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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 19 39.5 Mike somewhere@zerivon.net
2 12 54.6 Ant ANTant@zimage.com
3 6 18.9 The Natural Philosopher a@b.c
4 5 15.0 Darren Salt news@youmustbejoking.demo
5 4 14.5 nicc777 nicc777@gmail.com
6 4 9.0 Richard Vaughn rvaughn9@gmail.com
7 4 8.6 Gerry \(The MOTH\) Gerry (TheMOTH)
8 4 6.0 Mike a.e.l.u.s.2.@zerivon.dot.
9 3 27.8 google-rambo88 rambo88@gmail.com
10 3 9.4 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
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64 203.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
57 posters
128 articles
365.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
17.5% of the posters
50.0% of the articles
55.6% of the bytes

Averages:
2.2 articles / poster
2.9 kbytes / article
6.4 kbytes / poster

5 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 7 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
8.8% of the posters
5.5% of the articles
3.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
21 41.0 Dual Boot - Ability to choose WinXP or Linux on Bootup?
12 48.9 Accidently ran fsck on a mounted HDD and made problems! What to
7 28.7 Q: Cluster File System Reliability
7 14.4 Problem Converting Linux PC to Dual-Boot (XP, Linux)
6 10.7 Automatix2 won't start in Etch
5 12.7 X-server
4 20.7 3C515 - Knoppix 5 - setup
4 10.2 Black Screen of Death
4 8.6 Can't remove games packages from KDE and Gnome without removing
4 8.2 Linux Distro

128 articles on 43 subjects
94 were followups (73.4%)
27 were crossposts (21.1%)

365.5 kbytes total
headers: 142.0kb 38.8%
quoted text: 77.7kb 21.3%
original text: 137.2kb 37.5%
signatures: 8.6kb 2.4%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.9 kbytes / article
8.5 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 9
Tuesday 45 ****
Wednesday 14 *
Thursday 21 **
Friday 12 *
Saturday 12 *
Sunday 15 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
29 (22.7%) pan 8 14.0%
27 (21.1%) g2 17 29.8%
15 (11.7%) thunderbird 9 15.8%
13 (10.2%) tin 3 5.3%
11 (8.6%) microsoft 4 7.0%
7 (5.5%) xnews 3 5.3%
7 (5.5%) slrn 4 7.0%
5 (3.9%) gemini 1 1.8%
4 (3.1%) mozilla 2 3.5%
2 (1.6%) xrn 1 1.8%

15 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...