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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 17 37.3 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 14 20.0 mjt mjtobler@removethis_mail.
3 8 13.9 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
4 7 19.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 6 7.8 Jack// ani nospam4u_jack@yahoo.com
6 5 8.8 Erik T. et@homeplanet.universe
7 5 8.7 yvan@ideasdesign.com yvan@ideasdesign.com
8 4 10.7 Bill Davidsen davidsen@deathstar.prodig
9 4 9.3 Tauno Voipio tauno.voipio@iki.fi.NOSPA
10 4 7.4 Andreas Janssen andreas.janssen@bigfoot.c
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74 143.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
119 posters
219 articles
482.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
8.4% of the posters
33.8% of the articles
29.8% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.1 kbytes / poster

68 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 96 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
57.1% of the posters
43.8% of the articles
42.2% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 35.5 duplicate Linux installation
10 18.0 Adding a new user?
8 21.7 Recompile kernel 2.4.18 on Debian 3.0r1
8 21.5 What to get
8 17.3 Terrible Web Surfing Speed
8 14.6 How to write on a NTFS partition
7 13.7 I gave up (was: Big-disk woes)
7 12.6 Stop looking for my hde and hdg drives during boot!
6 10.5 Funny Mandrake 10, wont recon USR h/w modem on ttyS4
6 9.1 Firewall for Linux

219 articles on 77 subjects
162 were followups (74.0%)
27 were crossposts (12.3%)

482.2 kbytes total
headers: 220.8kb 45.8%
quoted text: 85.1kb 17.6%
original text: 167.4kb 34.7%
signatures: 9.0kb 1.9%

Averages:
2.8 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 37 ***
Tuesday 31 ***
Wednesday 30 ***
Thursday 30 ***
Friday 21 **
Saturday 36 ***
Sunday 34 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
47 (21.5%) mozilla 27 22.7%
43 (19.6%) g2 26 21.8%
34 (15.5%) knode 15 12.6%
32 (14.6%) microsoft 14 11.8%
20 (9.1%) slrn 10 8.4%
12 (5.5%) tin 6 5.0%
6 (2.7%) pan 5 4.2%
4 (1.8%) forte 3 2.5%
3 (1.4%) nn 3 2.5%
2 (0.9%) xrn 1 0.8%

15 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...