by Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
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134 247.3 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
286 posters
573 articles
1187.4 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.5% of the posters
23.4% of the articles
20.8% of the bytes
Averages:
2.0 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
4.2 kbytes / poster
208 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 321 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
72.7% of the posters
56.0% of the articles
58.9% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
15 33.9 A LAN question
15 29.4 At what (Slower) CPU Speed is a Gig-E NIC pointless?
15 21.8 100 BASE-T / 10 BASE-T connection
12 33.9 Routing through several hosts?
11 19.1 Trying to Understand Routing
10 17.8 DEBIAN Woody installation pb.
9 20.2 linmodem irq problem?
9 13.9 REDHAT LINUX 7.0 prompt/hostname
8 14.0 online wordprocessor?
7 60.4 Setting Up IPTABLES with Squid, others
573 articles on 197 subjects
417 were followups (72.8%)
59 were crossposts (10.3%)
1186.3 kbytes total
headers: 522.0kb 44.0%
quoted text: 243.0kb 20.5%
original text: 400.3kb 33.7%
signatures: 21.0kb 1.8%
Averages:
2.9 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
6.0 kbytes / subject
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
109 microsoft 19.0%
92 mozilla 16.1%
67 knode 11.7%
63 tin 11.0%
54 pan 9.4%
21 nn 3.7%
21 forte 3.7%
14 slrn 2.4%
12 xnews 2.1%
9 gnus 1.6%
19 different newsreader have been used (versions unacounted)
DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.
Have a lot of fun...