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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: 1,406 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Oct 29 00:47:40 2007
Latest article: Sun Nov 4 22:55:30 2007
Original articles: 72, replies: 1,334
Total size of posts: 3,831,885 bytes (3,742K) (3.65M)
Average 200 articles per day, 0.52 MB per day, 2,725 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,609 KB bodies: 2,133 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,058 KB, original: 850 KB = 44.55%, sigs: 216 KB
Total number of posters: 281, average 13,636 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 128, average 29,936 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 37

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 71
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 52
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 49
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 47
5: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 36
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 32
7: Ignoramus10340 ........... : 26
8: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 25
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 24
10: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 24
11: Jon Elson ................................. ... : 23
12: Bruce in Bangkok ........................ : 23
13: F. George McDuffee .......... : 21
14: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 20
15: cavelamb himself ..................... : 17
16: Dan_Musicant ............................... .. : 17
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 16
18: Anthony .......................... ..... : 16
19: Christopher Tidy .................. : 16
20: "SteveB" .......................... : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 241
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 213
3: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 140
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 121
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 114
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 99
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 78
8: Bruce in Bangkok ........................ : 75
9: Ignoramus10340 ........... : 67
10: Dan_Musicant ............................... .. : 66
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 63
12: Jon Elson ................................. ... : 60
13: Don Foreman ................... . : 60
14: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 55
15: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 50
16: Christopher Tidy .................. : 48
17: " ............................ : 44
18: D Murphy ........................... .... : 37
19: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 37
20: ........................................... : 36

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 87.18%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 82.57%
3: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 76.89%
4: "William Wixon" ....................... : 75.83%
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73.08%
6: ....................................... : 72.94%
7: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 70.11%
8: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 69.39%
9: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 69.09%
10: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 68.88%
11: Anthony .......................... ..... : 68.16%
12: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 65.90%
13: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 63.50%
14: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 61.98%
15: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 61.92%
16: Jon Elson ............................. : 59.37%
17: Terry ............................ ....... : 58.80%
18: woodworker88 ........................ .. : 56.54%
19: "William Noble" ........................... : 56.45%
20: Cliff ............................... ....... : 55.70%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 6.56%
2: "mich" .............................. ...... : 10.55%
3: Ignoramus1192 ............. . : 15.47%
4: ................................. : 17.59%
5: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 17.73%
6: cavelamb himself ..................... : 18.43%
7: Curly ........................... ....... : 19.70%
8: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 20.02%
9: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 20.11%
10: " .................... : 21.12%
11: "Bob Brock" ............................. : 21.20%
12: Rex ............................ ......... : 22.39%
13: Ignoramus10340 ........... : 22.60%
14: "Rob Fraser" FraserRacing"AT"RobFraser.Net................. .. : 22.62%
15: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 24.68%
16: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 25.80%
17: Andy Asberry .............................. .. : 26.50%
18: Ignoramus1285 ............. . : 26.56%
19: JayCups ........................... : 27.13%
20: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 27.34%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Faux "news"............................................ ........ : 82
2: OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers............. : 79
3: Faux "news" - fake?............................................ : 62
4: OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA............................ : 56
5: Polishing stainless steel...................................... : 50
6: Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...melts iro : 48
7: 50 hz VS 60 hz and a 120 HZ question........................... : 43
8: 1 ton diesel milage............................................ : 42
9: Chatter while parting off...................................... : 39
10: A little help from you military types ......................... : 38
11: HF truck crane............................................. .... : 33
12: OT: Shortage of scientists, engineers, and technicians [again]. : 30
13: Drill Press For Metal Work Versus Wood Work.................... : 29
14: OT Metal replacement roofing?.................................. : 28
15: Shrinking a flat leather belt.................................. : 27
16: What is it? CCIV.............................................. . : 27
17: Air compressor continuous run?................................. : 25
18: A locksmthing question......................................... : 25
19: Shortage of scientists, engineers, and technicians [again]..... : 24
20: Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket......................... : 23

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers............. : 267
2: Faux "news" - fake?............................................ : 216
3: Faux "news"............................................ ........ : 203
4: Polishing stainless steel...................................... : 184
5: OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA............................ : 179
6: Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...melts iro : 149
7: 50 hz VS 60 hz and a 120 HZ question........................... : 122
8: A little help from you military types ......................... : 100
9: Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket......................... : 92
10: 1 ton diesel milage............................................ : 89
11: Shortage of scientists, engineers, and technicians [again]..... : 83
12: OT: Shortage of scientists, engineers, and technicians [again]. : 81
13: Chatter while parting off...................................... : 81
14: HF truck crane............................................. .... : 70
15: Drill Press For Metal Work Versus Wood Work.................... : 68
16: Union Millwrights....................................... ....... : 64
17: OT Metal replacement roofing?.................................. : 62
18: A locksmthing question......................................... : 60
19: Shrinking a flat leather belt.................................. : 55
20: Air compressor continuous run?................................. : 55

