GroupSTAT: Advanced Newsgroup Statistics Program
Version 0.12.1 (using News::Scan)

Copyleft (C) 2000 H. Alex LaHurreau
Based on StatNews, Copyleft (C) 1998 Davide G. M. Salvetti

Newsgroup.................: alt.os.linux.slackware
Stats Were Taken..........: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:30:01 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Sat, 08 May 2004 18:40:37 GMT
Stats End.................: Sat, 15 May 2004 18:21:51 GMT
Days......................: 7
Total No. of Articles.....: 397
Total No. of Characters...: 862703
Total Volume..............: 842
Messages Per Day..........: 56.7
Characters Per Day........: 123243.3
Average Daily Volume......: 120 kB
Total Posters This Period.: 153
Messages with Sigs........: 35.52%
Original Content Rating...: 68.51%

Top 25 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
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1. Alan Hicks........................................: 21 3.0 5.3%
2. Mark Hill.........................................: 18 2.6 4.5%
3. Joost Kremers.....................................: 15 2.1 3.8%
4. MikeyD............................................ : 12 1.7 3.0%
5. Alex.............................................. : 9 1.3 2.3%
6. Martin Lefebvre...................................: 9 1.3 2.3%
7. richand2002....................................... : 9 1.3 2.3%
8. William Hunt......................................: 8 1.1 2.0%
9. Ed LaBonte........................................: 7 1.0 1.8%
10. SuperDeamon....................................... : 7 1.0 1.8%
11. /Dev/Rob0.........................................: 6 0.9 1.5%
12. John.............................................. : 6 0.9 1.5%
13. Steve Youngs......................................: 6 0.9 1.5%
14. Thomas Overgaard..................................: 6 0.9 1.5%
15. Notbob............................................ : 6 0.9 1.5%
16. Xanas3712......................................... : 6 0.9 1.5%
17. Rich Grise........................................: 5 0.7 1.3%
18. George Georgakis..................................: 5 0.7 1.3%
19. Henrik Carlqvist..................................: 5 0.7 1.3%
20. SchroedingerzKat.................................. : 5 0.7 1.3%
21. mdalene........................................... : 5 0.7 1.3%
22. Widgeteye......................................... : 4 0.6 1.0%
23. Brian Graversen...................................: 4 0.6 1.0%
24. Gregg C Levine....................................: 4 0.6 1.0%
25. Jack Strangio.....................................: 4 0.6 1.0%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
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1. Alan Hicks........................................: 50 7.2 5.9%
2. Mark Hill.........................................: 27 3.9 3.3%
3. Damian Kolkowski..................................: 26 3.7 3.1%
4. William Hunt......................................: 25 3.7 3.1%
5. Xanas3712......................................... : 25 3.6 3.0%
6. MikeyD............................................ : 22 3.2 2.6%
7. Thrugoodmarshall.................................. : 22 3.2 2.6%
8. richand2002....................................... : 20 2.9 2.4%
9. Joost Kremers.....................................: 19 2.8 2.4%
10. Sylvain Robitaille................................: 19 2.8 2.3%
11. Alex.............................................. : 19 2.8 2.3%
12. Steve Youngs......................................: 19 2.7 2.3%
13. Martin Lefebvre...................................: 18 2.6 2.2%
14. Lew Pitcher.......................................: 16 2.3 1.9%
15. Jack Strangio.....................................: 15 2.3 1.9%
16. mdalene........................................... : 13 2.0 1.7%
17. George Georgakis..................................: 12 1.8 1.5%
18. /Dev/Rob0.........................................: 12 1.8 1.5%
19. Henrik Carlqvist..................................: 12 1.8 1.5%
20. John.............................................. : 11 1.6 1.4%
21. Ed LaBonte........................................: 11 1.6 1.3%
22. Stan.............................................. : 11 1.6 1.3%
23. SuperDeamon....................................... : 10 1.5 1.2%
24. Stijn Lamens......................................: 9 1.4 1.2%
25. wistanswick....................................... : 9 1.4 1.2%

