Following is a summary of articles spanning a 31 day period,
beginning at 01 Jul 2003 00:32:43 GMT and ending at
31 Jul 2003 23:10:41 GMT.

Notes
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- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
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Totals
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Posters: 260
Articles: 873 (167 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 247
Volume generated: 2474.6 kb
- headers: 683.0 kb (14,133 lines)
- bodies: 1735.1 kb (46,949 lines)
- original: 1038.2 kb (27,744 lines)
- signatures: 55.7 kb (1,429 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.598

Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.4
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 126 posters
s: 5.4 posts
Posts per thread: 3.5
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 70 threads
s: 3.7 posts
Message size: 2902.6 bytes
- header: 801.1 bytes (16.2 lines)
- body: 2035.2 bytes (53.8 lines)
- original: 1217.7 bytes (31.8 lines)
- signature: 65.3 bytes (1.6 lines)

Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------

41 110.4 ( 32.0/ 78.4/ 34.4) kagel@bloomberg.net
35 72.1 ( 25.0/ 26.0/ 9.7) Mark D. Stock
33 65.4 ( 24.0/ 39.3/ 17.6) Neil Truby
29 74.6 ( 30.2/ 39.5/ 17.5) Jonathan Leffler
27 60.5 ( 24.2/ 30.6/ 4.2) paul@oninit.com
25 49.2 ( 16.1/ 31.0/ 25.5) Andrew Hamm
24 29.0 ( 15.7/ 13.4/ 4.7) John Carlson
16 67.7 ( 13.2/ 54.5/ 5.6) Madison Pruet
16 45.1 ( 11.2/ 33.9/ 18.9) Chavan Koya
15 28.2 ( 10.1/ 18.1/ 11.5) rkusenet

These posters accounted for 29.9% of all articles.

Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------

236.1 ( 7.7/228.4/224.2) 9 Jay
110.4 ( 32.0/ 78.4/ 34.4) 41 kagel@bloomberg.net
93.1 ( 3.6/ 89.5/ 5.4) 5 Bill Dare
83.6 ( 10.4/ 73.2/ 39.7) 14 Rajasekaran, Rajesh
74.6 ( 30.2/ 39.5/ 17.5) 29 Jonathan Leffler
73.2 ( 2.2/ 71.0/ 68.1) 3 Martin, Wayne E.
72.1 ( 25.0/ 26.0/ 9.7) 35 Mark D. Stock
67.7 ( 13.2/ 54.5/ 5.6) 16 Madison Pruet
65.4 ( 24.0/ 39.3/ 17.6) 33 Neil Truby
60.5 ( 24.2/ 30.6/ 4.2) 27 paul@oninit.com

These posters accounted for 37.9% of the total volume.

Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------

1.000 ( 3.5 / 3.5) 5 Marino Decaro
0.992 ( 15.2 / 15.3) 5 Zunino, Kathy
0.982 (224.2 /228.4) 9 Jay
0.943 ( 23.4 / 24.8) 9 Rajib Sarkar
0.933 ( 15.6 / 16.7) 7 adam@morrison-ind.com
0.892 ( 17.7 / 19.8) 7 Weallans, Malcolm
0.831 ( 4.7 / 5.7) 6 markbtownsend@attbi.com
0.824 ( 25.5 / 31.0) 25 Andrew Hamm
0.746 ( 2.7 / 3.6) 8 Kristofer Andersson
0.636 ( 11.5 / 18.1) 15 rkusenet

Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------

0.334 ( 1.0 / 2.9) 5 Ronald Cole
0.323 ( 4.1 / 12.6) 5 anon
0.273 ( 3.1 / 11.5) 12 Jean Sagi
0.255 ( 2.6 / 10.1) 8 abdoell
0.244 ( 3.9 / 15.9) 6 Brice Avila
0.210 ( 3.7 / 17.6) 12 David Williams
0.157 ( 5.4 / 34.8) 9 Michael Mueller
0.136 ( 4.2 / 30.6) 27 paul@oninit.com
0.103 ( 5.6 / 54.5) 16 Madison Pruet
0.061 ( 5.4 / 89.5) 5 Bill Dare

Top 10 Largest Signatures
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(bytes)
size / lines Posts Signed Address
-------------- ----- ------ -------

