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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 77 204.9 Thufir Hawat thufir.hawat@mail.com
2 35 48.4 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
3 22 60.9 Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com
4 20 48.4 Tom F. furtom2001@india.com
5 13 36.6 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
6 13 30.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
7 12 34.5 prg rdgentry1@cablelynx.com
8 12 26.9 Tom F. fur_tom502@earthlink.nosp
9 12 20.3 Mark South marksouth@null.invalid
10 9 29.6 Leonard Evens len@math.northwestern.edu
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225 540.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
118 posters
458 articles
1066.9 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
8.5% of the posters
49.1% of the articles
50.7% of the bytes

Averages:
3.9 articles / poster
2.3 kbytes / article
9.0 kbytes / poster

59 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 121 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
50.0% of the posters
26.4% of the articles
23.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
55 123.2 make win98 boot from cd?
40 127.2 kernel source for fedora
23 54.3 debian sarge 2.6.11 kernel?
19 45.5 This also happened to me, easy to fix...
19 44.9 Permanently disable mouse acceleration
19 37.5 Grub-question when performing Kernel-upgrade
16 28.6 how do i begin!!
16 26.5 fedora upgrade help
13 17.0 mount: special device dev/hda2 does not exist
11 33.2 Big-disk woes

458 articles on 85 subjects
392 were followups (85.6%)
26 were crossposts (5.7%)

1065.7 kbytes total
headers: 495.3kb 46.5%
quoted text: 203.8kb 19.1%
original text: 345.5kb 32.4%
signatures: 21.1kb 2.0%

Averages:
5.4 articles / subject
2.3 kbytes / article
12.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 74 *******
Tuesday 89 ********
Wednesday 79 *******
Thursday 77 *******
Friday 46 ****
Saturday 38 ***
Sunday 54 *****
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
154 (33.6%) g2 29 24.6%
66 (14.4%) mozilla 22 18.6%
62 (13.5%) knode 12 10.2%
53 (11.6%) microsoft 19 16.1%
41 (9.0%) tin 6 5.1%
25 (5.5%) pan 7 5.9%
22 (4.8%) slrn 12 10.2%
6 (1.3%) xnews 2 1.7%
6 (1.3%) nn 3 2.5%
6 (1.3%) gnus 2 1.7%

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...