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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 26 61.9 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 17 41.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
3 9 15.3 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
4 8 26.2 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
5 7 11.5 Maurice Batey maurice@eurobell.antispam
6 5 18.3 imotgm imotgm_REMOVE@invalid-yah
7 5 12.0 P Gentry rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
8 5 10.6 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
9 4 9.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
10 3 14.2 David Breakey david@dbreakey.org
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89 220.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
85 posters
194 articles
448.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
11.8% of the posters
45.9% of the articles
49.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.3 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
56.5% of the posters
32.5% of the articles
27.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
26 93.1 GRUB hang dual booted system
17 38.3 how can I upgrade an old RedHat distro ?
13 26.0 Backing up a LInux system
12 28.0 Advice on mixed Linux/Windows student lab?
11 23.0 Hmmm...how to see Windows from LInux?
11 21.5 Why OS takes so much memory?
9 16.8 Any way to avoid using GRUB
7 18.4 Newbie Question About Swap Partition
6 10.7 minimal linux install from iso...
6 9.4 KNotify going in an endless loop

194 articles on 43 subjects
161 were followups (83.0%)
25 were crossposts (12.9%)

448.1 kbytes total
headers: 190.6kb 42.5%
quoted text: 95.4kb 21.3%
original text: 151.6kb 33.8%
signatures: 10.4kb 2.3%

Averages:
4.5 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
10.4 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
56 (28.9%) knode 16 18.8%
32 (16.5%) microsoft 10 11.8%
20 (10.3%) mozilla 15 17.6%
18 (9.3%) pan 6 7.1%
13 (6.7%) slrn 10 11.8%
12 (6.2%) tin 2 2.4%
4 (2.1%) xnews 2 2.4%
3 (1.5%) gnus 2 2.4%
3 (1.5%) evolution 1 1.2%
2 (1.0%) yarn 1 1.2%

18 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...