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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 7 9.5 spike1@freenet.co.uk spike1@freenet.co.uk
2 6 8.8 John Thompson john@starfleet.os2.dhs.or
3 5 11.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
4 4 10.6 Tim it2gati@ituniv.se
5 4 9.2 David thunderbolt01@netscape.ne
6 4 8.5 Alan Mackenzie acm@muc.de
7 4 8.4 anthonyi anthony.i67_xxx@ntlworld_
8 4 7.3 tim wunder twunder@REMOVEcomcast.net
9 3 10.9 Bill Unruh unruh@string.physics.ubc.
10 3 7.5 Mike ckimyt@yahoo.com
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44 92.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
112 posters
186 articles
375.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
8.9% of the posters
23.7% of the articles
24.6% of the bytes

Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.0 kbytes / article
3.4 kbytes / poster

63 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 93 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
56.2% of the posters
50.0% of the articles
48.7% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
11 19.2 Linux 9 Bug/Black Screen?
8 16.9 Adding eth1 causes nameserver problems
7 16.5 Numlock not working
7 14.5 linux newb install question (xp dual boot)
7 13.2 Boot prompt
7 12.3 RedHat replacement
6 14.6 Suse 8.0: How do I get a pure text tty1?
6 9.3 Fedora Core 2 Problems
5 13.9 Problem booting from CD after adding Belkin ATA/133 card
5 7.8 alsa project

186 articles on 68 subjects
132 were followups (71.0%)
27 were crossposts (14.5%)

375.3 kbytes total
headers: 170.5kb 45.4%
quoted text: 69.3kb 18.5%
original text: 127.2kb 33.9%
signatures: 8.3kb 2.2%

Averages:
2.7 articles / subject
2.0 kbytes / article
5.5 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
37 (19.9%) mozilla 20 17.9%
29 (15.6%) microsoft 18 16.1%
22 (11.8%) tin 7 6.2%
18 (9.7%) slrn 11 9.8%
18 (9.7%) knode 15 13.4%
12 (6.5%) pan 8 7.1%
6 (3.2%) forte 6 5.4%
4 (2.2%) xnews 3 2.7%
4 (2.2%) nn 2 1.8%
3 (1.6%) gnus 1 0.9%

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...