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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: 1,055 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 5 00:55:06 2007
Latest article: Sun Nov 11 22:55:16 2007
Original articles: 82, replies: 973
Total size of posts: 2,776,320 bytes (2,711K) (2.65M)
Average 150 articles per day, 0.38 MB per day, 2,631 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,213 KB bodies: 1,497 KB
Body text - quoted: 776 KB, original: 612 KB = 44.08%, sigs: 104 KB
Total number of posters: 237, average 11,714 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 127, average 21,860 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 38

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 75
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 49
3: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 35
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 30
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 26
6: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 25
7: cavelamb himself ..................... : 21
8: Millwright Ron ................. : 18
9: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 18
10: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 17
11: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 17
12: "SteveB" .......................... : 17
13: " ............................ : 16
14: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 15
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 15
16: Cliff ............................... ....... : 12
17: "*" ............................ ......... : 12
18: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 11
19: Rex ............................ ......... : 11
20: Coyher ............................... ...... : 11

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 272
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 149
3: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 107
4: (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 69
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 67
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 65
7: Millwright Ron ................. : 53
8: ................................. : 47
9: Geoff ............. ....... : 45
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 42
11: " ............................ : 42
12: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 41
13: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 40
14: "SteveB" .......................... : 39
15: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 39
16: Wes ................................ ......... : 37
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 35
18: ........................................... : 29
19: "*" ............................ ......... : 27
20: Don Foreman ................... . : 27

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 93.72%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 93.67%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 86.83%
4: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 83.00%
5: "William Wixon" ....................... : 79.31%
6: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 70.34%
7: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 70.13%
8: Jon Elson ............................. : 66.27%
9: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 64.98%
10: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 63.34%
11: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 62.21%
12: rigger ................................... ...... : 61.31%
13: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 60.38%
14: ............................................. : 60.16%
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 59.44%
16: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 57.84%
17: " ............................ : 56.72%
18: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 56.21%
19: Bill .............................. ........ : 54.11%
20: "azotic" .................................. .... : 53.32%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ................................. : 4.76%
2: sparky ............................. ...... : 9.75%
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 13.41%
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 18.53%
5: Christopher Tidy .................. : 19.46%
6: Rex ............................ ......... : 21.89%
7: Millwright Ron ..................... : 23.76%
8: cavelamb himself ..................... : 24.01%
9: Ignoramus26519 ........... : 24.58%
10: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 27.92%
11: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 28.45%
12: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 28.59%
13: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 31.61%
14: Ignoramus26797 ........... : 32.46%
15: David Billington ............ : 32.70%
16: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 33.51%
17: "SteveB" .......................... : 34.02%
18: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 35.88%
19: Bill Rider ............................... .. : 35.95%
20: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 36.62%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Unions............................................ ............. : 77
2: Union Millwrights....................................... ....... : 67
3: Computer question (OT, of course).............................. : 59
4: OT - sewing machine repair..................................... : 45
5: What is it? CCV............................................... . : 35
6: Curious drill bit behavior..................................... : 33
7: Faux "news" - fake?............................................ : 22
8: Easiest way of beveling 5/8" plate............................. : 21
9: Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...melts iro : 19
10: Alternative to BROACHING?...................................... : 19
11: Why do we need Unions?......................................... : 19
12: garden thread taps and dies.................................... : 18
13: Interesting....veddy interesting....OT of course............... : 18
14: anyone have a B & S techmaster 824 or run one?................. : 18
15: forklift questions......................................... .... : 17
16: OT - Democrats and Waterboarding -- The party will lose the pre : 16
17: Serious Metal Content.......................................... : 16
18: The ultimate trailer test...................................... : 15
19: Seeking help from the Group...Again. Afghanistan Bridge Project : 15
20: Left Behind............................................ ........ : 14

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Unions............................................ ............. : 269
2: Union Millwrights....................................... ....... : 224
3: Computer question (OT, of course).............................. : 131
4: Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...melts iro : 104
5: Interesting....veddy interesting....OT of course............... : 93
6: OT - sewing machine repair..................................... : 92
7: Curious drill bit behavior..................................... : 84
8: Faux "news" - fake?............................................ : 72
9: What is it? CCV............................................... . : 65
10: Easiest way of beveling 5/8" plate............................. : 56
11: Why do we need Unions?......................................... : 53
12: OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA............................ : 52
13: OT - Democrats and Waterboarding -- The party will lose the pre : 47
14: forklift questions......................................... .... : 41
15: Logan lathe............................................. ....... : 41
16: garden thread taps and dies.................................... : 41
17: anyone have a B & S techmaster 824 or run one?................. : 40
18: Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket......................... : 38
19: Alternative to BROACHING?...................................... : 35
20: Seeking help from the Group...Again. Afghanistan Bridge Project : 34

