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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:02:35 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 48 60.2 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
   2 20 49.0 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
   3 19 41.3 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   4 17 49.0 prg rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
   5 13 26.6 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
   6 10 23.3 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
   7 10 12.7 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
   8 9 32.1 Leonard Evens len@math.northwestern.edu
   9 9 26.6 Floyd L. Davidson floyd@barrow.com
  10 9 21.5 Dan Espen daneNO@SPAM.mk.telcordia.
       --- -----
       164 342.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  243 posters
  674 articles
  1531.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  4.1% of the posters
 24.3% of the articles
 22.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.8 articles / poster
  2.3 kbytes / article
  6.3 kbytes / poster

126 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 214 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   51.9% of the posters
   31.8% of the articles
   29.5% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 36 83.8 which linux distro for a FreeBSD user looking for something new
 21 42.9 Benefits of dual CPU for a web server
 18 41.1 Anti-aliasing and other screen font annoyances - Debian Sarge.
 16 27.3 Linux on Laptop?
 15 30.1 Ghost / Clone Linux Hard Drive
 15 22.1 Any favorite CD-R/RW burner software?
 12 28.3 Resetting grub?
 12 25.7 2.6.10--modutils on crack? Also 15-pin joystick
 12 25.6 Differences between Linux distributions
 12 20.0 How to run a process without a controlling terminal?

674 articles on 157 subjects
  548 were followups (81.3%)
  78 were crossposts (11.6%)

1529.5 kbytes total
  headers: 628.6kb 41.1%
  quoted text: 275.2kb 18.0%
  original text: 584.5kb 38.2%
  signatures: 41.3kb 2.7%

Averages:
  4.3 articles / subject
  2.3 kbytes / article
  9.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 111 ***********
  Tuesday 120 ************
  Wednesday 100 **********
  Thursday 85 ********
  Friday 51 *****
  Saturday 89 ********
  Sunday 117 ***********
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
 119 (17.7%) mozilla 48 19.8%
 104 (15.4%) knode 31 12.8%
  78 (11.6%) slrn 27 11.1%
  73 (10.8%) g2 32 13.2%
  63 (9.3%) pan 18 7.4%
  49 (7.3%) tin 12 4.9%
  37 (5.5%) gnus 8 3.3%
  32 (4.7%) microsoft 17 7.0%
  20 (3.0%) forte 8 3.3%
  13 (1.9%) nn 1 0.4%

28 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

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