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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: 946 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jul 23 00:43:39 2007
Latest article: Sun Jul 29 22:55:17 2007
Original articles: 78, replies: 868
Total size of posts: 2,342,161 bytes (2,287K) (2.23M)
Average 135 articles per day, 0.32 MB per day, 2,475 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,122 KB bodies: 1,165 KB
Body text - quoted: 523 KB, original: 496 KB = 48.67%, sigs: 141 KB
Total number of posters: 245, average 9,559 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 115, average 20,366 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 30

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Larry Jaques ................... : 35
2: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 33
3: Don Foreman ................... . : 31
4: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 22
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 22
6: Gunner .................... ...... : 21
7: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 19
8: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19
9: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 17
10: "Hawke" .................................. : 16
11: Joe Pfeiffer .......................... .. : 15
12: cavelamb himself ............... : 15
13: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 14
14: john .......................... ........ : 14
15: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 12
16: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 12
17: "cncfixxer1" ........................ .. : 11
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 11
19: (Doug Miller).............................. : 11
20: Ignoramus21381 ........... : 10

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Larry Jaques ................... : 83
2: Don Foreman ................... . : 81
3: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 75
4: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 72
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 55
6: "Hawke" .................................. : 54
7: Gunner .................... ...... : 48
8: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 45
9: (Doug Miller).............................. : 40
10: "cncfixxer1" ........................ .. : 39
11: cavelamb himself ............... : 37
12: john .......................... ........ : 36
13: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 33
14: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 32
15: ....................................... : 31
16: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 30
17: Joe Pfeiffer .......................... .. : 30
18: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 29
19: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 28
20: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 28

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Clark Magnuson ........................ : 87.32%
2: steamer ............................... ..... : 84.04%
3: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 75.82%
4: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 75.29%
5: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 74.74%
6: Ignoramus31024 ........... : 72.59%
7: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 66.60%
8: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 65.90%
9: Anthony .......................... ..... : 64.47%
10: "SteveB" .......................... : 64.17%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 64.16%
12: Ignoramus16379 ........... : 62.31%
13: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 59.74%
14: Jon Elson ............................. : 57.72%
15: " ............................ : 57.61%
16: Wes ................................ ......... : 56.63%
17: Larry Jaques ................... : 55.17%
18: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 54.69%
19: xray ....................... ........ : 54.50%
20: "Tony" ................................. ...... : 54.30%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 20.16%
2: .......................................... : 20.96%
3: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 24.08%
4: "cncfixxer1" ........................ .. : 24.13%
5: Gunner .................... ...... : 24.36%
6: The Patriot .......................... . : 24.70%
7: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 25.10%
8: john .......................... ........ : 26.19%
9: Al Porter ................................ ... : 29.35%
10: Rex ............................ ......... : 30.52%
11: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 31.05%
12: Eric R Snow ................................ . : 31.98%
13: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 35.27%
14: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 36.37%
15: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 37.17%
16: "Carl Byrns" ........................ .. : 37.71%
17: Ignoramus3627 ............. . : 38.70%
18: cavelamb himself ............... : 39.02%
19: Brent ........................... ....... : 39.43%
20: (Doug Miller).............................. : 40.95%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: A bench clamp for the Rockchucker.............................. : 61
2: Traveling Irrigator drive motor................................ : 40
3: OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science....................... : 39
4: Pentagon to junk millions in combat gear....................... : 33
5: flux-core with no gas nozzle?.................................. : 29
6: Tired of Wet Glasses........................................... : 29
7: I was shocked (welding)........................................ : 25
8: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 25
9: US flag and mounting it on a vehicle........................... : 25
10: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 22
11: Hooks for 1/4" pegboard........................................ : 22
12: Welding supply co. fire video- dallas, this morning............ : 22
13: Long term tool storage......................................... : 21
14: Grinding wheel peripheral speed question....................... : 21
15: ON topic (wow!) OA Welding tank problem........................ : 21
16: Wood Preservatives..................................... ........ : 19
17: pistols OTO was burning copper bridges......................... : 17
18: Survey: Trig. Use & CAM Systems................................ : 16
19: Shrunken coins............................................. .... : 14
20: Zenni Optical - Again.......................................... : 14

