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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: 1,439 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Aug 6 00:55:13 2007
Latest article: Sun Aug 12 22:55:17 2007
Original articles: 103, replies: 1,336
Total size of posts: 3,514,931 bytes (3,432K) (3.35M)
Average 205 articles per day, 0.48 MB per day, 2,442 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,686 KB bodies: 1,746 KB
Body text - quoted: 853 KB, original: 711 KB = 45.46%, sigs: 177 KB
Total number of posters: 271, average 12,970 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 162, average 21,697 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: Cliff ............................... ....... : 78
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 67
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 49
4: Don Foreman ................... . : 44
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 41
6: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 40
7: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 38
8: Monika Krug ....... : 29
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 24
10: Larry Jaques ................... : 23
11: cavelamb himself ........................ : 22
12: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 22
13: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 19
14: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 17
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 17
16: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 16
17: BottleBob .......................... ... : 16
18: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 16
19: Tom .......................... ......... : 16
20: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 16

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 253
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 158
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 114
4: Don Foreman ................... . : 97
5: Monika Krug ....... : 95
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 94
7: .......................................... : 82
8: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 76
9: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 70
10: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 65
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 54
12: Larry Jaques ................... : 51
13: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 46
14: cavelamb himself ........................ : 42
15: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 41
16: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 38
17: "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" .................... : 37
18: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 36
19: BottleBob .......................... ... : 36
20: Brent ........................... ....... : 34

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jman .......................... ........ : 94.41%
2: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 80.77%
3: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 80.33%
4: BottleBob .......................... ... : 79.11%
5: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 73.70%
6: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 73.18%
7: "Rod & Betty Jo" ......................... : 72.46%
8: Ignoramus22443 ........... : 67.18%
9: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 66.25%
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 65.68%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 63.39%
12: Jon Elson ................................. ... : 63.00%
13: Ignoramus8011 ............. . : 62.21%
14: "Chet & Audrey Roberts" .................. : 60.32%
15: B A R R Y .......................... ... : 59.95%
16: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 59.03%
17: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 58.75%
18: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 57.39%
19: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 57.29%
20: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 55.23%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: .......................................... : 16.27%
2: "Tony" ................................. ...... : 18.29%
3: The Patriot .......................... . : 19.71%
4: Tom .......................... ......... : 19.96%
5: "J Carroll" .................. . : 22.74%
6: cavelamb himself ........................ : 23.36%
7: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 23.51%
8: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 23.78%
9: "Snag" ........................... ...... : 25.62%
10: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 26.72%
11: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 27.22%
12: (Doug Miller).............................. : 28.00%
13: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 28.22%
14: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 29.04%
15: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 29.40%
16: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 29.74%
17: Brent ........................... ....... : 30.02%
18: Wayne Cook ........................... .. : 31.63%
19: "Mike Henry" .......................... .. : 31.71%
20: john .......................... ........ : 32.06%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 99
2: OT - What Do Home Depot and Chrysler Have In Common?........... : 62
3: Mine is bigger than yours: Shop A/C notes...................... : 61
4: Gophers ....... grrrrrrr ...................................... : 56
5: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing.. : 55
6: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.......................................... : 48
7: Bush & Ten Friends........................................... .. : 40
8: Ingersoll Rand T-10 compressor - any good?..................... : 30
9: What is it? CXCII............................................. . : 29
10: Shop cats update............................................ ... : 28
11: Tools, tools, tools............................................ : 25
12: Finish cuts: how lite?......................................... : 24
13: Metalworking in Canadian bush.................................. : 23
14: OT - Possible Problems of the I35W Bridge...................... : 19
15: I'd rather fight than switch! (changing speeds on belt driven l : 18
16: THE fastest material removal................................... : 17
17: OT -- Lexmark Optra E312L printer grabs paper.................. : 17
18: seal a water leak.............................................. : 17
19: OT: Sump Pump Adventures - Pt 1................................ : 16
20: Need recommendation for a air compressor....................... : 15

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 264
2: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.......................................... : 213
3: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing.. : 187
4: Mine is bigger than yours: Shop A/C notes...................... : 153
5: OT - What Do Home Depot and Chrysler Have In Common?........... : 145
6: Bush & Ten Friends........................................... .. : 112
7: Gophers ....... grrrrrrr ...................................... : 112
8: Do you want to know about ISLAM................................ : 95
9: Ingersoll Rand T-10 compressor - any good?..................... : 90
10: Shop cats update............................................ ... : 61
11: What is it? CXCII............................................. . : 57
12: Metalworking in Canadian bush.................................. : 54
13: Tools, tools, tools............................................ : 53
14: OT - Possible Problems of the I35W Bridge...................... : 50
15: Finish cuts: how lite?......................................... : 50
16: OT: Sump Pump Adventures - Pt 1................................ : 39
17: Statistics for week ending 20070806............................ : 38
18: seal a water leak.............................................. : 36
19: I'd rather fight than switch! (changing speeds on belt driven l : 36
20: OT -- Lexmark Optra E312L printer grabs paper.................. : 36

