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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/17/05


Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:04:35 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 66 155.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   2 40 128.1 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   3 35 127.4 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   4 32 85.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   5 29 98.6 Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
   6 21 59.1 Mark South mark.south@null.invalid
   7 15 33.3 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
   8 15 32.4 stan@worldbadminton.com stan@worldbadminton.com
   9 13 38.6 Dances With Crows danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
  10 13 28.4 Jon Martin Solaas jonmartin.solaas@h0tm4i1
       --- -----
       279 787.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  215 posters
  764 articles
  1856.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  4.7% of the posters
 36.5% of the articles
 42.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  3.6 articles / poster
  2.4 kbytes / article
  8.6 kbytes / poster

108 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 206 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   50.2% of the posters
   27.0% of the articles
   23.6% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
106 381.0 Is linux free
 89 226.3 Microsoft Hatred FAQ
 69 178.6 Linux without the GNU toolchain?
 51 111.2 If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux
 29 70.7 If you used Windows before, why did you switch or now use Linux
 27 62.2 Linux at school with notebooks
 26 52.8 Challenge-Response For Linux. Does It Exist?
 21 39.8 Suse 10 newbie - can't get FireFox to access internet
 19 39.3 Recovering Really Old Zip Files
 18 37.0 Is there an inexpensive scanner I can buy today?

764 articles on 101 subjects
  690 were followups (90.3%)
  134 were crossposts (17.5%)

1854.2 kbytes total
  headers: 861.7kb 46.5%
  quoted text: 405.8kb 21.9%
  original text: 537.8kb 29.0%
  signatures: 49.0kb 2.6%

Averages:
  7.6 articles / subject
  2.4 kbytes / article
  18.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 105 **********
  Tuesday 125 ************
  Wednesday 118 ***********
  Thursday 130 *************
  Friday 129 ************
  Saturday 60 ******
  Sunday 97 *********
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
 159 (20.8%) tin 13 6.0%
 127 (16.6%) mozilla 38 17.7%
 106 (13.9%) pan 20 9.3%
  66 (8.6%) slrn 20 9.3%
  55 (7.2%) g2 37 17.2%
  53 (6.9%) knode 25 11.6%
  41 (5.4%) microsoft 10 4.7%
  35 (4.6%) nn 1 0.5%
  29 (3.8%) gnus 14 6.5%
  17 (2.2%) debian 12 5.6%

26 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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