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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: 1,409 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jul 30 00:55:04 2007
Latest article: Sun Aug 5 22:55:14 2007
Original articles: 94, replies: 1,315
Total size of posts: 3,360,359 bytes (3,281K) (3.20M)
Average 201 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 2,384 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,662 KB bodies: 1,618 KB
Body text - quoted: 893 KB, original: 662 KB = 42.57%, sigs: 59 KB
Total number of posters: 305, average 11,017 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 153, average 21,963 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 38

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 78
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 73
3: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 50
4: Don Foreman ................... . : 33
5: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 29
6: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 27
7: Gunner .................... ...... : 26
8: "Hawke" .................................. : 24
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 23
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 23
11: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 23
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 23
13: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 22
14: Boston Blackie (PA Robert Black, or is it the other way 'round? : 21
15: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 18
16: "William Noble" ........................... : 17
17: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 17
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 16
19: "Clave" .............. ..... : 15
20: Tom .......................... ......... : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 196
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 151
3: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 90
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 82
5: "Hawke" .................................. : 75
6: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 75
7: Don Foreman ................... . : 72
8: Stuart Grey ......................... . : 62
9: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 62
10: Gunner .................... ...... : 56
11: Larry Jaques ................... : 55
12: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 49
13: "Clave" .............. ..... : 46
14: Boston Blackie (PA Robert Black, or is it the other way 'round? : 42
15: .......................................... : 39
16: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 39
17: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 36
18: "John Scheldroup" .................... : 36
19: "William Noble" ........................... : 33
20: Tom .......................... ......... : 32

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Clark Magnuson ........................ : 96.88%
2: ....................................... : 95.63%
3: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 75.85%
4: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 75.49%
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73.24%
6: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 73.10%
7: woodworker88 ........................ .. : 69.38%
8: "William Wixon" ....................... : 69.14%
9: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 68.81%
10: "Vaughn Simon" ............. : 67.67%
11: dav1936531 .......................... .. : 64.49%
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 60.21%
13: ............................................. : 60.16%
14: Jon Elson ............................. : 54.36%
15: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 53.23%
16: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 52.47%
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" ................ : 51.26%
18: "*" ............................ ......... : 50.74%
19: Nick Hull ................................... ... : 49.72%
20: Ted Frater ........................... .. : 48.24%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: MikeMandaville ........................ : 12.36%
2: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 15.53%
3: "Clave" .............. ..... : 16.22%
4: " .................... : 17.00%
5: Tom .......................... ......... : 17.08%
6: Boston Blackie (PA Robert Black, or is it the other way 'round? : 17.44%
7: "cncfixxer1" ........................ .. : 20.41%
8: "Steve R." ***********@*************.***................... .. : 20.86%
9: The Patriot .......................... . : 21.57%
10: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 21.70%
11: john .......................... ........ : 21.81%
12: cavelamb himself ............... : 23.57%
13: (Paul Mitchum)............................... : 26.30%
14: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 27.64%
15: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 27.98%
16: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 28.80%
17: Eric R Snow ................................ . : 28.80%
18: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 28.87%
19: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 29.70%
20: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 29.96%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head George Allen................... : 92
2: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 88
3: Don -- Minneapolis road bridge collapse........................ : 77
4: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 76
5: Bush & Ten Friends........................................... .. : 54
6: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.......................................... : 48
7: Question for ex military types................................. : 42
8: Have you ever needed to machine copper......................... : 41
9: Hand held propane torch exploded in my neighborhood............ : 38
10: Enco vs. KBC............................................... .... : 37
11: THE fastest material removal................................... : 34
12: A question for the gun experts................................. : 29
13: Bizarre submersible found floating off New York City........... : 26
14: Home brew 3 phase VFD ?........................................ : 26
15: Metalworking in Canadian bush.................................. : 23
16: Plans for hit-or-miss engine?.................................. : 22
17: Conundrum? Decent benchtop surface grinder..................... : 20
18: What is it? CXCI.............................................. . : 19
19: Drilling Through Iron.......................................... : 18
20: newbie ?: what kind of machine to cut small aluminum pieces.... : 16

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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 : 249
2: Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head George Allen................... : 247
3: Don -- Minneapolis road bridge collapse........................ : 216
4: what are all these atheists doing here?........................ : 200
5: Bush & Ten Friends........................................... .. : 112
6: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.......................................... : 106
7: Hand held propane torch exploded in my neighborhood............ : 94
8: Have you ever needed to machine copper......................... : 89
9: Enco vs. KBC............................................... .... : 78
10: Question for ex military types................................. : 78
11: THE fastest material removal................................... : 71
12: A question for the gun experts................................. : 64
13: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing.. : 61
14: Bizarre submersible found floating off New York City........... : 56
15: Metalworking in Canadian bush.................................. : 55
16: Home brew 3 phase VFD ?........................................ : 55
17: OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science....................... : 44
18: Tubing notcher........................................... ...... : 44
19: backyard "hydraulics design for amateurs" - tilt trailer cylind : 39
20: Plans for hit-or-miss engine?.................................. : 38