Top 25 Popular Threads: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
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1. Setup for clueless user...........................: 38 5.4 9.6%
2. Permissions on /sbin..............................: 21 3.0 5.3%
3. Slackware version for Pentium I?..................: 19 2.7 4.8%
4. website design....................................: 18 2.6 4.5%
5. Website eisen ..................................: 16 2.3 4.0%
6. 192.168.0.x Hackable?!............................: 15 2.1 3.8%
7. Slack 9.0 and NVidia..............................: 14 2.0 3.5%
8. Would Debian game work on Slack 9.1...............: 13 1.9 3.3%
9. find executables..................................: 11 1.6 2.8%
10. How to invoke 2.9.5.3 behavior from 3.2.3 of GCC..: 10 1.4 2.5%
11. slackware-current not using swap?.................: 10 1.4 2.5%
12. Crosspost......................................... : 9 1.3 2.3%
13. Turboprint problem................................: 9 1.3 2.3%
14. proxy server......................................: 9 1.3 2.3%
15. iso9660 driver doesn't see some files on CD, but X: 8 1.1 2.0%
16. kernel panic with SMP kernel......................: 8 1.1 2.0%
17. XFree86 4.4 with Radeon.. possible?...............: 7 1.0 1.8%
18. [ot] XPfs (was: Re: Would Debian game work ...)...: 7 1.0 1.8%
19. hda: ide device driver attached...................: 7 1.0 1.8%
20. Need help with 64bit hardware.....................: 6 0.9 1.5%
21. Partition shifting................................: 6 0.9 1.5%
22. Regain control of my ttys.........................: 6 0.9 1.5%
23. Slackware and ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.................: 6 0.9 1.5%
24. Tips, Tricks and favorites........................: 6 0.9 1.5%
25. XMMS.............................................. : 6 0.9 1.5%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Threads: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
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1. Setup for clueless user...........................: 99 14.2 11.8%
2. 192.168.0.x Hackable?!............................: 37 5.4 4.5%
3. Permissions on /sbin..............................: 36 5.2 4.3%
4. Slack 9.0 and NVidia..............................: 35 5.1 4.2%
5. Slackware version for Pentium I?..................: 35 5.0 4.2%
6. iso9660 driver doesn't see some files on CD, but X: 33 4.8 4.0%
7. website design....................................: 31 4.5 3.8%
8. Website eisen ..................................: 31 4.5 3.8%
9. 2.4.26 and kt400 chipset issues with harddrive....: 29 4.2 3.5%
10. what suid programs need suid......................: 28 4.1 3.4%
11. XFree86 4.4 with Radeon.. possible?...............: 25 3.7 3.0%
12. Would Debian game work on Slack 9.1...............: 22 3.2 2.7%
13. How to invoke 2.9.5.3 behavior from 3.2.3 of GCC..: 19 2.8 2.3%
14. removed /var/log/packages and /var/log/scripts by : 17 2.5 2.1%
15. slackware-current not using swap?.................: 16 2.4 2.0%
16. Crosspost......................................... : 15 2.2 1.9%
17. kernel panic with SMP kernel......................: 15 2.2 1.8%
18. find executables..................................: 14 2.1 1.8%
19. Turboprint problem................................: 14 2.1 1.7%
20. Need help with 64bit hardware.....................: 14 2.0 1.7%
21. proxy server......................................: 13 1.9 1.6%
22. Partition shifting................................: 12 1.7 1.4%
23. Tips, Tricks and favorites........................: 12 1.7 1.4%
24. [ot] XPfs (was: Re: Would Debian game work ...)...: 11 1.7 1.4%
25. [slackware-security] apache (SSA:2004-133-01) - Pr: 11 1.6 1.3%

Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
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1. Xanas3712......................................... ........: 97.6%
2. George Georgakis......................................... .: 86.3%
3. Alan Hicks............................................. ...: 78.5%
4. /Dev/Rob0.............................................. ...: 75.8%
5. Thomas Overgaard......................................... .: 75.5%
6. Notbob............................................ ........: 75.2%
7. Alex.............................................. ........: 70.3%
8. mdalene........................................... ........: 67.0%
9. Mark Hill.............................................. ...: 66.7%
10. John.............................................. ........: 64.5%

Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
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1. MikeyD............................................ ........: 36.0%
2. Joost Kremers........................................... ..: 42.7%
3. SchroedingerzKat.................................. ........: 44.5%
4. Martin Lefebvre.......................................... .: 50.2%
5. William Hunt.............................................. : 54.1%
6. richand2002....................................... ........: 57.3%
7. Steve Youngs............................................ ..: 58.4%
8. Ed LaBonte........................................... .....: 59.7%
9. Rich Grise............................................. ...: 61.0%
10. SuperDeamon....................................... ........: 62.5%

Top 10 Crossposting Groups: Posts in Group
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1. comp.os.linux.misc................................ ...........: 6
2. sci.electronics.design............................ ...........: 4

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End of stats for alt.os.linux.slackware

Newsreader stats for this week:

Total number of posts: 458

Summary of newsreaders used, sorted by number of posts:
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slrn 107
Pan 61
KNode 58
Unknown 56
Mozilla 37
tin 23
Microsoft Outlook Express 22
Google 21
Gnus 17
pine 10
newsSync 8
Xnews 7
Forte Agent 6
AOL 5
Sylpheed 4
Tass 4
WinVN 4
Newspost 2
nn 2
Forte Free Agent 1
NewsFleX 1
mutt 1
trn 1

Newsreaders used, on a version by version basis: (Top 15)
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slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) 75
Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cle 48
KNode/0.7.7 30
slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) 27
http://groups.google.com 21
tin/1.6.1-20030810 ("Mingulay") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.20 (i 20
Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 18
KNode/0.7.6 17
KNode/0.7.2 10
Xnews/5.04.25 7
Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) XEmacs/21.5 (chayote, l 6
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Thro 6
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) 6
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040502) 6
Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) 6


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