This post is generated weekly as a service to the participants of
Rec.Crafts.Metalworking

================================================== ==========================
Analysis of posts to Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
================================================== ==========================
(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 1,291 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 26 00:55:42 2007
Latest article: Sun Dec 2 22:55:15 2007
Original articles: 104, replies: 1,187
Total size of posts: 3,145,949 bytes (3,072K) (3.00M)
Average 184 articles per day, 0.43 MB per day, 2,436 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,475 KB bodies: 1,596 KB
Body text - quoted: 772 KB, original: 713 KB = 48.00%, sigs: 105 KB
Total number of posters: 271, average 11,608 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 162, average 19,419 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 36

================================================== ==========================
Top 20 posters by number of articles
================================================== ==========================
1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 94
2: "SteveB" .......................... : 31
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 27
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 27
5: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 25
6: Winston .......................... ..... : 22
7: Don Foreman ................... . : 21
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20
9: "*" ............................ ......... : 19
10: "Pre-Meltdown" .......... : 19
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 18
12: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 18
13: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 17
14: Gunner .................... ...... : 16
15: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 16
16: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 16
17: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 16
18: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 15
19: Anthony .......................... ..... : 15
20: Jon Elson ............................. : 15

================================================== ==========================
Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
================================================== ==========================
1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 271
2: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 87
3: "Pre-Meltdown" .......... : 71
4: aassime abdellatif ....................... : 67
5: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 67
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 61
7: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 58
8: "SteveB" .......................... : 58
9: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 51
10: Don Foreman ................... . : 51
11: Jon Elson ............................. : 49
12: "*" ............................ ......... : 46
13: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 44
14: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 44
15: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 43
16: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 41
17: Winston .......................... ..... : 40
18: Wes ................................ ......... : 38
19: Gunner .................... ...... : 36
20: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 33

================================================== ==========================
Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
================================================== ==========================
1: steamer ............................... ..... : 93.72%
2: "HangEveryRepubliKKKan" .... : 87.91%
3: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 81.81%
4: "Rob Fraser" FraserRacing"AT"RobFraser.Net................. .. : 81.05%
5: ........................................... : 80.99%
6: "Roger Shoaf" .......................... . : 78.62%
7: oldjag .......................... ...... : 78.08%
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 77.95%
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 74.75%
10: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 73.17%
11: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 69.53%
12: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 68.74%
13: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 67.47%
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 67.46%
15: NoOne N Particular ...................... : 67.10%
16: Paul .............................. ........ : 65.15%
17: Bill .............................. ........ : 64.98%
18: Jon Elson ............................. : 64.86%
19: Anthony .......................... ..... : 64.23%
20: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 63.92%

================================================== ==========================
Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
================================================== ==========================
1: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 11.92%
2: (Doug Miller).............................. : 17.82%
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 18.71%
4: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 21.05%
5: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 21.97%
6: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 22.17%
7: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 22.84%
8: BoyntonStu .................................. .. : 23.66%
9: Brent ........................... ....... : 25.62%
10: Cliff ............................... ....... : 26.92%
11: Ignoramus13880 ........... : 27.94%
12: Wayne ...................... ....... : 27.97%
13: Ignoramus17419 ........... : 28.27%
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 28.35%
15: AK .............................. .......... : 31.34%
16: Ignoramus22774 ........... : 31.37%
17: Ignoramus23492 ........... : 32.75%
18: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 33.15%
19: John Husvar ........................... . : 33.24%
20: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 33.36%

================================================== ==========================
Top 20 threads by no. of articles
================================================== ==========================
1: A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - Stop The : 66
2: OT: Handloading question....................................... : 40
3: Voltage drop scenario/amperage question........................ : 39
4: Machine saftey............................................ ..... : 38
5: Mythbusters sighting.......................................... . : 35
6: How to paint dials on mill?.................................... : 34
7: Drilling on a manual lathe..................................... : 33
8: Hummmm............................................ ............. : 31
9: What is it? CCVIII............................................ . : 26
10: get rid of mercaptant........................................ .. : 25
11: Anyone seen gunner lately?..................................... : 25
12: Blocked sender list............................................ : 24
13: OT: Database application....................................... : 23
14: Nylon set screw in Al.......................................... : 22
15: Shaded pole foot controller?................................... : 21
16: Drill Press spindle bearing replacement........................ : 20
17: Interference from TIG arc starter.............................. : 20
18: Air Compressor Questions....................................... : 19
19: Compressor frustration, help................................... : 19
20: Unions............................................ ............. : 19

