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, 13 May 2006 18:30:01 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Sat, 06 May 2006 19:39:36 GMT
Stats End.................: Sat, 13 May 2006 17:46:53 GMT
Days......................: 7
Total No. of Articles.....: 202
Total No. of Characters...: 433602
Total Volume..............: 423
Messages Per Day..........: 28.9
Characters Per Day........: 61943.1
Average Daily Volume......: 60 kB
Total Posters This Week...: 87
Messages with Sigs........: 36.63%
Original Content Rating...: 61.88%

Top 25 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ============
1. Realto Margarino..................................: 14 2.0 6.9%
2. Sylvain Robitaille................................: 14 2.0 6.9%
3. Jack Wang.........................................: 10 1.4 5.0%
4. Mahy.............................................. : 9 1.3 4.5%
5. Dan C.............................................: 8 1.1 4.0%
6. Grant............................................. : 8 1.1 4.0%
7. Steven Jones......................................: 5 0.7 2.5%
8. Ray............................................... : 5 0.7 2.5%
9. +Alan Hicks+......................................: 4 0.6 2.0%
10. Anc............................................... : 4 0.6 2.0%
11. Damjan............................................ : 4 0.6 2.0%
12. John@Wexfordpress.Com.............................: 3 0.4 1.5%
13. Alan_C............................................ : 3 0.4 1.5%
14. Corrado........................................... : 3 0.4 1.5%
15. Douglas Mayne.....................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
16. Eef Hartman.......................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
17. Filippo........................................... : 3 0.4 1.5%
18. Henrik Carlqvist..................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
19. Leonard The Committed.............................: 3 0.4 1.5%
20. PJ Beers..........................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
21. Steven Winikoff...................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
22. Theodore Heise....................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
23. Thomas Overgaard..................................: 3 0.4 1.5%
24. Notbob............................................ : 3 0.4 1.5%
25. sodamnmad......................................... : 3 0.4 1.5%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ========================
1. Sylvain Robitaille................................: 34 4.9 8.0%
2. Realto Margarino..................................: 24 3.4 5.7%
3. Grant............................................. : 23 3.3 5.4%
4. Mahy.............................................. : 20 3.0 4.9%
5. Jack Wang.........................................: 16 2.4 4.0%
6. Dan C.............................................: 14 2.1 3.4%
7. Steven Jones......................................: 10 1.5 2.5%
8. Anc............................................... : 10 1.5 2.4%
9. Alan_C............................................ : 9 1.4 2.3%
10. Douglas Mayne.....................................: 9 1.4 2.3%
11. Ray............................................... : 9 1.3 2.1%
12. +Alan Hicks+......................................: 8 1.3 2.1%
13. Steven Winikoff...................................: 8 1.2 2.0%
14. Eef Hartman.......................................: 8 1.2 2.0%
15. Masked.Slacker@Gmail.Com..........................: 7 1.0 1.7%
16. Henrik Carlqvist..................................: 6 1.0 1.6%
17. Damjan............................................ : 6 0.9 1.6%
18. Notbob............................................ : 6 0.9 1.4%
19. PJ Beers..........................................: 5 0.8 1.4%
20. Theodore Heise....................................: 5 0.8 1.4%
21. John@Wexfordpress.Com.............................: 5 0.8 1.4%
22. Anonymous......................................... : 5 0.8 1.3%
23. Keith Keller......................................: 5 0.8 1.3%
24. rlw-AT-rlworkman-DOT-net..........................: 5 0.8 1.3%
25. Leonard The Committed.............................: 5 0.7 1.2%

