Statistics for week ending 20080107
 

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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: 1,558 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 31 00:55:09 2007
Latest article: Sun Jan 6 22:55:13 2008
Original articles: 83, replies: 1,475
Total size of posts: 3,940,173 bytes (3,847K) (3.76M)
Average 222 articles per day, 0.54 MB per day, 2,528 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,759 KB bodies: 2,088 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,109 KB, original: 801 KB = 41.95%, sigs: 170 KB
Total number of posters: 274, average 14,380 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 152, average 25,922 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 39

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 74
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 70
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 67
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 56
5: Don Foreman ................... . : 46
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 42
7: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 41
8: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 39
9: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 35
10: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 35
11: Larry Jaques ................... : 34
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 30
13: Wes ................................ ......... : 29
14: Tom .......................... ......... : 28
15: "SteveB" .................... .... : 27
16: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 22
17: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 18
18: nick hull ................................... ... : 18
19: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 18
20: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 18

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 224
2: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 200
3: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 170
4: Gunner .................... ...... : 163
5: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 127
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 126
7: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 116
8: Don Foreman ................... . : 100
9: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 100
10: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 96
11: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 71
12: Larry Jaques ................... : 70
13: "David Moffitt" .................. : 69
14: Tom .......................... ......... : 68
15: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 67
16: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 64
17: "SteveB" .................... .... : 57
18: nick hull ................................... ... : 42
19: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 38
20: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 36

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Mastic not@thisaddress................................. ...... : 96.78%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 94.00%
3: "David Moffitt" .................. : 91.78%
4: woodworker88 ........................ .. : 90.95%
5: "toolman946 via CraftKB.com" u40139@uwe...................... : 87.47%
6: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 79.69%
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 75.28%
8: Paul .............................. ........ : 72.60%
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 72.51%
10: "John R. Carroll" ............................... : 70.58%
11: "William Wixon" ....................... : 69.66%
12: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 63.55%
13: "Paul K. Dickman" .................... : 62.97%
14: "Ivan Vegvary" ............................... : 61.88%
15: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 60.79%
16: Jon Elson ............................. : 60.17%
17: "Atlas Bugged" ................... : 57.64%
18: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 56.90%
19: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 56.66%
20: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 54.88%

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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?= .... : 14.02%
2: " ...................... : 15.28%
3: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 16.19%
4: Tom .......................... ......... : 16.23%
5: David Billington ............ : 16.26%
6: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 17.22%
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20.10%
8: "Chas Hurst" ............................ .. : 20.38%
9: Wayne ...................... ....... : 20.82%
10: Pete Keillor ..................... .. : 21.31%
11: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 22.74%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 24.38%
13: Gunner .................... ...... : 24.53%
14: Monika Krug ....... : 25.10%
15: Jerry Wass ............................. .. : 25.63%
16: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 26.31%
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 26.88%
18: Christopher Tidy .................. : 26.90%
19: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 28.05%
20: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 29.50%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Axis of Idiots; Oh Look! Gunner Just ****ed Six Feet! Bet No Su : 163
2: Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup........................ : 59
3: OT Digital camera mod.......................................... : 55
4: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 50
5: Clausing 5914 has arrived...................................... : 40
6: Good News for Wingers !!!...................................... : 37
7: Any suggestions on how to flatten a hard Arkansas stone?....... : 35
8: Questions: Generators, rotary phase converters, and not burning : 34
9: Shearing 18 gage stainless..................................... : 32
10: Good reference on steel grades used in firearms................ : 31
11: What is this newsgroup for?.................................... : 30
12: Working leather gloves from mcmaster........................... : 28
13: Silicone grease removal........................................ : 26
14: Chain welding........................................... ....... : 25
15: Good vertical bandsaw?......................................... : 25
16: Extracting broken bolt / screw................................. : 24
17: help on sheet forming process!................................. : 23
18: Drilling question.......................................... .... : 23
19: Jo block preservitive...................................... .... : 22
20: OT Snowblower quits when down to about 3/4 tank................ : 21

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Axis of Idiots; Oh Look! Gunner Just ****ed Six Feet! Bet No Su : 515
2: Clausing 5914 has arrived...................................... : 243
3: Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup........................ : 188
4: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 144
5: OT Digital camera mod.......................................... : 136
6: Good News for Wingers !!!...................................... : 87
7: Any suggestions on how to flatten a hard Arkansas stone?....... : 83
8: Good reference on steel grades used in firearms................ : 82
9: Questions: Generators, rotary phase converters, and not burning : 81
10: What is this newsgroup for?.................................... : 73
11: Shearing 18 gage stainless..................................... : 66
12: help on sheet forming process!................................. : 60
13: Extracting broken bolt / screw................................. : 57
14: Drilling question.......................................... .... : 54
15: Silicone grease removal........................................ : 54
16: Working leather gloves from mcmaster........................... : 54
17: Helical Gears............................................. ..... : 52
18: How was this monkey wrench made?............................... : 46
19: Chain welding........................................... ....... : 45
20: Good vertical bandsaw?......................................... : 43

