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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 6 14.6 Matt Giwer jull43@tampabay.REMover.r
2 6 9.6 Alan Moorman amoorman@visi.com
3 4 9.6 eric questermocolle@hotmail.co
4 3 10.3 Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8@verizon.net
5 3 9.6 Adam Beneschan adam@irvine.com
6 3 9.1 Paul Lutus nospam@nosite.zzz
7 3 7.9 Stefan Patric tootek2@yahoo.com
8 3 7.4 asc adam.cheasley@gmail.com
9 3 7.1 Yves Bellefeuille yan@storm.ca
10 3 6.8 Chris Cox ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.
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37 91.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
52 posters
94 articles
229.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
19.2% of the posters
39.4% of the articles
40.0% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
4.4 kbytes / poster

25 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 39 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
48.1% of the posters
41.5% of the articles
38.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
12 25.5 Which Linux for an older machine (newbie)
7 23.8 iptables (netfilter) and kernel 2.6.20
7 22.9 Daylight Savings Time Changes
7 19.3 best way to copy data between disks?
7 14.4 Fedora Core 6 install problem
6 10.3 How to avoid login....
5 10.9 fedora 6 wont install or rescue, cant find driver
4 8.4 extreme (but cheapass) storage solutions
4 6.6 nVidia driver for Intel 64-bit processor?
3 6.1 Installing FC6 & WinXP on 2 Disks

94 articles on 31 subjects
66 were followups (70.2%)
1 were crossposts (1.1%)

229.4 kbytes total
headers: 96.4kb 42.0%
quoted text: 44.7kb 19.5%
original text: 84.9kb 37.0%
signatures: 3.5kb 1.5%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
7.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 12 *
Tuesday 9
Wednesday 13 *
Thursday 20 **
Friday 24 **
Saturday 4
Sunday 11 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
23 (24.5%) g2 13 25.0%
15 (16.0%) thunderbird 5 9.6%
13 (13.8%) knode 8 15.4%
12 (12.8%) forte 6 11.5%
10 (10.6%) pan 5 9.6%
6 (6.4%) slrn 4 7.7%
3 (3.2%) mozilla 3 5.8%
3 (3.2%) microsoft 3 5.8%
3 (3.2%) 40tude_dialog 1 1.9%
2 (2.1%) post-direct 1 1.9%

12 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...