Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 06 Jun 2004 19:24:57 GMT and ending at
13 Jun 2004 18:25:37 GMT.

Notes
=====

- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
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Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
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commercial purpose is prohibited.

Totals
======

Posters: 171
Articles: 627 (160 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 114
Volume generated: 1574.2 kb
- headers: 750.2 kb (11,281 lines)
- bodies: 793.7 kb (23,547 lines)
- original: 400.5 kb (12,506 lines)
- signatures: 29.7 kb (1,229 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.505

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.7
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 80 posters
s: 7.1 posts
Posts per thread: 5.5
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 2 posts - 31 threads
s: 13.0 posts
Message size: 2571.0 bytes
- header: 1225.2 bytes (18.0 lines)
- body: 1296.3 bytes (37.6 lines)
- original: 654.0 bytes (19.9 lines)
- signature: 48.5 bytes (2.0 lines)

Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================

(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------

62 165.1 ( 64.6/100.5/ 57.9) Howard J. Rogers
52 137.2 ( 85.3/ 49.6/ 32.2) Noons
29 76.3 ( 36.7/ 33.6/ 7.9) Daniel Morgan
20 54.8 ( 38.7/ 16.1/ 8.5) Mark A
20 49.3 ( 21.4/ 27.8/ 14.2) Joel Garry
19 65.9 ( 36.9/ 27.9/ 16.7) Serge Rielau
12 29.3 ( 16.2/ 12.8/ 3.7) fvanbortel
12 45.6 ( 14.6/ 31.0/ 22.0) Richard Foote
12 35.5 ( 15.0/ 7.8/ 6.8) Jonathan Lewis
11 33.5 ( 14.5/ 16.7/ 10.3) Niall Litchfield

These posters accounted for 39.7% of all articles.

Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================

(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------

165.1 ( 64.6/100.5/ 57.9) 62 Howard J. Rogers
137.2 ( 85.3/ 49.6/ 32.2) 52 Noons
76.3 ( 36.7/ 33.6/ 7.9) 29 Daniel Morgan
65.9 ( 36.9/ 27.9/ 16.7) 19 Serge Rielau
54.8 ( 38.7/ 16.1/ 8.5) 20 Mark A
49.3 ( 21.4/ 27.8/ 14.2) 20 Joel Garry
45.6 ( 14.6/ 31.0/ 22.0) 12 Richard Foote
35.5 ( 15.0/ 7.8/ 6.8) 12 Jonathan Lewis
33.5 ( 14.5/ 16.7/ 10.3) 11 Niall Litchfield
29.7 ( 14.9/ 14.7/ 13.3) 9 markbtownsend

These posters accounted for 44.0% of the total volume.


Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================

Posts Subject
----- -------

122 database market share 2003
53 How about an Oracle debate?
46 9i New Features E-book
19 clustering and high availability?
18 OMLETv4 The Ultimate Visual Real Time Oracle Monitoring Tool
15 Oracle 10g on Fedora Core 2
12 10g install on XP fails (dbca)
10 which column type char,varchar2 is better for index?
10 Having Deadlock Problem
9 Backup Recovery - Cold Backup in Archive log mode

These threads accounted for 50.1% of all articles.

Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================

(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------

357.4 (218.8/134.2/ 74.2) 122 database market share 2003
140.5 ( 51.2/ 88.7/ 51.9) 46 9i New Features E-book
133.1 ( 57.6/ 72.7/ 36.3) 53 How about an Oracle debate?
47.5 ( 22.4/ 24.9/ 10.7) 18 OMLETv4 The Ultimate Visual Real Time
Oracle Monitoring Tool
47.5 ( 21.4/ 24.7/ 11.0) 19 clustering and high availability?
43.7 ( 9.5/ 33.0/ 6.3) 9 Why FULL TABLE SCAN ?
29.8 ( 17.1/ 12.6/ 6.0) 15 Oracle 10g on Fedora Core 2
28.9 ( 10.7/ 14.7/ 7.6) 10 Having Deadlock Problem
28.7 ( 12.9/ 15.5/ 7.3) 12 10g install on XP fails (dbca)
21.8 ( 11.2/ 8.0/ 2.8) 10 which column type char,varchar2 is
better for index?

These threads accounted for 55.8% of the total volume.

Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================

Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------

122 comp.databases.ibm-db2
104 comp.databases.informix
18 rec.arts.poems
9 comp.databases.oracle.misc
6 demon.local
2 comp.unix.solaris
1 comp.lang.java.databases
1 comp.databases.oracle.tools
1 alt.arts.poetry.comments
1 comp.databases.ms-sqlserver

Top 10 Crossposters
===================

Groups Address
-------- -------

63 Noons <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au.nospam>
40 "Mark A" <ma@switchboard.net>
28 Serge Rielau <srielau@ca.eye-be-em.com>
14 markbtownsend@comcast.net
11 Joel Garry <joel-garry@home.com>
10 "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com>
8 Daniel Morgan <damorgan@x.washington.edu>
6 Noons <wizofoz2k@yahoo.com.au>
5 nobody <nobody@devnull.org>
5 Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com>