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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: 1,306 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 19 00:55:05 2007
Latest article: Sun Nov 25 22:56:05 2007
Original articles: 82, replies: 1,224
Total size of posts: 3,683,426 bytes (3,597K) (3.51M)
Average 186 articles per day, 0.50 MB per day, 2,820 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,575 KB bodies: 2,022 KB
Body text - quoted: 941 KB, original: 702 KB = 42.75%, sigs: 373 KB
Total number of posters: 290, average 12,701 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 167, average 22,056 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 36

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 62
2: rigger ................................... ...... : 44
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 35
4: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 34
5: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 29
6: Curly ........................... ....... : 25
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 25
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 24
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 22
10: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 21
11: Jon Elson ............................. : 21
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 19
13: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 17
14: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 17
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 16
16: Prometheus .................... .. : 16
17: "Stormin Mormon" ............... : 16
18: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 16
19: Cliff ............................... ....... : 15
20: Ignoramus4770 ............. . : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner .................... ...... : 339
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 214
3: rigger ................................... ...... : 190
4: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 131
5: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 73
6: Curly ........................... ....... : 72
7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 69
8: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 62
9: Jon Elson ............................. : 61
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 53
11: Prometheus .................... .. : 52
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 50
13: Larry Jaques ................... : 43
14: " ............................ : 43
15: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 40
16: Cliff ............................... ....... : 39
17: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 39
18: Millwright Ron ..................... : 38
19: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 35
20: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 33

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 79.11%
2: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 73.37%
3: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 70.41%
4: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 66.30%
5: Anthony .......................... ..... : 65.07%
6: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 64.98%
7: Jon Elson ............................. : 64.62%
8: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 63.00%
9: "Dixon" ............................ ..... : 62.07%
10: ............................................... : 61.82%
11: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 61.23%
12: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 59.22%
13: F. George McDuffee .......... : 58.47%
14: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 58.44%
15: "Mark Jerde" ....................... .. : 58.40%
16: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 56.40%
17: Prometheus .................... .. : 55.67%
18: sittingduck .......................... . : 55.62%
19: D Murphy ........................... .... : 55.40%
20: TMN .............................. ......... : 55.22%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 13.17%
2: Millwright Ron ..................... : 17.75%
3: "mich" .............................. ...... : 17.84%
4: Darrell Stec ............... .. : 19.10%
5: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 19.91%
6: cavelamb himself ..................... : 21.90%
7: rigger ................................... ...... : 22.54%
8: John .......................... ........ : 22.60%
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 22.92%
10: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 24.48%
11: "Dick 'Tater" ........................ . : 24.75%
12: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 25.65%
13: Winston .......................... ..... : 26.78%
14: Ignoramus24248 ........... : 26.89%
15: Cliff ............................... ....... : 27.03%
16: Dan ............................ ......... : 27.61%
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 27.94%
18: David Billington ............ : 30.36%
19: Ignoramus11731 ........... : 30.85%
20: Observer .............................. .... : 32.13%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Unions............................................ ............. : 107
2: Checkmate, Atheists!......................................... .. : 75
3: Afghan Bridge Update and Sad News.............................. : 48
4: OT- Thought police bill passed by democrats.................... : 45
5: OT - Bad day at Airbus......................................... : 42
6: OT - Buying Oil With Something Else Than Dollars............... : 40
7: Quincy compressor/3-phase redux................................ : 37
8: Your worst project?.......................................... .. : 36
9: Axis of Idiots............................................ ..... : 34
10: Trade Unions............................................ ....... : 33
11: Trailer kit recommendations?.................................. . : 30
12: Kero conversion on Briggs engine............................... : 25
13: Trailer ponderings ............................................ : 24
14: OT: Supreme Court to hear 2nd Amendment case................... : 24
15: Storing GTAW filler............................................ : 23
16: Open the Box............................................... .... : 20
17: Finally found non-dorky and comfortable safety glasses......... : 19
18: A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - Stop The : 19
19: religion is a virus?........................................... : 17
20: Hummmm............................................ ............. : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Unions............................................ ............. : 431
2: Supreme Court to hear 2nd Amendment case....................... : 305
3: Checkmate, Atheists!......................................... .. : 231
4: OT - Buying Oil With Something Else Than Dollars............... : 146
5: Trade Unions............................................ ....... : 141
6: Afghan Bridge Update and Sad News.............................. : 126
7: OT- Thought police bill passed by democrats.................... : 108
8: Your worst project?.......................................... .. : 105
9: Quincy compressor/3-phase redux................................ : 94
10: Axis of Idiots............................................ ..... : 86
11: OT - Bad day at Airbus......................................... : 78
12: Trailer kit recommendations?.................................. . : 71
13: Kero conversion on Briggs engine............................... : 60
14: Hummmm............................................ ............. : 56
15: Trailer ponderings ............................................ : 54
16: religion is a virus?........................................... : 54
17: Storing GTAW filler............................................ : 47
18: Open the Box............................................... .... : 45
19: Finally found non-dorky and comfortable safety glasses......... : 42
20: OT: Supreme Court to hear 2nd Amendment case................... : 42

