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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 12 28.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 8 15.8 elanore kntchbll@yahoo.com
3 5 14.6 Peter T. Breuer ptb@lab.it.uc3m.es
4 5 12.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 4 10.8 Menno Duursma pan@desktop.lan
6 4 7.2 justme gonzyyyy@hotmail.com
7 4 7.0 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
8 4 6.5 Neil Zanella nzanella@cs.mun.ca
9 3 7.3 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
10 3 5.9 Ewan noone@nospam.com
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52 115.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
74 posters
141 articles
313.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
13.5% of the posters
36.9% of the articles
36.8% of the bytes

Averages:
1.9 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.2 kbytes / poster

49 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 77 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
66.2% of the posters
54.6% of the articles
49.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
11 26.9 Help needed for RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 with Marvell Yukon
10 22.8 486 Laptop
10 20.8 New to linux, 2 hard drives, dual boot
8 17.5 free space: discording info between df and du
8 17.0 Crontab help
7 12.5 MBR, LILO, GRUB, DOS, DEBIAN
5 10.0 Serial console access: need help
5 9.4 Fedora 3 on PC with unbootable CD
5 9.3 Need help printer setup on Redhat Linux
5 7.9 Linux: remote desktop connection to Windows XP

141 articles on 42 subjects
104 were followups (73.8%)
14 were crossposts (9.9%)

313.3 kbytes total
headers: 142.4kb 45.4%
quoted text: 54.3kb 17.3%
original text: 111.7kb 35.6%
signatures: 5.0kb 1.6%

Averages:
3.4 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
7.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 20 **
Tuesday 20 **
Wednesday 21 **
Thursday 17 *
Friday 16 *
Saturday 29 **
Sunday 18 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
31 (22.0%) g2 17 23.0%
20 (14.2%) microsoft 4 5.4%
19 (13.5%) mozilla 15 20.3%
12 (8.5%) slrn 6 8.1%
11 (7.8%) tin 3 4.1%
9 (6.4%) knode 7 9.5%
7 (5.0%) pan 4 5.4%
7 (5.0%) forte 4 5.4%
3 (2.1%) opera 1 1.4%
3 (2.1%) gnus 2 2.7%

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...