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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: 1,433 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 24 00:55:06 2007
Latest article: Sun Sep 30 22:55:16 2007
Original articles: 85, replies: 1,348
Total size of posts: 3,366,766 bytes (3,287K) (3.21M)
Average 204 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 2,349 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,603 KB bodies: 1,683 KB
Body text - quoted: 958 KB, original: 642 KB = 40.13%, sigs: 76 KB
Total number of posters: 288, average 11,690 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 147, average 22,903 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: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 86
2: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 81
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 80
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 59
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 46
6: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 37
7: cavelamb himself ..................... : 36
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 34
9: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 30
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 29
11: James .............................. ....... : 20
12: "Hawke" .................................. : 19
13: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 18
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 17
15: Dan ............................ ......... : 16
16: "William Noble" ........................... : 16
17: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 15
18: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 13
19: ChairmanOfTheBored ................... : 13
20: "azotic" .................................. .... : 13

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 219
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 182
3: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 155
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 154
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 121
6: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 85
7: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 69
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 68
9: cavelamb himself ..................... : 64
10: "Hawke" .................................. : 63
11: Dan ............................ ......... : 45
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 44
13: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 43
14: James .............................. ....... : 42
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 39
16: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 35
17: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 33
18: "azotic" .................................. .... : 32
19: "William Noble" ........................... : 30
20: ChairmanOfTheBored ................... : 30

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 98.46%
2: steamer ............................... ..... : 84.17%
3: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 74.20%
4: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 72.04%
5: JR North ......................... .... : 71.58%
6: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 70.08%
7: "Bill Marrs" ......................... .. : 68.34%
8: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 67.28%
9: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 65.20%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 65.10%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 63.61%
12: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 63.26%
13: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 59.46%
14: D Murphy ........................... .... : 59.03%
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 57.73%
16: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 56.21%
17: Jon Elson ............................. : 55.83%
18: " ............................ : 55.62%
19: Cliff ............................... ....... : 55.45%
20: Terryc ......................... : 52.80%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 11.34%
2: John .......................... ........ : 16.53%
3: "Wayne Lundberg" .................. : 16.65%
4: James .............................. ....... : 18.97%
5: Ignoramus936 ............... .. : 19.50%
6: john .......................... ........ : 20.75%
7: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 21.41%
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 21.67%
9: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 22.96%
10: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 23.78%
11: Dan ............................ ......... : 24.62%
12: Ignoramus30458 ........... : 25.74%
13: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 25.99%
14: "azotic" .................................. .... : 25.99%
15: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 26.50%
16: Wayne Cook ........................... .. : 27.17%
17: Don Foreman ................... . : 27.55%
18: ChairmanOfTheBored ................... : 27.78%
19: ................................. : 28.96%
20: "pogo" ................................. ...... : 29.23%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pastitsi : 108
2: Ping Gunner............................................ ........ : 83
3: Real Baghdad Story............................................. : 70
4: OT-Veterans Disarmament Act H.R. 2640.......................... : 64
5: NRA knife made in China........................................ : 61
6: OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure?.................. : 52
7: AA battery hack secret......................................... : 51
8: $100 for a old 1/2 HP punch press.............................. : 39
9: Mechanical Enginnering for Dummies - any suggestion on design m : 32
10: OT -- the "baiting" program to rack up Iraq body count......... : 32
11: Gluing aluminum.......................................... ...... : 30
12: Made in America?.......................................... ..... : 28
13: $980.50 PC Board in Lincoln 185 TIG............................ : 27
14: What is it? CXCIX............................................. . : 26
15: Lifting the rear of a pickup truck to level it out/Van Spare ca : 25
16: Abene Mill pictures.......................................... .. : 22
17: OT - A National Disgrace...Letting the Smithsonian Rot......... : 21
18: Lincoln SP series mig welders versus a retail version?......... : 21
19: Fuel Reformers for Home Power or Cars & Tractors............... : 20
20: Need suggestions for a light to drive backwards................ : 20