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 229
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 187
3: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 58
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 52
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 51
6: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 48
7: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 36
8: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 26
9: alt.politics.liberal.............................. ............. : 20
10: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 20

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 67
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 59
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 41
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 22
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 19
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 7
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 336 (24%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 283 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 198 (14%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 141 (10%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 88 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 86 ( 6%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 47 ( 3%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 42 ( 3%)
9: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 36 ( 3%)
10: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 20 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 319
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 262
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 255
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 181
5: -0800.............................................. ............ : 178
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 150
7: +0700............................................. ............. : 23
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 12
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 11
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 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 6489 messages written between 2007-10-05 00:00:58 and
2007-11-04 23:22:54

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Tom 5 91.50%
2. John Scheldroup 6 90.00%
3. mich 8 89.61%
4. JosephKK 3 88.94%
5. Richard W. 6 86.88%
6. Ken Sterling (Ken Sterling) 3 86.76%
7. ah 3 85.57%
8. Ignoramus22384 5 85.08%
9. Ignoramus1192 9 84.77%
10. The Davenport's 3 84.56%
11. Steve Lusardi 3 84.50%
12. Mark F 4 83.54%
13. Ignoramus3531 3 83.52%
14. jusme 11 82.73%
15. 8 82.46%

A total of 8807565 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4871119, or 55.31%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 382 737573 1.0%
2. Gunner Asch 247 498128 50.7%
3. Larry Jaques 209 288660 54.8%
4. Wes 174 142743 34.1%
5. DoN. Nichols 150 330770 40.5%
6. Too_Many_Tools 133 386295 67.0%
7. cavelamb himself 130 115137 75.3%
8. Jon Elson 99 121331 43.5%
9. Harold and Susan Vordos 88 106726 54.6%
10. john 85 162206 77.8%
Pete C. 85 120103 81.5%
12. Hawke 81 229983 65.4%
13. Don Foreman 79 110834 52.6%
14. Dave Hinz 77 74534 52.9%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 74 155644 25.4%

A total of 658 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 95159 / 5 = 19031
2. Jon Slaughter 14225 / 3 = 4741 49.7%
3. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
4. HangEveryRepubliKKKan Justice@ExecuteTheBu 42902 / 18 = 2383 15.7%
5. Jim 5713 / 3 = 1904 24.2%
6. John Doe 13289 / 7 = 1898 5.2%
7. Dan_Musicant 27880 / 17 = 1640 33.6%
8. Andrew Erickson 8117 / 5 = 1623 4.6%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso116092 / 74 = 1568 25.4%
10. J. Carroll 9406 / 6 = 1567 39.7%
11. RMDumse 32759 / 22 = 1489 13.2%
12. Jeanette Guire 41356 / 28 = 1477 12.8%
13. Wild_Bill 33815 / 24 = 1408 33.1%
14. DoN. Nichols 196927 / 150 = 1312 40.5%
15. Phred 6079 / 5 = 1215 39.5%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Dallas machinist 2, Bad guys 0 266 403942
2. Faux "news" 165 227098
3. OT - Should Recalls Cause A Company's Demise? 156 387949
4. Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket 150 259981
5. Hillary..oh oh... 101 162951
6. Mechanical Aptitude Test 94 77944
7. Soul Searching.... 84 167575
8. OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers 80 173737
9. OT: Dallas machinist 2, Bad guys 0 78 161583
I want to buy a solid piece of pure tungsten, 3 to 15 lbs 78 84341
11. how to bypass dremel tool internal variable speed control 77 88400
12. Doe's Anyone in Los Angeles Know This Guy? 76 151066
Moving machines 76 123614
14. How Many Republicans 75 81910
15. EZ IQ test... 72 57852

A total of 493 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1521
2. Forte Agent 1010
3. G2 744
4. Mozilla 664
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 368
6. slrn 363
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 274
8. Forte Free Agent 193
9. trn 4.0-test76 158
10. Xnews 147
11. MT-NewsWatcher 121
12. Pan 109
Microsoft Windows Mail 109
14. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 93
15. News Xpress 80

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

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