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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 17 41.5 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 8 22.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 4 7.7 vkj vkj_assign@yahoo.com
4 4 5.9 kai-martin knaak kmk@familieknaak.de
5 4 5.7 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com.urgent
6 3 7.1 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 3 5.2 Anton Erasmus nobody@spam.prevent.net
8 3 4.8 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
9 2 25.9 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
10 2 6.6 markus-ast ast@intes-dot-de.no-spam.
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50 132.7 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
52 posters
105 articles
248.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.2% of the posters
47.6% of the articles
53.4% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
4.8 kbytes / poster

31 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 41 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.6% of the posters
39.0% of the articles
35.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
11 20.6 Kernel Compilation
8 18.2 How can I get into the GUI of Red Hat Linux 9 ??
7 23.5 Red Hat 9 won't log me in
6 9.4 Which program accesses my hard disc?
6 9.4 Grub not loading
5 15.4 SMP startup problem
5 9.4 sarge and promise SATAII TX4
5 8.2 boot knoppix from hda10
4 10.9 Automounter and NIS problem in Linux
4 8.1 debian setup

105 articles on 37 subjects
75 were followups (71.4%)
17 were crossposts (16.2%)

248.1 kbytes total
headers: 113.4kb 45.7%
quoted text: 35.5kb 14.3%
original text: 93.3kb 37.6%
signatures: 6.0kb 2.4%

Averages:
2.8 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
6.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 9
Tuesday 22 **
Wednesday 12 *
Thursday 27 **
Friday 10 *
Saturday 5
Sunday 20 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
22 (21.0%) microsoft 6 11.5%
16 (15.2%) g2 10 19.2%
13 (12.4%) mozilla 9 17.3%
12 (11.4%) tin 3 5.8%
9 (8.6%) pan 6 11.5%
9 (8.6%) newssync 7 13.5%
7 (6.7%) slrn 3 5.8%
6 (5.7%) knode 3 5.8%
5 (4.8%) forte 2 3.8%
2 (1.9%) post-direct 1 1.9%

12 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...