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 163
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 145
3: rec.bicycles.racing............................... ............. : 49
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 43
5: 3do.bad-attitude.......................................... ..... : 27
6: aus.aviation...................................... ............. : 27
7: alt.support.childfree............................. ............. : 27
8: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 25
9: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 20
10: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 17

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 74
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 57
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 34
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 25
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 14
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 12
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 322 (25%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 256 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 186 (14%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 143 (11%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 95 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 46 ( 4%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 34 ( 3%)
8: Pan............................................... ........ : 28 ( 2%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 26 ( 2%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 18 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 293
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 257
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 256
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 249
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 186
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 20
7: +1100............................................. ............. : 10
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 8
9: -0400.............................................. ............ : 8
10: +0100............................................. ............. : 8

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

This report covers 6209 messages written between 2007-10-26 00:02:29 and
2007-11-25 23:20:11

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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. sparky 11 86.73%
6. Jeff 3 86.55%
7. mich 35 86.33%
8. Ignoramus16353 3 86.15%
9. Ignoramus1192 9 84.77%
10. Li RM 6 83.30%
11. (DaveB) 6 83.07%
12. jusme 10 82.20%
13. SE¤�hwCuœf 23 81.70%
14. Bob Brock 33 81.66%
15. Pete C. 26 81.54%

A total of 8822343 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4594663, or 52.08%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 338 677845 60.8%
2. Gunner Asch 198 412931 51.6%
3. Larry Jaques 181 224455 54.7%
4. Wes 148 123726 35.1%
5. Harold and Susan Vordos 143 252932 44.7%
6. Cliff 127 117421 60.2%
7. Too_Many_Tools 102 271100 65.8%
8. DoN. Nichols 101 233791 38.1%
SteveB 101 126701 56.2%
10. Don Foreman 92 133611 51.1%
Dave Hinz 92 100986 52.1%
12. Jon Elson 90 117975 39.9%
13. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 87 183396 28.9%
14. rigger 84 178121 72.5%
15. cavelamb himself 70 53954 77.4%

A total of 628 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 88211 / 4 = 22052
2. The Rifleman 96082 / 11 = 8734 12.2%
3. Gunner 296808 / 65 = 4566 19.7%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. HangEveryRepubliKKKan Justice@ExecuteTheBu 13718 / 6 = 2286 19.3%
6. Wild_Bill 34395 / 17 = 2023 23.7%
7. Al 14613 / 8 = 1826 37.9%
8. Frank Warner 6747 / 4 = 1686 52.8%
9. Dan_Musicant 27880 / 17 = 1640 33.6%
10. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso130385 / 87 = 1498 28.9%
11. Frank J Warner warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon. 7346 / 5 = 1469 41.8%
12. DoN. Nichols 144654 / 101 = 1432 38.1%
13. Geoff 16782 / 12 = 1398 59.3%
14. Richard W. 8273 / 6 = 1378 52.0%
15. Curly 82904 / 61 = 1359 41.2%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Unions 241 491859
2. Checkmate, Atheists! 171 262965
3. Faux "news" 166 227470
4. Axis of Idiots 114 317712
5. Union Millwrights 110 241388
6. Faux "news" - fake? 83 167807
7. Lead (Pb) price continues to skyrocket 80 177026
OT: Comparison of Unix systems and window managers 80 173737
9. Gasoline transport truck wrecks, burns under bridge...mel 69 164780
OT: Wealtn Moving Away From The USA 69 134326
11. Cheney's Law 67 126897
12. Computer question (OT, of course) 63 67758
13. Afghan Bridge Update and Sad News 61 80894
Making diamond glass cutter 61 75071
15. Trailer kit recommendations? 56 71894

A total of 530 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1515
2. Forte Agent 947
3. G2 863
4. Mozilla 487
5. slrn 385
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 336
7. Forte Free Agent 291
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 230
9. Xnews 135
10. MT-NewsWatcher 121
11. trn 4.0-test76 112
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 96
13. Pan 75
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 67
15. KNode 50

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

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