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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: 1,529 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 3 00:55:07 2007
Latest article: Sun Dec 9 22:55:20 2007
Original articles: 256, replies: 1,273
Total size of posts: 3,408,694 bytes (3,328K) (3.25M)
Average 218 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 2,229 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,674 KB bodies: 1,654 KB
Body text - quoted: 750 KB, original: 746 KB = 49.87%, sigs: 147 KB
Total number of posters: 430, average 7,927 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 326, average 10,456 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" ....................... . : 80
2: Wes ................................ ......... : 56
3: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 47
4: Gunner .................... ...... : 42
5: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 38
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 36
7: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 36
8: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 34
9: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 33
10: Don Foreman ................... . : 30
11: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 28
12: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 22
13: "c.henry" ...................... ... : 19
14: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 17
15: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 17
16: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 16
17: Fred the Red Shirt ................... : 16
18: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 16
19: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 15
20: cavelamb himself ..................... : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 209
2: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 118
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 96
4: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 86
5: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 80
6: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 75
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 70
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 66
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 59
10: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 54
11: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 53
12: "c.henry" ...................... ... : 39
13: "lildevil" .......................... .. : 37
14: Fred the Red Shirt ................... : 35
15: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 34
16: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 34
17: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 33
18: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 32
19: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 32
20: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 31

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 91.06%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 89.12%
3: ............................................. : 80.49%
4: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 72.79%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 68.48%
6: "SteveB" .................... .... : 66.13%
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 66.04%
8: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 65.70%
9: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 64.98%
10: Bill .............................. ........ : 63.04%
11: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 62.20%
12: "Robin S." ........................... .. : 61.26%
13: "Ivan Vegvary" ............................... : 60.57%
14: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 60.17%
15: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 59.65%
16: " ............................ : 58.95%
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 58.65%
18: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 56.83%
19: Bill Schwab ........................... . : 55.86%
20: Jon Elson ............................. : 55.77%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Pipe Man ................................ .... : 6.22%
2: sassy ............................. ....... : 14.55%
3: "J. Carroll" .................................. .. : 19.67%
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 20.90%
5: JR North ..................... .... : 23.29%
6: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 23.64%
7: .......................................... : 24.56%
8: Dave Young ....................... .. : 25.48%
9: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 26.14%
10: cavelamb himself ..................... : 27.25%
11: "lildevil" .......................... .. : 28.58%
12: Bill Rider ............................... .. : 30.14%
13: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 30.22%
14: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 30.47%
15: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 31.43%
16: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 31.88%
17: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 32.21%
18: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 32.25%
19: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 32.42%
20: "Gary H. Lucas" ....................... : 34.74%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - Stop The : 97
2: Awright, McGiver types......................................... : 51
3: When I was a kid .............................................. : 50
4: Seeking Decent Precision Screwdriver Set....................... : 40
5: Who did it?............................................... ..... : 40
6: What is it? CCIX.............................................. . : 34
7: Green Washing........................................... ....... : 33
8: Followup on wire brushing, hopefully final..................... : 33
9: Magnesium: DOW 2410............................................ : 30
10: OT: ALT.CNC NG getting creamed ,,, I got hit with Ultimate Clea : 29
11: Using my lathe today........................................... : 28
12: welder idle control?.......................................... . : 27
13: OT: Can't find Outlook Express................................. : 25
14: Setting up faceplate for boring job............................ : 25
15: My review of Harbor Freight's 93977 Ratcheting Crimper......... : 24
16: Liability horror............................................ ... : 24
17: Help cutting aluminum panel.................................... : 23
18: Engraving a degree scale....................................... : 21
19: New ISP to read RCM?........................................... : 20
20: give me message about girls.................................... : 19

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - Stop The : 258
2: When I was a kid .............................................. : 121
3: Awright, McGiver types......................................... : 108
4: Green Washing........................................... ....... : 85
5: What is it? CCIX.............................................. . : 78
6: Help cutting aluminum panel.................................... : 71
7: Seeking Decent Precision Screwdriver Set....................... : 70
8: Who did it?............................................... ..... : 67
9: OT: ALT.CNC NG getting creamed ,,, I got hit with Ultimate Clea : 67
10: Liability horror............................................ ... : 65
11: Followup on wire brushing, hopefully final..................... : 65
12: welder idle control?.......................................... . : 62
13: Using my lathe today........................................... : 55
14: Setting up faceplate for boring job............................ : 55
15: Magnesium: DOW 2410............................................ : 54
16: Clausing 5914 Questions........................................ : 51
17: My review of Harbor Freight's 93977 Ratcheting Crimper......... : 49
18: OT: Can't find Outlook Express................................. : 46
19: Engraving a degree scale....................................... : 40
20: New/old steel body panels...................................... : 39

