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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 17 38.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@verizon.net
2 16 35.9 Ko Fei Pu kfpu@yahoo.com
3 12 25.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
4 12 22.4 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
5 11 21.5 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
6 8 10.1 Ken Loomis kloomis@notarealaddress.c
7 6 13.6 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
8 5 12.2 cdstrand cdstrand@cdstrand.com
9 5 11.3 Doug Laidlaw laidlaws@myaccess.com.au
10 5 9.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
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97 200.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
142 posters
288 articles
602.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.0% of the posters
33.7% of the articles
33.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
4.2 kbytes / poster

102 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 164 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
71.8% of the posters
56.9% of the articles
57.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
17 36.3 FAT32 partition mount problem
13 23.2 GRUB question
11 31.4 Can't activate network device (NIC)
10 17.8 Installing from ISO disks
9 47.6 Modem Install Problems
9 18.5 Help: Triple boot Win XP, Win 98, and Linux (Updated)
9 16.9 2 GB memory limit
8 19.0 Lilo won't install on new ide hardisk
8 18.0 Two versions of Linux and Windows.
8 12.8 Linux 9

288 articles on 94 subjects
206 were followups (71.5%)
72 were crossposts (25.0%)

602.4 kbytes total
headers: 271.9kb 45.1%
quoted text: 115.4kb 19.2%
original text: 203.2kb 33.7%
signatures: 11.8kb 2.0%

Averages:
3.1 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
6.4 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
86 (29.9%) mozilla 27 19.0%
32 (11.1%) slrn 16 11.3%
29 (10.1%) microsoft 21 14.8%
26 (9.0%) knode 15 10.6%
25 (8.7%) tin 9 6.3%
22 (7.6%) forte 9 6.3%
17 (5.9%) pan 11 7.7%
4 (1.4%) gnus 3 2.1%
4 (1.4%) 40tude_dialog 2 1.4%
2 (0.7%) xnews 1 0.7%

17 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...