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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 7 11.8 Ron Eggler test@example.com
2 7 11.6 Andrew Gideon c172driver1@gideon.org
3 6 19.0 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
4 6 17.3 David Brown david.brown@hesbynett.rem
5 6 13.8 Robert Harris robert.f.harris@blueyonde
6 6 13.4 David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
7 5 11.4 Jack Snodgrass jacks_temp_id_bf2142@veri
8 4 12.8 EricThompson duetc@etc-consult.com
9 3 15.0 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
10 3 6.9 Carbon nobrac@nospam.tampabay.rr
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53 132.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
64 posters
130 articles
284.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
15.6% of the posters
40.8% of the articles
46.6% of the bytes

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

4 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 6 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
6.2% of the posters
4.6% of the articles
4.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
23 57.7 Question about rsync
12 37.7 ntpdate - PST/PDT
9 18.6 Two Network cards
7 12.0 executing ssh from shell script
6 10.9 VNC port question
6 9.6 VNC - how to accelerate
5 14.4 Help: Connection Problem
5 9.9 Redundancy using double interface & gateway
5 8.5 creating ssh key with no passphrase
5 7.3 Need guidance!!!

130 articles on 34 subjects
100 were followups (76.9%)
0 were crossposts (0.0%)

284.7 kbytes total
headers: 135.9kb 47.7%
quoted text: 67.7kb 23.8%
original text: 77.7kb 27.3%
signatures: 3.5kb 1.2%

Averages:
3.8 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
8.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 14 *
Tuesday 20 **
Wednesday 25 **
Thursday 14 *
Friday 24 **
Saturday 17 *
Sunday 16 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
28 (21.5%) g2 18 28.1%
27 (20.8%) thunderbird 12 18.8%
20 (15.4%) pan 8 12.5%
12 (9.2%) slrn 6 9.4%
12 (9.2%) knode 3 4.7%
7 (5.4%) nn 2 3.1%
4 (3.1%) microsoft 2 3.1%
3 (2.3%) tin 2 3.1%
3 (2.3%) sylpheed-claws 1 1.6%
3 (2.3%) mozilla 1 1.6%

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 a lot of fun...