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 247
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 239
3: alt.tv.law-and-order........................................... : 94
4: soc.retirement.................................... ............. : 94
5: seattle.politics.................................. ............. : 94
6: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 83
7: nashville.general................................. ............. : 78
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 33
9: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 25
10: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 16

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 76
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 71
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 31
5: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509)........................ : 21
6: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 10
7: rn................................................ ............. : 10
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 9
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 4
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............................................. .. : 304 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 298 (21%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 183 (13%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 158 (11%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 93 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows.............................. : 54 ( 4%)
7: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows............................. : 53 ( 4%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 42 ( 3%)
9: pan............................................... ........ : 27 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 25 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 418
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 334
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 293
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 261
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 33
6: +0200............................................. ............. : 29
7: +1200............................................. ............. : 15
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 12
9: -0300.............................................. ............ : 5
10: +0100............................................. ............. : 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 5066 messages written between 2007-07-06 00:04:42 and
2007-08-05 23:40:38

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. vinny 3 88.47%
2. MikeMandaville 5 87.88%
3. Jeff 3 87.73%
4. sparky 6 86.22%
5. David Billington 8 85.79%
6. Ignoramus9598 4 85.08%
7. erik litchy 5 84.87%
8. 18 84.23%
9. Myal 6 83.92%
10. Phil Stein 3 83.41%
11. pgrey 4 83.35%
12. Clave 15 83.13%
13. Shawn shawn_75ATcomcastDOTnet 3 82.83%
14. Boston Blackie (PA Robert Black, or is it the other way 'r 21 82.69%
15. Rex 31 81.77%

A total of 6077797 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3135184, or 51.58%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner 159 387672 45.2%
2. Cliff 122 178311 45.6%
3. Michael A. Terrell 119 101576 53.0%
4. Louis Ohland 117 88049 58.4%
5. Wes 111 55707 42.0%
6. Gunner Asch 108 108647 66.5%
7. Larry Jaques 106 142734 49.1%
8. Don Foreman 94 113959 57.7%
9. john 84 106283 70.0%
10. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14decay@op 79 179016 54.6%
Doug Miller 79 104816 51.3%
cavelamb himself 79 76674 58.5%
13. SteveB 77 63169 49.9%
14. DoN. Nichols 73 138252 37.7%
15. Too_Many_Tools 71 162283 56.7%

A total of 646 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 87750 / 5 = 17550
2. 24293 / 4 = 6073 5.9%
3. jakdedert 18452 / 4 = 4613 25.2%
4. Kirk Gordon 8482 / 3 = 2827 20.8%
5. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
6. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 52826 / 35 = 1509 28.2%
7. mariposas rand mair fheal greykitten tomys 10520 / 7 = 1502 32.7%
8. Carl Ijames 4433 / 3 = 1477 8.4%
9. Wild_Bill 36262 / 27 = 1343 39.4%
10. Gunner 212555 / 159 = 1336 45.2%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 64583 / 51 = 1266 28.9%
12. DoN. Nichols 86147 / 73 = 1180 37.7%
13. Ted Frater 15248 / 13 = 1172 53.0%
14. whit3rd 6766 / 6 = 1127 13.3%
15. RDF 7824 / 7 = 1117 27.0%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. what are all these atheists doing here? 122 175862
2. OT - The Republican War on Science 110 191623
3. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists 109 159102
4. Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head George Allen 92 107518
5. Don -- Minneapolis road bridge collapse 77 120428
OT: China executed head of FDA. 77 119607
7. OT - The Liberal Democrat War on Science 70 137933
8. A bench clamp for the Rockchucker 62 97318
9. You know if you are a guy if... 60 38130
10. sparkplug 59 70082
11. triping circuit breaker 57 72497
12. Bush & Ten Friends 54 58005
13. OT - Iran's Proxy War -- Tehran is on the offensive again 48 212924
14. painting inside of square steel tube 46 52912
15. Varmint heartbreak 45 37427

A total of 523 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1101
2. Forte Agent 728
3. G2 642
4. Mozilla 520
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 198
6. Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 194
7. Forte Free Agent 186
8. slrn 176
9. MT-NewsWatcher 117
10. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 106
11. News Xpress 87
12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 85
13. Xnews 80
Microsoft Windows Mail 80
15. trn 4.0-test76 74

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

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Statistics wrote:

Lets see ...

1: Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head G : 92 *OT*
2: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what : 88 *OT*
3: Don -- Minneapolis road bridge col: 77 *OT*
4: what are all these atheists doing : 76 *OT*
5: Bush & Ten Friends................: 54 *OT*
6: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.............: 48 *OT*
7: Question for ex military types....: 42 *OT*
8: Have you ever needed to machine co: 41
9: Hand held propane torch exploded i: 38
10: Enco vs. KBC.....................: 37
11: THE fastest material removal.....: 34
12: A question for the gun experts...: 29
13: Bizarre submersible found floatin: 26 *OT*
14: Home brew 3 phase VFD ?..........: 26
15: Metalworking in Canadian bush....: 23
16: Plans for hit-or-miss engine?... :Â*22
17: Conundrum? Decent benchtop surfac: 20
18: What is it? CXCI.................: 19
19: Drilling Through Iron............: 18
20: newbie ?: what kind of machine to: 16

Off-Topics: 503
On-Topics : 323

= 61% Off topic. Too lazy to look from whom the threads originated. IIRC
Gunner, Iggy and TMT. Nothing new.

