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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 13 54.4 Enrique Perez-Terron enrio@online.no
2 11 32.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
3 11 28.2 Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@comcast.net
4 10 34.3 iforone floydstestemail@yahoo.com
5 9 17.3 Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com
6 6 23.4 imotgm imotgm_REM@invalid-yahoo.
7 5 32.6 Alan Adams alan.adams@orchard-way.fr
8 5 13.4 Peter T. Breuer ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es
9 3 18.1 Mikko Harjula harjula@mikko.mediware.fi
10 3 9.4 Jean-David Beyer jdbeyer@exit109.com
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76 263.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
59 posters
147 articles
429.1 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
16.9% of the posters
51.7% of the articles
61.3% of the bytes

Averages:
2.5 articles / poster
2.9 kbytes / article
7.3 kbytes / poster

35 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 51 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.3% of the posters
34.7% of the articles
25.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
19 56.3 Samba and SELinux
17 71.4 Dual boot question
11 21.9 Garmin eTrex Legend
9 31.8 Building a file server - advice please
6 23.3 Help me plz!!!
6 15.4 KVM Switch - Dual Display (DVI) + USB + Audio; 2-port
6 12.5 Finalizing the dialogue with newsgroup Megalomaniacs (change of
6 12.3 anonymous FTP and /var/ftp/bin
5 8.9 [LILO] How to repair L99?
5 8.5 Problem with screen resolution on Debian 3.1

147 articles on 38 subjects
122 were followups (83.0%)
18 were crossposts (12.2%)

428.9 kbytes total
headers: 178.6kb 41.6%
quoted text: 104.3kb 24.3%
original text: 139.6kb 32.5%
signatures: 6.5kb 1.5%

Averages:
3.9 articles / subject
2.9 kbytes / article
11.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 53 *****
Tuesday 24 **
Wednesday 19 *
Thursday 13 *
Friday 12 *
Saturday 14 *
Sunday 12 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
39 (26.5%) g2 23 39.0%
25 (17.0%) tin 4 6.8%
21 (14.3%) microsoft 5 8.5%
13 (8.8%) opera 1 1.7%
10 (6.8%) mozilla 6 10.2%
7 (4.8%) pan 2 3.4%
7 (4.8%) forte 4 6.8%
5 (3.4%) messenger-pro 1 1.7%
5 (3.4%) knode 4 6.8%
3 (2.0%) thunderbird 1 1.7%

16 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...