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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 2 7.4 Moe Trin ibuprofin(a)painkiller.exam
2 2 4.9 philo philo(a)privacy.net
3 2 4.8 JAG CHAN rup(a)invalid.com
4 2 4.8 Bit Twister BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.c
5 2 4.3 The Natural Philosopher a(a)b.c
6 2 3.5 Matt Giwer jull43(a)tampabay.REMover.r
7 2 3.0 allanoppel(a)gmail.com allanoppel(a)gmail.com
8 1 13.9 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
9 1 6.4 Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8(a)verizon.net
10 1 3.8 Doug Laidlaw doug(a)dougshost.invalid
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17 56.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
23 posters
30 articles
83.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
43.5% of the posters
56.7% of the articles
67.9% of the bytes

Averages:
1.3 articles / poster
2.8 kbytes / article
3.6 kbytes / poster

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
7 15.3 error in partition table leaves some space inaccessible
5 16.9 Dual Booting
5 15.2 Removal of RPM after installing update
3 6.5 Setting up raw prinit queue on RHEL 5, how?
3 3.6 hacker contest
2 3.0 Which, for Dell Dimension E520?
1 13.9 A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first i
1 3.7 Stats comp.os.linux.setup (last 7 days)
1 2.6 paintball videos download Premnitz Saarlouis paintball dome Del
1 2.1 LILO map-file damaged ?

30 articles on 11 subjects
23 were followups (76.7%)
1 were crossposts (3.3%)

83.6 kbytes total
headers: 31.3kb 37.4%
quoted text: 15.7kb 18.7%
original text: 36.0kb 43.1%
signatures: 0.6kb 0.7%

Averages:
2.7 articles / subject
2.8 kbytes / article
7.6 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 4
Tuesday 4
Wednesday 4
Thursday 2
Friday 6
Saturday 9
Sunday 1
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
7 (23.3%) thunderbird 5 21.7%
5 (16.7%) slrn 3 13.0%
5 (16.7%) g2 4 17.4%
4 (13.3%) microsoft 3 13.0%
2 (6.7%) xnews 1 4.3%
2 (6.7%) knode 2 8.7%
1 (3.3%) virtual 1 4.3%
1 (3.3%) postdirect 1 4.3%
1 (3.3%) post-direct 1 4.3%
1 (3.3%) pan 1 4.3%

10 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...