From: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats on
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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mandriva by Robert Marshall
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 247 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Jun 25 21:25:23 2010
Latest article: Fri Jul 2 21:02:03 2010
Original articles: 19, replies: 228
Total size of posts: 736,125 bytes (718K) (0.70M)
Average 35 articles per day, 0.10 MB per day, 2,980 bytes per article
Total headers: 341 KB bodies: 377 KB
Body text - quoted: 161 KB, original: 180 KB = 52.78%, sigs: 33 KB
Total number of posters: 48, average 15,335 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 33, average 22,306 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 11

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Adam <adam(a)address.invalid>.................................... : 32
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 25
3: Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 20
4: unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca>.......................... : 16
5: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 13
6: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 12
7: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin)............ : 11
8: TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business>.................................... : 11
9: highlandham <highlandham.nospam(a)rfburns.eu>.................... : 10
10: Adam <nospam(a)example.com>...................................... : 8
11: "Peter D." <p13(a)g-node.com.au>................................. : 7
12: FP <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>..................................... : 6
13: Kevin the Drummer <nobody(a)cosgroves.us>........................ : 5
14: "Scott B." <bgates(a)example.invalid>............................ : 5
15: Doug Laidlaw <blackhole(a)afraid.org>............................ : 5
16: Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid>............................ : 4
17: Robert Riches <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>......................... : 4
18: JTJersey <JT3(a)someplace.com>................................... : 4
19: Mike Easter <MikeE(a)ster.invalid>............................... : 3
20: Alan Secker <alan(a)asandco.co.uk>.............................. : 3

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Adam <adam(a)address.invalid>.................................... : 130
2: Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 81
3: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin)............ : 66
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 55
5: unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca>.......................... : 43
6: highlandham <highlandham.nospam(a)rfburns.eu>.................... : 31
7: TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business>.................................... : 30
8: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 24
9: Adam <nospam(a)example.com>...................................... : 18
10: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 18
11: FP <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>..................................... : 17
12: "Scott B." <bgates(a)example.invalid>............................ : 15
13: "Peter D." <p13(a)g-node.com.au>................................. : 14
14: Kevin the Drummer <nobody(a)cosgroves.us>........................ : 13
15: Dan C <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid>............................ : 13
16: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet(a)capuchin.co.uk>............ : 13
17: Robert Riches <spamtrap42(a)verizon.net>......................... : 11
18: Doug Laidlaw <blackhole(a)afraid.org>............................ : 10
19: Grimble <grimble(a)nospamthanx.net>.............................. : 9
20: herman.viaene(a)invalid.be.invalid............................... : 8

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Top 14 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 67.39%
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 62.32%
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 61.61%
4: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin)............ : 59.20%
5: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 58.94%
6: Adam <adam(a)address.invalid>.................................... : 54.07%
7: TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business>.................................... : 46.91%
8: Kevin the Drummer <nobody(a)cosgroves.us>........................ : 44.76%
9: Doug Laidlaw <blackhole(a)afraid.org>............................ : 42.47%
10: "Scott B." <bgates(a)example.invalid>............................ : 40.47%
11: "Peter D." <p13(a)g-node.com.au>................................. : 37.97%
12: FP <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>..................................... : 35.48%
13: unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca>.......................... : 31.39%
14: highlandham <highlandham.nospam(a)rfburns.eu>.................... : 26.63%

