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

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

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 11 32.1 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
2 11 24.7 Consant Meiring icesslinux@gmail.com
3 6 12.3 deko deko@nospam.com
4 5 12.1 left_coast void@void.not
5 4 10.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
6 4 9.9 Raqueeb Hassan wideangle@gmail.com
7 4 9.0 CptDondo yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com
8 4 7.0 Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger@darkstargames.
9 3 14.4 gooderthanyou@gmail.com gooderthanyou@gmail.com
10 3 5.1 standk@gmail.com standk@gmail.com
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55 137.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
89 posters
154 articles
320.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
11.2% of the posters
35.7% of the articles
42.9% of the bytes

Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
3.6 kbytes / poster

65 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 102 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
73.0% of the posters
66.2% of the articles
63.7% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 37.3 best way to make regular user superuser
12 29.6 Unauthorized IP usage
10 23.8 Help climbing the mountain of a linux mail server...
7 10.3 HTTPS Question
6 12.5 run web server behine router
6 11.4 Wireless Internet
6 11.3 One public IP but multiple servers (with different domains)
6 10.0 Micro-pump is cool idea for future computer chips
5 11.3 Linux Core Team
5 10.0 Home network acting a bit silly

154 articles on 50 subjects
112 were followups (72.7%)
20 were crossposts (13.0%)

319.9 kbytes total
headers: 168.0kb 52.5%
quoted text: 57.7kb 18.0%
original text: 88.8kb 27.8%
signatures: 5.4kb 1.7%

Averages:
3.1 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
6.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 24 **
Tuesday 48 ****
Wednesday 22 **
Thursday 18 *
Friday 16 *
Saturday 13 *
Sunday 13 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
47 (30.5%) g2 31 34.8%
19 (12.3%) microsoft 9 10.1%
18 (11.7%) slrn 6 6.7%
18 (11.7%) knode 6 6.7%
15 (9.7%) thunderbird 12 13.5%
12 (7.8%) pan 9 10.1%
4 (2.6%) tin 2 2.2%
3 (1.9%) nn 1 1.1%
3 (1.9%) mozilla 3 3.4%
2 (1.3%) forte 2 2.2%

19 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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