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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 05/30/05


Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 00:03:44 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 37 95.3 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   2 23 61.9 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
   3 16 36.4 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   4 13 23.2 Alexander Skwar alexander@skwar.name
   5 13 21.4 Dave Uhring daveuhring@yahoo.com
   6 13 20.4 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
   7 10 31.5 Netocrat netocrat@dodo.com.au
   8 10 22.9 Mike Mol mikemol@gmail.com
   9 10 21.5 Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
  10 9 23.9 Timothy Murphy tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.i
       --- -----
       154 358.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  192 posters
  542 articles
  1364.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  5.2% of the posters
 28.4% of the articles
 26.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.8 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  7.1 kbytes / poster

99 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 185 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   51.6% of the posters
   34.1% of the articles
   30.1% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 41 114.4 Anybody using a "real" Linux domain?
 40 95.2 Sick of trolls!
 31 73.2 MySQL permission
 22 50.9 Logrotate is a pain
 20 33.4 suggested boot from cd linux
 19 42.7 Famous Hacker Uses Challenge-Responses
 18 30.5 Help Please! Cracking the jammed user account in Windows
 17 34.7 Console oriented linux distro
 13 26.1 dual core - dual os
 12 25.8 /usr/sbin problem

542 articles on 118 subjects
  447 were followups (82.5%)
  105 were crossposts (19.4%)

1363.3 kbytes total
  headers: 570.8kb 41.9%
  quoted text: 244.9kb 18.0%
  original text: 518.9kb 38.1%
  signatures: 28.8kb 2.1%

Averages:
  4.6 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  11.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 75 *******
  Tuesday 84 ********
  Wednesday 84 ********
  Thursday 103 **********
  Friday 79 *******
  Saturday 59 *****
  Sunday 57 *****
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  85 (15.7%) mozilla 35 18.2%
  84 (15.5%) g2 46 24.0%
  78 (14.4%) slrn 17 8.9%
  54 (10.0%) tin 12 6.2%
  49 (9.0%) knode 16 8.3%
  42 (7.7%) pan 17 8.9%
  21 (3.9%) gnus 6 3.1%
  17 (3.1%) nn 2 1.0%
  17 (3.1%) microsoft 12 6.2%
  14 (2.6%) debian 11 5.7%

28 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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