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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 13 23.2 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 9 19.6 Samuel Tribehou s.tribehou@cykia.com
3 7 15.7 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
4 6 20.8 Steve North clangers_snout@yahoo.co.u
5 5 21.9 JohnInSD At san DOT rr bitbucket@hotmail.com
6 5 14.2 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 5 8.7 jimbo jimbo@nospam.com
8 5 8.4 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
9 5 6.8 Bit Twister BitTwister@localhost.loca
10 4 15.0 Nicola Pedrozzi nikita@swissgalaxy.ch
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64 154.3 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
87 posters
178 articles
404.1 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
11.5% of the posters
36.0% of the articles
38.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
4.6 kbytes / poster

53 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 87 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
60.9% of the posters
48.9% of the articles
47.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
21 47.3 Is a swap partition still necessary in Linux?
20 60.9 Three newbie questions!
12 29.6 Installing Linux "more or less from scratch"
10 21.4 Backing up a LInux system
9 16.5 Updatedb -- is it truly necessary to run?
9 12.0 Beginner's Choice?
8 34.8 Again: LILO 22.5.9 still gives Error: duplicated volume ID
7 18.9 Unable to get net connection with Fedora Linux
6 10.4 tmpwatch and nfs
6 10.1 Starting Gnome Terminal in a directory

178 articles on 41 subjects
143 were followups (80.3%)
21 were crossposts (11.8%)

403.8 kbytes total
headers: 166.9kb 41.3%
quoted text: 80.9kb 20.0%
original text: 148.0kb 36.6%
signatures: 8.1kb 2.0%

Averages:
4.3 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
9.8 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
35 (19.7%) mozilla 19 21.8%
31 (17.4%) knode 12 13.8%
28 (15.7%) microsoft 12 13.8%
23 (12.9%) slrn 12 13.8%
10 (5.6%) tin 3 3.4%
8 (4.5%) pan 5 5.7%
6 (3.4%) forte 2 2.3%
4 (2.2%) gnus 3 3.4%
3 (1.7%) opera7.23 1 1.1%
3 (1.7%) knews 2 2.3%

17 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...