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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/09/04 

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 00:01:09 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 15 36.5 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
   2 11 23.8 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   3 10 27.0 Larry I Smith larryXiXsmith@verizon.net
   4 10 16.9 thufir.hawat@mail.com thufir.hawat@mail.com
   5 8 17.5 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   6 7 9.4 Raqueeb Hassan wideangle@gmail.com
   7 6 10.3 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
   8 6 10.3 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   9 6 9.5 Maurice Batey maurice@eurobell.antispam
  10 5 11.2 Allen Kistler ackistler@oohay.moc
       --- -----
        84 172.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  90 posters
  214 articles
  417.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 11.1% of the posters
 39.3% of the articles
 41.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.4 articles / poster
  1.9 kbytes / article
  4.6 kbytes / poster

55 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 91 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   61.1% of the posters
   42.5% of the articles
   37.5% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 17 40.4 kernel panic during install
 13 26.5 Linux to Microsoft Proxy Server connection.
 11 14.5 Help with Redmond Linux?
 10 19.9 share swap between NT2000 and LINUX
  9 24.0 Dual boot IBM ThinkPad T40 with new Windows 2000 install
  9 15.5 Storix: getting started
  9 15.1 How to start??
  7 13.1 how to auto-park hard drive
  7 11.4 How can find out machines's runlevel After linux box booted?
  7 10.8 Time stopping/slowing in linux on TC4100

214 articles on 58 subjects
  168 were followups (78.5%)
  37 were crossposts (17.3%)

416.6 kbytes total
  headers: 207.2kb 49.7%
  quoted text: 75.0kb 18.0%
  original text: 122.8kb 29.5%
  signatures: 11.6kb 2.8%

Averages:
  3.7 articles / subject
  1.9 kbytes / article
  7.2 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  40 (18.7%) microsoft 13 14.4%
  38 (17.8%) mozilla 15 16.7%
  26 (12.1%) knode 15 16.7%
  20 (9.3%) tin 5 5.6%
  16 (7.5%) slrn 5 5.6%
  15 (7.0%) pan 6 6.7%
   5 (2.3%) nn 2 2.2%
   3 (1.4%) forte 3 3.3%
   2 (0.9%) virtual 1 1.1%
   2 (0.9%) post-direct 1 1.1%

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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