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Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name                    address










       ---  -----
        80  243.4  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
  121 posters
  278 articles
  637.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  8.3% of the posters
 28.8% of the articles
 38.2% of the bytes

Averages:
  2.3 articles / poster
  2.3 kbytes / article
  5.3 kbytes / poster

81 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 163 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
   66.9% of the posters
   58.6% of the articles
   51.4% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes   subject
 30     61.1   Is WEP the most secure encryption in wireless network security?
 27     48.2   Many wireless card doesn't support Linux?
 22     44.2   reads slow, writes fast, on server.
 20     46.7   Why IP address is fixed everytime connected to the Internet?
 15     43.5   Firewall software.
 13     95.5   VPN to Linux server behind NAT router from XP Home?
 10     20.3   passing two variables with for loop
  9     18.8   Two NIC cards => Possible to Configure Two Default Routes?
  8     18.5   Router Recommendations
  7     13.0   change MAC address can change IP address of a machine?

278 articles on 61 subjects
  222 were followups (79.9%)
  107 were crossposts (38.5%)

637.1 kbytes total
  headers:        304.7kb   47.8%
  quoted text:    164.4kb   25.8%
  original text:  160.1kb   25.1%
  signatures:       8.0kb    1.3%

Averages:
  4.6 articles / subject
  2.3 kbytes / article
  10.4 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day        posts
  Monday      38  ***
  Tuesday     30  ***
  Wednesday   88  ********
  Thursday    49  ****
  Friday      37  ***
  Saturday    12  *
  Sunday      24  **
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader       user
  48 (17.3%)    g2               27  22.3%
  38 (13.7%)    knode            13  10.7%
  33 (11.9%)    mozilla          21  17.4%
  31 (11.2%)    microsoft        12   9.9%
  24  (8.6%)    pan              13  10.7%
  23  (8.3%)    forte             8   6.6%
  15  (5.4%)    tin               7   5.8%
  13  (4.7%)    slrn              4   3.3%
   9  (3.2%)    thunderbird      17  14.0%
   8  (2.9%)    xnews             1   0.8%

19 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take the stats with a dash of salt,
quantity might not always imply quality.

Have a lot of fun...