP server in ubuntu 5.10 (proftp vs pureftpd)
  7 15.2 changing host name
  7 13.0 Linux is finally for me.
  7 11.4 remote login Q

202 articles on 41 subjects
  168 were followups (83.2%)
  49 were crossposts (24.3%)

439.0 kbytes total
  headers: 218.7kb 49.8%
  quoted text: 82.8kb 18.9%
  original text: 126.0kb 28.7%
  signatures: 11.5kb 2.6%

Averages:
  4.9 articles / subject
  2.2 kbytes / article
  10.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 42 ****
  Tuesday 21 **
  Wednesday 22 **
  Thursday 13 *
  Friday 33 ***
  Saturday 43 ****
  Sunday 27 **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  42 (20.8%) pan 14 13.6%
  29 (14.4%) mozilla 18 17.5%
  23 (11.4%) slrn 13 12.6%
  21 (10.4%) g2 12 11.7%
  16 (7.9%) knode 9 8.7%
  12 (5.9%) tin 3 2.9%
  11 (5.4%) microsoft 9 8.7%
   8 (4.0%) xnews 5 4.9%
   8 (4.0%) sylpheed-claws 2 1.9%
   3 (1.5%) sysadminforum.com 3 2.9%

23 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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