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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 6 12.2 Matt Giwer jull43@tampabay.REMover.r
2 5 7.5 Baho Utot scrat@bildanet.com
3 4 23.5 ANTant@zimage.com ANTant@zimage.com
4 4 9.7 Kill Bill killbill@goblowme.com
5 4 9.4 CBFalconer cbfalconer@yahoo.com
6 4 5.3 Vincent Delporte justask@acme.com
7 3 8.8 Tony Lawrence pcunix@gmail.com
8 3 6.7 Bernard esie@inter.nl.net
9 3 2.7 gort me@privacy.net
10 2 27.0 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
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38 112.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
45 posters
86 articles
222.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
22.2% of the posters
44.2% of the articles
50.8% of the bytes

Averages:
1.9 articles / poster
2.6 kbytes / article
4.9 kbytes / poster

27 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 48 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
60.0% of the posters
55.8% of the articles
43.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
8 17.8 Need help on FC6 install with new PC.
8 15.0 [FC5] Repartitioning and installing XP?
7 11.7 Difference between Freebsd4.11 Makefile and Redhat 9.0 linux
6 13.7 Q: firewall configuration in SUSE Linux 10.1
6 13.2 How to convert Maildir to mbox format?
5 24.0 Swapped motherboard, CPU, etc. and Debian/Linux can't play audi
5 8.0 Fedora Core 6
4 6.6 Saving MBR to USB stick
3 12.6 Problem setting up the internet connection
3 6.7 verifying a tar archive?

86 articles on 28 subjects
61 were followups (70.9%)
23 were crossposts (26.7%)

221.9 kbytes total
headers: 91.5kb 41.2%
quoted text: 40.2kb 18.1%
original text: 83.2kb 37.5%
signatures: 7.0kb 3.2%

Averages:
3.1 articles / subject
2.6 kbytes / article
7.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 12 *
Tuesday 10 *
Wednesday 11 *
Thursday 10 *
Friday 22 **
Saturday 11 *
Sunday 10 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
17 (19.8%) thunderbird 6 13.3%
17 (19.8%) g2 13 28.9%
10 (11.6%) knode 4 8.9%
8 (9.3%) microsoft 4 8.9%
7 (8.1%) tin 3 6.7%
5 (5.8%) slrn 4 8.9%
5 (5.8%) mozilla 2 4.4%
4 (4.7%) forte 1 2.2%
3 (3.5%) pan 2 4.4%
2 (2.3%) xrn 1 2.2%

15 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...