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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: 1,279 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Oct 1 00:53:37 2007
Latest article: Sun Oct 7 22:55:27 2007
Original articles: 82, replies: 1,197
Total size of posts: 3,180,317 bytes (3,105K) (3.03M)
Average 182 articles per day, 0.43 MB per day, 2,486 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,458 KB bodies: 1,647 KB
Body text - quoted: 976 KB, original: 579 KB = 37.25%, sigs: 85 KB
Total number of posters: 301, average 10,565 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 144, average 22,085 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 39

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 101
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 55
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 36
4: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 36
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 32
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 30
7: john .......................... ........ : 26
8: cavelamb himself ..................... : 23
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20
10: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 19
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 18
12: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 17
13: " ............................ : 15
14: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 15
15: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 15
16: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 14
17: Ignoramus8571 ............. . : 14
18: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 13
19: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 12
20: .......................................... : 12

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 304
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 213
3: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 109
4: john .......................... ........ : 95
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 67
6: cavelamb himself ..................... : 63
7: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 61
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 60
9: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 51
10: " ............................ : 42
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 41
12: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 38
13: .......................................... : 38
14: John .......................... ........ : 38
15: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 37
16: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 36
17: Ignoramus8571 ............. . : 33
18: .......................................... : 32
19: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 32
20: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 32

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 82.66%
2: F. George McDuffee .......... : 81.63%
3: "HangEveryRepubliKKKan" .... : 79.12%
4: "RDF" ....................... ....... : 75.86%
5: Paul .............................. ........ : 74.89%
6: Jon Elson ............................. : 68.49%
7: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 67.74%
8: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 66.94%
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 64.17%
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 61.16%
11: Bill .............................. ........ : 58.40%
12: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 58.30%
13: Prometheus .................... .. : 57.88%
14: "Ivan Vegvary" ............................... : 57.80%
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 56.99%
16: "R.H." ............................. ...... : 56.52%
17: " ............................ : 54.79%
18: "Paul K. Dickman" .................... : 53.61%
19: gwes ....................... ........ : 52.40%
20: Jeff Wisnia .......................... . : 51.83%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: John .......................... ........ : 11.07%
2: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 16.13%
3: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 16.35%
4: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 17.99%
5: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 18.87%
6: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 18.95%
7: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19.07%
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 19.56%
9: "lildevil43" ........................ .. : 20.26%
10: .......................................... : 20.29%
11: trg-s338 ........................... .... : 20.38%
12: krw .................................. ......... : 21.19%
13: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 21.76%
14: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian ............. : 23.26%
15: john .......................... ........ : 23.83%
16: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 23.88%
17: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 24.02%
18: cavelamb himself ..................... : 24.71%
19: Winston .......................... ..... : 25.14%
20: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 25.88%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: An answer to why the reduction in science and engineering major : 100
2: OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise?.................. : 89
3: how to bypass dremel tool internal variable speed control?..... : 53
4: Gluing aluminum.......................................... ...... : 40
5: Melting aluminum.......................................... ..... : 37
6: Bulletproof AR15 bolt.......................................... : 36
7: Which compressor?....................................... ....... : 32
8: Rodents making home in GENERATOR CONTROL BOX................... : 30
9: What is it? CC................................................ . : 28
10: Crazy thought -- converting 480v drives to 240v................ : 26
11: NG Heat Ripoff and Convert SP Furncace......................... : 21
12: Where to get cheap fasteners??................................. : 21
13: More on the Segway............................................ . : 20
14: PETITION US CONGRESS: The war must end: A million Iraqis have b : 20
15: oil country lathe............................................. . : 20
16: tough paint/primer for wood.................................... : 19
17: Metro wire mesh shelves- making posts.......................... : 18
18: OT -- the "baiting" program to rack up Iraq body count......... : 18
19: Free Caps for Wingers.......................................... : 17
20: Adhesives for concrete patching. .............................. : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: An answer to why the reduction in science and engineering major : 315
2: OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise?.................. : 304
3: how to bypass dremel tool internal variable speed control?..... : 139
4: Gluing aluminum.......................................... ...... : 133
5: Bulletproof AR15 bolt.......................................... : 122
6: Which compressor?....................................... ....... : 73
7: Melting aluminum.......................................... ..... : 71
8: Crazy thought -- converting 480v drives to 240v................ : 70
9: Rodents making home in GENERATOR CONTROL BOX................... : 64
10: NG Heat Ripoff and Convert SP Furncace......................... : 52
11: What is it? CC................................................ . : 51
12: Metro wire mesh shelves- making posts.......................... : 48
13: OT - Looking for a new workshop?............................... : 46
14: Adhesives for concrete patching................................ : 45
15: oil country lathe............................................. . : 44
16: Free Caps for Wingers.......................................... : 44
17: Where to get cheap fasteners??................................. : 43
18: tough paint/primer for wood.................................... : 40
19: PETITION US CONGRESS: The war must end: A million Iraqis have b : 40
20: Doe's Anyone in Los Angeles Know This Guy?..................... : 40