================================================== ==========================
Top 20 threads by size in KB
================================================== ==========================
1: A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - Stop The : 158
2: Mythbusters sighting.......................................... . : 109
3: OT: Handloading question....................................... : 107
4: Hummmm............................................ ............. : 105
5: How to paint dials on mill?.................................... : 102
6: Machine saftey............................................ ..... : 95
7: Voltage drop scenario/amperage question........................ : 84
8: Drilling on a manual lathe..................................... : 81
9: Your worst project?.......................................... .. : 73
10: Christ in Islam............................................. ... : 70
11: Unions............................................ ............. : 68
12: OT: Database application....................................... : 52
13: Square tubing finish options................................... : 50
14: Drill Press spindle bearing replacement........................ : 47
15: get rid of mercaptant........................................ .. : 45
16: Anyone seen gunner lately?..................................... : 44
17: Blocked sender list............................................ : 44
18: Interference from TIG arc starter.............................. : 43
19: What is it? CCVIII............................................ . : 43
20: Shaded pole foot controller?................................... : 42

================================================== ==========================
Top 10 cross-posted groups
================================================== ==========================
1: alt.support.childfree............................. ............. : 68
2: sci.environment................................... ............. : 66
3: alt.religion.wicca................................ ............. : 66
4: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 41
5: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 32
6: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 25
7: 3do.bad-attitude.......................................... ..... : 23
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 18
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 18
10: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 12

================================================== ==========================
Top 10 User Agents by poster
================================================== ==========================
1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 72
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 63
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 33
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 19
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 10
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 5
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 4

================================================== ==========================
Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
================================================== ==========================
1: Outlook Express........................................... : 411 (32%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 178 (14%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 171 (13%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 166 (13%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 69 ( 5%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 54 ( 4%)
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 43 ( 3%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 36 ( 3%)
9: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 32 ( 2%)
10: tin............................................... ........ : 21 ( 2%)

================================================== ==========================
Top 10 time zones
================================================== ==========================
1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 317
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 282
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 258
4: -0800.............................................. ............ : 215
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 171
6: +0900............................................. ............. : 13
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 13
8: -0700.............................................. ............ : 9
9: +1100............................................. ............. : 5
10: +0700............................................. ............. : 4

================================================== ==========================
Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics
=================================================

(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson

This report covers 5804 messages written between 2007-11-03 00:03:50 and
2007-12-02 23:10:24

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. sparky 9 89.16%
4. 7 87.01%
5. LLBrown 4 86.66%
6. Half-Nutz 3 86.56%
7. Jeff 3 86.55%
8. mich 31 86.37%
9. Ignoramus16353 3 86.15%
10. Jim Chandler 24 84.29%
11. (DaveB) 5 83.33%
12. Li RM 6 83.30%
13. Bob Brock 28 82.11%
14. SE¤�hwCuœf 12 80.81%
15. Christopher Tidy 5 80.68%

A total of 7992322 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4110843, or 51.43%, were quotes.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 368 675941 60.9%
2. Larry Jaques 159 191714 53.8%
3. Harold and Susan Vordos 140 274893 44.0%
4. Gunner Asch 134 281354 53.1%
5. Wes 131 76448 52.0%
6. SteveB 114 130327 53.5%
7. Don Foreman 89 133807 52.2%
Cliff 89 98224 69.4%
9. rigger 83 180337 74.3%
10. Gunner 81 390389 23.0%
11. Dave Hinz 77 75122 49.5%
12. Michael A. Terrell 75 76552 59.8%
13. Jon Elson 73 105786 36.9%
14. DoN. Nichols 71 152973 38.8%
15. Too_Many_Tools 67 172179 73.0%

A total of 600 people were identified.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 300659 / 81 = 3711 23.0%
4. Wild_Bill 28966 / 13 = 2228 23.4%
5. Frank Warner 6545 / 3 = 2181 50.0%
6. Dan_Musicant 11212 / 6 = 1868 20.7%
7. Curly 76477 / 46 = 1662 37.7%
8. matt 8293 / 5 = 1658 20.4%
9. Pre-Meltdown entropic3.14decay@optonline2. 30486 / 19 = 1604 38.5%
10. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 56534 / 37 = 1527 36.6%
11. 14872 / 10 = 1487 66.3%
12. Frank J Warner warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon. 7346 / 5 = 1469 41.8%
13. Geoff 15887 / 11 = 1444 58.0%
14. Al 15277 / 11 = 1388 42.8%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 92817 / 67 = 1385 29.2%

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Unions 260 525433
2. Checkmate, Atheists! 181 275008
3. Axis of Idiots 114 317712
4. Union Millwrights 89 166876
5. Cheney's Law 67 126897
6. Computer question (OT, of course) 63 67758
7. Afghan Bridge Update and Sad News 61 80894
Making diamond glass cutter 61 75071
9. Trailer kit recommendations? 56 71894
10. Your worst project? 55 115528
OT- Thought police bill passed by democrats 55 78113
12. Trade Unions 52 115640
13. Supremes and 2nd Amendment 51 39707
14. D1-4 spindle or $700? 49 107296
15. OT - What ****es me off about Veteran's Day 48 39537

A total of 550 subjects were identified.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1567
2. Forte Agent 864
3. G2 821
4. Mozilla 475
5. slrn 329
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 235
7. Forte Free Agent 226
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 161
9. MT-NewsWatcher 136
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 125
11. Xnews 122
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 74
13. trn 4.0-test76 62
14. tin 58
Microsoft Internet News 58

A total of 42 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------