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

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:03:39 +0200

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
   1 10 30.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
   2 7 15.4 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   3 5 13.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
   4 4 7.1 Ties spam@waterplant.nl
   5 4 6.7 mightybigbox@gmail.com mightybigbox@gmail.com
   6 4 6.6 gaikokujinkyofusho@gmai gaikokujinkyofusho@gmail.
   7 3 9.2 Keith Keller kkeller-usenet@wombat.san
   8 3 7.3 Robert Nichols SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.l
   9 3 6.3 Miguel De Anda sodamnmad@linuxmail.org
  10 3 5.9 Matt themattfella@xxyyyzzzz.co
       --- -----
        46 108.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  69 posters
  115 articles
  254.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
 14.5% of the posters
 40.0% of the articles
 42.4% of the bytes

Averages:
  1.7 articles / poster
  2.2 kbytes / article
  3.7 kbytes / poster

46 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 65 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   66.7% of the posters
   56.5% of the articles
   47.5% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
 27 66.8 Could swap space be shared among different linux distributions?
 15 28.3 Running linux off of a MP3 player?
  8 15.9 Finding device filenames for USB devices
  8 15.5 about kernel patch error?
  6 11.2 Fedora core 4 HD issue
  5 8.8 Changing from GNOME to KDE
  3 10.3 booting with 3 controlers
  3 5.4 FC4 as a load balancing router
  3 5.0 Central log server
  3 4.5 Problem running /bin/sh

115 articles on 31 subjects
  89 were followups (77.4%)
  9 were crossposts (7.8%)

254.5 kbytes total
  headers: 124.4kb 48.9%
  quoted text: 43.6kb 17.1%
  original text: 82.6kb 32.5%
  signatures: 3.9kb 1.5%

Averages:
  3.7 articles / subject
  2.2 kbytes / article
  8.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
  Monday 20 **
  Tuesday 13 *
  Wednesday 26 **
  Thursday 15 *
  Friday 19 *
  Saturday 6
  Sunday 16 *
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
  24 (20.9%) mozilla 15 21.7%
  20 (17.4%) microsoft 11 15.9%
  20 (17.4%) g2 12 17.4%
  12 (10.4%) tin 3 4.3%
   9 (7.8%) slrn 6 8.7%
   6 (5.2%) pan 5 7.2%
   5 (4.3%) knode 4 5.8%
   2 (1.7%) post-direct 1 1.4%
   2 (1.7%) debian 4 5.8%
   1 (0.9%) xnews 1 1.4%

15 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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