Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 12/28/03


Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:58:22 +0100

Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 25 47.8 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   2 16 37.9 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   3 12 30.4 johnny bobby bee useraddshine.eh@yahoo.ca.
   4 12 25.3 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@sympatico.ca
   5 11 24.3 Leon. noemail@noemail.noemail.c
   6 11 21.9 Ed Murphy emurphy42@socal.rr.com
   7 10 12.0 Davide Bianchi davideyeahsure@onlyforfun
   8 9 21.2 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
   9 8 18.3 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
  10 7 15.8 Hactar ebenONE@tampabay.ARE-ARE.
       --- -----
       121 254.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  225 posters
  506 articles
  1247.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  4.4% of the posters
 23.9% of the articles
 20.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.2 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  5.5 kbytes / poster

110 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 157 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   48.9% of the posters
   31.0% of the articles
   27.9% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 25 65.0 2 NICs sharing a cable internet connection
 15 27.1 Having trouble writing a CD
 12 22.2 1024 cylinder limit
 12 20.4 Problem using my USB Zip 100 drive
 11 28.4 VFAT/NTFS problem with RedHat 7.3 / Windows 2000
 10 19.8 Linux Kernel source code Location
  9 22.0 Does hyper-threading = dual cpu
  9 20.0 More details Re: Permission denied
  9 19.2 Good terminal emulator, editor, for cutting and pasting
  9 18.6 A situation I was faced with earlier this evening.

506 articles on 152 subjects
  392 were followups (77.5%)
  54 were crossposts (10.7%)

1246.8 kbytes total
  headers: 497.2kb 39.9%
  quoted text: 221.7kb 17.8%
  original text: 503.6kb 40.4%
  signatures: 24.3kb 2.0%

Averages:
  3.3 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  8.2 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  78 (15.4%) mozilla 44 19.6%
  74 (14.6%) pan 24 10.7%
  60 (11.9%) tin 9 4.0%
  48 (9.5%) slrn 27 12.0%
  43 (8.5%) microsoft 20 8.9%
  40 (7.9%) knode 24 10.7%
  19 (3.8%) gnus 7 3.1%
  13 (2.6%) nn 4 1.8%
  11 (2.2%) forte 5 2.2%
   9 (1.8%) trn 3 1.3%

24 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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