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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: 1,494 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 17 00:55:08 2007
Latest article: Sun Sep 23 22:55:22 2007
Original articles: 112, replies: 1,382
Total size of posts: 3,520,224 bytes (3,437K) (3.36M)
Average 213 articles per day, 0.48 MB per day, 2,356 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,754 KB bodies: 1,683 KB
Body text - quoted: 916 KB, original: 667 KB = 42.15%, sigs: 93 KB
Total number of posters: 329, average 10,699 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 166, average 21,206 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: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 84
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 66
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 44
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 39
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 36
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 32
7: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 32
8: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 24
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 22
10: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 22
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 22
12: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 21
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 21
14: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 20
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 19
16: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 19
17: lew hartswick ...................... . : 18
18: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 16
19: Brent ........................... ....... : 16
20: (Doug Miller).............................. : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 235
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 229
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 101
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 82
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 77
6: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 74
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 67
8: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 64
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 56
10: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 54
11: Brent ........................... ....... : 52
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 49
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 47
14: john .......................... ........ : 41
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 37
16: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 36
17: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 36
18: Ignoramus29233 ........... : 33
19: (Doug Miller).............................. : 32
20: Abrasha ............................. ..... : 32

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 82.95%
2: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 78.33%
3: "SteveB" .......................... : 75.87%
4: Alan ............................ ........ : 71.29%
5: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 70.13%
6: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 67.37%
7: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 66.31%
8: "HangEveryRepubliKKKan" .... : 66.13%
9: "William Wixon" ....................... : 65.39%
10: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 65.16%
11: Cliff ............................... ....... : 64.82%
12: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 64.57%
13: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 63.17%
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 61.11%
15: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 60.73%
16: Jon Elson ............................. : 59.91%
17: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 59.69%
18: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 59.64%
19: Wes ................................ ......... : 59.38%
20: "William Noble" ........................... : 58.99%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: " .................... : 14.17%
2: john .......................... ........ : 15.05%
3: geoff ................................ ....... : 17.43%
4: ................................. : 17.43%
5: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 18.27%
6: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 19.96%
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 25.41%
8: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 27.48%
9: lew hartswick ...................... . : 27.79%
10: .......................................... : 27.89%
11: "Tony" ................................. ...... : 29.07%
12: Brent ........................... ....... : 30.43%
13: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 31.23%
14: "Bob F" ............................. ..... : 31.94%
15: Ignoramus29233 ........... : 32.52%
16: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 33.01%
17: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 33.47%
18: Ignoramus25943 ........... : 33.60%
19: Gerry .............................. ....... : 34.22%
20: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 34.70%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now...................... : 128
2: Boeing and metrcication question............................... : 85
3: Take this test. See how you compare to elite College students.. : 58
4: Ping Gunner............................................ ........ : 53
5: Science - and the Media........................................ : 49
6: Burying black iron pipe........................................ : 41
7: OT - Upgrading Computers....................................... : 33
8: Recycling Aluminum cans........................................ : 33
9: AA battery hack secret......................................... : 33
10: What is it? CXCVIII........................................... . : 32
11: What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or : 31
12: I need a better way to post projects........................... : 29
13: OT New Mexico, Oct 6th - 12th. Things to do???................. : 28
14: OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure?.................. : 25
15: Starrett and Global Series..................................... : 24
16: Electrical (gen-set) question.................................. : 22
17: Do Not Call listings to expire in 2008......................... : 21
18: Specs that are part English and part metric.................... : 21
19: Project help needed- Turbine engine............................ : 20
20: My MOT spotwelder is in the DropBox............................ : 20

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now...................... : 402
2: Boeing and metrcication question............................... : 233
3: Take this test. See how you compare to elite College students.. : 146
4: Ping Gunner............................................ ........ : 127
5: Science - and the Media........................................ : 121
6: What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or : 86
7: Burying black iron pipe........................................ : 84
8: OT - Upgrading Computers....................................... : 84
9: Recycling Aluminum cans........................................ : 72
10: AA battery hack secret......................................... : 72
11: Starrett and Global Series..................................... : 63
12: What is it? CXCVIII........................................... . : 59
13: I need a better way to post projects........................... : 56
14: OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure?.................. : 55
15: OT New Mexico, Oct 6th - 12th. Things to do???................. : 54
16: Update on the Containerized shop............................... : 52
17: Bio-Fuels Bite the Dust........................................ : 49
18: OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pastitsi : 48
19: Do Not Call List Expires 2008 (how to renew)................... : 47
20: Do Not Call listings to expire in 2008......................... : 44

