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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:02:34 +0100

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 27 36.1 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
   2 23 58.6 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
   3 16 65.6 prg rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
   4 12 38.4 Charles Sullivan cwsulliv@triad.rr.com
   5 10 21.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   6 9 30.9 Leonard Evens len@math.northwestern.edu
   7 8 37.2 ANTant@zimage.com ANTant@zimage.com
   8 8 16.0 Tom F. furtom2001@india.com
   9 8 14.1 Thufir thufir.hawat@mail.com
  10 7 15.6 Mark South marksouth@null.invalid
       --- -----
       128 333.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  126 posters
  335 articles
  781.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  7.9% of the posters
 38.2% of the articles
 42.7% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.7 articles / poster
  2.3 kbytes / article
  6.2 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
   54.8% of the posters
   34.3% of the articles
   31.1% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 30 83.1 Big-disk woes
 21 76.2 How do I make a boot disk so I can restore Grub?
 17 33.2 How to make Linux CD bootable
 14 32.7 individual firewalls considered useless (Re: Send local mail -
 12 55.4 Send local mail - how? - AHAH!!!
 11 27.2 Resetting grub?
  9 21.2 Updating RHEL
  9 11.5 I got the exactly same error!
  8 15.6 video memory and linux FC3:
  8 12.2 CONSULTANT NEEDED

335 articles on 85 subjects
  265 were followups (79.1%)
  5 were crossposts (1.5%)

781.1 kbytes total
  headers: 341.9kb 43.8%
  quoted text: 177.3kb 22.7%
  original text: 244.9kb 31.3%
  signatures: 17.1kb 2.2%

Averages:
  3.9 articles / subject
  2.3 kbytes / article
  9.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 34 ***
  Tuesday 56 *****
  Wednesday 39 ***
  Thursday 60 ******
  Friday 66 ******
  Saturday 37 ***
  Sunday 43 ****
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  55 (16.4%) g2 20 15.9%
  53 (15.8%) mozilla 22 17.5%
  53 (15.8%) knode 12 9.5%
  38 (11.3%) pan 10 7.9%
  38 (11.3%) microsoft 14 11.1%
  27 (8.1%) tin 8 6.3%
  24 (7.2%) slrn 15 11.9%
  10 (3.0%) gnus 3 2.4%
   7 (2.1%) forte 6 4.8%
   6 (1.8%) nn 2 1.6%

19 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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