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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: 1,430 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Aug 27 00:46:19 2007
Latest article: Sun Sep 2 22:55:13 2007
Original articles: 98, replies: 1,332
Total size of posts: 3,325,640 bytes (3,247K) (3.17M)
Average 204 articles per day, 0.45 MB per day, 2,325 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,607 KB bodies: 1,640 KB
Body text - quoted: 940 KB, original: 622 KB = 39.84%, sigs: 72 KB
Total number of posters: 313, average 10,625 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 159, average 20,915 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 40

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner .................... ...... : 92
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 87
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 61
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 42
5: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 39
6: Fred the Red Shirt ................... : 27
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 27
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 25
9: Cliff ............................... ....... : 23
10: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 21
11: (Doug Miller).............................. : 19
12: "Hawke" .................................. : 19
13: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 18
14: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 18
15: nick hull ................................... ... : 18
16: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 17
17: Ignoramus3147 ............. . : 16
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 15
19: Rex ............................ ......... : 14
20: Myal ............................. ........ : 13

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 230
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 218
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 209
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 90
5: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 86
6: Fred the Red Shirt ................... : 72
7: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 54
8: Rex ............................ ......... : 45
9: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 44
10: "Hawke" .................................. : 42
11: Cliff ............................... ....... : 42
12: Myal ............................. ........ : 40
13: (Doug Miller).............................. : 40
14: Brent ........................... ....... : 38
15: Wes ................................ ......... : 37
16: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 35
17: Ignoramus3147 ............. . : 34
18: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 33
19: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 32
20: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 31

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ....................................... : 96.99%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 85.16%
3: "Roger_N" .............................. ... : 75.05%
4: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 70.92%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 66.57%
6: "Snag" ........................... ...... : 64.73%
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 64.65%
8: .......................................... : 64.08%
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 63.62%
10: "Doug" ....................... ... : 62.83%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 61.97%
12: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 61.89%
13: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 61.54%
14: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 61.41%
15: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 60.26%
16: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 58.61%
17: "B.B." u.... : 58.30%
18: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 56.99%
19: Bill .............................. ........ : 55.60%
20: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 54.26%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: " .................... : 9.48%
2: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 10.98%
3: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 14.79%
4: scutt .............................. ....... : 17.99%
5: Myal ............................. ........ : 18.61%
6: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 18.93%
7: David Billington ............ : 19.32%
8: .......................................... : 19.84%
9: Rex ............................ ......... : 20.45%
10: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 22.32%
11: "Tony" ................................. ...... : 23.82%
12: cavelamb himself ..................... : 24.57%
13: Fred the Red Shirt ................... : 24.73%
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 25.17%
15: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 25.44%
16: Brent ........................... ....... : 25.95%
17: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 27.46%
18: "sharx35" ............................. ... : 27.78%
19: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 28.32%
20: Joe Pfeiffer .......................... .. : 31.29%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Say goodbuy to home shops...................................... : 157
2: "Wide Stance" Craig............................................ : 70
3: Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs................. : 62
4: Yes! We're #1!............................................... .. : 60
5: Yes! We're #1! ................................................ : 49
6: What is it? CXCV.............................................. . : 42
7: Best way to strip flaking paint on a trailer body and sheetmeta : 39
8: HOW TO CLEAN AN INFECTED COMPUTER.............................. : 37
9: Little OT but steel and lead bring it around................... : 32
10: crankpin can send transverse forces to the connecting rod?..... : 32
11: Etching........................................... ............. : 30
12: 240v connectors........................................ ........ : 29
13: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 24
14: How many stupidities can you notice in this Craigslist ad...... : 23
15: Explosive gases............................................. ... : 22
16: Should I heat treat ?.......................................... : 21
17: OT - Ebay Problems - Accessing pages........................... : 20
18: Need tips on single point threading............................ : 19
19: OT: Small diameter magnetic roller between wheels to provide fr : 19
20: PETITION US CONGRESS: The war must end: A million Iraqis have b : 19

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Say goodbuy to home shops...................................... : 401
2: Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs................. : 180
3: "Wide Stance" Craig............................................ : 166
4: Yes! We're #1! ................................................ : 127
5: Yes! We're #1!............................................... .. : 116
6: Best way to strip flaking paint on a trailer body and sheetmeta : 95
7: HOW TO CLEAN AN INFECTED COMPUTER.............................. : 77
8: crankpin can send transverse forces to the connecting rod?..... : 76
9: Little OT but steel and lead bring it around................... : 74
10: OT-Interesting read on the status of the world today........... : 72
11: What is it? CXCV.............................................. . : 71
12: Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists doing h : 68
13: Etching........................................... ............. : 67
14: 240v connectors........................................ ........ : 61
15: Explosive gases............................................. ... : 46
16: Should I heat treat ?.......................................... : 44
17: OT: Small diameter magnetic roller between wheels to provide fr : 44
18: Welding Confusion Questions and (minor) RANT................... : 41
19: Need tips on single point threading............................ : 41
20: How many stupidities can you notice in this Craigslist ad...... : 41