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: A bench clamp for the Rockchucker.............................. : 158
2: OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science....................... : 137
3: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 111
4: Traveling Irrigator drive motor................................ : 85
5: Pentagon to junk millions in combat gear....................... : 83
6: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 68
7: US flag and mounting it on a vehicle........................... : 60
8: flux-core with no gas nozzle?.................................. : 60
9: I was shocked (welding)........................................ : 58
10: Tired of Wet Glasses........................................... : 54
11: ON topic (wow!) OA Welding tank problem........................ : 54
12: Welding supply co. fire video- dallas, this morning............ : 47
13: pistols OTO was burning copper bridges......................... : 46
14: Grinding wheel peripheral speed question....................... : 46
15: Wood Preservatives..................................... ........ : 44
16: Survey: Trig. Use & CAM Systems................................ : 44
17: Long term tool storage......................................... : 42
18: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing.. : 39
19: Hooks for 1/4" pegboard........................................ : 38
20: Zenni Optical - Again.......................................... : 34

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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 74
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 53
3: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 19
4: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 12
5: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 11
6: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 3
7: rec.boats.cruising................................ ............. : 2

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 68
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 48
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 20
5: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)........................ : 15
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
8: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 6
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 219 (23%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 161 (17%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 153 (16%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 133 (14%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 52 ( 5%)
6: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows............................. : 39 ( 4%)
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 30 ( 3%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows.............................. : 25 ( 3%)
9: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 22 ( 2%)
10: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 22 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 330
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 240
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 160
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 151
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 26
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 10
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 8
8: +1200............................................. ............. : 5
9: -0800.............................................. ............ : 4
10: +1000............................................. ............. : 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 4697 messages written between 2007-06-30 00:03:24 and
2007-07-29 23:57:49

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. David R Brooks 3 89.68%
2. 11 87.45%
3. sparky 4 86.17%
4. 15 85.72%
5. Ignoramus9598 4 85.08%
6. Myal 4 81.34%
7. LLBrown 6 81.30%
8. mich 10 81.23%
9. Rex 41 81.04%
10. justahunter 3 80.96%
11. David Billington 9 79.99%
12. Tom 12 79.87%
13. Cydrome Leader 3 79.82%
14. Paul 3 78.60%
15. Jeff McCann 6 78.38%

A total of 5779999 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
2876606, or 49.77%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner 218 520320 44.6%
2. Wes 123 59772 42.7%
3. Larry Jaques 120 144633 48.6%
4. Louis Ohland 105 85290 54.2%
5. john 96 122142 69.7%
Michael A. Terrell 96 82456 52.8%
7. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14decay@op 93 211950 52.7%
8. Doug Miller 88 112100 51.6%
9. Too_Many_Tools 86 186489 64.0%
10. DoN. Nichols 78 156160 38.9%
11. Karl Townsend 73 38379 29.8%
12. cavelamb himself 71 62788 55.1%
13. Don Foreman 61 74845 55.6%
14. SteveB 59 47168 47.3%
15. Cliff 54 84640 29.8%

A total of 627 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 110123 / 7 = 15731 0.1%
2. 24293 / 4 = 6073 5.9%
3. mariposas rand mair fheal greykitten tomys 7705 / 3 = 2568 26.7%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 55402 / 40 = 1385 29.9%
6. Robin S. 6778 / 5 = 1355 22.3%
7. sk 3998 / 3 = 1332 23.5%
8. Gunner 288400 / 218 = 1322 44.6%
9. Wild_Bill 40675 / 33 = 1232 38.9%
10. DoN. Nichols 95399 / 78 = 1223 38.9%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 64105 / 53 = 1209 30.4%
12. Ignoramus16379 8901 / 8 = 1112 37.9%
13. Cliff 59452 / 54 = 1100 29.8%
14. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d100236 / 93 = 1077 52.7%
15. 3097 / 3 = 1032

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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. OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science 64 101084
4. A bench clamp for the Rockchucker 60 92427
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. what are all these atheists doing here? 45 81867
OT - OBD readers... 45 45785
Varmint heartbreak 45 37427
14. OT -- Bridges dropped in Iraq 44 68561
A Sewing Machine For The Workshop 44 45920

A total of 507 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 993
2. Forte Agent 676
3. G2 652
4. Mozilla 469
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 277
6. Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 189
7. slrn 187
8. Forte Free Agent 121
9. MT-NewsWatcher 106
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 99
11. News Xpress 97
12. Xnews 95
13. Microsoft Windows Mail 88
14. trn 4.0-test76 79
15. KNode 48

A total of 44 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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