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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/10/05


Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:01:46 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 28 52.4 thufir.hawat@mail.com thufir.hawat@mail.com
   2 19 47.0 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
   3 12 14.8 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
   4 8 23.2 Rod Smith rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks
   5 8 13.4 Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo@geek-central.gen.new_
   6 7 14.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
   7 6 14.6 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
   8 6 13.6 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   9 5 11.1 Novello novello@noemail.org
  10 5 9.8 iamgodk iamgodk@hastensoft.com
       --- -----
       104 214.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  115 posters
  280 articles
  600.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  8.7% of the posters
 37.1% of the articles
 35.7% of the bytes

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

69 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 111 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   60.0% of the posters
   39.6% of the articles
   40.1% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 22 61.6 Question about Linux
 11 21.4 whats the best version
 10 22.1 cdrecord: Bad Option: -iso
 10 21.8 philosophy of mounting things in unices
  8 13.5 grub.conf question
  8 13.2 Reboot on Kernel Panic
  8 10.6 problem with resolv.conf
  8 10.3 OT: adding putty.exe to the start menu
  7 13.3 bootloader on dual boot system doesn't show linux
  7 12.5 mounting an ntfs disk

280 articles on 74 subjects
  226 were followups (80.7%)
  41 were crossposts (14.6%)

599.9 kbytes total
  headers: 282.3kb 47.1%
  quoted text: 102.0kb 17.0%
  original text: 205.1kb 34.2%
  signatures: 10.5kb 1.7%

Averages:
  3.8 articles / subject
  2.1 kbytes / article
  8.1 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 59 *****
  Tuesday 37 ***
  Wednesday 48 ****
  Thursday 49 ****
  Friday 26 **
  Saturday 28 **
  Sunday 33 ***
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  57 (20.4%) g2 21 18.3%
  44 (15.7%) knode 16 13.9%
  42 (15.0%) mozilla 21 18.3%
  42 (15.0%) microsoft 13 11.3%
  24 (8.6%) pan 13 11.3%
  17 (6.1%) slrn 7 6.1%
  13 (4.6%) tin 5 4.3%
   8 (2.9%) mt-newswatcher 2 1.7%
   8 (2.9%) knews 1 0.9%
   6 (2.1%) nn 1 0.9%

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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