Top 25 Popular Threads: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ===========
1. Where is KDE 3.5.2 available as a slack package...: 35 5.0 17.3%
2. Help! Root device problem.........................: 17 2.4 8.4%
3. Slackware Release Fun and Games...................: 16 2.3 7.9%
4. OT: synchronizing two disconnected systems........: 13 1.9 6.4%
5. anyone can help with debugfs?.....................: 10 1.4 5.0%
6. Developing Java Programs under Slackware..........: 9 1.3 4.5%
7. Gigabit Ethernet..................................: 9 1.3 4.5%
8. Changing the resolutioon, background colour, resol: 8 1.1 4.0%
9. Separate X sessions on Separate Monitors..........: 7 1.0 3.5%
10. kde-3.5.2 problem.................................: 7 1.0 3.5%
11. DVD writer device absent..........................: 6 0.9 3.0%
12. Which console email program to use?...............: 6 0.9 3.0%
13. Best thing next to popcorn!.......................: 4 0.6 2.0%
14. Changing the resolutioon, background colour, reso: 4 0.6 2.0%
15. Messed up fonts with modular X11R7................: 4 0.6 2.0%
16. Quote of the day when I log in?...................: 4 0.6 2.0%
17. ThinkCentre USB...................................: 4 0.6 2.0%
18. eric3 IDE on Slackware 10.2.......................: 4 0.6 2.0%
19. slack-10.2 on 365X: was [Re: I use Windows].......: 4 0.6 2.0%
20. 2.6 kernel installpkg testing/packages/2.6.16.9_ke: 3 0.4 1.5%
21. Home nfs server setup.............................: 3 0.4 1.5%
22. lpr-2005 and input filters........................: 3 0.4 1.5%
23. BlueTooth and Slackware...........................: 2 0.3 1.0%
24. Finally got that mouse wheel working :-)..........: 2 0.3 1.0%
25. Linux driver for GPRS/EDGE (GSM) modem module (Sie: 2 0.3 1.0%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Threads: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ========================
1. Where is KDE 3.5.2 available as a slack package...: 68 9.7 16.1%
2. Help! Root device problem.........................: 39 5.7 9.4%
3. Slackware Release Fun and Games...................: 31 4.4 7.3%
4. anyone can help with debugfs?.....................: 25 3.7 6.1%
5. OT: synchronizing two disconnected systems........: 24 3.5 5.8%
6. Gigabit Ethernet..................................: 21 3.1 5.2%
7. slack-10.2 on 365X: was [Re: I use Windows].......: 20 2.9 4.7%
8. Changing the resolutioon, background colour, resol: 15 2.3 3.7%
9. Separate X sessions on Separate Monitors..........: 15 2.3 3.7%
10. Developing Java Programs under Slackware..........: 15 2.2 3.7%
11. Which console email program to use?...............: 13 1.9 3.1%
12. kde-3.5.2 problem.................................: 12 1.8 2.9%
13. DVD writer device absent..........................: 11 1.7 2.7%
14. Quote of the day when I log in?...................: 11 1.6 2.6%
15. 2.6 kernel installpkg testing/packages/2.6.16.9_ke: 10 1.5 2.5%
16. ThinkCentre USB...................................: 9 1.3 2.2%
17. Messed up fonts with modular X11R7................: 7 1.1 1.8%
18. Changing the resolutioon, background colour, reso: 7 1.1 1.8%
19. Home nfs server setup.............................: 6 1.0 1.6%
20. lpr-2005 and input filters........................: 6 1.0 1.6%
21. eric3 IDE on Slackware 10.2.......................: 5 0.8 1.4%
22. Best thing next to popcorn!.......................: 5 0.7 1.2%
23. BlueTooth and Slackware...........................: 3 0.5 0.9%
24. Linux driver for GPRS/EDGE (GSM) modem module (Sie: 3 0.5 0.8%
25. Finally got that mouse wheel working :-)..........: 3 0.5 0.8%

Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
================================================== =============
1. Jack Wang.............................................. ...: 100.0%
2. Grant............................................. ........: 74.6%
3. Sylvain Robitaille........................................ : 73.8%
4. Mahy.............................................. ........: 67.8%
5. Steven Jones............................................. .: 61.9%
6. Ray............................................... ........: 53.3%
7. Realto Margarino......................................... .: 49.4%
8. Dan C................................................. ....: 39.3%

Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
================================================== ================
1. Dan C................................................. ....: 39.3%
2. Realto Margarino......................................... .: 49.4%
3. Ray............................................... ........: 53.3%
4. Steven Jones............................................. .: 61.9%
5. Mahy.............................................. ........: 67.8%
6. Sylvain Robitaille........................................ : 73.8%
7. Grant............................................. ........: 74.6%
8. Jack Wang.............................................. ...: 100.0%

Top 10 Crossposting Groups: Posts in Group
==========================================
1. alt.cellular.gsm.................................. ...........: 2
2. comp.os.linux.networking.......................... ...........: 2

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End of stats for alt.os.linux.slackware

stats@abnormalpenguin.com wrote:

> ...
> Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>================================================= ==============
> ...
> Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>================================================= =================
> ...

