From: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats on
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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mandriva by Robert Marshall
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 272 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Aug 4 23:25:29 2007
Latest article: Fri Aug 10 19:25:04 2007
Original articles: 40, replies: 232
Total size of posts: 678,705 bytes (662K) (0.65M)
Average 38 articles per day, 0.09 MB per day, 2,495 bytes per article
Total headers: 325 KB bodies: 337 KB
Body text - quoted: 138 KB, original: 169 KB = 55.02%, sigs: 27 KB
Total number of posters: 70, average 9,695 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 57, average 11,907 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 36

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 26
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 26
3: "Peter D." <psd(a)live.home.invalid>............................. : 24
4: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 20
5: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 12
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 10
7: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws(a)doughost.invalid>....................... : 8
8: Warren Post <wpost(a)hondutel.hn>................................ : 8
9: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 8
10: herman.viaene(a)thuis.be......................................... : 7
11: Bob H <bob(a)despammer.com>...................................... : 6
12: lordy <spam(a)lordy.org.ukinvalid>............................... : 6
13: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 5
14: Dan Espen <daneNO(a)MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 4
15: Rich <evodawg(a)verizon.net>..................................... : 4
16: Gail Koontz <gailkoontz(a)cfl.rr.com>............................ : 4
17: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 4
18: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 4
19: Jabali Pragya <jabali(a)freeuk.com>.............................. : 4
20: Big Yellow Hats <resting.comfortably(a)invalid.home.edu.invalid.l : 3

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 69
2: "Peter D." <psd(a)live.home.invalid>............................. : 68
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 61
4: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 61
5: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 37
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 31
7: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws(a)doughost.invalid>....................... : 20
8: Bob H <bob(a)despammer.com>...................................... : 16
9: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 15
10: herman.viaene(a)thuis.be......................................... : 15
11: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 13
12: lordy <spam(a)lordy.org.ukinvalid>............................... : 13
13: Dan Espen <daneNO(a)MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................... : 11
14: Warren Post <wpost(a)hondutel.hn>................................ : 11
15: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 10
16: Jabali Pragya <jabali(a)freeuk.com>.............................. : 9
17: Rich <evodawg(a)verizon.net>..................................... : 8
18: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Marc_Par=E9?= <marc(a)marcpare.com>............... : 8
19: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 7
20: Gail Koontz <gailkoontz(a)cfl.rr.com>............................ : 6

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Top 12 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Warren Post <wpost(a)hondutel.hn>................................ : 86.94%
2: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 77.56%
3: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 70.49%
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 70.45%
5: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 64.86%
6: lordy <spam(a)lordy.org.ukinvalid>............................... : 60.43%
7: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 59.37%
8: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 51.10%
9: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 45.75%
10: "Peter D." <psd(a)live.home.invalid>............................. : 45.25%
11: herman.viaene(a)thuis.be......................................... : 36.86%
12: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws(a)doughost.invalid>....................... : 32.98%

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Bottom 12 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Bob H <bob(a)despammer.com>...................................... : 20.85%
2: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws(a)doughost.invalid>....................... : 32.98%
3: herman.viaene(a)thuis.be......................................... : 36.86%
4: "Peter D." <psd(a)live.home.invalid>............................. : 45.25%
5: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 45.75%
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 51.10%
7: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 59.37%
8: lordy <spam(a)lordy.org.ukinvalid>............................... : 60.43%
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 64.86%
10: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 70.45%
11: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 70.49%
12: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 77.56%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: sntp versus Network Time Protocol.............................. : 28
2: System locking up since broadband installed.................... : 26
3: [Newbie] Help I've broken my linux box......................... : 13
4: Firefox updates................................................ : 13
5: New Readers: Posting FAQ for a.o.l.mandrake/mandriva........... : 11
6: Files not visible on desktop................................... : 9
7: Firefox not using flashplayer.................................. : 9
8: Hungry X....................................................... : 9
9: host names, network names and IP addresses..................... : 9
10: Freeze at install.............................................. : 7
11: net connection drops when local network is pluggied in......... : 7
12: autofs fails to load on 2007................................... : 6
13: Recommended MSN Messenger client............................... : 6
14: DVD not accessible to user..................................... : 5
15: pinging DNSs................................................... : 5
16: 586 and x86_64 iso 2007........................................ : 5
17: Change localhost............................................... : 5
18: VirtualBox & Kernel 2.6.17-14.................................. : 5
19: web-cam support................................................ : 5
20: Making Mandriva behave like a router?.......................... : 5

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: sntp versus Network Time Protocol.............................. : 62
2: New Readers: Posting FAQ for a.o.l.mandrake/mandriva........... : 62
3: System locking up since broadband installed.................... : 52
4: [Newbie] Help I've broken my linux box......................... : 37
5: host names, network names and IP addresses..................... : 37
6: Hungry X....................................................... : 30
7: net connection drops when local network is pluggied in......... : 29
8: Firefox updates................................................ : 25
9: Firefox not using flashplayer.................................. : 21
10: Files not visible on desktop................................... : 18
11: Making Mandriva behave like a router?.......................... : 13
12: autofs fails to load on 2007................................... : 13
13: VirtualBox & Kernel 2.6.17-14.................................. : 12
14: Freeze at install.............................................. : 11
15: Using samba to print from WinXP client......................... : 10
16: web-cam support................................................ : 10
17: Change localhost............................................... : 10
18: pinging DNSs................................................... : 9
19: 586 and x86_64 iso 2007........................................ : 9
20: What happened?................................................. : 9

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Top 4 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.os.linux.mandrake.......................................... : 15
2: comp.os.linux.hardware......................................... : 3
3: alt.os.linux.ubuntu............................................ : 2
4: comp.os.linux.misc............................................. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode.......................................................... : 14
2: Pan............................................................ : 13
3: slrn........................................................... : 10
4: Outlook Express................................................ : 5
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11....................................... : 4
6: G2............................................................. : 3
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11....................................... : 3
8: Forte Agent.................................................... : 2
9: Mozilla........................................................ : 2
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11....................................... : 2

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: KNode..................................................... : 69 (25%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 57 (21%)
3: Pan....................................................... : 43 (16%)
4: Opera Mail................................................ : 26 (10%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11.................................. : 16 ( 6%)
6: pan....................................................... : 9 ( 3%)
7: Outlook Express........................................... : 8 ( 3%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows.............................. : 6 ( 2%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11.................................. : 5 ( 2%)
10: Forte Agent............................................... : 5 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 100
2: -0400.......................................................... : 43
3: +0100.......................................................... : 42
4: +1000.......................................................... : 38
5: +0200.......................................................... : 16
6: -0700.......................................................... : 11
7: -0500.......................................................... : 11
8: -0600.......................................................... : 6
9: -0300.......................................................... : 3
10: +1200.......................................................... : 1

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From: Robert Marshall on
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, alt os.linux mandriva Stats wrote:

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> Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mandriva by Robert Marshall
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> (stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)
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> Total posts considered: 272 over 7 days
> Earliest article: Sat Aug 4 23:25:29 2007
> Latest article: Fri Aug 10 19:25:04 2007

Slightly skewed figures due to the script working on the date the item
was received by this machine rather than the date posted - I've been
away on hols so apols for last week's missing stats (also for the
aol.mandrake stats) ....I decided the m/c should have a week off!

Robert
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