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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: 1,486 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Oct 8 02:55:12 2007
Latest article: Mon Oct 15 00:55:20 2007
Original articles: 86, replies: 1,400
Total size of posts: 3,742,767 bytes (3,655K) (3.57M)
Average 212 articles per day, 0.51 MB per day, 2,518 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,650 KB bodies: 2,004 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,139 KB, original: 733 KB = 39.17%, sigs: 125 KB
Total number of posters: 285, average 13,132 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 142, average 26,357 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 96
2: Larry Jaques ................... : 63
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 49
4: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 49
5: Rich Grise ................................ .. : 45
6: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 38
7: cavelamb himself ..................... : 30
8: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 29
9: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 27
10: "Hawke" .................................. : 27
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 25
12: "SteveB" .......................... : 24
13: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 22
14: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 21
15: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 19
16: (Doug Miller).............................. : 18
17: john .......................... ........ : 18
18: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian ............. : 18
19: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 17
20: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 16

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 318
2: Larry Jaques ................... : 140
3: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 140
4: "Hawke" .................................. : 103
5: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 101
6: Rich Grise ................................ .. : 92
7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 91
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 91
9: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 79
10: john .......................... ........ : 73
11: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 71
12: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 64
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 63
14: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 53
15: (Doug Miller).............................. : 47
16: "SteveB" .......................... : 44
17: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 40
18: Richard The Dreaded Libertarian ............. : 37
19: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 36
20: Don Foreman ................... . : 35

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 95.85%
2: "Vaughn Simon" ............. : 83.91%
3: ............................................... : 81.33%
4: Bill .............................. ........ : 81.14%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 78.89%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 72.61%
7: Andrew Burton ........................... . : 71.62%
8: Anthony .......................... ..... : 70.55%
9: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 70.46%
10: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 66.84%
11: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 65.68%
12: Monika Krug ....... : 64.46%
13: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 63.30%
14: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 63.19%
15: Prometheus .................... .. : 62.58%
16: Ignoramus12693 ........... : 61.89%
17: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 61.05%
18: Jon Elson ............................. : 58.21%
19: mariposas rand mair fheal greykitten tomys des anges mair_fhea : 56.78%
20: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 56.02%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Ignoramus22384 ........... : 11.77%
2: " .................... : 12.11%
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 14.38%
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 15.58%
5: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 16.46%
6: john .......................... ........ : 18.32%
7: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 18.69%
8: "azotic" .................................. .... : 20.05%
9: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 21.14%
10: Ignoramus3694 ............. . : 21.88%
11: "Snag" ........................... ...... : 22.44%
12: "Ernie Sty" ............................ . : 23.40%
13: ............................................. : 26.43%
14: Winston .......................... ..... : 26.84%
15: Ignoramus6186 ............. . : 27.59%
16: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 28.23%
17: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 28.63%
18: (Doug Miller).............................. : 29.11%
19: Gunner .................... ...... : 29.86%
20: Ignoramus17253 ........... : 30.17%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Soul Searching......................................... ........ : 64
2: Doe's Anyone in Los Angeles Know This Guy?..................... : 58
3: OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise?.................. : 54
4: Applying sledgehammer to computer hard drives.................. : 49
5: Hillary..oh oh................................................ . : 49
6: Is it just me, or ............................................. : 48
7: Moving machines.......................................... ...... : 43
8: variac question?......................................... ...... : 42
9: What is it? CCI............................................... . : 40
10: Bulletproof AR15 bolt.......................................... : 39
11: OT- Portable Nuclear Power Plants.............................. : 39
12: Thwacker needs a mechanism..................................... : 37
13: Magnesium Firestarters...................................... ... : 36
14: OT: New Bill of Rights......................................... : 35
15: OT - For The Want Of A Nail A Kingdom Was Lost................. : 33
16: Oxy/acet torch questions....................................... : 26
17: Question About Bearings........................................ : 26
18: Mill choreography...................................... ........ : 24
19: 3 Phase power............................................. ..... : 24
20: Reliable Tools in Irwindale out of business?................... : 24

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise?.................. : 226
2: Doe's Anyone in Los Angeles Know This Guy?..................... : 210
3: Soul Searching......................................... ........ : 180
4: Moving machines.......................................... ...... : 116
5: OT- Portable Nuclear Power Plants.............................. : 115
6: Is it just me, or ............................................. : 112
7: variac question?......................................... ...... : 110
8: OT - For The Want Of A Nail A Kingdom Was Lost................. : 104
9: OT: New Bill of Rights......................................... : 103
10: Bulletproof AR15 bolt.......................................... : 100
11: Magnesium Firestarters...................................... ... : 90
12: Applying sledgehammer to computer hard drives.................. : 89
13: Hillary..oh oh................................................ . : 87
14: Thwacker needs a mechanism..................................... : 82
15: What is it? CCI............................................... . : 73
16: Air hammer chisel guidance..................................... : 69
17: Oxy/acet torch questions....................................... : 61
18: Supermagnet fun............................................... . : 55
19: A moving story (serious)....................................... : 54
20: Reliable Tools in Irwindale out of business?................... : 50

