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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 10/31/05


Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:03:35 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 62 186.0 David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
   2 29 63.5 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   3 25 60.0 Roedy Green my_email_is_posted_on_my_
   4 15 33.0 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   5 12 28.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   6 11 29.4 Aragorn stryder@telenet.invalid
   7 11 25.9 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
   8 11 25.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   9 8 20.0 Keith Keller kkeller-usenet@wombat.san
  10 8 17.7 Harold Stevens wookie@aces.localdomain
       --- -----
       192 489.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  194 posters
  598 articles
  1608.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  5.2% of the posters
 32.1% of the articles
 30.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  3.1 articles / poster
  2.7 kbytes / article
  8.3 kbytes / poster

81 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 148 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   41.8% of the posters
   24.7% of the articles
   19.2% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
176 492.1 Microsoft Hatred FAQ
 71 168.3 Disillusioned with Linux
 33 67.3 Linux for old PCs
 16 37.7 kernel src.rpm installation
 15 31.3 Permissions defaults
 15 26.4 Preventing root from accessing files
 13 23.1 Resizing an active Linux partition
 12 22.6 Windows and Linux DVD-R incompatibility (Rockridge extensions?)
 11 21.5 Linux box reboots some times without reasons
 11 17.7 Compile a custom kernel instructions

598 articles on 91 subjects
  533 were followups (89.1%)
  182 were crossposts (30.4%)

1607.8 kbytes total
  headers: 710.3kb 44.2%
  quoted text: 279.7kb 17.4%
  original text: 590.1kb 36.7%
  signatures: 27.7kb 1.7%

Averages:
  6.6 articles / subject
  2.7 kbytes / article
  17.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 106 **********
  Tuesday 121 ************
  Wednesday 109 **********
  Thursday 136 *************
  Friday 52 *****
  Saturday 45 ****
  Sunday 29 **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  81 (13.5%) mozilla 29 14.9%
  77 (12.9%) microsoft 10 5.2%
  72 (12.0%) g2 36 18.6%
  57 (9.5%) pan 21 10.8%
  49 (8.2%) tin 6 3.1%
  48 (8.0%) slrn 19 9.8%
  37 (6.2%) knode 15 7.7%
  33 (5.5%) gnus 13 6.7%
  32 (5.4%) forte 7 3.6%
  25 (4.2%) nn 6 3.1%

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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