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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: 1,019 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 24 00:55:05 2007
Latest article: Sun Dec 30 22:55:19 2007
Original articles: 71, replies: 948
Total size of posts: 2,592,974 bytes (2,532K) (2.47M)
Average 145 articles per day, 0.35 MB per day, 2,544 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,152 KB bodies: 1,379 KB
Body text - quoted: 681 KB, original: 606 KB = 47.10%, sigs: 87 KB
Total number of posters: 242, average 10,714 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 119, average 21,789 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 37

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 43
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 41
3: Wes ................................ ......... : 37
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 28
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 27
6: "jusme" ............................... ..... : 24
7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 24
8: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 23
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 19
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 17
11: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 16
12: Gunner Asch .................... . : 16
13: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 16
14: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 15
15: "William Noble" ........................... : 14
16: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 14
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 13
18: (Doug Miller).............................. : 13
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 12
20: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 11

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 149
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 117
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 90
4: Replica Watches Wholesale ......... : 77
5: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 68
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 66
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 55
8: Gunner Asch .................... . : 54
9: "jusme" ............................... ..... : 52
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 50
11: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 48
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 45
13: Don Foreman ................... . : 41
14: (Doug Miller).............................. : 35
15: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 32
16: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 29
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 28
18: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 27
19: "William Noble" ........................... : 26
20: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 26

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 90.43%
2: Dan@ (Dan )................................................. ... : 85.96%
3: "Roger Shoaf" .......................... . : 84.81%
4: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 84.20%
5: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 79.19%
6: "William Wixon" ....................... : 74.50%
7: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 71.78%
8: Gunner Asch .................... . : 63.36%
9: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 63.20%
10: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 62.26%
11: Cliff ............................... ....... : 56.36%
12: "William Noble" ........................... : 56.15%
13: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 55.99%
14: " ............................ : 55.31%
15: Curly Surmudgeon ....................... : 54.60%
16: Wes ................................ ......... : 54.00%
17: " .............. : 53.61%
18: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 52.70%
19: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 52.52%
20: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 51.41%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 12.68%
2: "John \"C\"" ..................... .. : 14.57%
3: "John R. Carroll" ............................... : 16.66%
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 17.25%
5: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 21.38%
6: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 22.31%
7: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 23.33%
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 23.41%
9: "John Scheldroup" .................... : 24.38%
10: "Carl Byrns" ........................ .. : 25.37%
11: .............................. : 25.52%
12: "Mike Henry" .......................... .. : 26.00%
13: "jusme" ............................... ..... : 26.41%
14: (Doug Miller).............................. : 28.99%
15: Lawrence Glickman .............. : 29.53%
16: JR North ..................... .... : 30.58%
17: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 30.76%
18: cavelamb himself ..................... : 30.77%
19: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 30.98%
20: "David R. Birch" ............................ : 32.95%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 80
2: Okay, how many of us are waiting for it to be warm enough to go : 54
3: Human Evolution Speeding Up.................................... : 54
4: Take yer gun to the mall....................................... : 39
5: Banning incandescent lamps?.................................... : 36
6: Unique Need for Torx/Star bits................................. : 36
7: ready made shop.............................................. .. : 32
8: ????? Who KILLED Benazir Bhutto ?????.......................... : 26
9: Bench Grinder........................................... ....... : 25
10: Clausing 5914 has arrived...................................... : 24
11: Hillary and the Pope........................................... : 24
12: Extracting broken bolt / screw................................. : 23
13: 12vt compressors?...................................... ........ : 23
14: Nice Lathe for the Consumate Hobbist........................... : 19
15: 357 battery........................................... ......... : 18
16: Where did the advocates of "buss" vs. "bus" go?................ : 18
17: OT Repaired plastic gas tank................................... : 18
18: Conversation with Jesus........................................ : 17
19: Model Engine Builder Magazine.................................. : 17
20: Rebuilding a trailer - what to do about the deck... (& Ping Tom : 15

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 278
2: Human Evolution Speeding Up.................................... : 183
3: Take yer gun to the mall....................................... : 155
4: Okay, how many of us are waiting for it to be warm enough to go : 97
5: Clausing 5914 has arrived...................................... : 85
6: Unique Need for Torx/Star bits................................. : 78
7: Banning incandescent lamps?.................................... : 76
8: Bench Grinder........................................... ....... : 72
9: ready made shop.............................................. .. : 53
10: Hillary and the Pope........................................... : 52
11: Extracting broken bolt / screw................................. : 49
12: ????? Who KILLED Benazir Bhutto ?????.......................... : 48
13: 12vt compressors?...................................... ........ : 45
14: Conversation with Jesus........................................ : 43
15: Fashion Gucci Replica Watches.................................. : 43
16: Model Engine Builder Magazine.................................. : 41
17: OT Repaired plastic gas tank................................... : 37
18: 357 battery........................................... ......... : 37
19: Rebuilding a trailer - what to do about the deck... (& Ping Tom : 37
20: Where did the advocates of "buss" vs. "bus" go?................ : 35

