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Summary of articles over a 7 day period.
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Analysis of posts to comp.cad.solidworks
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 130 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Dec 7 23:02:22 2008
Latest article: Sun Dec 14 18:00:28 2008
Original articles: 17, replies: 113
Total size of posts: 291,918 bytes (285K) (0.28M)
Average 18 articles per day, 0.04 MB per day, 2,245 bytes per article
Total headers: 167 KB bodies: 117 KB
Body text - quoted: 31 KB, original: 85 KB = 73.40%, sigs: 0 KB
Total number of posters: 30, average 9,730 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 26, average 11,227 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 26

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Top 15 posters by number of articles
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1: jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com>............................ : 41
2: Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com>...................................... : 41
3: barn_rubble(a)excite.com......................................... : 8
4: TOP <kellnerp(a)cbd.net>......................................... : 4
5: "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter(a)Hotmail.com>.................... : 4
6: Joe788 <joemama788(a)aol.com>.................................... : 3
7: koorzena(a)gmail.com............................................. : 2
8: pfarnham(a)priorclave.co.uk...................................... : 2
9: Hang Dog <righteous(a)wobble.nospam.net>......................... : 2
10: alphawave <awtltd(a)gmail.com>................................... : 2
11: brewertr(a)aol.com............................................... : 2
12: Jiya <jamesjiya(a)googlemail.com>................................ : 1
13: Neil <ncustard(a)3didesign.com>.................................. : 1
14: "Wonderman" <wonderman(a)nospam.net>............................. : 1
15: bob zee <bobzee1(a)gmail.com>.................................... : 1

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Top 15 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com>............................ : 81
2: Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com>...................................... : 74
3: barn_rubble(a)excite.com......................................... : 22
4: ccsstats <ccsstats(a)hotmail.com>................................ : 21
5: TOP <kellnerp(a)cbd.net>......................................... : 8
6: alphawave <awtltd(a)gmail.com>................................... : 8
7: "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter(a)Hotmail.com>.................... : 7
8: Joe788 <joemama788(a)aol.com>.................................... : 6
9: brewertr(a)aol.com............................................... : 5
10: Hang Dog <righteous(a)wobble.nospam.net>......................... : 4
11: "boer" <nosp(a)maub.nl>.......................................... : 4
12: koorzena(a)gmail.com............................................. : 3
13: pfarnham(a)priorclave.co.uk...................................... : 3
14: "Proctologically Violated��" <UNfitcat(a)UNoptonline.net>........ : 2
15: Ben <mountain.wave(a)gmail.com>.................................. : 2

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Top 15 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com>............................ : 95.84%
2: barn_rubble(a)excite.com......................................... : 82.49%
3: Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com>...................................... : 48.03%

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Bottom 15 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com>...................................... : 48.03%
2: barn_rubble(a)excite.com......................................... : 82.49%
3: jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com>............................ : 95.84%

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Top 15 threads by no. of articles
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1: Jon Banquer Blog Updated....................................... : 54
2: How Does Haas Make This Claim And Get Away With It?............ : 17
3: 12,000 Hits!................................................... : 10
4: Job Hopping To Success......................................... : 9
5: The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX..................... : 8
6: Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly It ... : 4
7: Debugging & reloading Addins................................... : 4
8: Time for a new Laptop.......................................... : 3
9: Old probs still around and a new one appeared with 2009 sp1.... : 2
10: Having part "wrap" to surface automatically.................... : 2
11: ot : surface finish calculator for ballnose milling............ : 2
12: Task Schedule at start up ?.................................... : 1
13: Adult models | Nude models..................................... : 1
14: SW08 - urgent help please...................................... : 1
15: Inspection Dimensions.......................................... : 1

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Top 15 threads by size in KB
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1: Jon Banquer Blog Updated....................................... : 114
2: How Does Haas Make This Claim And Get Away With It?............ : 30
3: The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX..................... : 21
4: Statistics for comp.cad.solidworks, 08 Dec 2008................ : 21
5: 12,000 Hits!................................................... : 16
6: Job Hopping To Success......................................... : 14
7: Time for a new Laptop.......................................... : 12
8: Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly It ... : 8
9: Debugging & reloading Addins................................... : 7
10: Having part "wrap" to surface automatically.................... : 4
11: 2009 Performance............................................... : 3
12: Old probs still around and a new one appeared with 2009 sp1.... : 3
13: SolidJott Addin for SolidWorks................................. : 2
14: discount Men's women's shocks OZ NZ TL trainers................ : 2
15: ot : surface finish calculator for ballnose milling............ : 2

