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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 28 75.7 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 23 87.2 Enrique Perez-Terron enrio@online.no
3 12 34.7 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
4 8 24.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
5 5 9.3 Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
6 5 8.2 Bill Marcum bmarcum@iglou.com
7 5 7.6 rp rprot@univ-savoie.fr
8 4 20.1 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
9 3 13.4 stepper stepper@oddball.net
10 3 9.2 drb drb@physics.arizona.edu
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96 289.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
67 posters
186 articles
500.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
14.9% of the posters
51.6% of the articles
57.9% of the bytes

Averages:
2.8 articles / poster
2.7 kbytes / article
7.5 kbytes / poster

34 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 60 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
50.7% of the posters
32.3% of the articles
26.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
11 30.7 How do I configure drivers in Debian
11 19.3 pb with X server ?
9 26.3 Problem with raid boot
9 20.8 FC4, md raid-1 not started at boot.
9 19.1 Grub defekt nach einmaligem Windows Start
9 15.7 Best partition techniques for Linux/Winxp
8 17.9 Setting up a software RAID-5 file-serverbox: to ECC or not to E
7 35.3 Can't use internal network after dialup modem is used -- get pi
7 21.1 newbee learning linux: how to allow write permission to user on
6 16.5 Debian bootable on external USB-harddisk

186 articles on 55 subjects
151 were followups (81.2%)
5 were crossposts (2.7%)

500.0 kbytes total
headers: 203.7kb 40.7%
quoted text: 101.8kb 20.4%
original text: 187.1kb 37.4%
signatures: 7.4kb 1.5%

Averages:
3.4 articles / subject
2.7 kbytes / article
9.1 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 26 **
Tuesday 53 *****
Wednesday 18 *
Thursday 19 *
Friday 29 **
Saturday 14 *
Sunday 27 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
45 (24.2%) tin 6 9.0%
43 (23.1%) g2 20 29.9%
23 (12.4%) opera 1 1.5%
16 (8.6%) knode 8 11.9%
14 (7.5%) microsoft 3 4.5%
10 (5.4%) mozilla 7 10.4%
8 (4.3%) slrn 4 6.0%
6 (3.2%) gnus 3 4.5%
5 (2.7%) pan 3 4.5%
2 (1.1%) xnews 2 3.0%

19 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...