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"Caveat: Quantity is not necessarily a measure of Quality"


Newsgroup.................: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Stats Were Taken..........: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:15:20 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:26:44 GMT
Stats End.................: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 07:03:30 GMT
Days......................: 7
Total No. of Articles.....: 606
Total No. of Characters...: 1707259
Total Volume..............: 1667
Messages Per Day..........: 86.6
Characters Per Day........: 243894.1
Average Daily Volume......: 238 kB
Total Posters This Week...: 164
Messages with Sigs........: 18.98%
Original Content Rating...: 51.18%

Top 10 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
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1. Pa Bear...........................................: 64 9.1 10.6%
2. Cal Who...........................................: 24 3.4 4.0%
3. Bruce Hagen.......................................: 20 2.9 3.3%
4. Vanguardlh........................................: 20 2.9 3.3%
5. Daave.............................................: 19 2.7 3.1%
6. =?Utf-8?B?Snvsawegsg9wa2lucw==?=..................: 16 2.3 2.6%
7. Unknown...........................................: 15 2.1 2.5%
8. Randem............................................: 13 1.9 2.1%
9. Qq................................................: 13 1.9 2.1%
10. Ken Blake.........................................: 11 1.6 1.8%

Top 10 Bandwidth-Using Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
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1. Qq................................................: 215 30.7 12.9%
2. Pa Bear...........................................: 168 24.1 10.1%
3. Vanguardlh........................................: 71 10.2 4.3%
4. Cal Who...........................................: 60 8.7 3.6%
5. Bruce Hagen.......................................: 53 7.7 3.2%
6. Jamie W...........................................: 51 7.3 3.1%
7. Daave.............................................: 49 7.1 3.0%
8. =?Utf-8?B?Snvsawegsg9wa2lucw==?=..................: 48 7.0 2.9%
9. Paul..............................................: 35 5.0 2.1%
10. Unknown...........................................: 28 4.1 1.7%

Top 10 Popular Threads: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
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1. Window defender missing?..........................: 51 7.3 8.4%
2. Can't get Windows XP SP3 to recognise my Canon SX1: 27 3.9 4.5%
3. Glitch When Updating..............................: 21 3.0 3.5%
4. Microsoft Security Essentials.....................: 19 2.7 3.1%
5. Mozilla firefox / IE8 comparing...................: 19 2.7 3.1%
6. WINDOWS 7.........................................: 17 2.4 2.8%
7. OT: Free usenet providers?........................: 16 2.3 2.6%
8. SP3 question......................................: 16 2.3 2.6%
9. All logins are disabled - Please help!............: 14 2.0 2.3%
10. RE-installing Philips DVD8601 drivers.............: 14 2.0 2.3%

Top 10 Bandwidth-Consuming Threads: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
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1. Window defender missing?..........................: 126 18.1 7.6%
2. Glitch When Updating..............................: 109 15.7 6.6%
3. Can't get Windows XP SP3 to recognise my Canon SX1: 80 11.6 4.9%
4. RE-installing Philips DVD8601 drivers.............: 52 7.5 3.1%
5. Need help booting RAID drive......................: 48 7.0 2.9%
6. Unknown program running...........................: 48 6.9 2.9%
7. SP3 question......................................: 47 6.8 2.8%
8. Trying to .Dell Restore. my Dell Dimension XPS 915: 37 5.4 2.2%
9. Microsoft Security Essentials.....................: 36 5.3 2.2%
10. SM Bus Controller has no driver...................: 35 5.1 2.1%

Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (Orig. + Quoted Bytes)
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1. Randem....................................................: 100.0%
2. =?Utf-8?B?Yxphbsbyyxphdnk=?=..............................: 100.0%
3. Robf......................................................: 99.0%
4. Qq........................................................: 98.3%
5. Vanguardlh................................................: 82.2%
6. Paul......................................................: 74.5%
7. Jose......................................................: 71.5%
8. Nil.......................................................: 66.2%
9. bchambers.................................................: 59.3%
10. Ken Blake.................................................: 48.5%

Top 10 Crossposting Groups: Posts in Group
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(Articles cross-posted to > 5 groups are not considered in ANY stats.)
1. alt.os.windows.xp............................................: 14
2. alt.windows-xp...............................................: 14
3. microsoft.public.windowsupdate...............................: 11
4. nl.juridisch.................................................: 3
5. nl.politiek..................................................: 3
6. microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support..................: 2

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End of stats for microsoft.public.windowsxp.general







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From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on
me wrote:
<snip>
> Top 10 Bandwidth-Using Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
> =======================================================================
> 1. Qq................................................: 215 30.7 12.9%

The spammer "qq" [1] may have generated 12% of the bandwidth on your
newsserver but certainly not on the MS newsserver.

When MS finally drops WinXP General from its newsserver, you're gonna see a
lot more spam!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[1] cf.
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/browse_frm/thread/6940284a6c059220

From: Patok on
PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> me wrote:
> <snip>
>> Top 10 Bandwidth-Using Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
>> =======================================================================
>> 1. Qq................................................: 215 30.7 12.9%
>
> The spammer "qq" [1] may have generated 12% of the bandwidth on your
> newsserver but certainly not on the MS newsserver.
>
> When MS finally drops WinXP General from its newsserver, you're gonna
> see a lot more spam!

You're wrong, of course. What amount of spam you see depends not on
where the group is propagated, but where you read it. If you read it on
GG, well, you'll get all you can eat spam, and then some. :)

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