by Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name address
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30 68.2 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
73 posters
99 articles
196.2 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
13.7% of the posters
30.3% of the articles
34.8% of the bytes
Averages:
1.4 articles / poster
2.0 kbytes / article
2.7 kbytes / poster
48 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 59 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
65.8% of the posters
59.6% of the articles
56.5% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
12 22.1 Can I deny internet from a doze box, but still get samba?
7 13.2 lan card driver for "Atheros AR5006EX Wirless Network adpator"
6 15.5 scan for machines in the subnet
6 14.8 One NIC interface responding on behalf of another one?
5 11.7 iptables, DNAT, and SMTP
5 10.8 some problem in UDP programming under linux
5 6.9 TCP <--> Com port
4 8.8 Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)
4 7.2 wpa_supplicant + hidden SSID = problem
4 5.1 Linksys LNE100TX(V5)
99 articles on 40 subjects
66 were followups (66.7%)
10 were crossposts (10.1%)
196.1 kbytes total
headers: 105.0kb 53.5%
quoted text: 34.0kb 17.3%
original text: 54.3kb 27.7%
signatures: 2.8kb 1.4%
Averages:
2.5 articles / subject
2.0 kbytes / article
4.9 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 14 *
Tuesday 18 *
Wednesday 21 **
Thursday 8
Friday 11 *
Saturday 8
Sunday 18 *
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):
posts newsreader user
29 (29.3%) g2 25 34.2%
17 (17.2%) thunderbird 13 17.8%
16 (16.2%) pan 9 12.3%
8 (8.1%) mozilla 5 6.8%
7 (7.1%) slrn 4 5.5%
7 (7.1%) microsoft 5 6.8%
5 (5.1%) tin 3 4.1%
3 (3.0%) knode 3 4.1%
2 (2.0%) gnus 2 2.7%
1 (1.0%) xnews 1 1.4%
13 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...