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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 23 98.2 Enrique Perez-Terron enrio@online.no
2 17 42.9 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
3 15 64.3 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
4 10 36.5 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
5 10 25.4 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
6 9 15.9 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
7 8 31.8 imotgm imotgm_REM@invalid-yahoo.
8 8 8.0 Aaron Gray ang.usenet@gmail.com
9 6 22.0 alan misc@alanroter.com
10 6 19.9 Baho Utot onub-hgbg@pbyhzohf.ee.pbz
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112 364.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
80 posters
219 articles
590.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
12.5% of the posters
51.1% of the articles
61.8% of the bytes

Averages:
2.7 articles / poster
2.7 kbytes / article
7.4 kbytes / poster

47 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 90 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
58.8% of the posters
41.1% of the articles
35.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
30 64.1 Protection from a Rescue or Live CD accessing the filesystem
23 96.7 MAKEDEV and CentOS -- cdrecord.
13 30.8 Disaster Recovery
12 21.0 why 6 ttys in /etc/inittab?
11 42.9 GRUB Loading Stage2Read Error
11 33.3 logrotate error
9 58.4 Grub hangs - two hard drives and a CD
8 15.8 Q:Installing Linux without touching MBR...
6 17.4 Firefox problem for normal user, but OK for root
6 15.4 Suse 9.0 slooowness

219 articles on 42 subjects
184 were followups (84.0%)
36 were crossposts (16.4%)

590.3 kbytes total
headers: 244.2kb 41.4%
quoted text: 141.0kb 23.9%
original text: 194.0kb 32.9%
signatures: 11.1kb 1.9%

Averages:
5.2 articles / subject
2.7 kbytes / article
14.1 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 29 **
Tuesday 27 **
Wednesday 18 *
Thursday 13 *
Friday 57 *****
Saturday 46 ****
Sunday 29 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
34 (15.5%) microsoft 9 11.2%
34 (15.5%) g2 18 22.5%
26 (11.9%) opera 2 2.5%
24 (11.0%) pan 9 11.2%
24 (11.0%) mozilla 9 11.2%
23 (10.5%) tin 3 3.8%
14 (6.4%) knode 8 10.0%
11 (5.0%) slrn 8 10.0%
10 (4.6%) nn 1 1.2%
5 (2.3%) gnus 2 2.5%

17 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...