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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 24 43.3 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
2 14 47.6 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@verizon.net
3 13 23.3 cljlk cljlk@hotmail.com
4 10 16.6 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
5 9 12.1 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
6 7 14.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 7 13.3 knocte knocte@NO-SPAM-PLEASE-hot
8 7 10.6 Ken Loomis kloomis@notarealaddress.c
9 6 13.0 Michael C. mcsuper5@usol.com
10 6 8.7 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
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103 203.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
156 posters
333 articles
758.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.4% of the posters
30.9% of the articles
26.8% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
4.9 kbytes / poster

102 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 152 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
65.4% of the posters
45.6% of the articles
48.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
21 47.1 can't login as root
16 33.6 linux in local partition??
11 20.0 The LABEL in the filesystem table doesn't work
11 17.9 could not boot from RedHat 9.0 CD
10 16.7 Text intermittently 'vibrates' in X
10 16.6 couldn't start X server
9 17.1 REMINDER: Do not use your real email adddress
8 19.0 Can I give Linux a pre-existing partition?
8 12.2 HOWTO resize NTFS without losting data (fips on NTFS)
7 17.0 Mail Setup

333 articles on 103 subjects
256 were followups (76.9%)
81 were crossposts (24.3%)

757.8 kbytes total
headers: 325.9kb 43.0%
quoted text: 212.3kb 28.0%
original text: 202.5kb 26.7%
signatures: 17.1kb 2.3%

Averages:
3.2 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
7.4 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
78 (23.4%) mozilla 29 18.6%
64 (19.2%) knode 18 11.5%
39 (11.7%) slrn 17 10.9%
27 (8.1%) microsoft 23 14.7%
23 (6.9%) tin 7 4.5%
19 (5.7%) pan 9 5.8%
16 (4.8%) forte 6 3.8%
6 (1.8%) xnews 2 1.3%
4 (1.2%) gnus 3 1.9%
3 (0.9%) nn 1 0.6%

23 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...