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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: 219 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Jan 23 21:25:27 2009
Latest article: Fri Jan 30 20:02:03 2009
Original articles: 15, replies: 204
Total size of posts: 721,629 bytes (704K) (0.69M)
Average 31 articles per day, 0.10 MB per day, 3,295 bytes per article
Total headers: 287 KB bodies: 416 KB
Body text - quoted: 161 KB, original: 201 KB = 55.45%, sigs: 51 KB
Total number of posters: 47, average 15,353 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 32, average 22,550 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: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 26
2: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 26
3: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 19
4: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 16
5: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 11
6: TJ <TJ@invalid.invalid>.............................. .......... : 10
7: Dmitrij <dkultasev@gmail.com>............................. ..... : 9
8: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 8
9: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 8
10: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 7
11: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 7
12: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 6
13: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 6
14: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 5
15: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 5
16: ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt>....................... : 4
17: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 4
18: Jim Whitby <nospam@deesfantasyplace.com>..................... .. : 3
19: wordsmith <wordsmith@work.com>.............................. ... : 2
20: Zoraster Zeus <zoraster@REMOVEoperamail.com>.................. . : 2

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 121
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 65
3: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 59
4: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 47
5: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 46
6: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 42
7: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 41
8: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 31
9: TJ <TJ@invalid.invalid>.............................. .......... : 30
10: Dmitrij <dkultasev@gmail.com>............................. ..... : 21
11: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 17
12: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 17
13: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 15
14: stef <notvalid@nomail.nul>............................. ........ : 14
15: alt.os.linux.mandriva Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>............ : 13
16: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 12
17: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 11
18: Jim Whitby <nospam@deesfantasyplace.com>..................... .. : 9
19: ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam@netcabo.pt>....................... : 7
20: Jim Beard <jdbeard@patriot.net>............................. ... : 5

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Top 14 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 82.60%
2: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 78.15%
3: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 71.64%
4: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 67.49%
5: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 62.86%
6: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 61.24%
7: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 55.03%
8: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 47.11%
9: TJ <TJ@invalid.invalid>.............................. .......... : 46.27%
10: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 44.73%
11: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 43.05%
12: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 42.44%
13: Dmitrij <dkultasev@gmail.com>............................. ..... : 36.14%
14: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 21.22%

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Bottom 14 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Doug Laidlaw <doug@dougshost.invalid>........................ .. : 10.32%
2: Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>.............................. : 21.22%
3: Dmitrij <dkultasev@gmail.com>............................. ..... : 36.14%
4: herman.viaene@thuis.be......................................... : 42.44%
5: Wes Newell <w.newell@invalid.invalid>........................ .. : 43.05%
6: "Peter D." <psd@live.home.invalid>........................... .. : 44.73%
7: TJ <TJ@invalid.invalid>.............................. .......... : 46.27%
8: Robert Riches <spamtrap42@verizon.net>........................ . : 47.11%
9: Adam <adam@address.invalid>............................ ........ : 55.03%
10: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 61.24%
11: Frank Peelo <f32pnospam@eircom.net>........................... . : 62.86%
12: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld (Moe Trin).................... : 67.49%
13: Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>..................... . : 71.64%
14: Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>..................... ..... : 78.15%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Startup Error Message.......................................... : 49
2: Receiving ATSC DTV............................................. : 30
3: Aragorn's Partitioning Mini-HowTo (revised and reposted)....... : 19
4: how to forward ports ?......................................... : 19
5: do you have to be a pro to install linux as a single system.... : 17
6: where is libdv? ldconfig problem?.............................. : 10
7: another 2009.0 annoyance, disappearing mouse cursor when typing : 7
8: Clock Inaccuracies, etc........................................ : 6
9: Recording my Records........................................... : 6
10: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 2 while it's hot......................... : 6
11: Updating the 2009 PWP DVD...................................... : 6
12: Why is it easier from Windows.................................. : 5
13: Konqueror file display......................................... : 5
14: tovid............................................. ............. : 5
15: [SOLVED sort of] How to view Windows shares?................... : 4
16: 2009.0: Switch to User2 is Ctl+Alt+F9, not F8.................. : 3
17: Wireless set up Help........................................... : 3
18: running out of space on root................................... : 2
19: mounting CD roms.............................................. . : 2
20: Mouse Ergonomics, Backups, etc. (was: Clock Inaccuracies, etc.) : 2

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Startup Error Message.......................................... : 173
2: Aragorn's Partitioning Mini-HowTo (revised and reposted)....... : 105
3: Receiving ATSC DTV............................................. : 86
4: Clock Inaccuracies, etc........................................ : 47
5: do you have to be a pro to install linux as a single system.... : 46
6: how to forward ports ?......................................... : 43
7: where is libdv? ldconfig problem?.............................. : 26
8: Mouse Ergonomics, Backups, etc. (was: Clock Inaccuracies, etc.) : 18
9: another 2009.0 annoyance, disappearing mouse cursor when typing : 13
10: Updating the 2009 PWP DVD...................................... : 13
11: Statistics for alt.os.linux.mandriva........................... : 13
12: Why is it easier from Windows.................................. : 12
13: tovid............................................. ............. : 11
14: Recording my Records........................................... : 10
15: Get your 2009.1 Alpha 2 while it's hot......................... : 9
16: Mouse Ergonomics, Backups, etc................................. : 8
17: Konqueror file display......................................... : 8
18: 2009.0: Switch to User2 is Ctl+Alt+F9, not F8.................. : 7
19: [SOLVED sort of] How to view Windows shares?................... : 6
20: Wireless set up Help........................................... : 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............................................. ............. : 11
2: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 8
3: Pan............................................... ............. : 7
4: slrn.............................................. ............. : 5
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11...................................... : 3
6: G2................................................ ............. : 2
7: nn................................................ ............. : 2
8: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 1
9: Microsoft Mail 8.0.4509-dev.................................... : 1
10: Opera Mail.............................................. ....... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: KNode............................................. ........ : 70 (32%)
2: slrn.............................................. ........ : 44 (20%)
3: Pan............................................... ........ : 40 (18%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 19 ( 9%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11................................. : 14 ( 6%)
6: G2................................................ ........ : 10 ( 5%)
7: Opera Mail.............................................. .. : 7 ( 3%)
8: nn................................................ ........ : 6 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 2 ( 1%)
10: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 1 ( 0%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 94
2: +0100............................................. ............. : 43
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 30
4: +1100............................................. ............. : 24
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 14
6: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 10
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 3
8: -0400.............................................. ............ : 1

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