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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/25/04

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

    Top 10 posters for the period:

    rank posts kbytes name address
       1 21 81.9 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
       2 15 49.0 Richard Steven Hack richardhack@prontomail.co
       3 9 17.0 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
       4 8 30.8 linuxquestion@yahoo.com linuxquestion@yahoo.com
       5 8 22.7 Noozer postmaster@127.0.0.1
       6 8 15.1 Michael C. mcsuper5@usol.com
       7 8 13.5 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
       8 7 20.6 OS.IS.LINUX linuxuser@bigmailbox.net
       9 5 21.5 Ben Measures saint_abroadremove@remove
      10 5 13.5 ray field rayyfieldNOTSPAM@yahoo.co
           --- -----
            94 285.5 Total for top 10

    Totals for the newsgroup:
      117 posters
      277 articles
      755.4 kbytes

    The top 10 accounted for:
      8.5% of the posters
     33.9% of the articles
     37.8% of the bytes

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

    69 people posted for the first time this period.
    They went on to post 115 articles altogether

    The new posters accounted for:
       59.0% of the posters
       41.5% of the articles
       40.0% of the bytes

    Top 10 subjects for the period:

    posts kbytes subject
     25 92.9 Help installing Fedora
     24 59.7 Why does /etc/rc.d/rc work the way it does?
     13 45.9 Grub did not install on dual boot machine.
     11 46.6 DNS Name Server with one IP address
     11 33.0 SuSE under Boot Manager?, part II
     10 16.6 Easier way to figure out what software does what?
      8 23.5 Need help creating Linux boot disk
      8 12.2 Adding xmodmap command to startup.
      7 18.1 Suse 9.0 didn't work - trying again (Mandrake or Suse?)
      7 13.4 MBR Question

    277 articles on 82 subjects
      211 were followups (76.2%)
      56 were crossposts (20.2%)

    754.5 kbytes total
      headers: 286.5kb 38.0%
      quoted text: 184.6kb 24.5%
      original text: 270.2kb 35.8%
      signatures: 13.2kb 1.7%

    Averages:
      3.4 articles / subject
      2.7 kbytes / article
      9.2 kbytes / subject

    Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

    posts newsreader user
      41 (14.8%) mozilla 21 17.9%
      39 (14.1%) microsoft 19 16.2%
      36 (13.0%) forte 11 9.4%
      29 (10.5%) tin 4 3.4%
      25 (9.0%) knode 11 9.4%
      19 (6.9%) slrn 9 7.7%
      16 (5.8%) gnus 2 1.7%
      10 (3.6%) pan 9 7.7%
       5 (1.8%) yarn 1 0.9%
       5 (1.8%) vsoup 1 0.9%

    20 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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