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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 25 53.2 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 24 70.0 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
3 14 37.5 Eric Moors scare.crow@oz.land
4 11 18.5 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 8 18.0 Peter T. Breuer ptb@it.uc3m.es
6 8 15.6 Alan Connor zzzzzz@xxx.yyy
7 6 17.6 The little lost angel a?n?g?e?l@lovergirl.lrigr
8 6 12.4 Rick NOSPAMusenet555@lycos.co.
9 6 8.6 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
10 5 9.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
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113 260.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
135 posters
318 articles
707.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.4% of the posters
35.5% of the articles
36.9% of the bytes

Averages:
2.4 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
5.2 kbytes / poster

78 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 125 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
57.8% of the posters
39.3% of the articles
37.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
28 46.4 Where does PATH get set for root user?
15 58.1 disk space
13 24.8 vsftpd setup
12 26.4 Trying to boot Linux from my second Hard Disk.
10 33.0 Mandrake Woes
10 21.3 New Kernel - VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 304 or unknown-blo
9 27.6 Recommend Linux Distro, Mail/MTA/FTP daemon?
9 24.5 Partitioning a new HD for dual boot
8 21.9 Flakey Server can't initiate a network connection.
8 11.8 Setting up a Linux

318 articles on 82 subjects
253 were followups (79.6%)
24 were crossposts (7.5%)

706.7 kbytes total
headers: 317.9kb 45.0%
quoted text: 164.7kb 23.3%
original text: 210.9kb 29.8%
signatures: 13.2kb 1.9%

Averages:
3.9 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
8.6 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
62 (19.5%) mozilla 23 17.0%
51 (16.0%) knode 16 11.9%
36 (11.3%) pan 15 11.1%
35 (11.0%) slrn 15 11.1%
32 (10.1%) microsoft 18 13.3%
26 (8.2%) tin 6 4.4%
18 (5.7%) forte 10 7.4%
3 (0.9%) trn 1 0.7%
3 (0.9%) opera7.11 1 0.7%
3 (0.9%) nn 1 0.7%

16 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...