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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 13 17.2 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
2 12 29.3 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 11 35.1 Gary R. Schmidt grschmidt@acm.org
4 10 28.7 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
5 8 12.4 Eli Aran eli_yardena@hotmail.com
6 7 19.3 Mark Hobley markhobley@hotpop.deletet
7 6 14.5 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
8 5 17.0 mark4asp mark4asp@ntlworld.com
9 3 10.0 B. Madhusudan bmp4153@hotmail.com
10 3 8.0 frank kahn39@sc.rr.com
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78 191.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
99 posters
199 articles
447.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
10.1% of the posters
39.2% of the articles
42.8% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.5 kbytes / poster

56 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 86 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
56.6% of the posters
43.2% of the articles
37.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
23 72.6 Linux distros... where do I start?
16 50.4 Old PC - ASUS P5A-B - Will not boot Linux (Ubuntu)
16 25.6 setup knoppix internet
7 19.2 Trouble creating root filesystem on 1.44MB diskette
7 13.8 Olympus D-540Z camera:
6 17.9 Partitioning problems on Maxtor 80Gb drive
6 11.6 Fedora2 and WinXP installation problem (not the XP corruption p
6 10.6 Mandrake 9.1 - No root user?
6 8.6 Suse 9.1 with 32 MB RAM
5 6.7 How do you reset the Master Boot Record?

199 articles on 63 subjects
151 were followups (75.9%)
55 were crossposts (27.6%)

447.2 kbytes total
headers: 197.9kb 44.3%
quoted text: 94.8kb 21.2%
original text: 143.5kb 32.1%
signatures: 10.9kb 2.4%

Averages:
3.2 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
7.1 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 34 ***
Tuesday 20 **
Wednesday 19 *
Thursday 24 **
Friday 33 ***
Saturday 32 ***
Sunday 36 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
43 (21.6%) microsoft 19 19.2%
32 (16.1%) mozilla 15 15.2%
27 (13.6%) knode 10 10.1%
24 (12.1%) tin 3 3.0%
12 (6.0%) pan 8 8.1%
11 (5.5%) slrn 8 8.1%
11 (5.5%) forte 5 5.1%
2 (1.0%) turnpike 2 2.0%
2 (1.0%) post-direct 1 1.0%
1 (0.5%) xnews 1 1.0%

19 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...