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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 13 30.0 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 12 30.4 Bill Davidsen davidsen@deathstar.prodig
3 8 16.2 jsuthan jsuthan@gmail-spam.com
4 6 14.3 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 4 12.2 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
6 4 5.8 Andy Fraser andyfraser31@hotmail.com
7 3 6.8 gmarquez gmarquez@indyme.com
8 3 6.4 rascasoft@tiscali.it rascasoft@tiscali.it
9 3 6.0 Timothy Murphy tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.i
10 3 4.8 John Slimick slimick@localhost.localdo
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59 132.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
49 posters
110 articles
245.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
20.4% of the posters
53.6% of the articles
54.1% of the bytes

Averages:
2.2 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
5.0 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
55.1% of the posters
44.5% of the articles
38.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
8 21.1 Finding out which SCSI drive is mapped to which device
8 14.3 simplie compile kernel compile question
8 13.6 Fedora 3 via Sam's
7 16.2 Install RH8.0 - Gigabyte GA-K8N SATA RAID motherboard.
6 10.3 programing c with fedora core 3
6 9.7 Whither swap on system RAID0?
5 11.1 HELP WITH FTP
5 8.5 Do I have to enable bridge if I want to make Linux box as Route
5 7.8 Can't get scroll mouse to work.
4 8.7 Grub not loading

110 articles on 42 subjects
86 were followups (78.2%)
6 were crossposts (5.5%)

245.3 kbytes total
headers: 117.8kb 48.0%
quoted text: 37.0kb 15.1%
original text: 84.0kb 34.2%
signatures: 6.5kb 2.6%

Averages:
2.6 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
5.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 14 *
Tuesday 10 *
Wednesday 14 *
Thursday 20 **
Friday 18 *
Saturday 27 **
Sunday 7
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
35 (31.8%) mozilla 11 22.4%
16 (14.5%) microsoft 3 6.1%
15 (13.6%) g2 9 18.4%
11 (10.0%) knode 7 14.3%
8 (7.3%) tin 3 6.1%
7 (6.4%) slrn 5 10.2%
4 (3.6%) pan 4 8.2%
4 (3.6%) macsoup 1 2.0%
3 (2.7%) gnus 1 2.0%
2 (1.8%) post-direct 1 2.0%

13 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...