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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 10 25.3 EricThompson duetc@etc-consult.com
2 5 8.2 David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
3 4 18.3 Greg shireyg@gmail.com
4 4 16.7 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
5 4 10.6 Jack Snodgrass jacks_temp_id_bf2142@veri
6 4 10.3 david none@nospam.com
7 3 8.6 Legend rahul986@gmail.com
8 3 7.7 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
9 3 5.0 buck buck@private.mil
10 3 5.0 Eric wolleric@gmx.de
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43 115.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
51 posters
100 articles
231.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.6% of the posters
43.0% of the articles
49.9% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
4.5 kbytes / poster

4 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 4 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
7.8% of the posters
4.0% of the articles
3.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
14 35.9 ntpdate - PST/PDT
8 28.6 netopia 3000 and vsftpd
8 25.2 Is an ARP Flooding possible?
6 12.7 permanent ifconfig settings for Fedora 8
6 12.2 Mystery Routing Problem driving me MAD
6 11.1 NFS Mounts not visible
6 9.8 iptables ftp conntrack using port != 21
5 12.8 bind outgoing mail connects to virtual ip address?
5 11.0 Any way to eliminate bonding interface dropped packets?
5 7.6 Serial communication

100 articles on 31 subjects
77 were followups (77.0%)
6 were crossposts (6.0%)

231.6 kbytes total
headers: 112.8kb 48.7%
quoted text: 57.2kb 24.7%
original text: 57.7kb 24.9%
signatures: 3.9kb 1.7%

Averages:
3.2 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
7.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 24 **
Tuesday 14 *
Wednesday 11 *
Thursday 20 **
Friday 21 **
Saturday 3
Sunday 7
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
28 (28.0%) g2 12 23.5%
15 (15.0%) pan 7 13.7%
14 (14.0%) thunderbird 10 19.6%
14 (14.0%) slrn 9 17.6%
12 (12.0%) knode 2 3.9%
4 (4.0%) nn 2 3.9%
3 (3.0%) forte 1 2.0%
2 (2.0%) mozilla 1 2.0%
2 (2.0%) microsoft 1 2.0%
1 (1.0%) xnews 1 2.0%

14 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...