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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:04:30 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 32 72.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   2 21 45.9 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   3 16 20.2 mst mstg@linuxMYSHOESmail.org
   4 12 27.0 Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
   5 12 23.5 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   6 10 30.7 Aragorn stryder@telenet.invalid
   7 10 23.0 John-Paul Stewart jpstewart@binaryfoundry.c
   8 9 25.2 news@celticbear.com news@celticbear.com
   9 9 20.1 Kill Bill xbill@msn.com
  10 8 14.5 Bob Tennent BobT@cs.queensu.ca
       --- -----
       139 302.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  190 posters
  509 articles
  1238.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  5.3% of the posters
 27.3% of the articles
 24.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.7 articles / poster
  2.4 kbytes / article
  6.5 kbytes / poster

108 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 176 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   56.8% of the posters
   34.6% of the articles
   27.5% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 38 69.3 Nomination of Linus Torvalds for Internet Samaritan Award
 31 79.3 command line vs gui
 30 78.7 Long standing doubt on /usr/src/
 20 41.6 Out of Memory
 15 32.9 Which Distro? (Comparative.)
 13 21.0 There has to be a lie here...
 12 26.4 command line vs. gui
 12 18.8 Programmers - what's the best way to do this?
 11 20.4 Moving to UNIX
 10 22.5 HELP: cgi-bin script takes 100% CPU - strace shows nothing

509 articles on 115 subjects
  419 were followups (82.3%)
  65 were crossposts (12.8%)

1237.2 kbytes total
  headers: 529.6kb 42.8%
  quoted text: 200.7kb 16.2%
  original text: 475.1kb 38.4%
  signatures: 31.7kb 2.6%

Averages:
  4.4 articles / subject
  2.4 kbytes / article
  10.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 75 *******
  Tuesday 86 ********
  Wednesday 65 ******
  Thursday 76 *******
  Friday 77 *******
  Saturday 53 *****
  Sunday 77 *******
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  79 (15.5%) g2 50 26.3%
  67 (13.2%) slrn 22 11.6%
  64 (12.6%) tin 8 4.2%
  55 (10.8%) mozilla 30 15.8%
  36 (7.1%) pan 13 6.8%
  27 (5.3%) knode 13 6.8%
  26 (5.1%) gnus 7 3.7%
  20 (3.9%) microsoft 9 4.7%
  17 (3.3%) debian 6 3.2%
  16 (3.1%) sylpheed-claws 1 0.5%

29 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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