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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:04:06 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 16 35.1 James Knott james.knott@rogers.com
   2 8 24.7 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
   3 8 17.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   4 8 14.2 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   5 5 15.0 Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com
   6 5 11.5 insomniux mike.bosschaert@hccnet.nl
   7 4 9.4 Tauno Voipio tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPA
   8 4 5.8 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
   9 3 7.8 crowl@gmx.de crowl@gmx.de
  10 3 6.7 Bill Davidsen davidsen@deathstar.prodig
       --- -----
        64 148.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  106 posters
  193 articles
  396.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  9.4% of the posters
 33.2% of the articles
 37.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  1.8 articles / poster
  2.1 kbytes / article
  3.7 kbytes / poster

72 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 105 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   67.9% of the posters
   54.4% of the articles
   53.3% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 19 46.8 Broadcast Address as Gateway
 14 25.6 how to find a local printer on a network
 10 27.1 CPU load due to IP networking
 10 20.5 question about on-demand connection to network with modem
  9 18.5 CLOSE_WAIT vs. EOF
  7 14.8 Wyse Winterm running Linux?
  7 13.6 network broken after kernel upgrade
  6 13.5 Dueling DHCP servers: How to win
  5 14.6 NAT issue with iptable
  5 10.8 A host denying server role

193 articles on 61 subjects
  145 were followups (75.1%)
  22 were crossposts (11.4%)

396.6 kbytes total
  headers: 205.4kb 51.8%
  quoted text: 78.2kb 19.7%
  original text: 107.5kb 27.1%
  signatures: 5.4kb 1.4%

Averages:
  3.2 articles / subject
  2.1 kbytes / article
  6.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 28 **
  Tuesday 41 ****
  Wednesday 46 ****
  Thursday 31 ***
  Friday 17 *
  Saturday 21 **
  Sunday 9
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  42 (21.8%) g2 25 23.6%
  37 (19.2%) mozilla 22 20.8%
  29 (15.0%) knode 11 10.4%
  15 (7.8%) slrn 5 4.7%
  13 (6.7%) tin 4 3.8%
  11 (5.7%) pan 8 7.5%
  10 (5.2%) nn 3 2.8%
   8 (4.1%) microsoft 6 5.7%
   8 (4.1%) forte 4 3.8%
   4 (2.1%) gnus 4 3.8%

18 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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