Nick

Nick Mueller wrote:

Statistics wrote:

Lets see ...

3: Don -- Minneapolis road bridge col: 77 *OT*
13: Bizarre submersible found floatin: 26 *OT*

Off-Topics: 503
On-Topics : 323

= 61% Off topic. Too lazy to look from whom the threads originated. IIRC
Gunner, Iggy and TMT. Nothing new.

Nick



I was going to disagree with #3 until I read the thread. Bad drift. The
replica of the turtle is close enough to on topic for me.

It does have some historical metalworking content:
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submarine)"
Not sure that link formated properly so:
http://tinyurl.com/2ckhre

I hope I didn't hurt my rep asking about how to set a compound

That last suggestion was how to setup offset centers wasn't it? Since I
don't have a taper attachment on the lathe I am repairing, I will likely
have to resort to shifting the tailstock or making an adaptor to offset
centers to turn longer than compound length items.

The sine bar between centers has the same problem with being off center line
as using a master part and indicating. If the sine bar between centers
isn't perpendicular to the ways, the same sort of error is introduced.

The darn lip seal I need to make my varidrive work is on 7 week back order.
I have things I want to make and need my lathe.

Wes

Wes wrote:

I was going to disagree with #3 until I read the thread. Â*Bad drift.

It never was intended to be kinda metal-working related.

I hope I didn't hurt my rep asking about how to set a compound

No, not at all! The difference is, that you are asking questions, learn and
are making progress. Completely different game. And I also learned
something from that. That's how it should be at RCM.


That last suggestion was how to setup offset centers wasn't it? Â*Since I
don't have a taper attachment on the lathe I am repairing, I will likely
have to resort to shifting the tailstock or making an adaptor to offset
centers to turn longer than compound length items.

You wanted to offset the centers? If you have a boring head that fits into
your tailstock, you can play nice tricks with that.


The sine bar between centers has the same problem with being off center
line as using a master part and indicating. Â*If the sine bar between
centers isn't perpendicular to the ways, the same sort of error is
introduced.

You should check with a zero degree setting (and align the tailstock) before
setting the desired angle. Or adjust the tailstock with one of the many
ways. But be aware, depending how bad or good the tailstock is aligned from
the factory, extending or retracting the quill will introduce a new error.
So when you align it, remember how far the tailstock's quill stuck out!


Nick

Nick Mueller wrote:
Statistics wrote:

Lets see ...

1: Fred Thompson Loves Macaca-head G : 92 *OT*
2: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what : 88 *OT*
3: Don -- Minneapolis road bridge col: 77 *OT*
4: what are all these atheists doing : 76 *OT*
5: Bush & Ten Friends................: 54 *OT*
6: Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics.............: 48 *OT*
7: Question for ex military types....: 42 *OT*
8: Have you ever needed to machine co: 41
9: Hand held propane torch exploded i: 38
10: Enco vs. KBC.....................: 37
11: THE fastest material removal.....: 34
12: A question for the gun experts...: 29
13: Bizarre submersible found floatin: 26 *OT*
14: Home brew 3 phase VFD ?..........: 26
15: Metalworking in Canadian bush....: 23
16: Plans for hit-or-miss engine?... : 22
17: Conundrum? Decent benchtop surfac: 20
18: What is it? CXCI.................: 19
19: Drilling Through Iron............: 18
20: newbie ?: what kind of machine to: 16

Off-Topics: 503
On-Topics : 323

= 61% Off topic. Too lazy to look from whom the threads originated. IIRC
Gunner, Iggy and TMT. Nothing new.

Nick



Hey, aren't you the one they call the "OT Nazi"? I bet you live in
Germany to boot.

Well, I'm glad to see somebody is paying attention, and keeping track.

Danke schoen, Herr Oberfuehrer!

The Patriot wrote:

Hey, aren't you the one they call the "OT Nazi"?

Strange that someone complaining about OT is called a Nazi. I would call
those ignoring the charter Nazis.

I bet you live in Germany to boot.

You must be smart! You can decipher eMail-addresses.


Nick

Nick Mueller wrote:
The Patriot wrote:

Hey, aren't you the one they call the "OT Nazi"?

Strange that someone complaining about OT is called a Nazi. I would call
those ignoring the charter Nazis.

I bet you live in Germany to boot.

You must be smart! You can decipher eMail-addresses.


Nick


An email address and handle are easily faked.

Nick Mueller did NOT write:

An email address and handle are easily faked.

X-Complaints-To:

[X] Done!

Nick

Abrasha wrote:
In , on Tue, 07 Aug 2007
08:44:56 -0700, Abrasha, aka The Patriot wrote:

An email address and handle are easily faked.

Other headers not so easily.



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http://www.abrasha.com