Stats alt.os.linux.suse (last 7 days)

Michael Heiming · *nix forums Guru Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 1423

Stats alt.os.linux.suse (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 55 97.9 Kevin Nathan knathan@project54.com
2 47 69.8 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
3 37 62.5 houghi houghi@houghi.org.invalid
4 24 50.4 Brian brian@beepbeep.invalid
5 20 38.2 linuxvinh linuxvinh@yahoo.com
6 16 32.7 ac aecnews@candt.demon.co.uk
7 16 30.2 Tom F. furtom2001@india.com
8 14 14.3 Sven Burmeister sven.burmeister@rwth-aach
9 12 25.8 Thomas Davie tdavie@rediffmail.com
10 12 22.2 David Wright david_c_wright@hotmail.co
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253 444.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
228 posters
771 articles
1471.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
4.4% of the posters
32.8% of the articles
30.2% of the bytes

Averages:
3.4 articles / poster
1.9 kbytes / article
6.5 kbytes / poster

100 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 216 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
43.9% of the posters
28.0% of the articles
30.6% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
23 59.9 it's GPL...do some research... Well I did !
21 36.1 about Wine
19 35.4 SMB4K
17 37.6 What's a good low-end video card that works well with Linux?
17 32.0 Netgear WG311 v2 not recognized by hardware
17 27.3 Anybody try KDE 3.4 yet?
16 24.9 Desktop Shortcut
15 36.0 UPS comments?
15 32.5 OT: Monitor flicker, is the video card or monitor to blame?
14 25.9 HArd drive backup?

771 articles on 176 subjects
645 were followups (83.7%)
17 were crossposts (2.2%)

1469.7 kbytes total
headers: 764.2kb 52.0%
quoted text: 284.3kb 19.3%
original text: 386.0kb 26.3%
signatures: 35.2kb 2.4%

Averages:
4.4 articles / subject
1.9 kbytes / article
8.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 100 **********
Tuesday 100 **********
Wednesday 93 *********
Thursday 105 **********
Friday 126 ************
Saturday 109 **********
Sunday 137 *************
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
239 (31.0%) knode 73 32.0%
156 (20.2%) mozilla 59 25.9%
97 (12.6%) pan 32 14.0%
62 (8.0%) slrn 7 3.1%
55 (7.1%) sylpheed-claws 1 0.4%
52 (6.7%) g2 13 5.7%
38 (4.9%) microsoft 25 11.0%
13 (1.7%) xnews 2 0.9%
11 (1.4%) forte 6 2.6%
7 (0.9%) mt-newswatcher 2 0.9%

23 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

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