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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 10 18.7 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
2 10 15.6 Maurice Batey maurice@eurobell.antispam
3 8 12.9 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
4 7 14.0 =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=D0or=F0 grabulj@sezampro.yu
5 4 11.2 Charles Sullivan cwsulliv@triad.rr.com
6 3 7.9 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
7 3 5.6 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ga=E9tan gmarti@pasdespammediom.qc
8 3 5.0 P.T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
9 3 4.2 Jean-Paul Le Fevre lefevre@hep.saclay.cea.fr
10 3 4.0 Andy Fraser andyfraser31@hotmail.com
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54 99.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
84 posters
142 articles
299.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
11.9% of the posters
38.0% of the articles
33.1% of the bytes

Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
3.6 kbytes / poster

60 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 82 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
71.4% of the posters
57.7% of the articles
52.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 27.3 Knoppix 3.4: How to get '|' character on keyboard
10 14.7 umount fails, fuser silent
8 18.3 minimal linux install from iso...
8 16.5 MD 10: lilo troubles (volume, raid nonsense)
7 14.6 Nvidia video driver question?
7 11.9 No init found (after reset)
5 11.7 Boot Problem after Install
5 10.1 fedora core 1, system standby
5 8.9 a strange problem with modules 1/4... debian kernel 2.6.7-1-386
4 5.9 Newbie Question About Swap Partition

142 articles on 48 subjects
103 were followups (72.5%)
35 were crossposts (24.6%)

298.7 kbytes total
headers: 137.3kb 46.0%
quoted text: 53.3kb 17.8%
original text: 102.9kb 34.4%
signatures: 5.2kb 1.8%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
6.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 18 ******************
Tuesday 24 ************************
Wednesday 33 *********************************
Thursday 22 **********************
Friday 25 *************************
Saturday 10 **********
Sunday 10 **********

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
31 (21.8%) mozilla 19 22.6%
23 (16.2%) knode 10 11.9%
19 (13.4%) slrn 11 13.1%
19 (13.4%) pan 7 8.3%
16 (11.3%) microsoft 11 13.1%
6 (4.2%) tin 4 4.8%
2 (1.4%) turnpike 2 2.4%
2 (1.4%) post-direct 1 1.2%
2 (1.4%) forte 1 1.2%
1 (0.7%) virtual 1 1.2%

14 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...