Stats comp.os.linux.networking (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 5 10.3 Balwinder S \"bsd\" Dhe bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux
2 5 9.8 Rick Jones rick.jones2@hp.com
3 4 11.4 Moe Trin ibuprofin@painkiller.exam
4 4 11.0 nsa.usa@gmail.com nsa.usa@gmail.com
5 4 9.6 Pascal Hambourg boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.
6 3 7.5 Clayton Sutton none@none.com
7 3 6.7 Michael Heiming michael+USENET@www.heimin
8 3 6.1 billis vvatikiotis@gmail.com
9 3 6.0 cmk128@hotmail.com cmk128@hotmail.com
10 3 4.9 jesper@harder.adsl.dk jesper@harder.adsl.dk
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37 83.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
72 posters
120 articles
252.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
13.9% of the posters
30.8% of the articles
32.9% of the bytes

Averages:
1.7 articles / poster
2.1 kbytes / article
3.5 kbytes / poster

43 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 66 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
59.7% of the posters
55.0% of the articles
56.5% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
11 21.2 How to load an Ethernet driver on only one adapter
8 18.5 switch newbie
7 16.0 PostFix, Mailman, Majordomo question
5 18.4 rkhunter Help!!!!
5 9.6 how to effectively use multiple gateways?
5 7.8 Automotive stack under Linux
4 12.6 MAC and gateways
4 10.8 Open Source Solution Required: Issuing 100 million secure voter
4 8.9 Which ICMP reject works best
4 8.8 Make multicast packets local-only?

120 articles on 40 subjects
84 were followups (70.0%)
18 were crossposts (15.0%)

252.2 kbytes total
headers: 124.3kb 49.3%
quoted text: 48.1kb 19.1%
original text: 75.0kb 29.8%
signatures: 4.8kb 1.9%

Averages:
3.0 articles / subject
2.1 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 12 *
Tuesday 25 **
Wednesday 22 **
Thursday 25 **
Friday 15 *
Saturday 14 *
Sunday 7
(*=10 posts)

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
38 (31.7%) g2 21 29.2%
25 (20.8%) thunderbird 16 22.2%
12 (10.0%) slrn 8 11.1%
10 (8.3%) tin 4 5.6%
9 (7.5%) pan 7 9.7%
8 (6.7%) mozilla 5 6.9%
6 (5.0%) microsoft 3 4.2%
3 (2.5%) nn 1 1.4%
1 (0.8%) postdirect 1 1.4%
1 (0.8%) noworyta 1 1.4%

14 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...