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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 23 54.5 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@verizon.net
2 14 30.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
3 8 16.0 Timo Voipio tvoipio+newsharvest@iki.f
4 7 12.8 Dave Uhring daveuhring@yahoo.com
5 6 16.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
6 6 11.4 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com
7 6 9.1 Antoine Logean al@biolinux.ch
8 5 16.6 johninsd at san dot rr bitbucket@hotmail.com
9 5 9.6 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
10 5 8.5 Chris Dean me@[remove this]christoph
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85 185.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
122 posters
247 articles
537.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
8.2% of the posters
34.4% of the articles
34.6% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.4 kbytes / poster

69 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 103 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
56.6% of the posters
41.7% of the articles
40.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
28 73.3 disk image creation & restauration
19 33.2 root equivalent user
14 26.8 redhat up2date
9 17.5 Floppy boot option in Lilo
7 11.4 sparce email server distro
7 10.6 where are the partitions?
6 13.8 Linux Users $699 License Fee is Now Due and Enforceable -- NOT!
6 13.2 Linux Users $699 License Fee is Now Due and Enforceable
5 11.7 Newbie builds a RAID system
5 9.3 Mail loops back to me (MX problem?)

247 articles on 81 subjects
178 were followups (72.1%)
10 were crossposts (4.0%)

536.9 kbytes total
headers: 235.7kb 43.9%
quoted text: 98.3kb 18.3%
original text: 191.0kb 35.6%
signatures: 11.9kb 2.2%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
6.6 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
64 (25.9%) mozilla 20 16.4%
35 (14.2%) microsoft 22 18.0%
27 (10.9%) knode 18 14.8%
23 (9.3%) tin 6 4.9%
19 (7.7%) pan 8 6.6%
17 (6.9%) slrn 9 7.4%
17 (6.9%) forte 11 9.0%
3 (1.2%) pine 1 0.8%
2 (0.8%) post-direct 1 0.8%
1 (0.4%) xnews 1 0.8%

15 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...