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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 17 53.3 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 14 31.1 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
3 11 19.6 Paulo R. Dallan prdolc@yahoo.com.br
4 9 20.8 Hiawatha Bray watha@monitortan.com
5 9 19.6 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
6 8 11.1 Keith Ng ngkeith@triumf.ca
7 7 14.7 Johan Lindquist spam@smilfinken.net
8 6 12.5 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
9 5 15.6 jonesbr@sbcglobal.net jonesbr@sbcglobal.net
10 5 11.6 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
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91 209.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
143 posters
300 articles
653.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
7.0% of the posters
30.3% of the articles
32.1% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.6 kbytes / poster

86 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 145 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
60.1% of the posters
48.3% of the articles
43.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
29 79.0 Best way to "Clone" a Linux Hard drive?
18 36.2 Why can't Linux see my NIC?
15 33.2 Windows 2000 Source Code File
12 33.8 RH9 GRUB error: mixed IDE/SCSI, no boot floppy
11 26.3 problem compiling kernel
9 17.4 How to add user 'root' on new installed system (LFS)
9 14.3 modules compiling problem
8 21.7 How to Install Linux So That it Boots
8 18.2 RH 9.0 Can't mount second hard drive
7 13.2 rerun of lilo necessary?

300 articles on 85 subjects
229 were followups (76.3%)
55 were crossposts (18.3%)

653.1 kbytes total
headers: 294.8kb 45.1%
quoted text: 138.1kb 21.2%
original text: 203.4kb 31.2%
signatures: 16.8kb 2.6%

Averages:
3.5 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
7.7 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
55 (18.3%) mozilla 22 15.4%
50 (16.7%) microsoft 22 15.4%
37 (12.3%) tin 10 7.0%
35 (11.7%) knode 14 9.8%
25 (8.3%) pan 13 9.1%
21 (7.0%) slrn 13 9.1%
13 (4.3%) gnus 6 4.2%
4 (1.3%) trn 3 2.1%
3 (1.0%) nn 1 0.7%
3 (1.0%) forte 3 2.1%

19 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...