Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva

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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mandriva by Robert Marshall
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 205 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Apr 3 21:25:07 2009
Latest article: Fri Apr 10 21:02:03 2009
Original articles: 32, replies: 173
Total size of posts: 512,831 bytes (500K) (0.49M)
Average 29 articles per day, 0.07 MB per day, 2,501 bytes per article
Total headers: 259 KB bodies: 241 KB
Body text - quoted: 87 KB, original: 120 KB = 58.05%, sigs: 32 KB
Total number of posters: 62, average 8,271 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 41, average 12,508 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 19

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 21
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister.RemoveThis@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 18
3: stef <notvalid.RemoveThis@nomail.nul>..................................... : 12
4: evodawg <evodawg.RemoveThis@nospam.com>................................... : 11
5: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance.RemoveThis@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 9
6: Alan Secker <alan.RemoveThis@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 9
7: Adam <adam.RemoveThis@address.invalid>.................................... : 7
8: Dan Espen <daneNO.RemoveThis@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 7
9: none <""office\"@(none)">...................................... : 7
10: Maurice Batey <maurice.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 6
11: Jim Beard <jdbeard.RemoveThis@patriot.net>................................ : 6
12: Bill Poletti <no.steenkn.spam.RemoveThis@my.addy.com>..................... : 5
13: ibuprofin.RemoveThis@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 5
14: "Peter D." <psd.RemoveThis@live.home.invalid>............................. : 5
15: jjim <jimactivist.RemoveThis@nospam.com>.................................. : 4
16: Doug Laidlaw <doug.RemoveThis@dougshost.invalid>.......................... : 4
17: Patrick Phillips <phillips_ph.RemoveThis@verizon.NOT>..................... : 3
18: xinkushoe@163.com.............................................. : 3
19: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 3
20: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>......................... : 3

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Adam <adam@address.invalid>.................................... : 45
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 45
3: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 43
4: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 35
5: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>..................................... : 21
6: evodawg <evodawg@nospam.com>................................... : 21
7: Alan Secker <alan@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 20
8: Dan Espen <daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 16
9: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>............ : 14
10: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 14
11: none <""office\"@(none)">...................................... : 14
12: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>................................ : 13
13: xinkushoe@163.com.............................................. : 13
14: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>............................. : 12
15: "Thai C. Stacy" <rstacy6.invalid@tampabay.rr.com>.............. : 10
16: Bill Poletti <no.steenkn.spam@my.addy.com>..................... : 9
17: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 8
18: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>.......................... : 7
19: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>......................... : 7
20: jjim <jimactivist@nospam.com>.................................. : 6

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Top 13 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 77.93%
2: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 75.36%
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 65.02%
4: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 59.40%
5: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 58.74%
6: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>..................................... : 58.40%
7: Adam <adam@address.invalid>.................................... : 55.13%
8: evodawg <evodawg@nospam.com>................................... : 48.40%
9: none <""office\"@(none)">...................................... : 47.31%
10: Alan Secker <alan@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 44.97%
11: Bill Poletti <no.steenkn.spam@my.addy.com>..................... : 39.49%
12: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>................................ : 38.34%
13: Dan Espen <daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 34.47%

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Bottom 13 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>............................. : 26.49%
2: Dan Espen <daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 34.47%
3: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>................................ : 38.34%
4: Bill Poletti <no.steenkn.spam@my.addy.com>..................... : 39.49%
5: Alan Secker <alan@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 44.97%
6: none <""office\"@(none)">...................................... : 47.31%
7: evodawg <evodawg@nospam.com>................................... : 48.40%
8: Adam <adam@address.invalid>.................................... : 55.13%
9: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>..................................... : 58.40%
10: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 58.74%
11: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 59.40%
12: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 65.02%
13: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 75.36%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: FYI: 2009.1 RC2 started showing up on the mirrors.............. : 22
2: "dead.letter" file keeps getting recreated..................... : 21
3: Which USB digital cameras work with Linux?..................... : 16
4: Send glxgears output to file................................... : 11
5: Installing 32-bit OpenOffice on a 64-bit installation.......... : 10
6: Broken DIMM Slot, Dying CD-Rs, Choosing Distros, etc........... : 8
7: Mandriva One 2009.1 - 64-bit................................... : 8
8: 2009.1 RC2 pulseaudio.......................................... : 8
9: /usr/bin/perl bad interpreter: No such file or directory....... : 8
10: Missing Title Bars............................................. : 7
11: Using OpenOffice x86_64 rpm from openoffice.org................ : 7
12: usb recogized in virtualbox??.................................. : 7
13: lib64xulrunner1.9.............................................. : 6
14: Folder problem................................................. : 6
15: Mandriva 2008 Spamassassin..................................... : 5
16: OT Don't forget Tax Tea Party Day.............................. : 5
17: eth0 won't start on boot....................................... : 4
18: Kontact Mapping Question....................................... : 4
19: How to switch from KDE 4 to 3.5?............................... : 4
20: KDE can't find mime type....................................... : 4

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Broken DIMM Slot, Dying CD-Rs, Choosing Distros, etc........... : 77
2: "dead.letter" file keeps getting recreated..................... : 47
3: FYI: 2009.1 RC2 started showing up on the mirrors.............. : 42
4: Which USB digital cameras work with Linux?..................... : 37
5: /usr/bin/perl bad interpreter: No such file or directory....... : 22
6: Send glxgears output to file................................... : 19
7: Installing 32-bit OpenOffice on a 64-bit installation.......... : 17
8: lib64xulrunner1.9.............................................. : 15
9: How to switch from KDE 4 to 3.5?............................... : 14
10: Folder problem................................................. : 14
11: Mandriva One 2009.1 - 64-bit................................... : 14
12: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 14
13: 2009.1 RC2 pulseaudio.......................................... : 13
14: usb recogized in virtualbox??.................................. : 13
15: Missing Title Bars............................................. : 11
16: Using OpenOffice x86_64 rpm from openoffice.org................ : 11
17: eth0 won't start on boot....................................... : 10
18: OT Don't forget Tax Tea Party Day.............................. : 10
19: Mandriva 2008 Spamassassin..................................... : 9
20: KDE can't find mime type....................................... : 9

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Top 3 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.terrorism.world-trade-center............................... : 3
2: alt.os.linux.mandrake.......................................... : 1
3: comp.os.linux.security......................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode.......................................................... : 15
2: Pan............................................................ : 10
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11...................................... : 8
4: Mozilla........................................................ : 6
5: slrn........................................................... : 6
6: Forte Agent.................................................... : 2
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows.................................. : 2
8: Unknown........................................................ : 2
9: Gnus........................................................... : 1
10: G2............................................................. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: KNode..................................................... : 55 (27%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 30 (15%)
3: Pan....................................................... : 21 (10%)
4: Opera Mail................................................ : 21 (10%)
5: Mozilla................................................... : 21 (10%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11................................. : 16 ( 8%)
7: Forte Agent............................................... : 10 ( 5%)
8: Gnus...................................................... : 7 ( 3%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 7 ( 3%)
10: G2........................................................ : 3 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.......................................................... : 60
2: UTC............................................................ : 46
3: +0100.......................................................... : 23
4: -0500.......................................................... : 23
5: -0700.......................................................... : 20
6: +0200.......................................................... : 13
7: +1000.......................................................... : 8
8: -0300.......................................................... : 7
9: -0700 (PDT).................................................... : 3
10: -0600.......................................................... : 1

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