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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 8 37.1 Unruh unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca
2 8 21.5 Magnate contact.me(a)some.other.way
3 5 9.6 Edward A. Falk falk(a)green.rahul.net
4 4 15.2 Matt Giwer jull43(a)tampabay.REMover.r
5 4 12.5 Mr. Usenet spamtheftc(a)yahoo.com
6 3 11.4 cc-tec(a)gmx.de cc-tec(a)gmx.de
7 3 10.3 Robby Workman newsgroups(a)rlworkman.net
8 3 10.0 Moe Trin ibuprofin(a)painkiller.exam
9 3 6.8 sbossert(a)sbcglobal.net sbossert(a)sbcglobal.net
10 3 5.2 jayjwa jayjwa(a)vdrl.ath.cx.invali
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44 139.6 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
48 posters
93 articles
278.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
20.8% of the posters
47.3% of the articles
50.1% of the bytes

Averages:
1.9 articles / poster
3.0 kbytes / article
5.8 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
4.2% of the posters
2.2% of the articles
1.0% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
20 77.7 hwclock problem with leapseconds - posix?
13 38.7 Problems with udev
10 27.6 Promiscuous BOOTP server?
8 19.9 Advanced LILO question: moving drive to a different computer
6 11.7 Can't boot Fedora Release 8
4 10.4 dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: please help re interfaces to lis
4 6.4 Advanced LILO question: found the problem but not the solution
3 7.4 Messed Up Hard Drive
3 4.5 PNP error 81 when fetching irq routing table
2 27.7 A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first i

93 articles on 28 subjects
71 were followups (76.3%)
2 were crossposts (2.2%)

278.4 kbytes total
headers: 99.1kb 35.6%
quoted text: 76.8kb 27.6%
original text: 98.3kb 35.3%
signatures: 4.3kb 1.5%

Averages:
3.3 articles / subject
3.0 kbytes / article
9.9 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 16 *
Tuesday 14 *
Wednesday 18 *
Thursday 13 *
Friday 19 *
Saturday 7
Sunday 6
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
23 (24.7%) g2 14 29.2%
12 (12.9%) microsoft 4 8.3%
11 (11.8%) slrn 5 10.4%
10 (10.8%) thunderbird 6 12.5%
9 (9.7%) nn 2 4.2%
7 (7.5%) trn 2 4.2%
6 (6.5%) gnus 3 6.2%
3 (3.2%) tin 2 4.2%
3 (3.2%) mozilla 2 4.2%
2 (2.2%) post-direct 1 2.1%

15 different newsreader have been used (versions unaccounted).

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

Have a lot of fun...