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pastitsi : 280
2: Ping Gunner............................................ ........ : 206
3: OT-Veterans Disarmament Act H.R. 2640.......................... : 153
4: Real Baghdad Story............................................. : 138
5: NRA knife made in China........................................ : 134
6: OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure?.................. : 127
7: AA battery hack secret......................................... : 109
8: Gluing aluminum.......................................... ...... : 98
9: Mechanical Enginnering for Dummies - any suggestion on design m : 91
10: $100 for a old 1/2 HP punch press.............................. : 83
11: Made in America?.......................................... ..... : 78
12: OT - A National Disgrace...Letting the Smithsonian Rot......... : 72
13: $980.50 PC Board in Lincoln 185 TIG............................ : 69
14: Lincoln SP series mig welders versus a retail version?......... : 68
15: OT -- the "baiting" program to rack up Iraq body count......... : 66
16: Fuel Reformers for Home Power or Cars & Tractors............... : 58
17: Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now...................... : 54
18: Lifting the rear of a pickup truck to level it out/Van Spare ca : 52
19: Need suggestions for a light to drive backwards................ : 42
20: Welding feet to a compressor tank.............................. : 41

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 217
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 195
3: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 191
4: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 84
5: sci.engr.mech..................................... ............. : 67
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 63
7: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 54
8: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 41
9: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 40
10: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 34

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 63
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 61
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 32
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 25
5: rn................................................ ............. : 16
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 15
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 10
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 10
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 303 (21%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 301 (21%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 255 (18%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 169 (12%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 84 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 62 ( 4%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 53 ( 4%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 37 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 28 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 15 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 456
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 439
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 227
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 220
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 31
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 27
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 7
8: +1200............................................. ............. : 6
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 6
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 6

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

This report covers 6659 messages written between 2007-09-01 00:07:46 and
2007-09-30 22:28:29

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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. 3 88.28%
3. Ken Finney 3 87.70%
4. dpb 4 86.50%
5. scutt 4 85.79%
6. Jim Chandler 10 85.76%
7. Imam Contemptus Mundi 3 85.52%
8. charlie 7 85.49%
9. Bob Ward 9 85.46%
10. Veronique 3 85.37%
11. tim..... 3 85.28%
12. Sevenhundred Elves 5 85.13%
13. Cydrome Leader 3 83.36%
14. 19 82.96%
15. trg-s338 3 81.29%

A total of 7969556 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4567726, or 57.31%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 390 656083 62.6%
2. Michael A. Terrell 315 379658 67.1%
3. Gunner Asch 210 252241 70.1%
4. Too_Many_Tools 171 355715 67.3%
5. Gunner 156 193913 75.3%
6. Cliff 148 136694 38.9%
7. Wes 144 96085 45.5%
8. Larry Jaques 131 160886 51.0%
9. DoN. Nichols 115 158706 35.8%
10. Pete C. 105 183370 75.5%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 83 123549 30.5%
12. Tom Gardner 81 92507 71.9%
13. cavelamb himself 78 63167 65.5%
14. clare at snyder.on.ca 69 95871 68.7%
15. William Noble 67 78066 49.9%

A total of 718 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 66157 / 3 = 22052
2. Robert Sturgeon 9685 / 3 = 3228 51.5%
3. Don Klipstein 6925 / 3 = 2308 26.1%
4. Way Back Jack 19585 / 11 = 1780 41.1%
5. Scott S. Logan 6851 / 4 = 1712 10.3%
6. Darrell Stec 17897 / 11 = 1627 56.3%
7. David Merrill 4809 / 3 = 1603 30.8%
8. waybackjack 6103 / 4 = 1525 51.9%
9. Keith Marshall tooladdict@progressivelogic 5983 / 4 = 1495 54.7%
10. Kirk Gordon 8786 / 6 = 1464 33.2%
11. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d 31747 / 22 = 1443 51.4%
12. Wild_Bill 26784 / 20 = 1339 39.3%
13. Paul K. Dickman 3931 / 3 = 1310 5.6%
14. Prometheus 9753 / 8 = 1219 19.9%
15. Ted Frater 8012 / 7 = 1144 57.6%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now.... 222 365034
2. Yes! We're #1! 212 308244
3. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 144 153044
4. Yes! We're #1! 142 233469
5. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 138 174137
6. Ping Gunner 136 157982
7. OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pa 127 152296
8. Boeing and metrcication question 118 169493
9. Bio-Fuels Bite the Dust 116 189844
10. machine tool demand down 91 156819
11. AA battery hack secret 84 91057
12. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 83 79187
13. Real Baghdad Story 81 75079
14. OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure? 77 88725
15. Update on the Containerized shop 70 170385

A total of 575 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1500
2. Forte Agent 938
3. G2 880
4. Mozilla 522
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 353
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 292
7. Forte Free Agent 279
8. slrn 212
9. MT-NewsWatcher 141
10. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 137
11. trn 4.0-test76 128
Microsoft Windows Mail 128
13. Xnews 120
14. Pan 72
15. KNode 69

A total of 55 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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