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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: 290 over 30 days
Latest article: Sat Oct 31 13:37:11 2009
Original articles: 27, replies: 263
Total size of posts: 737,552 bytes (720K) (0.70M)
Average 9 articles per day, 0.02 MB per day, 2,543 bytes per article
Total headers: 300 KB bodies: 419 KB
Body text - quoted: 232 KB, original: 165 KB = 41.54%, sigs: 19 KB
Total number of posters: 87, average 8,477 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 31, average 23,792 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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.... : 22
2: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>................................ .. : 19
3: Davorin Vlahovic <nrubA@ylf.krs.ref.rh>........................ : 19
4: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 17
5: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 15
6: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 12
7: Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net>............................. ... : 11
8: Anti Vigilante <antivigilante@pyrabang.com>.................... : 11
9: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>............................. . : 10
10: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHeko2Y=?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.......... : 8
11: "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................ . : 7
12: P1 <p1@fhri.org>..................................... .......... : 6
13: Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh******.com>............................. .. : 5
14: Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com>........................ .... : 5
15: Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov....................................... : 5
16: Grant <g_r_a_n_t_@bugsplatter.id.au>.................... ....... : 5
17: "Phil B" <phil.remove.brady******** dot co dot united kingdom>. : 4
18: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 4
19: Jeff Haferman <jeff.haferman******.com>....................... . : 4
20: "riggor9999" <riggor9999@nospam_yahoo.com>................... .. : 4

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 76
2: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>................................ .. : 62
3: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.... : 60
4: Davorin Vlahovic <nrubA@ylf.krs.ref.rh>........................ : 53
5: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHeko2Y=?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.......... : 38
6: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 36
7: Anti Vigilante <antivigilante@pyrabang.com>.................... : 28
8: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 22
9: Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net>............................. ... : 18
10: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>............................. . : 14
11: "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................ . : 14
12: "riggor9999" <riggor9999@nospam_yahoo.com>................... .. : 13
13: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 12
14: Grant <g_r_a_n_t_@bugsplatter.id.au>.................... ....... : 11
15: Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com>........................ .... : 11
16: "Dr. Deb" <debsmail@mon-cre.net>............................... : 10
17: P1 <p1@fhri.org>..................................... .......... : 9
18: "Phil B" <phil.remove.brady******** dot co dot united kingdom>. : 9
19: Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov....................................... : 9
20: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 7

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Responders by original text (> 4 posts)
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1: "Mike Easter" <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................ . : 72.75%
2: Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov....................................... : 71.45%
3: "Dr. Deb" <debsmail@mon-cre.net>............................... : 63.40%
4: "riggor9999" <riggor9999@nospam_yahoo.com>................... .. : 63.30%
5: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>............................. . : 61.82%
6: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHeko2Y=?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.......... : 61.74%
7: jellybean stonerfish <stonerfish@geocities.com>................ : 61.17%
8: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 57.05%
9: Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com>........................ .... : 54.08%
10: Jeff Haferman <jeff.haferman******.com>....................... . : 51.14%
11: "Phil B" <phil.remove.brady******** dot co dot united kingdom>. : 42.09%
12: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.......................... .......... : 38.92%
13: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>................................ .. : 36.73%
14: Grant <g_r_a_n_t_@bugsplatter.id.au>.................... ....... : 34.60%
15: Ivan Marsh <ivanmarsh******.com>............................. .. : 33.88%
16: Davorin Vlahovic <nrubA@ylf.krs.ref.rh>........................ : 32.95%
17: Mike Jones <Not@Arizona.Bay>................................. .. : 29.37%
18: Meat Plow <meat@petitmorte.net>............................. ... : 28.21%
19: Anti Vigilante <antivigilante@pyrabang.com>.................... : 27.02%
20: Eric <apophis@ruler.of.the.night.org>.................. ........ : 25.20%
21: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 24.73%
22: P1 <p1@fhri.org>..................................... .......... : 22.41%
23: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= <snuhwolf@netscape.net>.... : 21.31%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Really Xbuntu? Et tu?.......................................... : 69
2: recommend a usenet newsreader?................................. : 27
3: ok linux ladygurls......................................... .... : 20
4: Unix innovations....................................... ........ : 20
5: Ping CentOS users............................................. . : 17
6: Redirect telnet to a serial port............................... : 15
7: Ubuntu 9.10.............................................. ...... : 14
8: ext3 fs directory limit........................................ : 13
9: UPS / SLES 10 question......................................... : 12
10: Rilly Xbuntu? Its soul crushingly hard to get a decent system.. : 9
11: /etc/fstab query............................................. .. : 9
12: glxinfo, is this showing good ability?......................... : 6
13: Memory Usage of VMWare Player.................................. : 6
14: Ping CentOS users + ranting.................................... : 6
15: ATI Radeon support built in!................................... : 6
16: Web Getter............................................ ......... : 5
17: Port forwarding........................................ ........ : 5
18: Recording a radio station...................................... : 4
19: BIOS calls............................................. ........ : 4
20: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 10.0 has a preliminary utf8 support......... : 4

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Really Xbuntu? Et tu?.......................................... : 187
2: Unix innovations....................................... ........ : 56
3: recommend a usenet newsreader?................................. : 53
4: Ping CentOS users + ranting.................................... : 53
5: Redirect telnet to a serial port............................... : 43
6: UPS / SLES 10 question......................................... : 34
7: ok linux ladygurls......................................... .... : 34
8: Ping CentOS users............................................. . : 31
9: Rilly Xbuntu? Its soul crushingly hard to get a decent system.. : 27
10: Ubuntu 9.10.............................................. ...... : 27
11: ext3 fs directory limit........................................ : 21
12: /etc/fstab query............................................. .. : 20
13: glxinfo, is this showing good ability?......................... : 19
14: Memory Usage of VMWare Player.................................. : 14
15: Port forwarding........................................ ........ : 12
16: ATI Radeon support built in!................................... : 12
17: Windows 7 Better - Top 10 Anti-Linux Reasons................... : 12
18: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 10.0 has a preliminary utf8 support......... : 9
19: Web Getter............................................ ......... : 7
20: Bashing MS + KDE4 (Was: Ping CentOS users + ranting)........... : 6

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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: 24hoursupport.helpdesk............................ ............. : 98
2: alt.comp.linux.................................... ............. : 21
3: alt.os.linux.slackware............................ ............. : 15
4: comp.os.linux.networking.......................... ............. : 15
5: alt.os.linux.suse................................. ............. : 12
6: linux.redhat...................................... ............. : 9
7: alt.linux......................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Thunderbird....................................... ............. : 16
2: slrn.............................................. ............. : 15
3: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
4: Pan............................................... ............. : 8
5: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 7
6: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 5
7: KNode............................................. ............. : 4
8: XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux).............................. : 4
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 3
10: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: slrn.............................................. ........ : 49 (17%)
2: KNode............................................. ........ : 30 (10%)
3: unknown........................................... ........ : 29 (10%)
4: Pan............................................... ........ : 26 ( 9%)
5: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 23 ( 8%)
6: MICEBeOSNewsReader................................ ........ : 22 ( 8%)
7: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 20 ( 7%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 15 ( 5%)
9: Outlook Express........................................... : 15 ( 5%)
10: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 11 ( 4%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 99
2: +0200............................................. ............. : 38
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 33
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 33
5: -0500.............................................. ............ : 31
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 23
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 14
8: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 10
9: +1100............................................. ............. : 8
10: +1000............................................. ............. : 1

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