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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 16 56.6 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
2 11 45.6 Enrique Perez-Terron enrio@online.no
3 10 31.4 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
4 9 23.0 David Mitchell david@edenroad.demon.co.u
5 8 21.2 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
6 8 11.8 mst mstg@linuxMYSHOESmail.org
7 5 17.2 John Ferrell johnferrell@sprintmail.co
8 5 13.7 Michael Badt mibadt@gmail.com
9 4 14.1 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
10 4 4.7 Aaron Gray ang.usenet@gmail.com
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80 239.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
42 posters
128 articles
368.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
23.8% of the posters
62.5% of the articles
64.9% of the bytes

Averages:
3.0 articles / poster
2.9 kbytes / article
8.8 kbytes / poster

20 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 42 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
47.6% of the posters
32.8% of the articles
25.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
25 60.2 Suse 9.0 slooowness
20 80.6 Windows Network connect
15 43.4 Mandriva: Can't connect to ANY NTP server - Why?
11 32.5 Teaching standard init config...
11 27.0 mouse scroll not working in 2.6 kernel
6 11.6 lan and wlan setup
6 10.4 FC4 on Dual Pentium III
5 18.8 GRand Unified Boot misery and Fedora Core 4
4 7.0 Enabling SATA with Slackware 10.1
3 8.4 SOLVED: debian 3.1 install connection timeout

128 articles on 21 subjects
112 were followups (87.5%)
5 were crossposts (3.9%)

368.6 kbytes total
headers: 144.3kb 39.2%
quoted text: 82.7kb 22.4%
original text: 135.3kb 36.7%
signatures: 6.3kb 1.7%

Averages:
6.1 articles / subject
2.9 kbytes / article
17.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 6
Tuesday 13 *
Wednesday 16 *
Thursday 11 *
Friday 20 **
Saturday 29 **
Sunday 33 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
23 (18.0%) tin 2 4.8%
20 (15.6%) pan 8 19.0%
14 (10.9%) microsoft 2 4.8%
12 (9.4%) mozilla 7 16.7%
11 (8.6%) opera 1 2.4%
10 (7.8%) knode 4 9.5%
8 (6.2%) sylpheed-claws 1 2.4%
8 (6.2%) slrn 5 11.9%
7 (5.5%) g2 6 14.3%
7 (5.5%) forte 2 4.8%

16 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...