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Analysis of posts to Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 1,058 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jul 16 00:55:08 2007
Latest article: Sun Jul 22 22:55:09 2007
Original articles: 94, replies: 964
Total size of posts: 2,478,277 bytes (2,420K) (2.36M)
Average 151 articles per day, 0.34 MB per day, 2,342 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,236 KB bodies: 1,184 KB
Body text - quoted: 597 KB, original: 488 KB = 45.00%, sigs: 94 KB
Total number of posters: 260, average 9,531 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 138, average 17,958 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 36

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 38
2: Don Foreman ................... . : 28
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 27
4: (Doug Miller).............................. : 25
5: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 23
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 23
7: Gunner ........................... ...... : 23
8: Cliff ............................... ....... : 23
9: "*" ............................ ......... : 21
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 21
11: cavelamb himself ............... : 20
12: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 17
13: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 16
14: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 16
15: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 15
16: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 14
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 14
18: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 13
19: "SteveB" .......................... : 12
20: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 12

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 85
2: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 64
3: Gunner ........................... ...... : 56
4: Don Foreman ................... . : 55
5: (Doug Miller).............................. : 55
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 53
7: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 52
8: "*" ............................ ......... : 49
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 49
10: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 46
11: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 45
12: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 44
13: cavelamb himself ............... : 44
14: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 36
15: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 36
16: F. George McDuffee .......... : 30
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 29
18: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 27
19: "Jeff McCann" ........................... . : 27
20: "Fester" .................................... .... : 27

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 96.41%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 84.70%
3: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 83.57%
4: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 76.73%
5: Ignoramus7760 ............. . : 76.14%
6: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 74.49%
7: "William Wixon" ....................... : 70.09%
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 66.98%
9: cavelamb himself ............... : 66.18%
10: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 66.15%
11: Andrew VK3BFA ...................... . : 65.97%
12: " ............................ : 65.72%
13: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 63.50%
14: dav1936531 .......................... .. : 62.57%
15: Anthony .......................... ..... : 62.46%
16: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 59.00%
17: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 58.65%
18: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 58.39%
19: "R.H." ............................. ...... : 57.57%
20: "SteveB" .......................... : 57.42%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 13.50%
2: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 16.27%
3: John .......................... ........ : 16.84%
4: "Fester" .................................... .... : 21.91%
5: "Bob Brock" ............................. : 23.38%
6: john .......................... ........ : 26.03%
7: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 26.21%
8: Curly Surmudgeon .......................... : 27.11%
9: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 28.62%
10: Brent ........................... ....... : 29.00%
11: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 29.72%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 30.62%
13: Rex ............................ ......... : 32.14%
14: mlcorson ................................ : 32.43%
15: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 32.45%
16: Don Foreman ................... . : 33.37%
17: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 34.04%
18: Nick Hull ................................... ... : 34.29%
19: "b" ............................... ......... : 34.39%
20: Cliff ............................... ....... : 36.80%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT - The Republican War on Science............................. : 110
2: sparkplug......................................... ............. : 59
3: painting inside of square steel tube........................... : 46
4: Varmint heartbreak........................................ ..... : 45
5: OT (of course) Ed Koch......................................... : 29
6: OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science....................... : 25
7: Fine Centering Scope........................................... : 24
8: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 21
9: Rant mode on................................................ ... : 21
10: Questions about burn injuries from oxyacetylene flames......... : 20
11: Measuring the diameter of 3-flute/sided tooll.................. : 20
12: RANT/follow up re Query - fly cutter tool grinding geometry.... : 20
13: What is it? CLXXIX............................................ . : 19
14: Rubber for belt grinder drive wheel?........................... : 19
15: build yer own ISA computer..................................... : 18
16: ON topic (wow!) OA Welding tank problem........................ : 18
17: OT - how many RCMers live in Washington State?................. : 17
18: Small job-shop contract with (actual) money.................... : 17
19: hollow hemispheres, metal or otherwise......................... : 16
20: OT- Gun ownership is a criminal act. S.1237.................... : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - The Republican War on Science............................. : 355
2: sparkplug......................................... ............. : 136
3: painting inside of square steel tube........................... : 105
4: Fine Centering Scope........................................... : 87
5: Varmint heartbreak........................................ ..... : 86
6: OT (of course) Ed Koch......................................... : 63
7: OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science....................... : 60
8: Rant mode on................................................ ... : 48
9: Questions about burn injuries from oxyacetylene flames......... : 46
10: Rubber for belt grinder drive wheel?........................... : 46
11: Small job-shop contract with (actual) money.................... : 44
12: RANT/follow up re Query - fly cutter tool grinding geometry.... : 43
13: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 43
14: build yer own ISA computer..................................... : 43
15: hollow hemispheres, metal or otherwise......................... : 42
16: Electroplating for Gold Recovery............................... : 39
17: Made machine feet for my Bridgeport -- pix and question........ : 33
18: Statistics for week ending 20070716............................ : 32
19: OT -- story that is sad in very many ways...................... : 32
20: ON topic (wow!) OA Welding tank problem........................ : 32

