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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/02/03


Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 23:58:22 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 30 49.2 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
   2 26 67.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
   3 17 35.6 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
   4 7 13.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   5 7 12.9 Useko Netsumi _no-spam_usenets@nyc.rr.c
   6 7 12.1 Eric Moors scare.crow@oz.land
   7 7 10.6 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
   8 7 8.4 Davide Bianchi davideyeahsure@onlyforfun
   9 6 16.9 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
  10 6 15.6 Gregory L. Hansen glhansen@steel.ucs.indian
       --- -----
       120 241.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  160 posters
  381 articles
  792.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  6.2% of the posters
 31.5% of the articles
 30.5% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.4 articles / poster
  2.1 kbytes / article
  5.0 kbytes / poster

98 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 161 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   61.2% of the posters
   42.3% of the articles
   41.7% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 29 58.0 How to move/copy linux installation ...
 23 67.0 CRT randomly loses power?
 17 38.7 Linux as an office desktop
 15 33.4 Setting Up Debian
 11 25.5 ok to overwrite MBR?
 11 22.3 can't connect via ssh anymore
 11 19.3 dual boot / windows 2000 and linux? install what one first?
  9 16.8 What would you use? VNC or Exceed?
  7 10.5 Cannot get GNOME to load instead of KDE in redhat 9
  7 9.9 Can't su root anymore

381 articles on 97 subjects
  305 were followups (80.1%)
  90 were crossposts (23.6%)

791.3 kbytes total
  headers: 376.0kb 47.5%
  quoted text: 164.3kb 20.8%
  original text: 228.5kb 28.9%
  signatures: 22.5kb 2.8%

Averages:
  3.9 articles / subject
  2.1 kbytes / article
  8.2 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  70 (18.4%) knode 19 11.9%
  68 (17.8%) microsoft 29 18.1%
  54 (14.2%) mozilla 28 17.5%
  35 (9.2%) pan 16 10.0%
  33 (8.7%) slrn 15 9.4%
  26 (6.8%) tin 7 4.4%
  14 (3.7%) forte 5 3.1%
  13 (3.4%) gnus 4 2.5%
  11 (2.9%) trn 4 2.5%
   3 (0.8%) 40tude_dialog 1 0.6%

16 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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