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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 11 26.4 Pascal Hambourg boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.
2 9 24.8 D. Stussy spam@bde-arc.ampr.org
3 9 16.1 Geoff Lane datemasde.t1m@gishpuppy.c
4 7 14.6 david none@nospam.com
5 6 18.0 Greg shireyg@gmail.com
6 5 19.1 tangens0@gmail.com tangens0@gmail.com
7 5 11.6 David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
8 5 11.0 xscream@gmail.com xscream@gmail.com
9 5 9.5 Shadow_7 wwwShadow7@NOSPAMyahoo.co
10 5 9.4 Dave Uhring daveuhring@yahoo.com
--- -----
67 160.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
75 posters
173 articles
395.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
13.3% of the posters
38.7% of the articles
40.6% of the bytes

Averages:
2.3 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / poster

7 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 11 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
9.3% of the posters
6.4% of the articles
5.7% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
12 33.9 Problem with Ad-hoc wireless network Windows to Linux (no ping)
11 26.9 netopia 3000 and vsftpd
11 24.0 Saned Daemon stops
11 16.5 samba
10 29.9 ipv6 routing and neighbour discovery
7 14.8 VPN with racoon Phase 2 issue
7 14.4 permanent ifconfig settings for Fedora 8
7 14.2 configuring DNS on Solaris 10
7 10.0 Determine maximum Throughput on Network
6 10.5 Verizon FiOS: No SMTP Service

173 articles on 48 subjects
141 were followups (81.5%)
6 were crossposts (3.5%)

394.9 kbytes total
headers: 194.0kb 49.1%
quoted text: 80.6kb 20.4%
original text: 116.3kb 29.5%
signatures: 4.0kb 1.0%

Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
8.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 25 **
Tuesday 15 *
Wednesday 24 **
Thursday 32 ***
Friday 25 **
Saturday 27 **
Sunday 25 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
44 (25.4%) g2 23 30.7%
30 (17.3%) pan 11 14.7%
29 (16.8%) thunderbird 13 17.3%
13 (7.5%) slrn 8 10.7%
12 (6.9%) microsoft 3 4.0%
11 (6.4%) mozilla 2 2.7%
11 (6.4%) knode 4 5.3%
6 (3.5%) tin 2 2.7%
5 (2.9%) gnus 3 4.0%
3 (1.7%) opera 2 2.7%

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...