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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 10 12.8 mc wcwall.awm@verizon.net
2 9 19.1 fetag casmyu@gmail.com
3 8 17.5 Bit Twister BitTwister@mouse-potato.c
4 7 18.3 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
5 7 16.0 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
6 7 13.8 Bill Marcum marcumbill@bellsouth.net
7 6 16.2 JM j@ver.net
8 6 14.1 jayjwa jayjwa@vdrl.ath.cx.invali
9 5 11.3 bakhtiari.reza@gmail.co bakhtiari.reza@gmail.com
10 4 55.4 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
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69 194.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
72 posters
170 articles
416.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
13.9% of the posters
40.6% of the articles
46.7% of the bytes

Averages:
2.4 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
5.8 kbytes / poster

3 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 3 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
4.2% of the posters
1.8% of the articles
1.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 33.0 Firewalls, antivirus, etc
14 30.6 can not boot from DVD
13 31.1 Grub Manual Install Question
12 30.8 Partition troubles on a GIANT storage server
9 24.4 installing Fedora 8
9 20.1 How to bootloader my OS kernel with grub
9 14.4 does Linux have a registry?
6 14.9 Final report was Re: Problems with udev
5 10.8 tcp window size of 1
4 55.4 A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first i

170 articles on 45 subjects
133 were followups (78.2%)
23 were crossposts (13.5%)

416.5 kbytes total
headers: 186.3kb 44.7%
quoted text: 80.3kb 19.3%
original text: 143.6kb 34.5%
signatures: 6.2kb 1.5%

Averages:
3.8 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
9.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 23 **
Tuesday 26 **
Wednesday 31 ***
Thursday 39 ***
Friday 17 *
Saturday 10 *
Sunday 24 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
50 (29.4%) g2 26 36.1%
30 (17.6%) slrn 13 18.1%
20 (11.8%) thunderbird 7 9.7%
11 (6.5%) microsoft 2 2.8%
8 (4.7%) pan 3 4.2%
8 (4.7%) knode 3 4.2%
7 (4.1%) nn 1 1.4%
7 (4.1%) gnus 2 2.8%
4 (2.4%) post-direct 1 1.4%
3 (1.8%) mozilla 1 1.4%

21 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

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

Have a lot of fun...