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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 4 10.6 ANTant@zimage.com ANTant@zimage.com
2 4 7.6 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
3 4 6.8 ChrisC chrispche@googlemail.com
4 3 7.6 Madhur madhurrajn@gmail.com
5 3 6.3 Lenard lenard@127.0.0.1
6 3 6.1 Peter Frost P.Frost@kent.ac.uk
7 2 27.0 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
8 2 5.0 nuffnough@gmail.com nuffnough@gmail.com
9 2 4.7 Jim Garrison jhg@athensgroup.com
10 2 4.5 mark mkazmierski@gmail.com
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29 86.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
54 posters
80 articles
199.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
18.5% of the posters
36.2% of the articles
43.4% of the bytes

Averages:
1.5 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
3.7 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
70.4% of the posters
63.8% of the articles
56.3% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
16 33.4 Ubuntu Linux 5.10
7 17.2 Problem setting up the internet connection
5 10.6 Linux kernel panic
5 6.9 Sendmail quota settings
4 8.3 FC6 i386 kernel on AMD64 ... then reboot with x86_64 kernel
3 8.8 Mandrake 2007 - Quiet nVidia card ?
3 7.4 Swapping my computer hardware (mobo, CPU, etc.) with Debian...
3 7.2 FC6 x86_64 - Installer loaded lots of "duplicate" packages?
3 7.1 Problem setting up 1920x1200 resolution on Dell 2405fpw
3 6.5 FC5 : device names changing

80 articles on 28 subjects
57 were followups (71.2%)
8 were crossposts (10.0%)

198.9 kbytes total
headers: 84.7kb 42.6%
quoted text: 39.9kb 20.0%
original text: 69.4kb 34.9%
signatures: 4.9kb 2.5%

Averages:
2.9 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
7.1 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 11 *
Tuesday 24 **
Wednesday 8
Thursday 9
Friday 7
Saturday 9
Sunday 12 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
25 (31.2%) g2 15 27.8%
12 (15.0%) thunderbird 6 11.1%
11 (13.8%) knode 8 14.8%
5 (6.2%) tin 2 3.7%
4 (5.0%) slrn 4 7.4%
4 (5.0%) pan 3 5.6%
4 (5.0%) mozilla 3 5.6%
4 (5.0%) microsoft 4 7.4%
2 (2.5%) post-direct 1 1.9%
2 (2.5%) nn 1 1.9%

14 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...