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 126
2: sci.electronics.basics............................ ............. : 53
3: sci.electronics.repair............................ ............. : 53
4: alt.engineering.electrical........................ ............. : 53
5: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 34
6: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 33
7: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 29
8: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 28
9: sci.environment................................... ............. : 25
10: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 25

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 75
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 57
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 42
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 30
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 14
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 8
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 7
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 305 (24%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 228 (18%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 215 (17%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 167 (13%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 54 ( 4%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 49 ( 4%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 34 ( 3%)
8: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 34 ( 3%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 23 ( 2%)
10: Pan............................................... ........ : 22 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 361
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 348
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 259
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 241
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 18
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 17
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 10
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 9
10: +1200............................................. ............. : 3

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

This report covers 6671 messages written between 2007-09-08 00:11:24 and
2007-10-07 23:42:30

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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. charlie 6 87.47%
3. mich 4 86.74%
4. 6 85.84%
5. Imam Contemptus Mundi 3 85.52%
6. Don Young 4 85.48%
7. Bob Ward 9 85.46%
8. Veronique 3 85.37%
9. tim..... 3 85.28%
10. Sevenhundred Elves 5 85.13%
11. Jim Chandler 17 84.22%
12. 18 83.96%
13. Ken Finney 5 83.35%
14. Smitty Two 4 83.10%
15. beecrofter 3 81.23%

A total of 8109453 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4714477, or 58.14%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 419 700131 2.5%
2. Michael A. Terrell 292 349396 67.5%
3. Too_Many_Tools 216 479548 66.0%
4. Gunner Asch 169 198775 72.0%
5. Larry Jaques 149 178646 50.9%
6. Wes 142 91035 45.6%
7. Gunner 133 166965 74.3%
Cliff 133 134320 40.1%
9. Pete C. 130 231724 77.1%
10. DoN. Nichols 118 162313 36.2%
11. cavelamb himself 93 94358 68.9%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 89 144608 27.6%
13. john 83 169069 80.2%
14. Tom Gardner 75 90382 72.4%
15. Louis Ohland 72 67445 55.7%

A total of 740 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 66165 / 3 = 22055
2. Robert Sturgeon 9685 / 3 = 3228 51.5%
3. Don Klipstein 6925 / 3 = 2308 26.1%
4. Scott S. Logan 9269 / 5 = 1853 7.8%
5. Way Back Jack 19585 / 11 = 1780 41.1%
6. Keith Marshall tooladdict@progressivelogic 4832 / 3 = 1610 57.6%
7. waybackjack 6103 / 4 = 1525 51.9%
8. Kirk Gordon 8786 / 6 = 1464 33.2%
9. Bill Schwab 5667 / 4 = 1416 38.1%
10. Ted Frater 7952 / 6 = 1325 56.8%
11. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d 23046 / 19 = 1212 52.2%
David Merrill 6062 / 5 = 1212 28.1%
13. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso104763 / 89 = 1177 27.6%
14. Wild_Bill 21625 / 19 = 1138 38.7%
15. James Lerch -spam-seeds. 5670 / 5 = 1134 21.4%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now.... 222 365034
2. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 144 153044
3. Ping Gunner 141 173283
4. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 138 174137
5. OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pa 127 152296
6. Yes! We're #1! 122 185067
7. Boeing and metrcication question 118 169493
8. Bio-Fuels Bite the Dust 116 189844
9. An answer to why the reduction in science and engineering 95 166265
10. AA battery hack secret 94 97668
11. machine tool demand down 91 156819
12. OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise? 88 196303
13. how to bypass dremel tool internal variable speed control 85 102213
14. What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've h 83 79187
15. Real Baghdad Story 81 75079

A total of 563 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1525
2. Forte Agent 947
3. G2 838
4. Mozilla 612
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 353
6. Forte Free Agent 272
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 257
8. slrn 227
9. MT-NewsWatcher 137
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 130
11. trn 4.0-test76 129
12. Xnews 125
13. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 108
14. Pan 84
15. KNode 72

A total of 56 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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