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 278
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 219
3: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 151
4: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 101
5: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 29
6: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 25
7: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 15
8: nashville.general................................. ............. : 8
9: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 7
10: alt.tv.law-and-order........................................... : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 73
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 57
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 34
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 24
5: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)........................ : 12
6: rn................................................ ............. : 11
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
9: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 315 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 287 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 201 (14%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 161 (11%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 93 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 70 ( 5%)
7: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows............................. : 56 ( 4%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 49 ( 3%)
9: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11................................. : 31 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 23 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 411
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 341
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 297
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 258
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 45
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 30
7: -0600.............................................. ............ : 29
8: +1200............................................. ............. : 16
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 7
10: +0700............................................. ............. : 4

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

This report covers 5255 messages written between 2007-07-13 00:07:26 and
2007-08-12 22:34:54

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Cydrome Leader 3 89.22%
2. MikeMandaville 5 87.88%
3. Jeff 3 87.73%
4. Gary H. Lucas 3 85.95%
5. sparky 5 85.51%
6. 6 85.26%
7. David Billington 5 84.83%
8. LLBrown 5 84.83%
9. Stuart & Kathryn Fields 4 84.77%
10. Mecoman 3 84.72%
11. Myal 6 83.92%
12. Phil Stein 4 83.62%
13. Clave 15 83.13%
14. Shawn shawn_75ATcomcastDOTnet 3 82.83%
15. erik litchy 6 82.80%

A total of 6186011 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3256453, or 52.64%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 188 236841 47.8%
2. Gunner Asch 157 157611 67.8%
3. Don Foreman 138 165481 58.7%
4. Louis Ohland 133 92134 64.2%
5. Michael A. Terrell 122 100027 52.3%
6. Wes 117 61851 39.6%
7. Larry Jaques 116 158129 49.1%
8. Too_Many_Tools 111 259210 71.4%
9. Gunner 90 110262 62.2%
10. cavelamb himself 75 70713 58.2%
11. DoN. Nichols 73 131835 36.7%
12. Nick Mueller 70 37076 37.8%
13. Ed Huntress 69 93683 54.2%
14. SteveB 65 53813 49.6%
Karl Townsend 65 36123 25.0%

A total of 617 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 87659 / 4 = 21914
2. 24293 / 4 = 6073 5.9%
3. jakdedert 20141 / 7 = 2877 34.0%
4. Kirk Gordon 8482 / 3 = 2827 20.8%
5. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
6. Billy Hiebert 5392 / 3 = 1797 35.3%
7. Carl Ijames 4433 / 3 = 1477 8.4%
8. Howard Eisenhauer 4368 / 3 = 1456 28.8%
9. Wild_Bill 48288 / 34 = 1420 36.1%
10. RDF 4226 / 3 = 1408
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 50981 / 37 = 1377 29.2%
12. mariposas rand mair fheal greykitten tomys 12335 / 10 = 1233 33.7%
13. DoN. Nichols 83465 / 73 = 1143 36.7%
14. Stuart & Kathryn Fields 4469 / 4 = 1117 84.8%
15. Ignoramus16379 8901 / 8 = 1112 37.9%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists 160 229589
2. what are all these atheists doing here? 124 176427
3. OT - The Republican War on Science 110 191623
4. Bush & Ten Friends 94 116798
5. Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head George Allen 92 107518
6. Don -- Minneapolis road bridge collapse 79 126214
7. OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science 71 141439
8. Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics 67 166806
9. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists 66 107303
10. A bench clamp for the Rockchucker 62 97318
OT - What Do Home Depot and Chrysler Have In Common? 62 69677
12. sparkplug 59 70082
13. Gophers ....... grrrrrrr .............. 57 52410
14. THE fastest material removal.... 51 43198
15. Mine is bigger than yours: Shop A/C notes 48 59711

A total of 539 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1092
2. Forte Agent 792
3. G2 658
4. Mozilla 489
5. Forte Free Agent 242
6. Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 232
7. slrn 200
8. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 154
9. MT-NewsWatcher 124
10. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 115
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 88
12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 85
13. KNode 77
14. trn 4.0-test76 74
15. Xnews 71

A total of 46 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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