Stats alt.os.linux (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 18 77.5 Rich Leitner r.leitner-remove@worldnet
2 16 38.2 Christopher Hunter chrisehunter@NOSPAMblueyo
3 13 44.0 sk8r-365 sk8r-365@sk8r.debian.etch
4 12 27.0 "beowulf@ancients.net r.oelerich******.com
5 7 25.4 Stuart Miller stuart_miller@shaw.ca
6 7 16.8 birre spamtrap@norsborg.net
7 6 17.4 =?gb2312?B?MDTI7TEtNDP 345tty@21cn.com
8 6 14.6 J.O. Aho user@example.net
9 5 22.9 anon anon@anon.org
10 5 14.6 Jamie nospam@geniegate.com
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95 298.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
68 posters
197 articles
541.5 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
14.7% of the posters
48.2% of the articles
55.1% of the bytes

Averages:
2.9 articles / poster
2.7 kbytes / article
8.0 kbytes / poster

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

The new posters accounted for:
2.9% of the posters
1.0% of the articles
0.6% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
37 83.8 Can Linux and FOSS be trusted?
35 141.3 Distro Poll, what do you use?
14 32.3 Windows kill Linux?
14 32.1 How to backup a huge amount of tiny files
11 20.2 shell scripts: save/restore permissions?
7 21.3 List of AMD processors with virtualization support?
7 20.4 Can I run Linux apps from my FAT32 hard drive?
7 16.9 My Fourth post! Re: There can only be one GPL!!!
6 30.7 There can only be one GPL!!!
6 8.7 Linux Gaming

197 articles on 38 subjects
171 were followups (86.8%)
1 were crossposts (0.5%)

541.2 kbytes total
headers: 247.9kb 45.8%
quoted text: 119.2kb 22.0%
original text: 167.5kb 30.9%
signatures: 6.6kb 1.2%

Averages:
5.2 articles / subject
2.7 kbytes / article
14.2 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 24 **
Tuesday 10 *
Wednesday 27 **
Thursday 26 **
Friday 35 ***
Saturday 39 ***
Sunday 36 ***
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
44 (22.3%) thunderbird 11 16.2%
33 (16.8%) g2 15 22.1%
30 (15.2%) knode 11 16.2%
29 (14.7%) slrn 8 11.8%
11 (5.6%) pan 7 10.3%
10 (5.1%) microsoft 3 4.4%
8 (4.1%) xnews 2 2.9%
6 (3.0%) mozilla 1 1.5%
5 (2.5%) ibm 1 1.5%
5 (2.5%) gnus 2 2.9%

17 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...