From: Michael Heiming on
Stats comp.os.linux.misc (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 14 29.6 Dances With Crows danceswithcrows(a)usa.net
2 9 16.6 A Watcher stocksami(a)earthlink.net
3 8 30.8 Robert Heller heller(a)deepsoft.com
4 8 18.5 ERACC junkmail(a)eracc.com
5 7 21.2 The Natural Philosopher a(a)b.c
6 7 12.3 John Thompson john(a)vector.os2.dhs.org
7 6 14.2 Keith Keller kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san
8 6 11.2 Bill Marcum marcumbill(a)bellsouth.net
9 6 10.6 Dan C youmustbejoking(a)lan.inval
10 6 10.0 johnny bobby bee useraddshine-no_spam_eh@y
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77 175.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
147 posters
308 articles
761.3 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.8% of the posters
25.0% of the articles
23.0% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.5 kbytes / article
5.2 kbytes / poster

7 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 7 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
4.8% of the posters
2.3% of the articles
1.4% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
27 56.7 [OT] Article - Does foxnews.com Hate Linux Users?
21 47.4 Canon PowerShot A470
15 31.8 Ubuntu or Debian for programmers? (+ rant)
14 26.8 Article - Does foxnews.com Hate Linux Users?
14 22.5 dict not piping through less/pager
13 28.7 Obliterating a hard drive
12 21.4 feeding a series of input args to a command that only takes one
9 38.4 Router not working in one direction
9 21.6 Cloning a disk over the Ethernet
9 20.8 Free hacking tools (Windows/Linux/OS X/Palm)

308 articles on 85 subjects
234 were followups (76.0%)
42 were crossposts (13.6%)

760.7 kbytes total
headers: 350.0kb 46.0%
quoted text: 142.2kb 18.7%
original text: 244.4kb 32.1%
signatures: 24.0kb 3.2%

Averages:
3.6 articles / subject
2.5 kbytes / article
8.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 60 ******
Tuesday 44 ****
Wednesday 53 *****
Thursday 58 *****
Friday 31 ***
Saturday 32 ***
Sunday 30 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
74 googlegroups.com 24.0%
14 dyndns.org 4.5%
13 earthlink.com 4.2%
11 giganews.com 3.6%
8 localnet.localnet 2.6%
8 eracc.UUCP 2.6%
7 dhs.org 2.3%
7 clara.net 2.3%
6 moria.lan 1.9%
6 lark.localnet 1.9%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
74 (24.0%) g2 55 37.4%
62 (20.1%) slrn 20 13.6%
45 (14.6%) pan 18 12.2%
28 (9.1%) thunderbird 15 10.2%
14 (4.5%) knode 8 5.4%
13 (4.2%) xnews 5 3.4%
11 (3.6%) tin 4 2.7%
8 (2.6%) tknews 1 0.7%
8 (2.6%) claws 1 0.7%
6 (1.9%) gnus 2 1.4%

21 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

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

Have lots of fun...