( 3440 / 75) 5 1 John_Thomas@ao.uscourts.gov
( 1348 / 40) 1 1 Eric Herber
( 1317 / 33) 1 1 Vardan Aroustamian
( 1205 / 20) 7 2 Weallans, Malcolm
( 1190 / 25) 5 1 Zunino, Kathy
( 1115 / 34) 1 1 William Fields
( 676 / 19) 12 11 Jean Sagi
( 623 / 24) 33 5 Neil Truby
( 617 / 12) 35 35 Mark D. Stock
( 579 / 30) 2 2 Thomas.Mieslinger@gls-germany.com

if you quote previous article in a non-standard way, it may look
like you have a signature containing more text than reality.


41 posters (15%) had at least five posts.

Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
----- -------

38 ORACLE RAC CRASHES ORBITZ
21 Informix and Lawson Software
17 Passport Advantage
16 Alarm program on IDS9.30UC1
14 create temp table with no log
13 IDS FCx on HP-UX 11.11
12 Max size allowed in creation of dbspace
11 What is Informix?
10 Down grade from 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6
10 book

These threads accounted for 18.6% of all articles.

Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------

135.5 ( 2.3/133.3/133.2) 3 performance problems due to lock waits?
135.0 ( 1.6/133.3/ 66.2) 2 Too many Locks
91.4 ( 44.2/ 47.1/ 24.2) 38 ORACLE RAC CRASHES ORBITZ
63.6 ( 1.0/ 62.6/ 62.6) 1 performance problems due to spin waits?
58.9 ( 1.9/ 57.0/ 28.2) 2 ER problem 9.3.UC2 / linux
51.3 ( 6.9/ 44.5/ 22.7) 9 Clarfication on reorg of critical dbspace...
50.1 ( 14.8/ 32.6/ 18.2) 21 Informix and Lawson Software
42.2 ( 3.7/ 38.5/ 29.6) 5 How to create a table with dynamic table name
38.2 ( 7.2/ 30.0/ 15.8) 10 Down grade from 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6
37.6 ( 2.3/ 35.0/ 17.3) 3 Spin locks bringing system to a crawl

These threads accounted for 28.4% of the total volume.

Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------

0.872 ( 7.8/ 8.9) 5 Onaudit
0.872 ( 4.4/ 5.0) 5 informix backup
0.821 ( 5.9/ 7.2) 7 dbexport did not create indexes
0.816 ( 3.4/ 4.2) 5 oracle cache fusion against informix XPS?
0.768 ( 29.6/ 38.5) 5 How to create a table with dynamic table name
0.756 ( 12.1/ 15.9) 8 index duplicates PK, is it redundant?
0.729 ( 4.8/ 6.6) 10 book
0.728 ( 3.8/ 5.2) 7 Can't find the Informix 2.81 UC2 CSDK
0.718 ( 4.3/ 6.0) 5 Specify user in sql statement
0.716 ( 14.3/ 19.9) 9 Informix Data Masks

Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================

(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------

0.349 ( 9.8 / 28.0) 5 Unexpected behavior
0.341 ( 6.7 / 19.6) 6 Informix 9.4 install failed
0.329 ( 1.2 / 3.8) 5 Alter Fragment Problems with Serial8
0.324 ( 4.1 / 12.6) 5 Informix under Linux - real crap !
0.322 ( 1.3 / 3.9) 5 Informix 7.31, oncheck and locking
0.313 ( 3.7 / 11.9) 7 Antwort: Re: IDS 9.x stability on Solaris vs Linux
0.308 ( 3.8 / 12.2) 16 Alarm program on IDS9.30UC1
0.284 ( 3.9 / 13.6) 6 Informix crashes with wrong datatype in stored procedure
0.253 ( 5.9 / 23.2) 8 Level 2 ODBC Drivers for IDS
0.205 ( 5.8 / 28.4) 6 Any ideas

58 threads (23%) had at least five posts.

Top Targets for Crossposts
==========================

Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------

37 comp.databases.oracle.server
37 comp.databases.ibm-db2
1 comp.databases.oracle

Top 10 Crossposters
===================

Articles Address
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22 Daniel Morgan
8 Blair Adamache
6 Noons
4 Darin McBride
4 Mark A
4 Joel Garry
4 Tom Longfellow
4 Neil Truby
2 Nuno Souto
2 Andrew Hamm