Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 14 46.2 Artnut art@yahoo.com
2 10 18.8 J.O. Aho user@example.net
3 9 20.8 Ivan Marsh ivanmarsh@yahoo.com
4 6 11.7 Bit Twister BitTwister@mouse-potato.c
5 4 11.4 Ansgar Strickerschmidt dropspamhere@onlinehome.d
6 4 7.9 EOS heelstraf@hotmail.com
7 3 14.7 Stefan Patric not@thisaddress.com
8 3 4.6 Steve Ackman steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonsc
9 2 18.3 Tim Smith reply_in_group@mouse-pota
10 2 6.6 MarkA nobody@nowhere.com
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57 160.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
61 posters
120 articles
283.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
16.4% of the posters
47.5% of the articles
56.7% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

3 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 3 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
4.9% of the posters
2.5% of the articles
1.8% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 45.8 Installation issues XP/Suse 10.2
18 39.8 Cron job: TERM environment variable not set
11 39.2 OT: ebook readers
9 29.3 PAN error on FC9
7 13.4 Evolution can't send or receive
7 10.9 Geranular Linux
5 13.5 Damn Small Linux (install)
5 10.7 Undo ./configure, make, make install?
5 9.2 Help-- postfix suddenly reporting SMTP errors to mail
5 7.0 Xandros buys Linspire

120 articles on 24 subjects
104 were followups (86.7%)
49 were crossposts (40.8%)

283.7 kbytes total
headers: 125.1kb 44.1%
quoted text: 73.1kb 25.8%
original text: 80.2kb 28.3%
signatures: 5.4kb 1.9%

Averages:
5.0 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
11.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 11 *
Tuesday 10 *
Wednesday 8
Thursday 37 ***
Friday 20 **
Saturday 11 *
Sunday 23 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
15 aioe.org 12.5%
13 individual.net 10.8%
8 googlegroups.com 6.7%
7 yahoo.com 5.8%
6 home.test 5.0%
5 motzarella.org 4.2%
4 strickerschmidt.local 3.3%
3 sbc.com 2.5%
3 nowhere.com 2.5%
3 edtnps83.edtnps83 2.5%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
22 (18.3%) pan 10 16.4%
18 (15.0%) slrn 8 13.1%
15 (12.5%) microsoft 4 6.6%
12 (10.0%) thunderbird 8 13.1%
12 (10.0%) knode 6 9.8%
10 (8.3%) mozilla 1 1.6%
8 (6.7%) g2 7 11.5%
5 (4.2%) opera 2 3.3%
4 (3.3%) gnus 4 6.6%
2 (1.7%) nn 2 3.3%

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 lots of fun...