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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc............................................... : 103
2: alt.cad........................................................ : 32
3: alt.usenet.kooks............................................... : 28
4: alt.cad.alt.usenet.kooks....................................... : 3
5: comp.unix.shell................................................ : 1
6: comp.arch.fpga................................................. : 1
7: comp.programming............................................... : 1

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Top 15 User Agents by poster
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1: G2............................................................. : 16
2: Outlook Express................................................ : 4
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows.................................. : 3
4: Mozilla........................................................ : 2
5: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 1
6: Forte Agent.................................................... : 1
7: Forte Free Agent............................................... : 1
8: Xnews.......................................................... : 1
9: Unknown........................................................ : 1
10: Gnus........................................................... : 0
11: News Rover..................................................... : 0
12: MacSOUP........................................................ : 0
13: Pan............................................................ : 0
14: WebTV.......................................................... : 0
15: Foorum......................................................... : 0

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Top 9 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 68 (52%)
2: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 41 (32%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 7 ( 5%)
4: Mozilla................................................... : 6 ( 5%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows............................. : 3 ( 2%)
6: Forte Agent............................................... : 2 ( 2%)
7: Xnews..................................................... : 1 ( 1%)
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000..................... : 1 ( 1%)
9: unknown................................................... : 1 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800 (PST).................................................... : 68
2: -0500.......................................................... : 48
3: -0800.......................................................... : 4
4: -0600.......................................................... : 4
5: UTC............................................................ : 4
6: +0100.......................................................... : 1
7: -0700.......................................................... : 1

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Summary of articles over a 30 day period.
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Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics
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(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson

This report covers 398 messages written between 11/14/08 06:20:39 and 12/14/08 14:58:12

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Blacklist of quoters (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. John R. Carroll <jcarroll(a)ubu,machiningsolution.com> 4 81.47%
2. Charlie Gary <cgary(a)modelwerks.com> 4 79.16%
3. ah <splifingate(a)gmail.com> 8 74.81%
4. Joe788 <joemama788(a)aol.com> 7 64.60%
5. Krister_L <krister_landkvist(a)hotmail.com> 7 60.99%
6. Engineer <guptasolidworks(a)gmail.com> 6 59.94%
7. tnik <kortjester(a)gmail.com> 7 51.82%
8. Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com> 97 51.61%
9. alphawave <awtltd(a)gmail.com> 3 47.84%
10. Wayne Tiffany <wayneRMVJNKtiffany(a)MOREJNKasi.com> 3 47.67%
11. TOP <kellnerp(a)cbd.net> 4 45.89%
12. Bo <boclawson(a)mac.com> 3 45.14%
13. bob zee <bobzee1(a)gmail.com> 3 31.24%
14. barn_rubble(a)excite.com 15 26.45%
15. brewertr(a)aol.com 11 22.47%
16. gk <glkd(a)cox.net> 3 22.24%
17. Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaughter(a)Hotmail.com> 13 19.31%
18. jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com> 68 16.53%
19. BlaqueSheep <bs(a)aughtadesk.con> 3 15.78%
20. That70sTick <rol4(a)liquidschwarz.com> 14 15.11%

A total of 292983 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which 92556, or 31.59%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com> 97 63144 51.6%
2. jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com> 68 35138 16.5%
3. barn_rubble(a)excite.com 15 12258 26.4%
4. That70sTick <rol4(a)liquidschwarz.com> 14 3118 15.1%
5. Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaughter(a)Hotmail.com> 13 6679 19.3%
6. brewertr(a)aol.com 11 10170 22.5%
7. neil <neilscad(a)hotmail.com> 9 11781 2.4%
8. ah <splifingate(a)gmail.com> 8 4025 74.8%
9. Joe788 <joemama788(a)aol.com> 7 6749 64.6%
10. Krister_L <krister_landkvist(a)hotmail.com> 7 5227 61.0%
11. tnik <kortjester(a)gmail.com> 7 2715 51.8%
12. Ronni <rni(a)tresu.dk> 6 4002 N/A
13. Engineer <guptasolidworks(a)gmail.com> 6 3847 59.9%
14. gil.sicart(a)gmail.com 5 1873 6.7%
15. Charlie Gary <cgary(a)modelwerks.com> 4 4127 79.2%
16. John R. Carroll <jcarroll(a)ubu,machiningsolution.co 4 3491 81.5%
17. TOP <kellnerp(a)cbd.net> 4 3312 45.9%
18. alphawave <awtltd(a)gmail.com> 3 6718 47.8%
19. bob zee <bobzee1(a)gmail.com> 3 1882 31.2%
20. Bo <boclawson(a)mac.com> 3 1575 45.1%

