Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip retched Weekly News Statistics for
demon.local: week ending 30 Jan 2004. onto my recliner:

The Lord alerted my mind to the presence of this EVIL article by Usenet
Stats Poster, and I thusly replied:

NGStatistics: Newsgroup Statistics Program
Version 1.1 (using News::Scan)

Copyright (C) 2002 Neil Lombardo,
Based on groupstat, Copyleft (C) 2000 H. Alex LaHurreau
Based on StatNews, Copyleft (C) 1998 Davide G. M. Salvetti

Newsgroup.................: demon.local
Stats Were Taken..........: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:01:38 GMT
Stats End.................: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:56:43 GMT
Days......................: 7
Total No. of Articles.....: 2759
Total No. of Characters...: 7346395
Total Volume..............: 7174
Messages Per Day..........: 394.1

ROTFL. Remember when DL was a 10 post a day haven?


I know, 2759 articles a week. Superb.

Characters Per Day........: 1049485.0
Average Daily Volume......: 1024 kB
Total Posters This Week...: 244
Messages with Sigs........: 75.03%
Original Content Rating...: 20.48%

I still think we should have a "messages with sigs 4 lines" part.


Yep, I have said this. I may write a letter of complaint if no action is
taken.

Top 500 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
================================================== =============
1. Pkaye Woz Ere.....................................: 790 112.9 28.6%
2. Reverend Parson Peter Parsnip.....................: 340 48.6 12.3%
3. Wim Jay...........................................: 309 44.1 11.2%
4. Gay Hey Boi.......................................: 146 20.9 5.3%
5. Super Pmd.........................................: 106 15.1 3.8%

How amusing that the top five account for 61.2% of the newsgroup.


Yes, where are the self proclaimed regs? Aha.

PS: You suck, Phil Kyle! But I note that compared to last week your
figures are down. The downward trend has begun, and soon the Rev will
return to the ascendency!


790 versus 340, no competition, sunshine! You better start praying ,
it's the only way you'll beat me.



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Phil K.

http://philkyle2003.reachme.at/