Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

External Since: Aug 19, 2003 Posts: 384

Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 29 45.7 Sybren Stuvel sybrenUSE@YOURthirdtower.
2 16 30.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 12 20.0 OSIRIS nobody.RemoveThis@noplace.com
4 9 19.0 Vwakes vwakeNOSPAM100.RemoveThis@softhome.n
5 9 13.9 Peter T. Breuer ptb.RemoveThis@oboe.it.uc3m.es
6 9 11.6 David Solbach Bush.RemoveThis@nerv-uns.net
7 8 19.2 Spoofed Existence spoofedexistence@hotmail.
8 8 18.0 Bill Unruh unruh.RemoveThis@string.physics.ubc.
9 8 14.1 Johann Koenig explosive.RemoveThis@att.net
10 8 12.6 Dave Uhring daveuhring.RemoveThis@yahoo.com
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116 204.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
185 posters
448 articles
810.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
5.4% of the posters
25.9% of the articles
25.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.4 articles / poster
1.8 kbytes / article
4.4 kbytes / poster

99 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 177 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
53.5% of the posters
39.5% of the articles
37.6% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 37.5 Use "SU" on one line
15 37.8 Please don't make linux=M$Window$
15 22.5 Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days) probably broken!
14 45.3 My experiences trying to leverage the power of Linux in the ent
13 22.4 RedHat Internet installation
13 19.4 slrn? please help Smile

12 19.2 Redhat 9.0/Windows XP pro dual boot
10 20.1 Help - Disributioni recomendation???
9 16.9 Samba smb.conf file
9 13.2 Newbie: creating new text file from command line

448 articles on 122 subjects
349 were followups (77.9%)
58 were crossposts (12.9%)

809.1 kbytes total
headers: 425.4kb 52.6%
quoted text: 143.2kb 17.7%
original text: 216.7kb 26.8%
signatures: 23.8kb 2.9%

Averages:
3.7 articles / subject
1.8 kbytes / article
6.6 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

0 different newsreader have been used (versions unacounted)

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

Have a lot of fun...

External Since: Jul 10, 2003 Posts: 5

On Sunday June 29, 2003 at 23:56
Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
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> 809.1 kbytes total
> headers: 425.4kb 52.6%

That one there kind of scares me. People are always complaining people
should trim their posts (which they should), maybe a better solution
would be to trim the headers. Of course, there is really no easy way to
do this (that I can think of).

> quoted text: 143.2kb 17.7%
> original text: 216.7kb 26.8%
> signatures: 23.8kb 2.9%

But the .sigs one seems about right.

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