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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 11 43.6 Moe Trin ibuprofin(a)painkiller.exam
2 6 10.7 Jurgen Haan jurgen(a)fake.tld
3 5 12.9 David Schwartz davids(a)webmaster.com
4 5 11.4 Ignoramus15568 ignoramus15568(a)NOSPAM.155
5 3 9.1 Guillaume Dargaud use_the_form_on_my_contac
6 3 6.1 Josef Moellers josef.moellers(a)fujitsu-si
7 3 5.5 Dave Uhring daveuhring(a)yahoo.com
8 3 5.1 Geoff Lane datemasde.t1m(a)gishpuppy.c
9 2 8.6 jayjwa jayjwa(a)vdrl.ath.cx.invali
10 2 6.7 Piotrek G. remove.every.2nd.letter.s
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43 119.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
60 posters
106 articles
252.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
16.7% of the posters
40.6% of the articles
47.5% of the bytes

Averages:
1.8 articles / poster
2.4 kbytes / article
4.2 kbytes / poster

2 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 2 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
3.3% of the posters
1.9% of the articles
0.9% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
13 29.1 How to make samba to NOT ask for password
12 23.1 Ping and Tracert
8 17.7 Rejecting packets from a given domain
7 17.5 When IPv6?
6 14.1 gigabit+bonding = no performance improve ?
5 19.5 Selective routing / how to separate 2 subnets
5 16.0 linux router connecting to dd-wrt(s) for VPN
5 9.7 Problem connecting to internet in Linux
4 19.5 Network Setup Advice
4 10.0 How to PREVENT a user from logging in through SSH

106 articles on 37 subjects
81 were followups (76.4%)
21 were crossposts (19.8%)

251.9 kbytes total
headers: 120.1kb 47.7%
quoted text: 53.5kb 21.2%
original text: 75.4kb 29.9%
signatures: 3.0kb 1.2%

Averages:
2.9 articles / subject
2.4 kbytes / article
6.8 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 22 **
Tuesday 27 **
Wednesday 17 *
Thursday 7
Friday 13 *
Saturday 10 *
Sunday 10 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
19 googlegroups.com 17.9%
11 az.us 10.4%
7 giganews.com 6.6%
5 xs4all.nl 4.7%
3 yahoo.com 2.8%
3 individual.net 2.8%
3 in2p3.fr 2.8%
3 fujitsu-siemens.com 2.8%
3 datemas.de 2.8%
3 att.net 2.8%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
24 (22.6%) slrn 8 13.3%
23 (21.7%) thunderbird 12 20.0%
19 (17.9%) g2 15 25.0%
10 (9.4%) pan 6 10.0%
7 (6.6%) microsoft 3 5.0%
5 (4.7%) tin 3 5.0%
5 (4.7%) mozilla 3 5.0%
3 (2.8%) gnus 2 3.3%
2 (1.9%) microplanet-gravity 1 1.7%
2 (1.9%) knode 1 1.7%

16 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...