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Bottom 14 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Adam <nospam(a)example.com>...................................... : 25.59%
2: highlandham <highlandham.nospam(a)rfburns.eu>.................... : 26.63%
3: unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca>.......................... : 31.39%
4: FP <f32pnospam(a)eircom.net>..................................... : 35.48%
5: "Peter D." <p13(a)g-node.com.au>................................. : 37.97%
6: "Scott B." <bgates(a)example.invalid>............................ : 40.47%
7: Doug Laidlaw <blackhole(a)afraid.org>............................ : 42.47%
8: Kevin the Drummer <nobody(a)cosgroves.us>........................ : 44.76%
9: TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business>.................................... : 46.91%
10: Adam <adam(a)address.invalid>.................................... : 54.07%
11: Maurice Batey <maurice(a)nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 58.94%
12: ibuprofin(a)painkiller.example.tld.invalid (Moe Trin)............ : 59.20%
13: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins(a)nomail.afraid.org>............... : 61.61%
14: Bit Twister <BitTwister(a)mouse-potato.com>...................... : 62.32%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: 2010.1 status?................................................. : 46
2: OT: Off-Topic.................................................. : 46
3: Release date for 2010 Spring announced......................... : 19
4: novice FTP with gFTP........................................... : 19
5: Mapping keyboard special keys in Linux......................... : 17
6: UPS Setup...................................................... : 13
7: Power cut has caused a serious problem......................... : 11
8: Cannot boot from hard drive.................................... : 9
9: Remote monitoring.............................................. : 7
10: audacity refuses to complete opening........................... : 6
11: script for burning DVDs........................................ : 5
12: The process for the file protocol died unexpectidly - Solved so : 5
13: FYI: Changelog for VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-06-25)...... : 5
14: Filezilla icon to desktop...................................... : 4
15: Ownership problem.............................................. : 4
16: Here's one for experienced cron users.......................... : 3
17: What with to play an ".ape"?................................... : 3
18: k3b v 2.0 crashes under kde 4.3.5 mandriva linux 2010.......... : 3
19: msec question.................................................. : 2
20: write binary data to CD/DVD?................................... : 2

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT: Off-Topic.................................................. : 178
2: 2010.1 status?................................................. : 125
3: UPS Setup...................................................... : 75
4: Release date for 2010 Spring announced......................... : 53
5: novice FTP with gFTP........................................... : 42
6: Mapping keyboard special keys in Linux......................... : 37
7: Cannot boot from hard drive.................................... : 25
8: Power cut has caused a serious problem......................... : 23
9: The process for the file protocol died unexpectidly - Solved so : 17
10: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 13
11: Ownership problem.............................................. : 13
12: audacity refuses to complete opening........................... : 12
13: Remote monitoring.............................................. : 10
14: script for burning DVDs........................................ : 9
15: msec question.................................................. : 8
16: Filezilla icon to desktop...................................... : 7
17: FYI: Changelog for VirtualBox 3.2.6 (released 2010-06-25)...... : 7
18: [OT] Arcade games and stuff (was: 2010.1 status?).............. : 7
19: [OT] Arcade games and stuff.................................... : 5
20: Here's one for experienced cron users.......................... : 5

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Top 3 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.os.linux.mandriva......................................... : 1
2: alt.os.linux.mandrake.......................................... : 1
3: comp.os.linux.misc............................................. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode.......................................................... : 12
2: Pan............................................................ : 10
3: Mozilla........................................................ : 9
4: slrn........................................................... : 7
5: G2............................................................. : 3
6: Unknown........................................................ : 2
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11...................................... : 1
8: Opera Mail..................................................... : 1
9: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i586-mandriva-linux-gnu)........ : 1
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 42.0.28074.306..................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Mozilla................................................... : 68 (28%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 55 (22%)
3: KNode..................................................... : 48 (19%)
4: Pan....................................................... : 28 (11%)
5: Opera Mail................................................ : 25 (10%)
6: G2........................................................ : 5 ( 2%)
7: unknown................................................... : 5 ( 2%)
8: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i586-mandriva-linux-gnu)... : 5 ( 2%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11................................. : 3 ( 1%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 42.0.28074.306................ : 3 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.......................................................... : 69
2: UTC............................................................ : 52
3: +0100.......................................................... : 36
4: +0200.......................................................... : 31
5: -0500.......................................................... : 17
6: -0700.......................................................... : 14
7: +1000.......................................................... : 12
8: +1200.......................................................... : 9
9: -0700 (PDT).................................................... : 5
10: -0600.......................................................... : 2

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