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 160
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 138
3: alt.atheism....................................... ............. : 108
4: alt.autos.toyota.................................. ............. : 48
5: rec.autos.4x4..................................... ............. : 48
6: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 25
7: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 25
8: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 22
9: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 16
10: sci.chem.......................................... ............. : 16

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 64
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 49
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 40
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 23
5: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)........................ : 15
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 10
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 234 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 209 (20%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 153 (14%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 120 (11%)
5: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 41 ( 4%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 38 ( 4%)
7: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows............................. : 33 ( 3%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 27 ( 3%)
9: News Xpress 2.01.......................................... : 26 ( 2%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 22 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 324
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 246
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 230
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 187
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 19
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 16
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 16
8: -0300.............................................. ............ : 8
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 5
10: -1000.............................................. ............ : 3

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Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics
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(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson

This report covers 4887 messages written between 2007-06-23 00:15:34 and
2007-07-22 23:28:40

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Blacklist of quoters (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. 9 90.80%
2. 8 89.47%
3. syoung 3 87.07%
4. Tony 12 85.87%
5. Ignoramus9598 4 85.08%
6. erik litchy 3 83.78%
7. Tom 9 81.67%
8. mich 10 81.23%
9. Up North 5 81.07%
10. justahunter 3 80.96%
11. Jim Stewart 19 80.40%
12. Myal 3 80.07%
13. David Billington 9 79.99%
14. Cydrome Leader 3 79.82%
15. sparky 8 78.87%

A total of 6085618 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3110575, or 51.11%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner 250 589601 47.0%
2. Wes 121 59444 42.9%
3. Larry Jaques 116 126965 51.2%
4. Too_Many_Tools 102 221498 62.6%
John 102 132796 70.4%
6. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14decay@op 93 254106 54.1%
Doug Miller 93 107508 52.9%
8. Louis Ohland 92 76074 51.9%
9. DoN. Nichols 90 158523 37.2%
10. SteveB 77 63693 44.1%
11. Karl Townsend 65 32099 28.8%
12. cavelamb himself 64 54392 50.6%
13. Michael A. Terrell 63 53460 55.3%
14. Tom Gardner 60 60740 66.1%
15. Harold and Susan Vordos 58 59994 52.3%

A total of 632 people were identified.

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Toplist of original content per message (of people who have written at
least three messages)

Place Name Orig. / Msgs = PrMsg Quoted
1. Statistics 110093 / 7 = 15727 0.1%
2. mariposas rand mair fheal greykitten tomys 7705 / 3 = 2568 26.7%
3. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
4. moray 21876 / 16 = 1367 66.7%
5. sk 3998 / 3 = 1332 23.5%
6. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 44819 / 34 = 1318 32.3%
7. lbgary 3777 / 3 = 1259 42.3%
8. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d116722 / 93 = 1255 54.1%
9. Gunner 312713 / 250 = 1250 47.0%
10. Wild_Bill 43428 / 36 = 1206 38.9%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 54089 / 47 = 1150 27.7%
12. 6815 / 6 = 1135 40.6%
13. DoN. Nichols 99614 / 90 = 1106 37.2%
14. Bob in Phx 4204 / 4 = 1051 57.7%
15. Don Klipstein 3075 / 3 = 1025 37.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT - The Republican War on Science 110 191623
2. OT: China executed head of FDA. 77 119607
3. Trailer Risk Factors 74 246473
4. Fraudulent eBay listing 60 62282
You know if you are a guy if... 60 38130
6. sparkplug 59 70082
7. triping circuit breaker 57 72497
8. OT-Price fixing now OK 52 83764
9. OT - Iran's Proxy War -- Tehran is on the offensive again 48 212924
10. painting inside of square steel tube 46 52912
11. OT hidden browsers/hostil work environment? 45 71241
OT - OBD readers... 45 45785
FS metalworking equipment 45 39154
Varmint heartbreak 45 37427
15. OT -- Bridges dropped in Iraq 44 68561

A total of 525 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1102
2. Forte Agent 690
3. G2 684
4. Mozilla 479
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 330
6. slrn 217
7. Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 203
8. Xnews 110
9. Forte Free Agent 107
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 105
11. News Xpress 99
12. MT-NewsWatcher 92
13. trn 4.0-test76 91
14. Microsoft Windows Mail 87
15. KNode 46

A total of 45 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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