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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: 307 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Dec 19 21:25:05 2008
Latest article: Fri Dec 26 21:02:02 2008
Original articles: 34, replies: 273
Total size of posts: 791,095 bytes (772K) (0.75M)
Average 43 articles per day, 0.11 MB per day, 2,576 bytes per article
Total headers: 385 KB bodies: 387 KB
Body text - quoted: 150 KB, original: 209 KB = 58.13%, sigs: 26 KB
Total number of posters: 69, average 11,465 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 55, average 14,383 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 17

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 27
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 26
3: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 23
4: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 19
5: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 18
6: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 17
7: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 13
8: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 12
9: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 10
10: Keith Lee <cmarvel@nowhere.com>............................. ... : 10
11: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 10
12: egh <eghoward@gmail.com>.............................. ......... : 7
13: Eric <erbenton@comcast.net>............................ ........ : 7
14: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 6
15: ray <ray@zianet.com>.................................. ......... : 6
16: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 5
17: freemont <freemontspammenot@freemontsoffice.com>........... .... : 5
18: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 5
19: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 5
20: Gireesh Bhat <girya@nospaa.coo>.............................. .. : 4

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 96
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 59
3: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 56
4: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 55
5: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 53
6: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 43
7: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 34
8: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 31
9: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 27
10: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 23
11: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 22
12: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 19
13: Keith Lee <cmarvel@nowhere.com>............................. ... : 17
14: Eric <erbenton@comcast.net>............................ ........ : 15
15: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>............ : 13
16: egh <eghoward@gmail.com>.............................. ......... : 13
17: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 12
18: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 11
19: freemont <freemontspammenot@freemontsoffice.com>........... .... : 10
20: Gireesh Bhat <girya@nospaa.coo>.............................. .. : 7

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Top 18 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 90.77%
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 76.42%
3: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 68.97%
4: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 65.47%
5: Keith Lee <cmarvel@nowhere.com>............................. ... : 63.17%
6: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 58.94%
7: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 55.07%
8: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 52.28%
9: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 51.38%
10: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 49.59%
11: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 48.37%
12: egh <eghoward@gmail.com>.............................. ......... : 46.12%
13: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 43.78%
14: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 40.84%
15: Eric <erbenton@comcast.net>............................ ........ : 40.71%
16: freemont <freemontspammenot@freemontsoffice.com>........... .... : 36.50%
17: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 29.37%
18: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 28.67%

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Bottom 18 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: ray <ray@zianet.com>.................................. ......... : 28.41%
2: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 28.67%
3: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 29.37%
4: freemont <freemontspammenot@freemontsoffice.com>........... .... : 36.50%
5: Eric <erbenton@comcast.net>............................ ........ : 40.71%
6: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 40.84%
7: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 43.78%
8: egh <eghoward@gmail.com>.............................. ......... : 46.12%
9: Dan C <youmustbejoking@lan.invalid>..................... ....... : 48.37%
10: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 49.59%
11: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 51.38%
12: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 52.28%
13: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 55.07%
14: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 58.94%
15: Keith Lee <cmarvel@nowhere.com>............................. ... : 63.17%
16: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 65.47%
17: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 68.97%
18: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 76.42%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Disk thrashing just after boot up of 2009.0.................... : 34
2: HD Speed, etc............................................... ... : 21
3: Can't SSH from 2008.0 laptop to 2009.0 desktop................. : 21
4: Cdrecord has no permission to open the device.................. : 18
5: memory on motherboard ?........................................ : 17
6: Good usenet groups about Openoffice?........................... : 14
7: ClamAV update dangers or pitfalls.............................. : 13
8: Scanner can't find HP j4580 device............................. : 8
9: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 1 for testing............................ : 8
10: Is the net slow?............................................. .. : 8
11: K3B............................................... ............. : 8
12: Restore from Backups - help please............................. : 7
13: lots of lo traffic........................................... .. : 7
14: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released - watch out for port 5000............ : 7
15: [OT] 2 operating systems - one desktop......................... : 7
16: "The Composite Manager crashed twice" error after Compiz....... : 6
17: which 2009.0 kernels are safe to use; was [Re: 2009 and gcc]... : 5
18: how to replicate a branch, and copy only files maching a regex. : 5
19: Defragmenting a Fat32 partition under Linux?................... : 5
20: Powerpack and "New medium available"........................... : 5

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: HD Speed, etc............................................... ... : 112
2: Disk thrashing just after boot up of 2009.0.................... : 74
3: ClamAV update dangers or pitfalls.............................. : 47
4: Can't SSH from 2008.0 laptop to 2009.0 desktop................. : 42
5: Cdrecord has no permission to open the device.................. : 38
6: Good usenet groups about Openoffice?........................... : 28
7: memory on motherboard ?........................................ : 27
8: [very long post] line lengths Was: [OT] Re: Add Links to Applic : 25
9: VirtualBox 2.1.0 released - watch out for port 5000............ : 19
10: [OT] 2 operating systems - one desktop......................... : 18
11: lots of lo traffic........................................... .. : 17
12: K3B............................................... ............. : 17
13: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 1 for testing............................ : 16
14: 2 operating systems - one desktop.............................. : 15
15: "The Composite Manager crashed twice" error after Compiz....... : 15
16: Is the net slow?............................................. .. : 14
17: Scanner can't find HP j4580 device............................. : 14
18: Powerpack and "New medium available"........................... : 14
19: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 13
20: Restore from Backups - help please............................. : 12

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Top 4 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.fan.mozilla................................... ............. : 12
2: comp.unix.shell................................... ............. : 4
3: alt.os.linux...................................... ............. : 1
4: alt.os.linux.mandrake............................. ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode............................................. ............. : 22
2: Pan............................................... ............. : 16
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11...................................... : 7
4: slrn.............................................. ............. : 6
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 3
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 3
7: G2................................................ ............. : 2
8: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 1
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows.................................. : 1
10: Microsoft Mail 8.0.4509-dev.................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: KNode............................................. ........ : 82 (27%)
2: Pan............................................... ........ : 77 (25%)
3: slrn.............................................. ........ : 60 (20%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11................................. : 31 (10%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 13 ( 4%)
6: nn................................................ ........ : 12 ( 4%)
7: Opera Mail.............................................. .. : 10 ( 3%)
8: unknown........................................... ........ : 7 ( 2%)
9: Outlook Express........................................... : 3 ( 1%)
10: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 2 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 141
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 46
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 40
4: +0100............................................. ............. : 37
5: +1100............................................. ............. : 25
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 12
7: +1300............................................. ............. : 2
8: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 2
9: +0900............................................. ............. : 1
10: +1030............................................. ............. : 1

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