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 155
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 104
3: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 78
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 78
5: alt.religion.christian............................ ............. : 28
6: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 26
7: alt.religion.islam................................ ............. : 26
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 25
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 25
10: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 20

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 58
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 45
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 35
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 22
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 15
6: rn................................................ ............. : 11
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 5
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 267 (26%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 241 (24%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 121 (12%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 94 ( 9%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 48 ( 5%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 47 ( 5%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 37 ( 4%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 31 ( 3%)
9: News Xpress 2.01.......................................... : 16 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480..................... : 15 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 264
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 210
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 193
4: -0800.............................................. ............ : 185
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 121
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 21
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 9
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 7
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 5
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 2

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

This report covers 5603 messages written between 2007-12-01 00:03:11 and
2007-12-30 23:58:23

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. NewsGroups spar@plaus 3 96.07%
2. Pipe Man 10 93.89%
3. 3 89.19%
4. Tom 10 88.97%
5. Jerry Wass 5 86.59%
6. sassy 9 85.42%
7. John \"C\" 7 84.92%
8. the_blogologist 3 84.58%
9. sharx35 3 84.19%
10. ol3_m3 3 83.35%
11. rigger 6 83.25%
12. Stuart & Kathryn Fields 12 82.90%
13. JohnM 6 82.23%
14. Al 5 82.03%
15. Jim Stewart 17 81.40%

A total of 6683524 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3448486, or 51.60%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 289 493736 58.6%
2. Cliff 202 190689 54.2%
3. Wes 168 84747 45.1%
4. Gunner 162 223737 66.9%
5. Larry Jaques 127 141417 52.1%
6. DoN. Nichols 110 206379 34.6%
7. SteveB 107 115514 53.4%
8. Don Foreman 105 131692 55.9%
9. Harold and Susan Vordos 100 159121 41.6%
10. Dave Hinz 98 83341 47.1%
11. Jim Wilkins 93 62432 44.5%
12. Too_Many_Tools 89 174563 74.5%
13. Lawrence Glickman 77 100907 67.4%
Tom Gardner 77 65941 66.6%
15. Monika Krug 71 147168 67.4%

A total of 709 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 88195 / 4 = 22048
2. Replica Watches Wholesale wholesalewatch@h 78751 / 4 = 19687
3. 10809 / 5 = 2161
4. Scott S. Logan 8125 / 4 = 2031 1.2%
5. Andrew Erickson 6485 / 4 = 1621 2.1%
6. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 40561 / 29 = 1398 26.3%
7. Jerry Foster 9645 / 7 = 1377 37.0%
8. D Murphy 12070 / 9 = 1341 59.2%
9. matt 6526 / 5 = 1305 27.9%
10. Robert Swinney 6248 / 5 = 1249 25.3%
11. willray 3721 / 3 = 1240 20.7%
12. DoN. Nichols 134933 / 110 = 1226 34.6%
13. Pre-Meltdown entropic3.14decay@optonline2. 10872 / 9 = 1208 43.1%
14. Bruce L. Bergman blnospambergman@earthlink 47968 / 41 = 1169 37.8%
15. Carl M 3346 / 3 = 1115 44.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Human Evolution Speeding Up 592 740936
2. Take yer gun to the mall 378 644852
3. Banning incandescent lamps? 96 103659
4. OT - Thought for the day 77 163490
5. A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - St 74 77728
6. Why use heavy oils in gearbox? 69 87896
7. When I was a kid ............ 64 79067
8. Awright, McGiver types 61 69588
9. A Million Iraqis Have Been Killed Because of America - St 59 50982
10. Tools you didn't know you needed 56 55311
11. Mystical centre drilling question...... 55 87096
12. OT: Driving on ice 52 39358
13. I give up ........... 48 43254
14. please check syntax error (grammar mistakes) for me 45 77025
Followup on wire brushing, hopefully final 45 33071

A total of 638 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1341
2. Forte Agent 1056
3. G2 704
4. Mozilla 383
5. slrn 300
6. Forte Free Agent 274
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 239
8. MT-NewsWatcher 170
9. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 103
10. KNode 99
11. Xnews 95
12. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 82
13. tin 81
14. Pan 62
15. Microsoft Windows Mail 56

A total of 50 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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