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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 116 over 30 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 1 06:37:57 2009
Latest article: Mon Sep 28 22:49:44 2009
Original articles: 18, replies: 98
Total size of posts: 276,359 bytes (269K) (0.26M)
Average 3 articles per day, 0.01 MB per day, 2,382 bytes per article
Total headers: 119 KB bodies: 150 KB
Body text - quoted: 65 KB, original: 77 KB = 54.09%, sigs: 6 KB
Total number of posters: 48, average 5,757 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 27, average 10,235 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 35

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 16
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 11
3: jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com>................ : 6
4: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 5
5: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 5
6: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 5
7: Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh******.com>............................. .. : 3
8: "Dr. Deb" <dgfreeman@mon-cre.net>.............................. : 3
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 3
10: ukmeds <ukqualitymeds@hushmail.com>...................... ...... : 3
11: bl8n8r <bl8n8r******.com>................................ ...... : 3
12: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>................................ .. : 3
13: Steve Ackman <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com>.............. : 3
14: Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org>................. : 3
15: bb <spamtrap@norsborg.net>........................... .......... : 3
16: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>................................ . : 3
17: philo <philo@privacy.net>............................... ....... : 2
18: "JBJ" <thunder@spoergmig.invalid>....................... ....... : 2
19: ray <ray@zianet.com>.................................. ......... : 2
20: MarcB <mbbs@telenet.be>................................. ....... : 2

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 36
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 20
3: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 16
4: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 14
5: Stats <stats@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com>..................... : 13
6: ukmeds <ukqualitymeds@hushmail.com>...................... ...... : 12
7: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 11
8: jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com>................ : 10
9: Steve Ackman <steve@SNIP-THIS.twoloonscoffee.com>.............. : 9
10: bb <spamtrap@norsborg.net>........................... .......... : 8
11: "Dr. Deb" <dgfreeman@mon-cre.net>.............................. : 7
12: old-polack <polack@here.home.local>.......................... .. : 6
13: bl8n8r <bl8n8r******.com>................................ ...... : 6
14: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>................................ . : 6
15: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 5
16: "JBJ" <thunder@spoergmig.invalid>....................... ....... : 5
17: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>................................ .. : 4
18: Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh******.com>............................. .. : 4
19: Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org>................. : 4
20: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.... : 3

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Top responders by original text (> 4 posts)
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 75.43%
2: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 59.23%
3: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 49.33%
4: jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com>................ : 40.24%
5: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 26.59%
6: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 16.07%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: grub refresh problem........................................... : 26
2: Unix Runnable format........................................... : 16
3: good KDE distro............................................ .... : 16
4: Vector Linux............................................. ...... : 11
5: good distro for old hardware?.................................. : 9
6: Old version of linux?.......................................... : 4
7: netcat problem........................................... ...... : 4
8: Starting Thunderbird - "could not intialize your browsers...... : 3
9: Solved broadcom issue.......................................... : 3
10: iptables/html redirect......................................... : 3
11: Starting Thunderbird - "could not intialize your browsers secur : 2
12: Problem with x-windows......................................... : 2
13: Buy valium 10mg x 1000 tabs 300 usd............................ : 2
14: configureing 'fdi' and 'hal' for usb devices................... : 2
15: Bash Scripting Error: Bad substitution......................... : 1
16: suggestions for cheap linux hosting............................ : 1
17: Likewise Open - Debian......................................... : 1
18: Starting Thunderbird - "could not intialize your browsers secur : 1
19: Loading scsi_transport_iscsi: not found........................ : 1
20: mutt and ~/Mail folder [a follow up]........................... : 1

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: grub refresh problem........................................... : 55
2: Vector Linux............................................. ...... : 38
3: Unix Runnable format........................................... : 33
4: good KDE distro............................................ .... : 25
5: good distro for old hardware?.................................. : 15
6: a.o.l.Stats - 0908............................................. : 13
7: Old version of linux?.......................................... : 12
8: Solved broadcom issue.......................................... : 9
9: Buy valium 10mg x 1000 tabs 300 usd............................ : 8
10: netcat problem........................................... ...... : 6
11: Starting Thunderbird - "could not intialize your browsers...... : 5
12: Starting Thunderbird - "could not intialize your browsers secur : 5
13: iptables/html redirect......................................... : 5
14: Buy roche valium 10mg x 100 tabs 85 usd........................ : 4
15: configureing 'fdi' and 'hal' for usb devices................... : 4
16: color Bash prompt generator.................................... : 3
17: Problem with x-windows......................................... : 3
18: Bash Scripting Error: Bad substitution......................... : 2
19: Likewise Open - Debian......................................... : 2
20: Asteriks voice quality monitoring.............................. : 2

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Top 3 cross-posted groups
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1: 24hoursupport.helpdesk............................ ............. : 4
2: alt.os.linux.mandriva............................. ............. : 2
3: alt.os.linux.debian............................... ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Thunderbird....................................... ............. : 8
2: Pan............................................... ............. : 7
3: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 7
4: KNode............................................. ............. : 6
5: slrn.............................................. ............. : 6
6: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 2
7: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 2
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 2
9: pan 0.119 (Karma Hunters)...................................... : 1
10: MICE BeOS NewsReader 1.42 beta 5 [x86] - http://mice.virtualave : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: KNode............................................. ........ : 19 (16%)
2: Pan............................................... ........ : 18 (16%)
3: slrn.............................................. ........ : 12 (10%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 11 ( 9%)
5: Opera Mail.............................................. .. : 11 ( 9%)
6: unknown........................................... ........ : 9 ( 8%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 8 ( 7%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11................................. : 4 ( 3%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11................................. : 3 ( 3%)
10: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 3 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 30
2: +0200............................................. ............. : 23
3: -0400.............................................. ............ : 17
4: -0700.............................................. ............ : 16
5: -0500.............................................. ............ : 12
6: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 11
7: -0600.............................................. ............ : 5
8: +1000............................................. ............. : 1
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 1

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