Does it strike anyone (besides me) as odd that these two lists appear
to simply be the same people, in reverse order? Are we the only ten who
posted anything to the newsgroup this week? (that seems very unlikely)

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:

> stats@abnormalpenguin.com wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>>================================================ ===============
>> ...
>> Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>>================================================ ==================
>> ...
>
> Does it strike anyone (besides me) as odd that these two lists appear
> to simply be the same people, in reverse order?

Yes, it struck me too.

> Are we the only ten who posted anything to the newsgroup this week?
> (that seems very unlikely)

In a week when RM is the top poster, it seems _highly_ likely to me!

atb



Glyn
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JFGI http://jfgi.us/

Glyn Millington wrote:

> In a week when RM is the top poster, it seems _highly_ likely to me!

His posts this week were among the most helpful I've ever seen him post,
and were even more helpful than those of some other regulars. Don't be
too quick to knock the fact that he was the top poster of the week.

I think the new medication must agree with him very nicely! :-)

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:

> Glyn Millington wrote:
>
>> In a week when RM is the top poster, it seems _highly_ likely to me!
>
> His posts this week were among the most helpful I've ever seen him post,
> and were even more helpful than those of some other regulars. Don't be
> too quick to knock the fact that he was the top poster of the week.

Fair enough!! I don't see any of his posts - this is where the kill-file
lets you down.... Glad to know that the form of the last ten (?) years
has begun to change!

atb

Glyn
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RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html
GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-)
STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...inux.slackware
JFGI http://jfgi.us/

On Sun, 14 May 2006 07:59:07 +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
> Fair enough!! I don't see any of his posts - this is where the kill-file
> lets you down....
oh no, you should be singing the praises of a killfile that
appparently is working very efficiently...

> Glad to know that the form of the last ten (?) years
> has begun to change!

I don't think I'll be holding my breath on that one. Dog shit left on the
lawn for a long time doesn't magically transform itself into fertilizer.
It's still dog shit.

On Sun, 14 May 2006 06:09:46 +0000, Sylvain Robitaille wrote:

>> Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>>================================================ ===============
>> ...
>> Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
>>================================================ ==================
>> ...

> Does it strike anyone (besides me) as odd that these two lists appear
> to simply be the same people, in reverse order? Are we the only ten who
> posted anything to the newsgroup this week? (that seems very unlikely)

It has to be a "logic" error in the script. For one thing, there are only
8 people listed in the "top10", and there are 25 listed in the "Prolific
Posters" category. I'd say the script needs a tweak.

--
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Linux Registered User #327951

On 2006-05-14, Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> espoused:
> Sylvain Robitaille <syl@alcor.concordia.ca> writes:
>
>> Glyn Millington wrote:
>>
>>> In a week when RM is the top poster, it seems _highly_ likely to me!
>>
>> His posts this week were among the most helpful I've ever seen him post,
>> and were even more helpful than those of some other regulars. Don't be
>> too quick to knock the fact that he was the top poster of the week.
>
> Fair enough!! I don't see any of his posts - this is where the kill-file
> lets you down.... Glad to know that the form of the last ten (?) years
> has begun to change!
>
Same here, although if history is any guide he will relapse soon (and since
he has reportedly been unusually lucid, I would guess we can expect an
equally large swing back the other direction) and we can go back to being
glad he is in our killfile. Hopefully I am wrong.

Scott Cole

--
Only trust pipesmoking penguins.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

Dan C wrote:

> ... For one thing, there are only 8 people listed in the "top10", and
> there are 25 listed in the "Prolific Posters" category. I'd say the
> script needs a tweak.

Good call! I didn't even catch that! :-(

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Sylvain Robitaille syl@alcor.concordia.ca

Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
Instructional & Information Technology Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sylvain Robitaille wrote :

> Good call! I didn't even catch that! :-(

It looks like that the script don't make any stats if there's less than 5
postings from a author.

I think this makes sense because without this limitation the top 10
would be 8 spammers with a 100% original content rating each.

Number one and number two would off cause be the FAQ and this GroupSTAT.
--
Thomas O.

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