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: sci.environment................................... ............. : 105
2: alt.religion.wicca................................ ............. : 105
3: alt.support.childfree............................. ............. : 105
4: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 95
5: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 36
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 30
7: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 30
8: 3do.bad-attitude.......................................... ..... : 15
9: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 13
10: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 9

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Unknown........................................... ............. : 164
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 68
3: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 62
4: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 18
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 18
7: rn................................................ ............. : 12
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 425 (28%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 273 (18%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 193 (13%)
4: unknown........................................... ........ : 162 (11%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 141 ( 9%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 91 ( 6%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 66 ( 4%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 26 ( 2%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 24 ( 2%)
10: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 22 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 463
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 321
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 239
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 227
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 193
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 47
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 21
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 5
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 4
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 3

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

This report covers 6142 messages written between 2007-11-10 00:29:41 and
2007-12-09 23:54:16

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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. Pipe Man 10 93.89%
3. mich 24 88.21%
4. Tom 3 87.13%
5. Jeff 3 86.55%
6. Ignoramus16353 3 86.15%
7. Jerry Wass 4 85.94%
8. (DaveB) 4 84.29%
9. Li RM 6 83.30%
10. sharx35 6 82.04%
11. Robbo 8 81.91%
12. LLBrown 4 81.89%
13. 12 81.66%
14. sparky 3 81.49%
15. 10 81.30%

A total of 7926780 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3961475, or 49.98%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 376 637445 61.2%
2. Larry Jaques 161 181424 53.8%
3. Wes 143 81537 49.1%
4. Harold and Susan Vordos 139 258478 47.5%
5. Gunner 123 451212 28.4%
6. SteveB 121 128994 51.7%
7. Dave Hinz 100 90551 47.5%
8. Don Foreman 99 130725 52.5%
9. Tom Gardner 86 83966 64.9%
10. Michael A. Terrell 84 85048 58.5%
11. DoN. Nichols 78 158235 39.5%
12. rigger 77 169889 76.8%
13. Jon Elson 75 99907 38.9%
14. Gunner Asch 73 123362 67.1%
Cliff 73 99280 70.8%

A total of 754 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 88218 / 4 = 22054
2. The Rifleman 96082 / 11 = 8734 12.2%
3. Gunner 323107 / 123 = 2626 28.4%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. Wild_Bill 28966 / 13 = 2228 23.4%
6. 8669 / 4 = 2167
7. Curly 73240 / 43 = 1703 35.5%
8. matt 9803 / 6 = 1633 21.2%
9. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 53847 / 35 = 1538 36.0%
10. Pre-Meltdown entropic3.14decay@optonline2. 41358 / 28 = 1477 39.8%
11. Frank J Warner warnerf@veriSPAMMERSDIEzon. 7346 / 5 = 1469 41.8%
12. Al 15277 / 11 = 1388 42.8%
13. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg entropic3.14d 14333 / 11 = 1303 74.0%
14. Roger_N 3894 / 3 = 1298 5.4%
15. Albert 3878 / 3 = 1292

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Unions 205 409927
2. Checkmate, Atheists! 181 275008
3. Axis of Idiots 114 317712
4. A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - St 88 90969
5. A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - St 74 57460
6. Cheney's Law 67 126897
7. Afghan Bridge Update and Sad News 61 80894
Making diamond glass cutter 61 75071
9. Your worst project? 57 117741
10. Trailer kit recommendations? 56 71894
11. OT- Thought police bill passed by democrats 55 78113
12. OT: Handloading question 53 87010
13. Trade Unions 52 115640
14. Hummmm...... 51 119751
Supremes and 2nd Amendment 51 39707

A total of 735 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1696
2. Forte Agent 970
3. G2 803
4. Mozilla 490
5. slrn 365
6. Forte Free Agent 207
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 201
8. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 148
9. MT-NewsWatcher 141
10. Xnews 118
11. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 114
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 70
13. tin 61
14. Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 57
15. Microsoft Internet News 55

A total of 44 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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