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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: 188 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Apr 10 21:25:07 2009
Latest article: Fri Apr 17 19:02:02 2009
Original articles: 25, replies: 163
Total size of posts: 474,874 bytes (463K) (0.45M)
Average 26 articles per day, 0.06 MB per day, 2,525 bytes per article
Total headers: 239 KB bodies: 223 KB
Body text - quoted: 88 KB, original: 115 KB = 56.64%, sigs: 18 KB
Total number of posters: 57, average 8,331 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 37, average 12,834 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 16
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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 24
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister.RemoveThis@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 23
3: Doug Laidlaw <doug.RemoveThis@dougshost.invalid>.......................... : 16
4: Alan Secker <alan.RemoveThis@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 9
5: Zoraster <zoraster.RemoveThis@REMOVEoperamail.com>........................ : 8
6: none <""office"@(none)">...................................... : 7
7: Jim Beard <jdbeard.RemoveThis@patriot.net>................................ : 7
8: Adam <adam.RemoveThis@address.invalid>.................................... : 6
9: "Markus R." =?iso-8859-1?q?Ke=DFler?= <dimke.fax.RemoveThis@uni.de>....... : 6
10: Aragorn <aragorn.RemoveThis@chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 6
11: ibuprofin.RemoveThis@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 5
12: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance.RemoveThis@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 4
13: Unruh <unruh-spam.RemoveThis@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 4
14: Mark Madsen <mark.s.madsen+news@gmail.com>..................... : 4
15: "mr.b" <mr.RemoveThis@b.com>.............................................. : 3
16: Maurice Batey <maurice.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>...................... : 2
17: jjim <jimactivist.RemoveThis@nospam.com>.................................. : 2
18: DaveM <dave.RemoveThis@noatt.net>......................................... : 2
19: Dan C <youmustbejoking.RemoveThis@lan.invalid>............................ : 2
20: wv <no.email.RemoveThis@please.tnk>....................................... : 2
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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 49
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister.RemoveThis@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 42
3: Doug Laidlaw <doug.RemoveThis@dougshost.invalid>.......................... : 40
4: Adam <adam.RemoveThis@address.invalid>.................................... : 34
5: ibuprofin.RemoveThis@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 31
6: Aragorn <aragorn.RemoveThis@chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 27
7: Alan Secker <alan.RemoveThis@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 25
8: Jim Beard <jdbeard.RemoveThis@patriot.net>................................ : 18
9: none <""office"@(none)">...................................... : 14
10: "Markus R." =?iso-8859-1?q?Ke=DFler?= <dimke.fax.RemoveThis@uni.de>....... : 14
11: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet.RemoveThis@capuchin.co.uk>............ : 14
12: Zoraster <zoraster.RemoveThis@REMOVEoperamail.com>........................ : 13
13: Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance.RemoveThis@OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk>........ : 6
14: Mark Madsen <mark.s.madsen+news@gmail.com>..................... : 6
15: Robert S <robert.spam.me.senseless.RemoveThis@gmail.com>.................. : 6
16: jjim <jimactivist.RemoveThis@nospam.com>.................................. : 5
17: Unruh <unruh-spam.RemoveThis@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 5
18: "mr.b" <mr.RemoveThis@b.com>.............................................. : 5
19: Highland Ham <rfburns.RemoveThis@allbands.net>............................ : 4
20: DaveM <dave.RemoveThis@noatt.net>......................................... : 4
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Top 10 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Zoraster <zoraster.RemoveThis@REMOVEoperamail.com>........................ : 70.75%
2: "Markus R." =?iso-8859-1?q?Ke=DFler?= <dimke.fax.RemoveThis@uni.de>....... : 69.12%
3: Bit Twister <BitTwister.RemoveThis@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 67.62%
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 67.48%
5: Aragorn <aragorn.RemoveThis@chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 60.60%
6: Alan Secker <alan.RemoveThis@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 59.35%
7: ibuprofin.RemoveThis@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 55.59%
8: Adam <adam.RemoveThis@address.invalid>.................................... : 54.05%
9: none <""office"@(none)">...................................... : 52.30%
10: Jim Beard <jdbeard.RemoveThis@patriot.net>................................ : 48.41%
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Bottom 10 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Doug Laidlaw <doug.RemoveThis@dougshost.invalid>.......................... : 33.06%
2: Jim Beard <jdbeard.RemoveThis@patriot.net>................................ : 48.41%
3: none <""office"@(none)">...................................... : 52.30%
4: Adam <adam.RemoveThis@address.invalid>.................................... : 54.05%
5: ibuprofin.RemoveThis@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 55.59%
6: Alan Secker <alan.RemoveThis@asandco.co.uk>............................... : 59.35%
7: Aragorn <aragorn.RemoveThis@chatfactory.invalid>.......................... : 60.60%
