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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name                    address
   1    29   51.9  Peter T. Breuer         ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   2    18   45.5  SINNER                  99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.i
   3    16   39.5  Michael Heiming         michael+USENET@www.heimin
   4    12   16.0  mst                     mstg@linuxMYSHOESmail.org
   5    10   28.5  imotgm                  imotgm_REM@invalid-yahoo.
   6    10   20.6  philo                   philo@privacy.net
   7     9   19.9  Ron Hardin              rhhardin@mindspring.com
   8     8   33.3  Dances With Crows       danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@g
   9     8   12.8  notbob                  notbob@nothome.com
  10     7   16.8  Jean-David Beyer        jdbeyer@exit109.com
       ---  -----
       127  284.6  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  161 posters
  428 articles
  1082.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  6.2% of the posters
 29.7% of the articles
 26.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.7 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  6.7 kbytes / poster

72 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 117 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   44.7% of the posters
   27.3% of the articles
   19.4% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes   subject
 27     72.4   command line vs gui
 25     47.7   Master Boot Record
 23     46.7   partitioning Dell for linux
 19     37.1   Lightweight linux for older laptop
 19     31.2   Two quick questions
 15     43.0   Linux From Scratch - I am stumpted in Chapter 5
 13     24.7   latest
 13     21.6   /usr became a normal file. is this fixable?
 10     22.9   LFS: Sanity Check in Chapt 5.7 fails
 10     17.6   Copy with an exclude filter?

428 articles on 93 subjects
  354 were followups (82.7%)
  11 were crossposts (2.6%)

1080.9 kbytes total
  headers:        453.1kb   41.9%
  quoted text:    173.4kb   16.0%
  original text:  428.7kb   39.7%
  signatures:      25.8kb    2.4%

Averages:
  4.6 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  11.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day        posts
  Monday      68  ******
  Tuesday     54  *****
  Wednesday   72  *******
  Thursday    39  ***
  Friday      82  ********
  Saturday    52  *****
  Sunday      61  ******
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader       user
  62 (14.5%)    tin               9   5.6%
  62 (14.5%)    g2               36  22.4%
  57 (13.3%)    slrn             20  12.4%
  54 (12.6%)    mozilla          22  13.7%
  47 (11.0%)    pan              18  11.2%
  21  (4.9%)    knode            12   7.5%
  19  (4.4%)    gnus              6   3.7%
  18  (4.2%)    leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20051115a   1   0.6%
  12  (2.8%)    sylpheed-claws    1   0.6%
  11  (2.6%)    microsoft         7   4.3%

27 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...

Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
> Top 10 posters for the period:

> rank posts kbytes  name                    address
>    1    29   51.9  Peter T. Breuer         ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
>    2    18   45.5  SINNER                  99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.i
>    3    16   39.5  Michael Heiming         michael+USENET@www.heimin

Yes - but my posts only contain senseless annoying babble that people
skip over. SINNER and Michael are the real winners.

Peter

On 2005-12-04, Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:
> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
>> Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)
>> Top 10 posters for the period:
>
>> rank posts kbytes  name                    address
>>    1    29   51.9  Peter T. Breuer         ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
>>    2    18   45.5  SINNER                  99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.i
>>    3    16   39.5  Michael Heiming         michael+USENET@www.heimin
>
> Yes - but my posts only contain senseless annoying babble that people
> skip over. SINNER and Michael are the real winners.

SINNER certainly wins the prize for most imaginative posting address.


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