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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: 1,776 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 12 00:55:10 2007
Latest article: Sun Nov 18 22:55:30 2007
Original articles: 101, replies: 1,675
Total size of posts: 4,417,830 bytes (4,314K) (4.21M)
Average 253 articles per day, 0.60 MB per day, 2,487 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,030 KB bodies: 2,284 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,185 KB, original: 859 KB = 42.04%, sigs: 231 KB
Total number of posters: 319, average 13,848 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 172, average 25,685 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 40

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 112
2: Larry Jaques ................... : 65
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 45
4: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 39
5: "SteveB" .......................... : 39
6: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 38
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 33
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 30
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 30
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 29
11: Millwright Ron ..................... : 28
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 28
13: rigger ................................... ...... : 27
14: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 24
15: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 21
16: Dan@ (Dan )................................................. ... : 20
17: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 19
18: Curly ........................... ....... : 18
19: " ............................ : 18
20: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 18

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 297
2: "The Rifleman" ........................ : 122
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 119
4: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 106
5: Curly ........................... ....... : 103
6: rigger ................................... ...... : 90
7: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 90
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 87
9: Cliff ............................... ....... : 86
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 85
11: "SteveB" .......................... : 77
12: Millwright Ron ..................... : 75
13: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 69
14: Don Foreman ................... . : 68
15: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 66
16: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 65
17: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 63
18: "mich" .............................. ...... : 54
19: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 51
20: Wes ................................ ......... : 44

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Clark Magnuson ........................ : 95.84%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 88.25%
3: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 82.28%
4: steamer ............................... ..... : 79.96%
5: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 76.96%
6: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 76.84%
7: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 76.51%
8: "William Wixon" ....................... : 75.61%
9: Fitch R. Williams .................... : 75.29%
10: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 71.85%
11: Dan@ (Dan )................................................. ... : 71.17%
12: Bill .............................. ........ : 69.68%
13: ............................................... : 67.10%
14: "The Rifleman" ........................ : 65.26%
15: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 63.99%
16: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 63.72%
17: F. George McDuffee .......... : 60.88%
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 60.48%
19: Jon Elson ............................. : 60.40%
20: Frank J Warner ................ : 57.41%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "mich" .............................. ...... : 10.36%
2: Bob Brock .............................. : 12.00%
3: Li RM ........................ ....... : 16.83%
4: Rex ............................ ......... : 17.11%
5: "Proctologically Violated©®" . : 20.09%
6: Ignoramus28622 ........... : 20.64%
7: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 20.79%
8: Curly ........................... ....... : 21.08%
9: "Don Young" .............................. . : 21.19%
10: "jusme" ............................... ..... : 22.54%
11: "Chas Hurst" ............................ .. : 25.53%
12: Ignoramus9314 ............. . : 26.10%
13: rigger ................................... ...... : 27.07%
14: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 27.56%
15: JayCups ........................... : 27.94%
16: Ignoramus32527 ........... : 27.96%
17: "Simon Schnizzard" ....................... : 29.06%
18: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 29.31%
19: John Husvar ........................... . : 30.60%
20: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 30.84%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Checkmate, Atheists!......................................... .. : 96
2: Axis of Idiots............................................ ..... : 80
3: Unions............................................ ............. : 57
4: Cheney's Law............................................... .... : 56
5: Making diamond glass cutter.................................... : 50
6: OT - What ****es me off about Veteran's Day.................... : 48
7: Supremes and 2nd Amendment..................................... : 47
8: D1-4 spindle or $700?.......................................... : 44
9: 18" Mitutoyo micrometer batteries.............................. : 43
10: Sears Tools............................................. ....... : 40
11: Chinese to dump their dollars.................................. : 39
12: OT: Tankless Hot Water Heaters?................................ : 34
13: Lubrication of an old motor.................................... : 33
14: How do I use a Split bolt ? (electrical)....................... : 31
15: Update on wire brushing........................................ : 31
16: Hillary Clinton for President?................................. : 31
17: Which welder to use............................................ : 29
18: Meet the real Millwright Ron................................... : 27
19: Bending a trombone.......................................... ... : 26
20: Trailer kit recommendations?.................................. . : 26

