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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name                    address
   1    68  176.6  Kadaitcha Man           nospam@rainx.cjb.net
   2    42   99.6  Ed Murphy               emurphy42@socal.rr.com
   3    33  113.3  Bill Unruh              unruh@string.physics.ubc.
   4    28  110.7  The Ghost In The Machin ewill@sirius.athghost7038
   5    22   56.9  Jim Richardson          warlock@eskimo.com
   6    20   40.4  Michael Heiming         michael+USENET@www.heimin
   7    19   42.0  Mike Cox                mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com
   8    16   41.6  P.T. Breuer             ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
   9    16   38.9  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met spamtrap@library.lspace.o
  10    15   36.6  Jean-David Beyer        j@d.b
       ---  -----
       279  756.7  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  343 posters
  1143 articles
  2882.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  2.9% of the posters
 24.4% of the articles
 26.3% of the bytes

Averages:
  3.3 articles / poster
  2.5 kbytes / article
  8.4 kbytes / poster

178 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 367 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   51.9% of the posters
   32.1% of the articles
   30.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes   subject
112    317.8   Linux, the final decision
100    297.4   64-bit Linux pricing - yeepers!
 53    119.1   Changing the current working directory of the parent shell.
 37     82.9   Virus Attacks SCO
 36    117.3   Xandros 2.0
 32     74.0   Mike releases the "home" command, Version #2
 29     87.6   XP is corrupting
 24     47.4   Fighting SPAM
 23     58.6   C++ on Unix - serious coding help needed. We're in the Silicon 
 19     38.6   Mike releases the "handjob" command under GPL

1143 articles on 201 subjects
  992 were followups (86.8%)
  390 were crossposts (34.1%)

2878.3 kbytes total
  headers:       1158.3kb   40.2%
  quoted text:    652.6kb   22.7%
  original text:  982.1kb   34.1%
  signatures:      85.3kb    3.0%

Averages:
  5.7 articles / subject
  2.5 kbytes / article
  14.3 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader      user
 185 (16.2%)    slrn             40  11.7%
 149 (13.0%)    pan              36  10.5%
 138 (12.1%)    mozilla          55  16.0%
 104  (9.1%)    knode            44  12.8%
  73  (6.4%)    microsoft        34   9.9%
  71  (6.2%)    tin              16   4.7%
  50  (4.4%)    gnus             16   4.7%
  38  (3.3%)    nn                8   2.3%
  36  (3.1%)    forte            13   3.8%
  16  (1.4%)    mr                1   0.3%

37 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...

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On 2004-02-01, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
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> rank posts kbytes  name                    address
>    1    68  176.6  Kadaitcha Man           nospam@rainx.cjb.net
>    7    19   42.0  Mike Cox                mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com

You wasted 220KB of my DSL, and I want them back!

Eh, I probably would have wasted them myself anyway.

- --keith

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kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
(try just my userid to email me)
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Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
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> On 2004-02-01, Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> >
> > rank posts kbytes  name                    address
> >    1    68  176.6  Kadaitcha Man           nospam@rainx.cjb.net
> >    7    19   42.0  Mike Cox                mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com

> You wasted 220KB of my DSL, and I want them back!

# du -sk /var/spool/news
114584    /var/spool/news

Well..

> Eh, I probably would have wasted them myself anyway.

Sure.

BTW
Could you use a proper delimiter, that my newsreader can
automatically remove all that crap.
;)

-- 
Michael Heiming

Remove +SIGNS and www. if you expect an answer, sorry for 
inconvenience, but I get tons of SPAM