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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 19 48.2 Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
2 10 26.8 chuckcar chuck@nil.car
3 8 15.2 Unruh unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca
4 5 21.2 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
5 4 11.7 iforone floydstestemail@yahoo.com
6 3 14.0 d kevindu28@yahoo.com
7 3 8.5 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
8 3 8.3 jplee3@gmail.com jplee3@gmail.com
9 3 6.8 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
10 3 4.5 ma ma@nowhere.com
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61 165.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
52 posters
111 articles
287.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.2% of the posters
55.0% of the articles
57.5% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.6 kbytes / article
5.5 kbytes / poster

30 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 38 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
57.7% of the posters
34.2% of the articles
29.1% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
31 92.0 Downloading files
10 17.3 Linux Variants
6 19.1 Problems trying to configure Linux laptop to print to Windows X
6 11.6 hosts seems to not be used by the resolver
5 15.9 Installing Linux on Vaio PCG-SR7K
5 11.9 Removing a package without source
5 9.5 getting Fedora off my Windows machine.- boot sector problem
4 10.0 RH EL3 Kickstart - Ignoring ks.cfg problem
4 9.5 Logrotate appends extra numbers to logfiles
3 7.8 How to upgrade FC4 to FC5 using BT-downloaded DVD ISO image?

111 articles on 28 subjects
91 were followups (82.0%)
8 were crossposts (7.2%)

287.1 kbytes total
headers: 115.9kb 40.4%
quoted text: 62.7kb 21.8%
original text: 104.6kb 36.4%
signatures: 3.8kb 1.3%

Averages:
4.0 articles / subject
2.6 kbytes / article
10.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 11 *
Tuesday 14 *
Wednesday 22 **
Thursday 22 **
Friday 18 *
Saturday 9
Sunday 15 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
31 (27.9%) g2 20 38.5%
21 (18.9%) tin 2 3.8%
10 (9.0%) xnews 1 1.9%
10 (9.0%) slrn 4 7.7%
8 (7.2%) nn 1 1.9%
8 (7.2%) microsoft 4 7.7%
6 (5.4%) mozilla 5 9.6%
5 (4.5%) thunderbird 5 9.6%
5 (4.5%) pan 5 9.6%
2 (1.8%) post-direct 1 1.9%

14 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...