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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name                    address
   1    17   36.8  Dances With Crows       danceswithcrows@usa.net
   2    12   27.2  Rod Speed               rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
   3    10   19.4  Mark Hobley             markhobley@hotpop.donotty
   4     8   20.9  Rob Simpson             here@my.pc
   5     8   20.1  Unruh                   unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
   6     8   11.8  AZ Nomad                aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX
   7     7   16.0  Ignoramus13009          ignoramus13009@NOSPAM.130
   8     7   15.5  Tom Newton              tom@server.invalid
   9     6   13.8  Robert Heller           heller@deepsoft.com
  10     6    9.9  Rahul                   nospam@nospam.invalid
       ---  -----
        89  191.5  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  145 posters
  336 articles
  828.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  6.9% of the posters
 26.5% of the articles
 23.1% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.3 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  5.7 kbytes / poster

4 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 5 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
    2.8% of the posters
    1.5% of the articles
    1.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes   subject
 43     85.6   scp UNBELIEVABLY slow
 38     86.3   The Definition
 18     41.7   Firefox question - Probably not the right group but...
 15     36.7   How do I use the Open Sound System?
 12     26.9   script execute permission without read permission
 12     25.9   The Reality of JESUS
 11     26.0   permission denied
 11     22.3   Server farm needs help to xfer log files
  9     15.1   make a bash script wait till all its "background-children" are 
  9     14.6   Linux problem

336 articles on 86 subjects
  260 were followups (77.4%)
  93 were crossposts (27.7%)

827.4 kbytes total
  headers:        369.4kb   44.6%
  quoted text:    157.8kb   19.1%
  original text:  281.7kb   34.0%
  signatures:      18.6kb    2.2%

Averages:
  3.9 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  9.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day        posts
  Monday      27  **
  Tuesday     35  ***
  Wednesday   43  ****
  Thursday    47  ****
  Friday      64  ******
  Saturday    69  ******
  Sunday      51  *****
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader       user
  86 (25.6%)    g2               52  35.9%
  74 (22.0%)    slrn             22  15.2%
  36 (10.7%)    microsoft        14   9.7%
  28  (8.3%)    thunderbird      12   8.3%
  21  (6.2%)    tin               6   4.1%
  19  (5.7%)    pan               9   6.2%
  12  (3.6%)    gnus              7   4.8%
  10  (3.0%)    mozilla           6   4.1%
  10  (3.0%)    knode             6   4.1%
   8  (2.4%)    nn                1   0.7%

18 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...