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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 20 47.0 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
2 13 53.4 Douglas Mayne doug@slackware-3.localnet
3 9 24.0 iforone floydstestemail@yahoo.com
4 9 16.4 chevysrock39@gmail.com chevysrock39@gmail.com
5 8 18.3 Joseph2k joseph2k@lanset.com
6 7 16.3 Dave Stratford daves@orpheusmail.co.uk
7 6 11.2 Grant bugsplatter@gmail.com
8 6 10.8 Dan C youmustbejoking@invalid.l
9 5 13.0 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
10 4 9.3 Bill Davidsen davidsen@deathstar.prodig
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87 219.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
86 posters
200 articles
483.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
11.6% of the posters
43.5% of the articles
45.4% of the bytes

Averages:
2.3 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
5.6 kbytes / poster

45 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 72 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
52.3% of the posters
36.0% of the articles
27.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
23 49.3 Ubuntu-Windows
16 36.0 Installing to a SATA drive
10 60.8 Grub boots from command line but not menu
9 16.9 Redhead Linux
9 14.9 Dual booting XP and Ubuntu
8 17.1 run a perl script during system boot
8 16.1 Changing the start end end date of the daylight saving time
8 15.9 How do I specify which user has mount access?
7 16.3 Installing just the kernel?
7 15.1 How to setup Red Hat AS3 on one laptop based on AMD Turbo 64?

200 articles on 52 subjects
162 were followups (81.0%)
0 were crossposts (0.0%)

483.4 kbytes total
headers: 240.5kb 49.8%
quoted text: 99.6kb 20.6%
original text: 133.2kb 27.5%
signatures: 10.1kb 2.1%

Averages:
3.8 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
9.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 21 **
Tuesday 21 **
Wednesday 34 ***
Thursday 32 ***
Friday 29 **
Saturday 33 ***
Sunday 30 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
61 (30.5%) g2 33 38.4%
31 (15.5%) pan 11 12.8%
25 (12.5%) microsoft 4 4.7%
18 (9.0%) knode 9 10.5%
13 (6.5%) mozilla 6 7.0%
11 (5.5%) slrn 6 7.0%
9 (4.5%) thunderbird 7 8.1%
7 (3.5%) pluto 1 1.2%
6 (3.0%) forte 1 1.2%
4 (2.0%) tin 1 1.2%

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...