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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:01:12 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 43 111.3 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
   2 25 56.8 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   3 20 52.8 Jose Maria Lopez Hernan jkerouac@bgsec.com
   4 19 36.3 Brendon Caligari bcaligari@nospam.fireforg
   5 16 57.7 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   6 14 40.3 Jeroen Geilman not@rtpada.ln
   7 14 29.4 Dave Uhring daveuhring@yahoo.com
   8 12 34.4 Floyd L. Davidson floyd@barrow.com
   9 12 25.9 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
  10 12 23.4 Christopher Browne cbbrowne@acm.org
       --- -----
       187 468.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  208 posters
  609 articles
  1595.1 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  4.8% of the posters
 30.7% of the articles
 29.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.9 articles / poster
  2.6 kbytes / article
  7.7 kbytes / poster

111 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 191 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   53.4% of the posters
   31.4% of the articles
   25.0% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 29 86.0 Mail Server
 28 54.9 recyclage vieux pc (pentium 150 100Mo de ram)
 26 105.7 Background of "Open source" leaders
 24 46.4 list of high profile linux users
 22 45.2 Linux alternative to m$ abscess?
 16 60.2 Thermo-dynamic philosophy for kids; was Re: Mail Server a long
 16 43.2 User Agents Analysis Report
 16 30.6 linux supportablity
 14 43.8 unix terminal emulation from linux
 13 24.8 redhat - who is running rc.local???

609 articles on 140 subjects
  511 were followups (83.9%)
  48 were crossposts (7.9%)

1592.5 kbytes total
  headers: 607.4kb 38.1%
  quoted text: 332.6kb 20.9%
  original text: 598.8kb 37.6%
  signatures: 53.8kb 3.4%

Averages:
  4.3 articles / subject
  2.6 kbytes / article
  11.4 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
 145 (23.8%) mozilla 36 17.3%
 111 (18.2%) knode 30 14.4%
  68 (11.2%) slrn 29 13.9%
  67 (11.0%) pan 25 12.0%
  51 (8.4%) tin 9 4.3%
  30 (4.9%) gnus 13 6.2%
  18 (3.0%) microsoft 10 4.8%
  10 (1.6%) turnpike 2 1.0%
   9 (1.5%) forte 6 2.9%
   3 (0.5%) tknews 1 0.5%

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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