A total of 92 people were identified.

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Toplist of original content per message (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Orig. / Msgs = PrMsg Quoted
1. neil <neilscad(a)hotmail.com> 11500 / 9 = 1277 2.4%
2. alphawave <awtltd(a)gmail.com> 3504 / 3 = 1168 47.8%
3. brewertr(a)aol.com 7885 / 11 = 716 22.5%
4. Ronni <rni(a)tresu.dk> 4002 / 6 = 667 N/A
5. barn_rubble(a)excite.com 9016 / 15 = 601 26.4%
6. TOP <kellnerp(a)cbd.net> 1792 / 4 = 448 45.9%
7. bob zee <bobzee1(a)gmail.com> 1294 / 3 = 431 31.2%
8. jon_banquer <jon_banquer(a)yahoo.com> 29330 / 68 = 431 16.5%
9. Jon Slaughter <Jon_Slaughter(a)Hotmail.com> 5389 / 13 = 414 19.3%
10. gil.sicart(a)gmail.com 1748 / 5 = 349 6.7%
11. Joe788 <joemama788(a)aol.com> 2389 / 7 = 341 64.6%
12. Cliff <Clhuprich(a)aol.com> 30555 / 97 = 315 51.6%
13. Krister_L <krister_landkvist(a)hotmail.com> 2039 / 7 = 291 61.0%
14. Bo <boclawson(a)mac.com> 864 / 3 = 288 45.1%
15. Engineer <guptasolidworks(a)gmail.com> 1541 / 6 = 256 59.9%
16. Wayne Tiffany <wayneRMVJNKtiffany(a)MOREJNKas 697 / 3 = 232 47.7%
17. Charlie Gary <cgary(a)modelwerks.com> 860 / 4 = 215 79.2%
18. That70sTick <rol4(a)liquidschwarz.com> 2647 / 14 = 189 15.1%
19. tnik <kortjester(a)gmail.com> 1308 / 7 = 186 51.8%
20. John R. Carroll <jcarroll(a)ubu,machiningsolu 647 / 4 = 161 81.5%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Jon Banquer Blog Updated 54 37900
2. The Pickens Plan 32 23208
3. The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX 29 27722
4. Unresolved Machining And CADCAM Issues 21 13062
5. How Does Haas Make This Claim And Get Away With It? 17 9087
6. New Chick CNC Vise 14 6911
7. Roadrunner 12 8704
8. Matt sells out? 12 8197
9. Aren't you glad Solidworks ... 12 3606
10. AMC Prizes of the Month? 11 10120
11. 12,000 Hits! 10 5550
12. Create planes by equation/table 10 3977
13. Job Hopping To Success 9 4479
14. Debugging & reloading Addins 8 4018
15. circular duplication of sketch entities 8 2571
16. Intellectual Property question 6 6105
17. Help with solidworks needed 6 3593
18. Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly 6 3191
19. 3DConnexion Driver causing 2x load time 5 3848
20. View orientation 5 2135

A total of 83 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. G2 194
2. Forte Free Agent 97
3. Microsoft Outlook Express 48
4. Forte Agent 16
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 9
6. Mariozilla 8
7. Microsoft Windows Mail 8
8. Mozilla 6
9. Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 4
10. Xnews 1
11. NewsLeecher 1
12. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 1
13. Pan 1
14. slrn 1

A total of 14 different programs (not counting different versions) were identified.

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Postings per weekday

Day Msgs
Monday 47 ****************************************
Tuesday 45 **************************************
Wednesday 61 ****************************************************
Thursday 50 ******************************************
Friday 63 ******************************************************
Saturday 62 *****************************************************
Sunday 70 ************************************************************

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