8: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins.RemoveThis@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 67.48%
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister.RemoveThis@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 67.62%
10: "Markus R." =?iso-8859-1?q?Ke=DFler?= <dimke.fax.RemoveThis@uni.de>....... : 69.12%
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: PAN freeezes my system......................................... : 17
2: sudo, msec, etc................................................ : 10
3: Pan 0.133 misspells author's name.............................. : 10
4: More 2009.1 (64) issues........................................ : 9
5: Can't watch videos on hulu..................................... : 9
6: start syntax for a program?.................................... : 8
7: Recommend a jpg slide show viewer.............................. : 8
8: Monitor Color bit depth........................................ : 7
9: Testing autou-upgrade -- Upgrading from 2009 to 2009.1rc_2..... : 7
10: 2009.1 RC2 pulseaudio.......................................... : 7
11: New PC for Windows and Linux?.................................. : 7
12: enable kwin in kde4............................................ : 7
13: Character mismatch during telnet/ssh session................... : 7
14: wifi - complete clear settings................................. : 7
15: screwed up graphics............................................ : 6
16: Broken DIMM Slot, Dying CD-Rs, Choosing Distros, etc........... : 5
17: Switched machines but kept drive............................... : 5
18: Hard drive 100% full over the night............................ : 5
19: [OT] 2009.1 RC2 pulseaudio..................................... : 5
20: Excruciatingly slow update..................................... : 4
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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: sudo, msec, etc................................................ : 66
2: PAN freeezes my system......................................... : 30
3: More 2009.1 (64) issues........................................ : 28
4: Can't watch videos on hulu..................................... : 18
5: Character mismatch during telnet/ssh session................... : 18
6: Pan 0.133 misspells author's name.............................. : 18
7: start syntax for a program?.................................... : 17
8: enable kwin in kde4............................................ : 15
9: Monitor Color bit depth........................................ : 15
10: Broken DIMM Slot, Dying CD-Rs, Choosing Distros, etc........... : 15
11: New PC for Windows and Linux?.................................. : 14
12: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 14
13: Switched machines but kept drive............................... : 14
14: Testing autou-upgrade -- Upgrading from 2009 to 2009.1rc_2..... : 14
15: Recommend a jpg slide show viewer.............................. : 12
16: 2009.1 RC2 pulseaudio.......................................... : 12
17: Hard drive 100% full over the night............................ : 12
18: wifi - complete clear settings................................. : 11
19: screwed up graphics............................................ : 11
20: Missing Title Bars............................................. : 10
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Top 2 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.os.linux.hardware......................................... : 2
2: alt.os.linux.mandrake.......................................... : 1
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Pan............................................................ : 20
2: KNode.......................................................... : 12
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11...................................... : 5
4: slrn........................................................... : 4
5: G2............................................................. : 3
6: Mozilla........................................................ : 2
7: Unknown........................................................ : 2
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11...................................... : 1
9: Gnus........................................................... : 1
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11...................................... : 1
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Pan....................................................... : 42 (22%)
2: KNode..................................................... : 42 (22%)
3: slrn...................................................... : 30 (16%)
4: Opera Mail................................................ : 24 (13%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11................................. : 15 ( 8%)
6: Mozilla................................................... : 13 ( 7%)
7: G2........................................................ : 4 ( 2%)
8: nn........................................................ : 4 ( 2%)
9: Forte Agent............................................... : 4 ( 2%)
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11................................. : 2 ( 1%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 68
2: -0400.......................................................... : 41
3: +1000.......................................................... : 19
4: +0200.......................................................... : 15
5: +0100.......................................................... : 15
6: -0500.......................................................... : 12
7: -0300.......................................................... : 7
8: -0700.......................................................... : 5
9: -0700 (PDT).................................................... : 4
10: +0530.......................................................... : 2
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