by Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
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36 83.0 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
50 posters
83 articles
179.6 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
20.0% of the posters
43.4% of the articles
46.2% of the bytes
Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
3.6 kbytes / poster
4 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 4 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
8.0% of the posters
4.8% of the articles
2.6% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
10 20.2 How to network a WinXP SP2 with a Debian Linux machine
5 16.6 LDAP authentication using PAM between 2 Ubuntu machines
4 10.0 NTPD howto?
4 6.8 how to simulate network problems with iptables
4 5.4 DHCP + static IP on the same network?
3 8.3 how to find age of IP
3 6.4 Anyone know how to make the iptables connection tracking table
3 6.3 NFS changes between 2.6.8 and 2.6.24
3 6.2 Anyone know how to make the iptables connection tracking table
3 5.9 Does anyone know how to debug Routing Policy Database (RPDB)?
83 articles on 41 subjects
51 were followups (61.4%)
1 were crossposts (1.2%)
179.6 kbytes total
headers: 91.1kb 50.7%
quoted text: 29.1kb 16.2%
original text: 58.5kb 32.6%
signatures: 0.9kb 0.5%
Averages:
2.0 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
4.4 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 3
Tuesday 20 **
Wednesday 11 *
Thursday 4
Friday 15 *
Saturday 9
Sunday 21 **
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):
posts domain
34 googlegroups.com 41.0%
5 cnntp.org 6.0%
4 nerim.net 4.8%
3 individual.net 3.6%
3 att.net 3.6%
2 xs4all.nl 2.4%
2 snarked.org 2.4%
2 home.test 2.4%
2 gnu.org 2.4%
2 edtnps92.edtnps92 2.4%
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
34 (41.0%) g2 21 42.0%
10 (12.0%) thunderbird 7 14.0%
8 (9.6%) pan 5 10.0%
6 (7.2%) slrn 4 8.0%
6 (7.2%) microsoft 2 4.0%
4 (4.8%) mozilla 1 2.0%
4 (4.8%) knode 4 8.0%
3 (3.6%) gnus 2 4.0%
1 (1.2%) postdirect 1 2.0%
1 (1.2%) forte 1 2.0%
10 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).
DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.
Have lots of fun...