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 105
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 66
3: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 42
4: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 42
5: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 25
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 21
7: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 9
8: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 7
9: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 3
10: alt.politics.liberal.............................. ............. : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 54
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 54
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 26
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 19
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 9
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 277 (26%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 186 (18%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 185 (18%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 105 (10%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 56 ( 5%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 48 ( 5%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 39 ( 4%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 25 ( 2%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 20 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 17 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.............................................. ............ : 349
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 230
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 212
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 203
5: +1100............................................. ............. : 12
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 11
7: +1300............................................. ............. : 9
8: -0400.............................................. ............ : 9
9: +0900............................................. ............. : 8
10: -0700.............................................. ............ : 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 6074 messages written between 2007-10-12 00:14:27 and
2007-11-11 23:28:16

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. 15 92.26%
2. Tom 3 89.55%
3. JosephKK 3 88.94%
4. John Scheldroup 3 87.08%
5. Richard W. 6 86.62%
6. Ignoramus16353 3 86.15%
7. ah 3 85.57%
8. Ignoramus1192 9 84.77%
9. The Davenport's 3 84.56%
10. Bob Brock 21 82.68%
11. SE¤�hwCuœf 19 82.51%
12. Al Porter 6 82.39%
13. 12 82.21%
14. Ignoramus5114 4 82.04%
15. mich 13 82.03%

A total of 8307169 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4460019, or 53.69%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 374 733857 58.3%
2. Gunner Asch 256 553093 50.5%
3. Larry Jaques 185 268356 54.9%
4. Wes 168 135375 34.7%
5. DoN. Nichols 147 333988 40.3%
6. cavelamb himself 136 112645 79.9%
7. Harold and Susan Vordos 114 159490 48.5%
8. Too_Many_Tools 101 261420 66.8%
9. Jon Elson 97 120834 41.3%
10. Dave Hinz 80 78805 51.3%
11. Cliff 77 65946 48.4%
12. SteveB 76 93118 62.7%
13. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 75 153624 23.8%
14. Hawke 73 204144 65.0%
15. Don Foreman 72 102698 53.2%

A total of 620 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 95154 / 5 = 19030
2. Jon Slaughter 14225 / 3 = 4741 49.7%
3. John Doe 13136 / 5 = 2627 3.0%
4. HangEveryRepubliKKKan Justice@ExecuteTheBu 42668 / 17 = 2509 15.3%
5. Jim 5713 / 3 = 1904 24.2%
6. Dan_Musicant 27880 / 17 = 1640 33.6%
7. Wild_Bill 42572 / 26 = 1637 31.4%
8. Andrew Erickson 8125 / 5 = 1625 5.0%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso117121 / 75 = 1561 23.8%
10. RMDumse 32759 / 22 = 1489 13.2%
11. Jeanette Guire 41356 / 28 = 1477 12.8%
12. Phred 5624 / 4 = 1406 38.1%
13. DoN. Nichols 199397 / 147 = 1356 40.3%
14. Alan 5263 / 4 = 1315 28.3%
15. 15654 / 12 = 1304 66.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Dallas machinist 2, Bad guys 0 266 403942
2. Faux "news" 166 227470
3. Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket 160 283061
4. Union Millwrights 104 228350
5. Hillary..oh oh... 101 162951
6. Mechanical Aptitude Test 94 77944
7. Faux "news" - fake? 83 167807
8. OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers 80 173737
9. Soul Searching.... 79 159099
10. 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
12. Unions 76 172643
13. How Many Republicans 75 81910
14. EZ IQ test... 72 57852
15. OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA 69 134326

A total of 496 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1455
2. Forte Agent 880
3. G2 763
4. Mozilla 587
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 379
6. slrn 362
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 295
8. Forte Free Agent 203
9. trn 4.0-test76 154
10. Xnews 140
11. MT-NewsWatcher 109
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 106
13. News Xpress 76
14. Pan 72
15. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 65

A total of 46 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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