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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:03:49 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 6 21.8 prg rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
   2 6 13.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   3 6 10.7 James Knott james.knott@rogers.com
   4 5 9.8 Jack Snodgrass see@www.jacksnodgrass.com
   5 5 9.7 Allen McIntosh nospam@mouse-potato.com
   6 4 27.6 Sanal Kisi sanalkisi@yahoo.com
   7 4 9.7 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   8 4 7.7 Jose Maria Lopez Hernan jkerouac@bgsec.com
   9 4 7.1 sj dummy@dummy.com
  10 4 6.4 ashran111@hotmail.com ashran111@hotmail.com
       --- -----
        48 124.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  150 posters
  250 articles
  524.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  6.7% of the posters
 19.2% of the articles
 23.7% of the bytes

Averages:
  1.7 articles / poster
  2.1 kbytes / article
  3.5 kbytes / poster

100 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 153 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   66.7% of the posters
   61.2% of the articles
   57.5% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
  9 28.3 WiFi mystery
  9 15.6 VPN client for linux without compiling kernel
  8 19.8 Class B networks - number of networks/hosts
  8 13.3 How do I run remote X application?
  8 12.8 help need w/ switch / router easy question
  6 18.2 Excel to Linux DDE solution?
  6 16.6 3 NIC, 2 ADSL, Help me
  6 14.5 DNS issue
  6 11.0 What Is God?
  6 10.5 Confgure WLAN & APM on RHEL

250 articles on 93 subjects
  175 were followups (70.0%)
  28 were crossposts (11.2%)

523.9 kbytes total
  headers: 248.0kb 47.3%
  quoted text: 98.1kb 18.7%
  original text: 168.8kb 32.2%
  signatures: 8.9kb 1.7%

Averages:
  2.7 articles / subject
  2.1 kbytes / article
  5.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 33 ***
  Tuesday 55 *****
  Wednesday 49 ****
  Thursday 29 **
  Friday 21 **
  Saturday 31 ***
  Sunday 32 ***
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  63 (25.2%) mozilla 37 24.7%
  35 (14.0%) g2 22 14.7%
  34 (13.6%) pan 20 13.3%
  28 (11.2%) microsoft 19 12.7%
  24 (9.6%) knode 11 7.3%
  19 (7.6%) slrn 14 9.3%
   8 (3.2%) tin 3 2.0%
   7 (2.8%) forte 4 2.7%
   5 (2.0%) nn 2 1.3%
   4 (1.6%) gnus 3 2.0%

15 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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