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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 9 12.5 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
2 8 16.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 5 10.9 Jainesh Jogia onlineEERASE@swiftdsl.com
4 4 7.7 Bernard Peek bap@shrdlu.com
5 4 6.5 Me jdangler@atlantic.net
6 4 6.4 e7 see_website_for_email@www
7 4 5.2 faeychild deimos@yaahoo.com
8 3 10.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
9 3 7.4 MS matthews@mailsnare.---noj
10 3 7.4 Abdullah Ramazanoglu ar018@yahoo.cöm
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47 90.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
76 posters
133 articles
263.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
13.2% of the posters
35.3% of the articles
34.4% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.0 kbytes / article
3.5 kbytes / poster

50 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 70 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
65.8% of the posters
52.6% of the articles
46.7% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
13 26.2 Fedora 2
8 13.8 New SuSE 9.1 installation and grub
7 20.2 Finding a modem with COM/IRQ jumpers
5 9.9 missing .so's
5 8.4 how do arithmetic operations with floating point no in shell sc
5 7.3 triple boot Windows XP and linux
5 6.9 unable to mount cdrom (busy)
4 8.5 MySql remote connectiion / access host problem.
4 5.6 Partition mix up
3 6.7 xwindows help

133 articles on 52 subjects
91 were followups (68.4%)
34 were crossposts (25.6%)

263.2 kbytes total
headers: 120.6kb 45.8%
quoted text: 44.5kb 16.9%
original text: 91.0kb 34.6%
signatures: 7.1kb 2.7%

Averages:
2.6 articles / subject
2.0 kbytes / article
5.1 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
36 (27.1%) knode 17 22.4%
18 (13.5%) microsoft 12 15.8%
16 (12.0%) mozilla 12 15.8%
13 (9.8%) pan 7 9.2%
12 (9.0%) tin 3 3.9%
8 (6.0%) slrn 6 7.9%
4 (3.0%) turnpike 1 1.3%
2 (1.5%) post-direct 1 1.3%
2 (1.5%) nn 1 1.3%
1 (0.8%) xnews 1 1.3%

12 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...