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 229
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 98
3: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 57
4: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 56
5: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 44
6: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 41
7: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 31
8: rec.autos.tech.................................... ............. : 31
9: alt.religion.wicca................................ ............. : 26
10: sci.environment................................... ............. : 25

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 75
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 75
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 38
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 25
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 12
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 10
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 315 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 285 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 254 (18%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 156 (11%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 64 ( 4%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 56 ( 4%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 49 ( 3%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 40 ( 3%)
9: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 39 ( 3%)
10: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows............................. : 38 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 516
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 360
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 247
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 216
5: +0100............................................. ............. : 30
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 21
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 19
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 12
9: -0400 (EDT)............................................. ....... : 2
10: +1000............................................. ............. : 2

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

This report covers 6002 messages written between 2007-08-03 00:01:30 and
2007-09-02 23:20:01

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Sue 3 91.51%
2. erik litchy 3 90.57%
3. Cydrome Leader 3 89.22%
4. Clave 4 86.83%
5. 15 85.80%
6. 9 85.06%
7. Ignoramus14352 4 85.00%
8. Stephen Robinson 4 83.79%
9. Myal 13 83.13%
10. Tom 55 82.60%
11. David Billington 13 82.51%
12. Pete C. 44 82.50%
13. Calif Bill 5 82.44%
14. charlie 4 82.36%
15. scutt 11 82.01%

A total of 6912149 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3726854, or 53.92%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 282 255864 59.5%
2. Ed Huntress 194 267231 61.7%
3. cavelamb himself 173 133240 70.3%
4. Gunner 169 241865 64.9%
5. Too_Many_Tools 156 355787 73.7%
6. Michael A. Terrell 141 147000 63.0%
7. Gunner Asch 138 140684 68.6%
8. Wes 136 87597 39.5%
9. Larry Jaques 122 143830 51.3%
10. Monika Krug 100 139247 60.2%
11. DoN. Nichols 84 125111 36.2%
12. SteveB 82 72033 50.6%
13. Don Foreman 73 81783 62.7%
14. Karl Townsend 68 35318 31.2%
15. Tom Gardner 67 71546 70.7%

A total of 723 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 88188 / 4 = 22047
2. jakdedert 19757 / 6 = 3292 28.4%
3. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
4. Howard Eisenhauer 6789 / 4 = 1697 17.1%
5. mov edags 43938 / 26 = 1689 55.5%
6. Andrew VK3BFA 7774 / 5 = 1554 40.5%
7. Wild_Bill 29469 / 19 = 1551 35.6%
8. Paul K. Dickman 5800 / 4 = 1450 21.9%
9. James Lerch -spam-seeds. 4067 / 3 = 1355 9.5%
10. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 42567 / 33 = 1289 27.2%
11. 3442 / 3 = 1147 40.0%
12. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 45860 / 42 = 1091 36.7%
13. Rex 24902 / 23 = 1082 44.4%
14. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d 24491 / 23 = 1064 51.9%
15. Ted Frater 4131 / 4 = 1032 54.4%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists d 427 512805
2. Say goodbuy to home shops 157 209844
3. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists d 125 142294
4. Bush writes Petraeus' report 103 110069
5. Bush & Ten Friends 94 116798
6. Ebay Gun Ban Fanatics 91 271938
Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists 91 122664
8. OT - Out of uniform vets authorized to salute flag 80 83196
9. "Wide Stance" Craig 70 84874
10. OT - What Do Home Depot and Chrysler Have In Common? 64 72411
11. Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs 62 93894
Tools, tools, tools 62 80263
13. Gophers ....... grrrrrrr .............. 61 55563
14. Rifle toting robots go into battles in Iraq 60 55281
15. "Thoughts to ponder for 2007" 55 53488

A total of 633 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1251
2. Forte Agent 952
3. G2 751
4. Mozilla 535
5. Forte Free Agent 340
6. slrn 264
7. Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 223
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 174
9. MT-NewsWatcher 145
10. Xnews 128
11. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 127
12. KNode 121
13. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 88
14. trn 4.0-test76 84
15. Pan 79

A total of 51 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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