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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 16 27.0 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
2 9 29.1 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
3 9 28.2 linuxquestion@yahoo.com linuxquestion@yahoo.com
4 9 16.5 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 8 16.1 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
6 7 19.6 Alex alex@totallynerd.com
7 7 16.9 Howard J. Rogers hjr@dizwell.com
8 6 15.8 Lenard lenard@127.0.0.1
9 6 12.0 Wee Bit Tall just@the.zoo
10 5 13.1 Chris Cox ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.
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82 194.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
152 posters
299 articles
736.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.6% of the posters
27.4% of the articles
26.4% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
4.8 kbytes / poster

91 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 133 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.9% of the posters
44.5% of the articles
44.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
24 53.2 SWEN virus.
16 38.8 Vmware 2.04 upgrade patch?
13 38.9 Fedora and PCMCIA support - upgrade kernel?
11 28.9 How to PERMANENTLY set semaphores in Linux - Suse Personal Edit
10 20.7 Recommended Linux for Oracle RAC, Oracle apps, Ias
10 17.2 Can't use my CDROM anymore?
8 14.2 Partitionen verkleinern?????
6 22.5 FTP over PPP stalls out
6 14.8 problem with Broadcom Ethernet card and RH 7.2
6 12.1 SuSE 8.1: rpm segfaults

299 articles on 90 subjects
228 were followups (76.3%)
104 were crossposts (34.8%)

735.9 kbytes total
headers: 296.9kb 40.3%
quoted text: 176.7kb 24.0%
original text: 247.1kb 33.6%
signatures: 15.2kb 2.1%

Averages:
3.3 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
8.2 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
55 (18.4%) mozilla 31 20.4%
42 (14.0%) microsoft 22 14.5%
26 (8.7%) slrn 16 10.5%
26 (8.7%) knode 18 11.8%
25 (8.4%) tin 6 3.9%
25 (8.4%) pan 15 9.9%
17 (5.7%) sylpheed 2 1.3%
10 (3.3%) forte 5 3.3%
5 (1.7%) xnews 3 2.0%
3 (1.0%) trn 2 1.3%

18 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...