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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: 195 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Jan 16 21:25:15 2009
Latest article: Fri Jan 23 19:25:18 2009
Original articles: 25, replies: 170
Total size of posts: 474,226 bytes (463K) (0.45M)
Average 27 articles per day, 0.06 MB per day, 2,431 bytes per article
Total headers: 232 KB bodies: 230 KB
Body text - quoted: 78 KB, original: 128 KB = 62.00%, sigs: 23 KB
Total number of posters: 48, average 9,879 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 34, average 13,947 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 15

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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>...................... : 20
3: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 18
4: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 14
5: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 9
6: "Peter D." <p13@g-node.com.au>................................. : 8
7: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 7
8: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 7
9: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 7
10: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 5
11: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 5
12: DCampa <d.campa@skynet.be>............................... ...... : 5
13: Jim Whitby <nospam@deesfantasyplace.com>..................... .. : 4
14: Roger <growl@spam.com>.................................. ....... : 4
15: Iordani <somewhere@earth.net>............................. ..... : 3
16: Rune Axe <axerun@hotmail.com>.............................. .... : 3
17: bobbie sellers <bliss@sfo.com>................................. : 3
18: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 3
19: Mark Madsen <mark.s.madsen+news@gmail.com>.................... . : 3
20: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 3

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 46
2: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 46
3: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 43
4: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 40
5: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 34
6: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 19
7: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 19
8: "Peter D." <p13@g-node.com.au>................................. : 15
9: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>............ : 14
10: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 13
11: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 13
12: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 13
13: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 10
14: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 9
15: bobbie sellers <bliss@sfo.com>................................. : 9
16: Jim Whitby <nospam@deesfantasyplace.com>..................... .. : 8
17: Roger <growl@spam.com>.................................. ....... : 8
18: scassa15 <maybe@irc.net>................................... .... : 7
19: DCampa <d.campa@skynet.be>............................... ...... : 7
20: Dan Espen <daneNO@MORE.mk.SPAMtelcordia.com>................ ... : 5

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Top 11 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 85.96%
2: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 81.20%
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 80.00%
4: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 79.71%
5: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 71.64%
6: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 56.82%
7: DCampa <d.campa@skynet.be>............................... ...... : 53.91%
8: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 52.26%
9: "Peter D." <p13@g-node.com.au>................................. : 48.95%
10: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 42.51%
11: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 40.23%

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Bottom 11 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 32.54%
2: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 40.23%
3: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 42.51%
4: "Peter D." <p13@g-node.com.au>................................. : 48.95%
5: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 52.26%
6: DCampa <d.campa@skynet.be>............................... ...... : 53.91%
7: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 56.82%
8: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 71.64%
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 79.71%
10: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 80.00%
11: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 81.20%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Startup Error Message.......................................... : 27
2: trying to clone desktop 2009.0 to another desktop.............. : 25
3: Recommendation for Audio/Multimedia Sought..................... : 12
4: Clock Inaccuracies, etc. (was: Partitioning External HD, etc.). : 12
5: Update problem - bad signatures................................ : 10
6: VMware vs. VirtualBox vs. ..................................... : 9
7: Wireless set up Help........................................... : 9
8: configuring laptop pad-mouse................................... : 8
9: Move /var............................................... ....... : 7
10: gpg whines about unsafe ownership, and I'm not even using gpg.. : 7
11: do you have to be a pro to install linux as a single system.... : 6
12: where is qrender?.......................................... .... : 6
13: running out of space on root................................... : 5
14: Clock Inaccuracies, etc........................................ : 5
15: Postfix in Formmail.pl...Possible?........................... .. : 5
16: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 2 while it's hot......................... : 5
17: 2009.0: Switch to User2 is Ctl+Alt+F9, not F8.................. : 4
18: googleearth impossibly slow.................................... : 4
19: 2009.0: Can't get to the ndswrapper setup in MCC/Hardware...... : 4
20: VMware vs. VirtualBox vs. ... -- Thanks, All!.................. : 3

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Startup Error Message.......................................... : 59
2: trying to clone desktop 2009.0 to another desktop.............. : 58
3: Clock Inaccuracies, etc........................................ : 40
4: Clock Inaccuracies, etc. (was: Partitioning External HD, etc.). : 34
5: Recommendation for Audio/Multimedia Sought..................... : 31
6: Move /var............................................... ....... : 20
7: VMware vs. VirtualBox vs. ..................................... : 20
8: configuring laptop pad-mouse................................... : 18
9: Update problem - bad signatures................................ : 17
10: where is qrender?.......................................... .... : 15
11: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 14
12: gpg whines about unsafe ownership, and I'm not even using gpg.. : 13
13: Wireless set up Help........................................... : 13
14: running out of space on root................................... : 10
15: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 2 while it's hot......................... : 9
16: Postfix in Formmail.pl...Possible?........................... .. : 9
17: K3B problems under 2008.1...................................... : 8
18: 2009.0: Switch to User2 is Ctl+Alt+F9, not F8.................. : 7
19: do you have to be a pro to install linux as a single system.... : 7
20: VMware vs. VirtualBox vs. ... -- Thanks, All!.................. : 6

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Top 1 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.os.linux.mandrake............................. ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: KNode............................................. ............. : 13
2: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11...................................... : 9
3: Pan............................................... ............. : 8
4: slrn.............................................. ............. : 5
5: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 2
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 2
7: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 1
8: G2................................................ ............. : 1
9: nn................................................ ............. : 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............................................. ........ : 54 (28%)
2: Pan............................................... ........ : 41 (21%)
3: slrn.............................................. ........ : 35 (18%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11................................. : 29 (15%)
5: Opera Mail.............................................. .. : 9 ( 5%)
6: nn................................................ ........ : 7 ( 4%)
7: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 5 ( 3%)
8: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 4 ( 2%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11................................. : 3 ( 2%)
10: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 2 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 79
2: +0100............................................. ............. : 44
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 33
4: +1100............................................. ............. : 17
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 10
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 10
7: .................................................. ............. : 1
8: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 1

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