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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 9 30.5 Ercmz none@nowhere.cvb
2 5 19.6 Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8@verizon.net
3 4 11.3 Matt Giwer jull43@tampabay.REMover.r
4 4 11.0 Keith Keller kkeller-usenet@wombat.san
5 3 8.5 George Jetson JetsonGeorge@gmail.com
6 3 6.0 Glenn Kusardi google@kusardi.de
7 3 3.5 John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org
8 2 27.0 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
9 2 7.3 Roby roby@no-address.net
10 2 4.8 =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzI =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzIFB
--- -----
37 129.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
36 posters
72 articles
200.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
27.8% of the posters
51.4% of the articles
64.6% of the bytes

Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.8 kbytes / article
5.6 kbytes / poster

1 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 1 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
2.8% of the posters
1.4% of the articles
0.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
18 60.5 UPS and Linux...
7 18.5 Help me choose a Linux Distro
6 9.4 Is crontab sensitive to time zones
5 10.4 grub question
5 10.0 Updating kernel using yum and adding a driver disk
4 12.0 Partitioning problem
4 7.5 linux os that can detect a secondary/slave harddisk having wind
3 8.5 Errors with #perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Net::Z3950::ZOOM"'
2 27.0 A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first i
2 7.2 Partition does not end on cylinder boundary.

72 articles on 24 subjects
51 were followups (70.8%)
19 were crossposts (26.4%)

200.4 kbytes total
headers: 77.8kb 38.8%
quoted text: 37.8kb 18.8%
original text: 80.3kb 40.1%
signatures: 4.5kb 2.3%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.8 kbytes / article
8.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 9
Tuesday 7
Wednesday 6
Thursday 12 *
Friday 17 *
Saturday 10 *
Sunday 11 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
20 (27.8%) thunderbird 9 25.0%
17 (23.6%) g2 11 30.6%
11 (15.3%) microsoft 2 5.6%
4 (5.6%) slrn 3 8.3%
4 (5.6%) knode 2 5.6%
3 (4.2%) pan 2 5.6%
3 (4.2%) gnus 1 2.8%
2 (2.8%) post-direct 1 2.8%
1 (1.4%) tin 1 2.8%
1 (1.4%) postdirect 1 2.8%

10 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...