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

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


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name address
1 26 50.5 Cameron Kerr (E-Mail Removed)
2 16 42.1 Michael Heiming michael+(E-Mail Removed)
3 14 37.8 P Gentry (E-Mail Removed)
4 13 40.7 Clifford Kite (E-Mail Removed)
5 12 15.1 Raqueeb Hassan (E-Mail Removed)
6 10 42.4 George Patton (E-Mail Removed)
7 8 14.8 Robert W. (E-Mail Removed)
8 6 10.7 James Knott (E-Mail Removed)
9 5 17.4 lc (E-Mail Removed)
10 5 16.3 Dominik (E-Mail Removed)
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115 288.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
163 posters
348 articles
758.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
6.1% of the posters
33.0% of the articles
38.0% of the bytes

Averages:
2.1 articles / poster
2.2 kbytes / article
4.7 kbytes / poster

119 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 218 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
73.0% of the posters
62.6% of the articles
59.7% of the bytes


Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
48 122.6 Suggestions for remote admin of linux machines
9 27.7 PPP demand dial
8 27.7 outgoing 10.x.x.x packets being logged
8 13.5 Accessing a NetWare disk
7 27.5 #pppd call /etc/ppp/peers/lg, what is wrong with it ?
7 15.4 pppd does not log sometimes
6 17.7 two nics to one lan
6 12.1 ifconfig
6 11.6 do routers always need permanent DNS entries?
6 11.4 router problems

348 articles on 121 subjects
251 were followups (72.1%)
73 were crossposts (21.0%)

757.1 kbytes total
headers: 325.0kb 42.9%
quoted text: 142.1kb 18.8%
original text: 271.2kb 35.8%
signatures: 18.8kb 2.5%

Averages:
2.9 articles / subject
2.2 kbytes / article
6.3 kbytes / subject

Top 10 Newsreader used (accumulated):

posts newsreader user
61 (17.5%) mozilla 29 17.8%
58 (16.7%) tin 6 3.7%
37 (10.6%) microsoft 24 14.7%
32 (9.2%) slrn 18 11.0%
19 (5.5%) knode 12 7.4%
18 (5.2%) pan 12 7.4%
8 (2.3%) xnews 6 3.7%
7 (2.0%) gnus 5 3.1%
5 (1.4%) forte 2 1.2%
4 (1.1%) nn 1 0.6%

20 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...



Michael Heiming