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 74
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 60
3: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 49
4: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 43
5: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 41
6: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 40
7: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 40
8: sci.environment................................... ............. : 33
9: rec.pyrotechnics.................................. ............. : 25
10: sci.electronics.basics............................ ............. : 22

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 68
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 62
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 36
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 21
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 20
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 10
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 363 (24%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 302 (20%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 218 (15%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 138 ( 9%)
5: Pan............................................... ........ : 66 ( 4%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 56 ( 4%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 51 ( 3%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 50 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 30 ( 2%)
10: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11................................. : 29 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 432
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 371
3: -0400.............................................. ............ : 321
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 265
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 27
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 21
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 20
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 13
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 7
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 5

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

This report covers 6200 messages written between 2007-09-15 00:18:20 and
2007-10-14 23:06:02

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. John Scheldroup 3 92.55%
2. Randal O'Brian 3 92.31%
3. RickH 4 88.85%
4. willshak 12 88.24%
5. charlie 5 87.78%
6. mich 4 86.74%
7. 21 85.86%
8. Geoff 10 85.58%
9. Bob Ward 9 85.46%
10. Steve Austin 4 85.45%
11. Veronique 3 85.37%
12. Sevenhundred Elves 5 85.13%
13. Ignoramus22384 5 85.08%
14. Don Stauffer in Minnesota 3 84.98%
15. 9 84.50%

A total of 7636942 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4440417, or 58.14%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 390 678413 62.0%
2. Too_Many_Tools 208 481558 67.0%
3. Gunner Asch 196 251487 67.9%
4. Larry Jaques 184 224846 54.0%
5. Michael A. Terrell 173 168868 68.1%
6. DoN. Nichols 145 237563 38.0%
7. Wes 125 80302 47.2%
8. Pete C. 118 166820 79.9%
9. cavelamb himself 114 120109 65.1%
10. Cliff 112 117726 40.1%
11. john 94 196386 80.4%
12. Rich Grise 86 81469 66.7%
13. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 74 128736 28.5%
14. Gunner 71 70862 68.2%
15. Tom Gardner 67 64759 67.9%

A total of 668 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 66172 / 3 = 22057
2. Don Klipstein 6459 / 3 = 2153 34.2%
3. Scott S. Logan 9269 / 5 = 1853 7.8%
4. Keith Marshall tooladdict@progressivelogic 4826 / 3 = 1608 56.8%
5. Andrew Erickson 4772 / 3 = 1590 4.4%
6. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 92005 / 74 = 1243 28.5%
7. Ted Frater 8628 / 7 = 1232 55.8%
8. Monika Krug monikakrug@expires-2007-09-30. 14362 / 12 = 1196 38.8%
9. David Merrill 8055 / 7 = 1150 28.1%
10. James Lerch -spam-seeds. 5670 / 5 = 1134 21.4%
11. Wild_Bill 20278 / 18 = 1126 39.4%
12. Bill Schwab 28421 / 26 = 1093 37.2%
13. Prometheus 20544 / 19 = 1081 36.6%
14. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 44265 / 41 = 1079 41.2%
15. matt 3197 / 3 = 1065 14.2%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Pet Food, Toothpaste, Lead Paint, and now.... 222 365034
2. OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise? 151 384445
3. Ping Gunner 141 173283
4. OT Iraq like Vietnam blood for money Redux [was: Greek Pa 127 152296
5. Boeing and metrcication question 118 169493
6. AA battery hack secret 100 103721
7. An answer to why the reduction in science and engineering 99 175133
8. Real Baghdad Story 81 75079
9. Doe's Anyone in Los Angeles Know This Guy? 77 149319
OT? Weigh your car by checking tire pressure? 77 88725
11. Bulletproof AR15 bolt 76 135440
12. how to bypass dremel tool internal variable speed control 75 87249
13. OT-Veterans Disarmament Act H.R. 2640 74 95327
14. Gluing aluminum 70 136954
15. NRA knife made in China 62 69698

A total of 528 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1401
2. Forte Agent 895
3. G2 764
4. Mozilla 642
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 287
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 286
7. slrn 241
8. Forte Free Agent 226
9. trn 4.0-test76 151
10. Pan 133
11. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 126
12. Xnews 112
13. MT-NewsWatcher 109
14. Microsoft Windows Mail 95
15. KNode 68

A total of 50 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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