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 367
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 348
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 332
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 110
5: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 21
6: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 16
7: rec.audio.tubes................................... ............. : 11
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 10
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 10
10: alt.home.repair................................... ............ : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 65
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 52
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 45
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 17
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 11
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 397 (25%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 334 (21%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 186 (12%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 135 ( 9%)
5: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 125 ( 8%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 91 ( 6%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 80 ( 5%)
8: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 70 ( 4%)
9: Sylpheed.......................................... ........ : 18 ( 1%)
10: unknown........................................... ........ : 14 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.............................................. ............ : 413
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 360
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 291
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 278
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 135
6: +1300............................................. ............. : 28
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 17
8: +1100............................................. ............. : 12
9: -0700.............................................. ............ : 10
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 4

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

This report covers 5952 messages written between 2007-12-07 00:09:07 and
2008-01-06 23:41:29

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. NewsGroups spar@plaus 5 93.91%
2. Dan 4 89.94%
3. Bob Brock 4 87.75%
4. Jim Stewart 19 85.90%
5. John \"C\" 7 84.92%
6. Tom 39 84.65%
7. the_blogologist 3 84.58%
8. ol3_m3 3 83.35%
9. rigger 6 83.25%
10. JohnM 5 83.15%
11. SE¤�hwCuœf 44 83.03%
12. Stuart & Kathryn Fields 9 82.71%
13. Gary Owens 3 82.33%
14. Why 5 81.74%
15. Oren 4 81.49%

A total of 7378235 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4030264, or 54.62%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 277 538348 57.8%
2. Cliff 250 227324 51.6%
3. Gunner 202 272023 71.3%
4. Wes 164 78781 44.0%
5. Don Foreman 147 179402 56.9%
6. Larry Jaques 142 165240 50.3%
7. SteveB 126 146335 54.1%
8. DoN. Nichols 120 290028 40.3%
9. mariposas rand mair fheal 117 141793 54.0%
10. Gunner Asch 111 179497 53.2%
11. Too_Many_Tools 98 192339 75.3%
Louis Ohland 98 66682 58.0%
13. Jim Wilkins 88 60480 45.7%
14. Harold and Susan Vordos 86 128752 38.0%
15. Dave Hinz 83 70725 48.6%

A total of 573 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 88177 / 4 = 22044
2. Replica Watches Wholesale wholesalewatch@h 78751 / 4 = 19687
3. Mastic not@thisaddress 18498 / 6 = 3083 3.2%
4. 10809 / 5 = 2161
5. Scott S. Logan 8125 / 4 = 2031 1.2%
6. David Moffitt 29955 / 17 = 1762 47.1%
7. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 42050 / 27 = 1557 21.1%
8. Andrew Erickson 6185 / 4 = 1546 2.2%
9. DoN. Nichols 173016 / 120 = 1441 40.3%
10. Atlas Bugged 9877 / 7 = 1411 29.6%
11. Jerry Foster 9444 / 7 = 1349 36.2%
12. D Murphy 12070 / 9 = 1341 59.2%
13. Carl M 9162 / 7 = 1308 40.3%
matt 5235 / 4 = 1308 19.1%
15. willray 3721 / 3 = 1240 20.7%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Human Evolution Speeding Up 606 756303
2. Take yer gun to the mall 383 652371
3. Axis of Idiots; Oh Look! Gunner Just ****ed Six Feet! Bet 183 327259
4. OT - Thought for the day 129 239139
5. Banning incandescent lamps? 101 110739
6. Why use heavy oils in gearbox? 69 87896
7. Clausing 5914 has arrived 64 241280
When I was a kid ............ 64 79067
9. Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup 59 98508
10. Tools you didn't know you needed 56 55311
11. Mystical centre drilling question...... 55 87096
OT Digital camera mod 55 82455
13. Unique Need for Torx/Star bits. 53 59477
14. OT: Driving on ice 52 39358
15. I give up ........... 50 44934

A total of 504 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1320
2. Forte Agent 1243
3. G2 680
4. Mozilla 461
5. Forte Free Agent 313
6. slrn 300
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 287
8. MT-NewsWatcher 265
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 125
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 101
11. tin 84
12. KNode 82
13. Xnews 67
14. Pan 66
15. Microsoft Windows Mail 60

A total of 51 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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