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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 4 7.3 Andrew Halliwell spike1(a)ponder.sky.com
2 3 7.8 Unruh unruh-spam(a)physics.ubc.ca
3 3 6.5 Matt Giwer jull43(a)tampabay.REMover.r
4 3 5.0 Meat Plow meat(a)petitmorte.net
5 3 5.0 slashman viv_men(a)yahoo.com
6 2 27.7 FAQ (bi-weekly) comp.os.linux.setup-FAQ@w
7 2 6.1 Michael Heiming michael+USENET(a)www.heimin
8 2 5.8 Hadron hadronquark(a)googlemail.co
9 2 4.9 john(a)wexfordpress.com john(a)wexfordpress.com
10 2 4.8 Mark T.B. Carroll Mark.Carroll(a)Aetion.com
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26 80.8 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
35 posters
54 articles
139.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
28.6% of the posters
48.1% of the articles
57.8% of the bytes

Averages:
1.5 articles / poster
2.6 kbytes / article
4.0 kbytes / poster

4 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 4 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
11.4% of the posters
7.4% of the articles
4.8% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
13 30.2 Debian's Kernel 2.6.24 and future versions: Use amd64 or 686?
11 25.6 Install Win XP over Linux
5 7.1 How to set ACPI governor?
4 11.3 linux server setup - in the deep end
4 5.8 beginning
3 5.8 Fedora and I are not mixing
3 4.7 Network Printer in Ubuntu
2 27.7 A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first i
1 4.2 viagra suisse soft bon marche viagra canada le plus bon marche
1 3.7 Stats comp.os.linux.setup (last 7 days)

54 articles on 17 subjects
39 were followups (72.2%)
13 were crossposts (24.1%)

139.6 kbytes total
headers: 53.8kb 38.5%
quoted text: 24.8kb 17.8%
original text: 56.8kb 40.7%
signatures: 4.2kb 3.0%

Averages:
3.2 articles / subject
2.6 kbytes / article
8.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 3
Tuesday 11 *
Wednesday 9
Thursday 4
Friday 5
Saturday 6
Sunday 16 *
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Sender domain (from Message-ID):

posts domain
12 googlegroups.com 22.2%
5 roadrunner.com 9.3%
4 sky.com 7.4%
4 heiming.de 7.4%
3 alt.net 5.6%
2 motzarella.org 3.7%
2 ixod.org 3.7%
2 edtnps92.edtnps92 3.7%
2 darkstar.darkstar 3.7%
1 uni-berlin.de 1.9%

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
12 (22.2%) g2 8 22.9%
6 (11.1%) tin 3 8.6%
6 (11.1%) thunderbird 4 11.4%
4 (7.4%) pan 4 11.4%
3 (5.6%) nn 1 2.9%
3 (5.6%) gnus 2 5.7%
2 (3.7%) slrn 2 5.7%
2 (3.7%) post-direct 1 2.9%
2 (3.7%) microsoft 2 5.7%
2 (3.7%) emacs 1 2.9%

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...