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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 24 60.5 news.cogeco.ca BushIsATraitor@hotmail.co
2 6 14.1 John Thompson john@vector.os2.dhs.org
3 6 12.3 MS No.Way.Jose@No.Spam.Thank
4 4 12.9 Matt Giwer jull43@tampabay.REMover.r
5 4 11.8 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
6 4 8.4 Thufir hawat.thufir@gmail.com
7 4 6.8 Captain Dondo yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com
8 4 4.9 Amarok amarok.pl@gmail.com
9 3 8.4 The Ghost In The Machin ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038
10 3 6.9 Chris Cox notccox@notairmail.net
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62 147.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
69 posters
146 articles
348.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
14.5% of the posters
42.5% of the articles
42.2% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
5.0 kbytes / poster

43 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 72 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
62.3% of the posters
49.3% of the articles
41.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
17 62.9 Linux no threat to Microsoft
14 28.4 Wireless router question.
12 25.9 linux on a old laptop
9 26.1 Debian Install problems (Win xp User)
7 15.1 what is the Redhat / ES 3 equivalent of "passwd -s"
7 8.8 Moving over
6 12.4 which linux is the easiest to install?
6 10.5 cannot beep
6 9.4 installation failed
5 12.4 Testing Patches for Linux Kernel 2.6.15

146 articles on 40 subjects
120 were followups (82.2%)
16 were crossposts (11.0%)

348.0 kbytes total
headers: 153.7kb 44.2%
quoted text: 75.2kb 21.6%
original text: 112.8kb 32.4%
signatures: 6.3kb 1.8%

Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
8.7 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 11 *
Tuesday 18 *
Wednesday 36 ***
Thursday 20 **
Friday 29 **
Saturday 12 *
Sunday 20 **
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
30 (20.5%) microsoft 6 8.7%
25 (17.1%) thunderbird 10 14.5%
25 (17.1%) g2 15 21.7%
15 (10.3%) slrn 7 10.1%
11 (7.5%) mozilla 5 7.2%
10 (6.8%) knode 8 11.6%
9 (6.2%) pan 7 10.1%
6 (4.1%) tin 3 4.3%
3 (2.1%) nn 1 1.4%
2 (1.4%) yarn 1 1.4%

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...