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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/15/05 

Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 00:03:51 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 60 155.2 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   2 37 103.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   3 19 57.2 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
   4 16 53.0 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
   5 16 40.8 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.invalid
   6 15 27.3 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   7 14 38.9 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   8 14 28.0 Torkel Franzen torkel@sm.luth.se
   9 13 32.3 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
  10 13 25.6 Random Penguin nonexistent2032@yahoo.co.
       --- -----
       217 561.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  191 posters
  629 articles
  1597.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  5.2% of the posters
 34.5% of the articles
 35.2% of the bytes

Averages:
  3.3 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  8.4 kbytes / poster

99 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 172 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   51.8% of the posters
   27.3% of the articles
   22.2% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 86 231.8 Weird problem with special characters in filename
 59 145.5 Identifying and editing a variable in memory
 27 53.8 Dynamic IP addresses: changed how?
 25 39.7 Disable Password
 22 52.5 A newbie walks into a room...
 21 59.6 Commands updatedb and locate are unrecognized
 21 35.2 Here is [sic] some little questions...
 12 36.7 Debian.. apt-get issue. probably simple solution.
 12 32.0 cron job for checking/restarting a service?
 11 24.8 SCSI CDROM not accessible or recognized

629 articles on 118 subjects
  533 were followups (84.7%)
  33 were crossposts (5.2%)

1596.1 kbytes total
  headers: 702.7kb 44.0%
  quoted text: 293.6kb 18.4%
  original text: 558.5kb 35.0%
  signatures: 41.4kb 2.6%

Averages:
  5.3 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  13.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 68 ******
  Tuesday 150 ***************
  Wednesday 99 *********
  Thursday 76 *******
  Friday 113 ***********
  Saturday 64 ******
  Sunday 58 *****
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
 126 (20.0%) slrn 27 14.1%
 125 (19.9%) tin 12 6.3%
  82 (13.0%) g2 44 23.0%
  64 (10.2%) knode 24 12.6%
  59 (9.4%) mozilla 21 11.0%
  39 (6.2%) gnus 11 5.8%
  35 (5.6%) pan 19 9.9%
  17 (2.7%) microsoft 10 5.2%
  16 (2.5%) nn 2 1.0%
  16 (2.5%) debian 14 7.3%

21 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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