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: 229 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Jan 11 21:25:06 2008
Latest article: Fri Jan 18 20:25:02 2008
Original articles: 28, replies: 201
Total size of posts: 597,798 bytes (583K) (0.57M)
Average 32 articles per day, 0.08 MB per day, 2,610 bytes per article
Total headers: 308 KB bodies: 275 KB
Body text - quoted: 120 KB, original: 133 KB = 52.61%, sigs: 20 KB
Total number of posters: 47, average 12,719 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 43, average 13,902 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 13

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 31
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 22
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 20
4: Unruh <unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 18
5: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 17
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 14
7: BackPacker <BackPacker(a)rekcapkcab.org.invalid>................. : 10
8: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>................ : 10
9: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 8
10: kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85(a)gmail.com>...................... : 6
11: sid <sidshouse(a)thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>....................... : 5
12: Wes Newell <w.newell(a)TAKEOUTverizon.net>....................... : 5
13: JTJersey <JT3(a)aplace.com>...................................... : 4
14: Alex <sunnlife(a)gmail.com>...................................... : 4
15: daniel_unb <muller(a)fis.unb.br>................................. : 4
16: edavid3001(a)gmail.com........................................... : 3
17: Keith Lee <cmarvel(a)NOSPAM.nethere.com>......................... : 3
18: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>............................ : 3
19: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 3
20: Don Grafton <dongraf(a)sti.net>.................................. : 3

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 72
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 53
3: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 51
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 48
5: Unruh <unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 42
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 40
7: daniel_unb <muller(a)fis.unb.br>................................. : 24
8: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>................ : 21
9: BackPacker <BackPacker(a)rekcapkcab.org.invalid>................. : 21
10: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 17
11: Wes Newell <w.newell(a)TAKEOUTverizon.net>....................... : 16
12: kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85(a)gmail.com>...................... : 16
13: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet(a)capuchin.co.uk>............ : 14
14: "Les B. Labbauf" <broeht(a)netscape.net>......................... : 12
15: sid <sidshouse(a)thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>....................... : 10
16: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>............................ : 8
17: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>............................... : 8
18: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 7
19: edavid3001(a)gmail.com........................................... : 7
20: JTJersey <JT3(a)aplace.com>...................................... : 7

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Top 11 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)bcs.removethis.org.uk>.................. : 87.33%
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 74.89%
3: BackPacker <BackPacker(a)rekcapkcab.org.invalid>................. : 72.71%
4: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 65.60%
5: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 63.79%
6: kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85(a)gmail.com>...................... : 56.95%
7: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>................ : 56.78%
8: Wes Newell <w.newell(a)TAKEOUTverizon.net>....................... : 49.53%
9: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 44.89%
10: sid <sidshouse(a)thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>....................... : 41.12%
11: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 25.57%

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Bottom 11 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Unruh <unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 22.44%
2: Blinky the Shark <no.spam(a)box.invalid>......................... : 25.57%
3: sid <sidshouse(a)thecrap.blueyonder.co.uk>....................... : 41.12%
4: Whiskers <catwheezel(a)operamail.com>............................ : 44.89%
5: Wes Newell <w.newell(a)TAKEOUTverizon.net>....................... : 49.53%
6: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>................ : 56.78%
7: kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85(a)gmail.com>...................... : 56.95%
8: Jim Beard <jim.beard(a)verizon.net>.............................. : 63.79%
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 65.60%
10: BackPacker <BackPacker(a)rekcapkcab.org.invalid>................. : 72.71%
11: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 74.89%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Problem setting up printer on laptop........................... : 46
2: Seeing My Camera............................................... : 33
3: How to determine active DMA issue?............................. : 19
4: nvidia......................................................... : 9
5: how to tune msec's (intrusive) permission tweaking............. : 8
6: Speaking of Mandriva 2008 updates.............................. : 8
7: Mdv2008 updates, XFce4......................................... : 8
8: firefox as separate account can't open display................. : 7
9: Haupauge Nova-t 500 Dig card................................... : 6
10: Mandriva 10.1 to 2008.0 upgrade & issues....................... : 5
11: Bizarre behaviour of DNS and hosts file........................ : 5
12: Backup problems using MCC...................................... : 5
13: Problems in browsing in opera.................................. : 5
14: KDE4........................................................... : 4
15: Using Python's idle on Mandriva Linux 2008..................... : 4
16: Does Prelink Change File Sizes?................................ : 4
17: locking out sshd break in attempts?............................ : 3
18: prelink, ldd fail to find dependencies: vmware virtualbox...... : 3
19: FQDN for Leafnode SOLUTION..................................... : 3
20: group id problem............................................... : 3

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Problem setting up printer on laptop........................... : 106
2: Seeing My Camera............................................... : 89
3: How to determine active DMA issue?............................. : 49
4: nvidia......................................................... : 48
5: firefox as separate account can't open display................. : 19
6: Bizarre behaviour of DNS and hosts file........................ : 17
7: Mdv2008 updates, XFce4......................................... : 16
8: how to tune msec's (intrusive) permission tweaking............. : 16
9: Haupauge Nova-t 500 Dig card................................... : 15
10: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 14
11: Speaking of Mandriva 2008 updates.............................. : 14
12: Mandriva 10.1 to 2008.0 upgrade & issues....................... : 12
13: Download duration while Easyurpmi.............................. : 11
14: Backup problems using MCC...................................... : 11
15: Does Prelink Change File Sizes?................................ : 9
16: Problems in browsing in opera.................................. : 9
17: prelink, ldd fail to find dependencies: vmware virtualbox...... : 7
18: Using Python's idle on Mandriva Linux 2008..................... : 7
19: locking out sshd break in attempts?............................ : 6
20: /etc/fstab entry for USB drive................................. : 6

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Top 2 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.os.linux.mandrake.......................................... : 7
2: alt.os.linux.mandriva......................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode.......................................................... : 11
2: Pan............................................................ : 10
3: G2............................................................. : 5
4: slrn........................................................... : 5
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11....................................... : 4
6: Gnus........................................................... : 2
7: nn............................................................. : 2
8: Mozilla........................................................ : 2
9: Unknown........................................................ : 2
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11....................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Pan....................................................... : 63 (28%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 43 (19%)
3: KNode..................................................... : 33 (14%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11.................................. : 22 (10%)
5: Opera Mail................................................ : 20 ( 9%)
6: nn........................................................ : 19 ( 8%)
7: G2........................................................ : 15 ( 7%)
8: unknown................................................... : 5 ( 2%)
9: Mozilla................................................... : 2 ( 1%)
10: Gnus...................................................... : 2 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 144
2: -0800.......................................................... : 24
3: -0500.......................................................... : 21
4: -0800 (PST).................................................... : 15
5: -0600.......................................................... : 9
6: +0100.......................................................... : 9
7: +1100.......................................................... : 5
8: +0900.......................................................... : 1
9: +0100 (CET).................................................... : 1

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