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

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

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 13 35.2 chuckcar chuck@nil.car
2 12 31.1 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
3 10 29.0 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
4 9 26.3 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 7 22.4 Norman Elliott nelliott@uklinux.net
6 6 13.1 iforone floydstestemail@yahoo.com
7 4 11.2 Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8@verizon.net
8 4 7.3 phoenix.ckelly@gmail.co phoenix.ckelly@gmail.com
9 3 6.5 ***** charles shultzjrX@sbcglobal.net
10 3 6.2 Lukasz Tarka lord_squark@tlen.pl
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71 188.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
47 posters
120 articles
317.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
21.3% of the posters
59.2% of the articles
59.3% of the bytes

Averages:
2.6 articles / poster
2.6 kbytes / article
6.8 kbytes / poster

28 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 47 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.6% of the posters
39.2% of the articles
33.4% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 56.7 unresolved symbols and other problems
15 35.8 installation failed
10 24.9 URGENT please help
8 13.1 Screensaver password
7 22.9 Sometimes eth0 & eth1 swap in Fedora
6 16.7 ubuntu installation + stupidity cost me data
6 13.1 GRUB problems
6 13.0 WinXP dual boot with non-defragmented disk?
5 9.0 Problem: no parallel in /dev
4 7.8 kernel upgrade ethernet and printer problem

120 articles on 29 subjects
100 were followups (83.3%)
5 were crossposts (4.2%)

317.2 kbytes total
headers: 129.4kb 40.8%
quoted text: 81.3kb 25.6%
original text: 101.8kb 32.1%
signatures: 4.7kb 1.5%

Averages:
4.1 articles / subject
2.6 kbytes / article
10.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 31 ***
Tuesday 21 **
Wednesday 14 *
Thursday 21 **
Friday 9
Saturday 12 *
Sunday 12 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
28 (23.3%) g2 17 36.2%
18 (15.0%) microsoft 4 8.5%
14 (11.7%) mozilla 8 17.0%
13 (10.8%) xnews 1 2.1%
10 (8.3%) nn 1 2.1%
9 (7.5%) tin 2 4.3%
9 (7.5%) knode 6 12.8%
7 (5.8%) pan 4 8.5%
4 (3.3%) thunderbird 1 2.1%
2 (1.7%) xrn 1 2.1%

14 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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