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 211
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 148
3: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 145
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 95
5: alt.fan.cecil-adams............................................ : 89
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 65
7: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 58
8: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 40
9: uk.d-i-y................................................. ...... : 36
10: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 27

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 78
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 74
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 40
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 27
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 23
6: rn................................................ ............. : 15
7: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 11
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 7
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 325 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 244 (16%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 228 (15%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 200 (13%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 84 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 83 ( 6%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 57 ( 4%)
8: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows............................. : 37 ( 2%)
9: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 37 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 33 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 440
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 396
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 278
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 245
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 40
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 38
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 29
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 5
10: +1200............................................. ............. : 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 6815 messages written between 2007-08-24 00:05:34 and
2007-09-23 23:38:42

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. RickH 4 88.85%
2. Ken Finney 3 87.70%
3. Jim Chandler 12 87.47%
4. Calif Bill 3 87.21%
5. 22 85.82%
6. Imam Contemptus Mundi 3 85.52%
7. Bob Ward 9 85.46%
8. Veronique 3 85.37%
9. tim..... 3 85.28%
10. Ignoramus14352 4 85.00%
11. charlie 6 83.96%
12. 16 83.54%
13. Sevenhundred Elves 4 83.28%
14. scutt 11 82.01%
15. dpb 5 81.89%

A total of 8078331 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4581723, or 56.72%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 370 604701 63.2%
2. Michael A. Terrell 276 358975 67.4%
3. Gunner 238 310003 67.4%
4. Too_Many_Tools 183 392788 67.9%
5. Cliff 148 131616 41.6%
6. Larry Jaques 142 176177 53.3%
7. Wes 140 89767 42.6%
8. Gunner Asch 124 154763 67.5%
9. Pete C. 110 203345 77.4%
10. DoN. Nichols 92 117607 33.7%
11. Jim Wilkins 79 52128 43.6%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 76 119558 29.6%
Tom Gardner 76 90306 72.2%
14. john 70 96312 77.3%
Bob Engelhardt 70 27620 28.0%

A total of 756 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 66148 / 3 = 22049
2. Robert Sturgeon 9685 / 3 = 3228 51.5%
3. Curt Welch 5880 / 3 = 1960 17.3%
4. Scott S. Logan 9269 / 5 = 1853 7.8%
5. Way Back Jack 19585 / 11 = 1780 41.1%
6. Wild_Bill 26247 / 15 = 1749 37.4%
7. Andrew VK3BFA 8029 / 5 = 1605 41.6%
8. waybackjack 6103 / 4 = 1525 51.9%
9. Kirk Gordon 8786 / 6 = 1464 33.2%
10. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d 30715 / 21 = 1462 52.7%
11. Darrell Stec 25299 / 20 = 1264 56.1%
12. James Lerch -spam-seeds. 8470 / 7 = 1210 18.9%
13. Prometheus 8005 / 7 = 1143 23.2%
14. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 84199 / 76 = 1107 29.6%
15. Rex 18609 / 17 = 1094 48.2%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Yes! We're #1! 230 320831
2. Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now.... 207 332859
3. Say goodbuy to home shops 174 229594
4. Yes! We're #1! 145 235189
5. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 144 153044
6. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 138 174137
7. Places Atheists avoid Was:..what are all these atheists d 125 149561
8. Bio-Fuels Bite the Dust 116 189844
9. Boeing and metrcication question 110 159250
10. machine tool demand down 91 156819
11. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 82 78982
12. "Wide Stance" Craig 72 86582
13. Update on the Containerized shop 70 170385
14. That damned Tool Farie stikes again 65 67590
15. Starrett and Global Series 63 95567

A total of 619 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1545
2. Forte Agent 1018
3. G2 935
4. Mozilla 478
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 363
6. Forte Free Agent 268
7. slrn 228
8. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 218
9. MT-NewsWatcher 180
10. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 156
11. Xnews 152
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 126
13. trn 4.0-test76 105
14. Pan 87
15. KNode 82

A total of 57 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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If there were only a way to track farthest drift off thread topic....

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:13:44 -0500, cavelamb himself
wrote:

If there were only a way to track farthest drift off thread topic....

I think the record distance was Folix IV. It wound up at a SplungWorm
Chips and McNuggets fast food joint in the second to the last booth.
Next to the minty Wurlitzer 1050 full neon juke box, where it quivered
and spasmed for a few seconds, gurgled at the bright neon and expired
of ennui.

Gunner

cavelamb himself wrote:

If there were only a way to track farthest drift off thread topic....

I don't think sufficently advanced heuristics exist. If such a thing did,
spam filters would be perfect.

Wes