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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 26 71.2 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 22 37.8 Keyser Soze Verbal@Kint.com
3 15 46.3 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
4 14 26.4 DarkMatter DarkMatter@thebarattheend
5 11 20.8 mjt mjtobler@removethis_consu
6 10 21.4 Leon. leon@noteon.net
7 9 16.9 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
8 8 13.0 TehGhodTrole nospam@rainx.cjb.net
9 7 16.5 Krusty danparker276@yahoo.com
10 6 14.9 Ken Kauffman kkauffman@nospam.headfog.
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128 285.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
123 posters
306 articles
660.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
8.1% of the posters
41.8% of the articles
43.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.5 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
5.4 kbytes / poster

79 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 147 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
64.2% of the posters
48.0% of the articles
44.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
51 92.8 Dual booting XP, Linux with Grub, on Dell
18 43.8 Unplug a scsi drive and boot dies
11 33.0 Help!: debian partitioning
10 28.7 Harddrive performance: Promise SATA RAID under Redhat 9
9 25.7 Problem with Linux network
9 22.3 Many (more than one) linux installations on a HD
9 20.8 Using Suse packages in Redhat Advanced server
9 18.9 resolv.conf
8 19.1 RAID5 performance
8 13.8 Windows has wrong drive letter

306 articles on 80 subjects
248 were followups (81.0%)
43 were crossposts (14.1%)

659.9 kbytes total
headers: 323.2kb 49.0%
quoted text: 143.8kb 21.8%
original text: 181.3kb 27.5%
signatures: 11.6kb 1.8%

Averages:
3.8 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
8.2 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
80 (26.1%) microsoft 26 21.1%
29 (9.5%) mozilla 22 17.9%
26 (8.5%) tin 4 3.3%
21 (6.9%) pan 14 11.4%
20 (6.5%) forte 5 4.1%
12 (3.9%) slrn 5 4.1%
11 (3.6%) sylpheed 1 0.8%
11 (3.6%) knode 8 6.5%
6 (2.0%) trn 3 2.4%
6 (2.0%) gnus 5 4.1%

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...