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Axis of Idiots............................................ ..... : 376
2: Checkmate, Atheists!......................................... .. : 270
3: Cheney's Law............................................... .... : 187
4: Unions............................................ ............. : 159
5: Chinese to dump their dollars.................................. : 140
6: D1-4 spindle or $700?.......................................... : 138
7: Making diamond glass cutter.................................... : 119
8: Sears Tools............................................. ....... : 95
9: OT - What ****es me off about Veteran's Day.................... : 91
10: 18" Mitutoyo micrometer batteries.............................. : 90
11: Supremes and 2nd Amendment..................................... : 85
12: Update on wire brushing........................................ : 80
13: Hillary Clinton for President?................................. : 75
14: OT: Tankless Hot Water Heaters?................................ : 74
15: Lubrication of an old motor.................................... : 71
16: How do I use a Split bolt ? (electrical)....................... : 68
17: Meet the real Millwright Ron................................... : 67
18: What is it? CCVI.............................................. . : 66
19: Which welder to use............................................ : 65
20: Trailer kit recommendations?.................................. . : 61

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 321
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 302
3: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 99
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 85
5: rec.bicycles.racing............................... ............. : 73
6: alt.guns.......................................... ............. : 33
7: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 29
8: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 29
9: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 27
10: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 22

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 74
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 74
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 41
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 27
5: rn................................................ ............. : 13
6: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 9
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728)......................... : 9
9: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 9
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 472 (27%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 354 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 216 (12%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 156 ( 9%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 107 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 101 ( 6%)
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 44 ( 2%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 39 ( 2%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows.............................. : 32 ( 2%)
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11.................................. : 24 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 479
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 463
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 327
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 307
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 122
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 22
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 18
8: -0400.............................................. ............ : 13
9: +0900............................................. ............. : 9
10: +1100............................................. ............. : 7

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

This report covers 6367 messages written between 2007-10-19 00:14:55 and
2007-11-18 23:15:20

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. not the moderator 4 94.84%
2. 15 92.26%
3. 3 92.14%
4. Tom 3 90.35%
5. Jeff 3 88.47%
6. sparky 10 87.79%
7. mich 30 86.82%
8. Ignoramus16353 3 86.15%
9. Ignoramus1192 9 84.77%
10. Marcia 3 84.72%
11. The Davenport's 3 84.56%
12. Bob Brock 30 84.10%
13. Li RM 6 83.30%
14. eric h 3 83.23%
15. Al Porter 6 82.39%

A total of 8672546 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4636917, or 53.47%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 385 734385 0.7%
2. Gunner Asch 237 488857 52.7%
3. Larry Jaques 193 257063 53.8%
4. Wes 172 142917 36.6%
5. Harold and Susan Vordos 144 212657 53.1%
6. Too_Many_Tools 118 307153 63.8%
Cliff 118 100577 57.7%
8. DoN. Nichols 109 238369 37.7%
9. cavelamb himself 105 88988 79.7%
10. Jon Elson 103 125337 41.2%
11. Don Foreman 93 134851 51.6%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 91 188327 28.1%
13. SteveB 90 110269 58.0%
14. Dave Hinz 85 80864 50.6%
15. Tom Gardner 75 76816 67.1%

A total of 627 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 88215 / 4 = 22053
2. The Rifleman 95800 / 9 = 10644 11.9%
3. HangEveryRepubliKKKan Justice@ExecuteTheBu 42358 / 15 = 2823 15.2%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. Jim 5713 / 3 = 1904 24.2%
6. Curly 68472 / 36 = 1902 36.6%
7. Wild_Bill 38874 / 22 = 1767 27.8%
8. Frank Warner 6747 / 4 = 1686 52.8%
9. Dan_Musicant 27880 / 17 = 1640 33.6%
10. RMDumse 29203 / 18 = 1622 12.2%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso135363 / 91 = 1487 28.1%
12. Frank J Warner warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon. 7346 / 5 = 1469 41.8%
13. Andrew Erickson 7090 / 5 = 1418 5.7%
14. Geoff 16782 / 12 = 1398 59.3%
15. DoN. Nichols 148517 / 109 = 1362 37.7%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Faux "news" 166 227470
2. Dallas machinist 2, Bad guys 0 143 242779
3. Unions 134 247624
4. Union Millwrights 125 258502
5. Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket 117 243052
6. Checkmate, Atheists! 89 139156
Mechanical Aptitude Test 89 75744
8. Faux "news" - fake? 83 167807
9. OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers 80 173737
10. I want to buy a solid piece of pure tungsten, 3 to 15 lbs 79 85854
11. OT: Dallas machinist 2, Bad guys 0 78 161583
12. Axis of Idiots 77 271191
13. EZ IQ test... 72 57852
14. Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...mel 69 164780
OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA 69 134326

A total of 521 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1589
2. Forte Agent 957
3. G2 855
4. Mozilla 545
5. slrn 390
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 357
7. Forte Free Agent 280
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 277
9. Xnews 135
10. MT-NewsWatcher 134
11. trn 4.0-test76 121
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 114
13. News Xpress 61
14. Microsoft Internet News 55
15. Pan 53

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

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