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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 5 22.1 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
2 3 7.1 CaseT ctorres@quantumcomposers.
3 3 4.8 plenty560@yahoo.com plenty560@yahoo.com
4 3 4.8 Ottavio Caruso pr0f3ss0r1492@yahoo.com
5 3 3.8 Mike somewhere@zerivon.net
6 2 6.1 "heather.reichgott@gma heather.reichgott@gmail.c
7 2 5.4 sam@gerene.nl sam@gerene.nl
8 2 5.1 Chris F.A. Johnson cfajohnson@gmail.com
9 2 4.7 The Ghost In The Machin ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038
10 2 4.3 Pseudo Silk Kimono Pseudo_Silk_Kimono@marill
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27 68.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
57 posters
85 articles
186.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
17.5% of the posters
31.8% of the articles
36.6% of the bytes

Averages:
1.5 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
3.3 kbytes / poster

3 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 3 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
5.3% of the posters
3.5% of the articles
2.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
8 16.3 USB vfat No space left on device
7 15.4 How do I change a readonly environment variable??
6 10.1 Installing Unbuntu - Ok, I'm a Newbie
5 10.9 [CentOS] Which version to download
4 14.4 Suggestions for a server strategy requested.
4 7.1 easiest way to create a USB stick ext2 partition in winXP?
4 7.0 Keyboard unresponsive with Debian
3 12.5 What is the best free Linux at this time?
3 5.7 grub problem
3 4.9 Trouble Installing Adobe Reader on latest Ubuntu

85 articles on 35 subjects
58 were followups (68.2%)
9 were crossposts (10.6%)

186.1 kbytes total
headers: 89.1kb 47.9%
quoted text: 30.1kb 16.2%
original text: 62.5kb 33.6%
signatures: 4.3kb 2.3%

Averages:
2.4 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
5.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 10 *
Tuesday 9
Wednesday 9
Thursday 7
Friday 17 *
Saturday 17 *
Sunday 16 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
26 (30.6%) g2 16 28.1%
15 (17.6%) thunderbird 9 15.8%
15 (17.6%) slrn 10 17.5%
9 (10.6%) pan 6 10.5%
5 (5.9%) knode 4 7.0%
3 (3.5%) gnus 2 3.5%
2 (2.4%) xnews 1 1.8%
2 (2.4%) mozilla 1 1.8%
2 (2.4%) microsoft 2 3.5%
1 (1.2%) post-direct 1 1.8%

13 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...