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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: 1,396 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jan 14 08:55:11 2008
Latest article: Mon Jan 21 06:55:13 2008
Original articles: 114, replies: 1,282
Total size of posts: 3,292,763 bytes (3,215K) (3.14M)
Average 199 articles per day, 0.45 MB per day, 2,358 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,553 KB bodies: 1,662 KB
Body text - quoted: 842 KB, original: 739 KB = 46.75%, sigs: 75 KB
Total number of posters: 267, average 12,332 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 163, average 20,201 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: Christopher Tidy .................. : 68
2: Gunner .................... ...... : 61
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 54
4: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 54
5: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 49
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 30
7: cavelamb himself ..................... : 26
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 24
9: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 22
10: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 21
11: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 21
12: Cliff ............................... ....... : 20
13: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 19
14: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 19
15: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 19
16: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19
17: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 19
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 16
19: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 16
20: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 164
2: Christopher Tidy .................. : 162
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 135
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 125
5: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 71
6: jessie .......................... ...... : 65
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 64
8: cavelamb himself ..................... : 60
9: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 53
10: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 50
11: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 48
12: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 48
13: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 47
14: ........................................... : 46
15: Cliff ............................... ....... : 44
16: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 43
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 41
18: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 40
19: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 38
20: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 37

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 90.81%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 87.24%
3: Bill .............................. ........ : 79.71%
4: James T. ............................. .... : 78.35%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 78.18%
6: "toolman946 via CraftKB.com" u40139@uwe...................... : 75.28%
7: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 73.30%
8: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 69.89%
9: Joe ............................. ......... : 69.26%
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 68.25%
11: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 66.09%
12: " ............................ : 65.70%
13: steamer ............................... ..... : 65.44%
14: "Don Kelly" .................................... . : 65.16%
15: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 62.56%
16: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 61.41%
17: Joe Pfeiffer .......................... .. : 58.85%
18: Dan@ (Dan )................................................. ... : 58.73%
19: Jordan ....................... ...... : 57.93%
20: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 57.45%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 13.79%
2: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 14.99%
3: Ignoramus29897 ........... : 20.68%
4: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 23.12%
5: clare at snyder.on.ca...................................... .... : 23.14%
6: Brent ........................... ....... : 23.18%
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 23.47%
8: Ignoramus5390 ............. . : 23.63%
9: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 24.92%
10: Gunner .................... ...... : 25.33%
11: Zayonc ................................ ...... : 26.39%
12: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 27.01%
13: Rich Grise ................................ .. : 27.32%
14: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 27.97%
15: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 28.05%
16: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 28.36%
17: Stealth Pilot ............... . : 28.67%
18: .......................................... : 29.37%
19: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 31.40%
20: Christopher Tidy .................. : 31.48%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Are higher grade bolts more brittle?........................... : 103
2: Fixing Welding Holes........................................... : 70
3: A serious discussion about the need for more gun control....... : 58
4: Two videos of one of my IC-engines I built..................... : 55
5: Rusted gears usable?........................................... : 46
6: New material pushes the boundary of blackness.................. : 45
7: Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws...................... : 42
8: Most Frugal and Practical Pickup Truck?........................ : 41
9: Very OT: Waiting past your appointment at the clinic........... : 41
10: Of Interest -metalworking..uranium............................. : 35
11: Punched a hole in my gas tank last night....................... : 29
12: wiring a stove in the shop..................................... : 28
13: Mains electrical Q: transformer sizing?........................ : 27
14: How not to wire the pool area.................................. : 26
15: Design flaw cited in MN bridge collapse........................ : 25
16: 1964 Honda S90............................................... .. : 22
17: Locate leak in FAU............................................. : 21
18: OT - Agent Newsreader Question................................. : 21
19: wtb: special tap............................................... : 21
20: I would like to build a solar cell............................. : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Are higher grade bolts more brittle?........................... : 230
2: A serious discussion about the need for more gun control....... : 194
3: Fixing Welding Holes........................................... : 142
4: Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws...................... : 117
5: Very OT: Waiting past your appointment at the clinic........... : 107
6: Most Frugal and Practical Pickup Truck?........................ : 99
7: New material pushes the boundary of blackness.................. : 99
8: Rusted gears usable?........................................... : 96
9: Of Interest -metalworking..uranium............................. : 95
10: Two videos of one of my IC-engines I built..................... : 89
11: Design flaw cited in MN bridge collapse........................ : 76
12: Punched a hole in my gas tank last night....................... : 66
13: wiring a stove in the shop..................................... : 64
14: Mains electrical Q: transformer sizing?........................ : 63
15: How not to wire the pool area.................................. : 55
16: Locate leak in FAU............................................. : 50
17: Chicos esta es la oportunidad!!!!!! Intentelo no se arrepentira : 47
18: OT - Agent Newsreader Question................................. : 47
19: wtb: special tap............................................... : 46
20: Are higher grade bolts more brittle? (OK Ed, I think you're mos : 44

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 46
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 42
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 32
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 29
5: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 26
6: alt.engineering.electrical........................ ............. : 24
7: misc.consumers.frugal-living................................... : 14
8: sci.engr.mech..................................... ............. : 6
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 5
10: rec.puzzles....................................... ............ : 2

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 65
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 59
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 36
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 24
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 15
6: rn................................................ ............. : 10
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
8: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 309 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 266 (19%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 252 (18%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 155 (11%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 74 ( 5%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 59 ( 4%)
7: KNode............................................. ........ : 51 ( 4%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 38 ( 3%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 26 ( 2%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 21 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 336
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 308
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 251
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 232
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 155
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 58
7: -0700.............................................. ............ : 29
8: +1100............................................. ............. : 11
9: +0900............................................. ............. : 10
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 5

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

This report covers 5531 messages written between 2007-12-21 00:00:00 and
2008-01-20 22:35:58

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Bob 3 91.35%
2. NewsGroups spar@plaus 9 90.94%
3. Dan 4 89.94%
4. JohnM 3 89.23%
5. Rex 5 88.30%
6. Bob Brock 5 87.61%
7. SE¤�hwCuœf 45 86.19%
8. John \"C\" 6 85.62%
9. Tom 40 85.05%
10. Andy Asberry 3 82.85%
11. Jim Chandler 15 81.65%
12. Oren 4 81.49%
13. Gary Owens 3 80.45%
14. Ignoramus18728 3 80.36%
15. Darrell Stec 11 80.10%

A total of 7020574 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3731430, or 53.15%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 236 469504 57.4%
2. Gunner 229 302914 74.5%
3. Cliff 191 204932 50.7%
4. Larry Jaques 155 190241 50.9%
5. Gunner Asch 134 207558 53.9%
Wes 134 67949 49.4%
7. mariposas rand mair fheal 116 143677 54.5%
8. DoN. Nichols 104 264449 41.3%
9. Don Foreman 100 124788 61.1%
10. Pete C. 87 103713 76.7%
11. Michael A. Terrell 82 71674 65.2%
12. Christopher Tidy 79 72172 66.7%
13. SteveB 78 96259 52.0%
14. Too_Many_Tools 70 138332 73.4%
Louis Ohland 70 48350 57.2%

A total of 567 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 95069 / 5 = 19013
2. 43377 / 3 = 14459 0.1%
3. 88059355 25066 / 6 = 4177
4. Mastic not@thisaddress 18498 / 6 = 3083 3.2%
5. Don Kelly 9379 / 4 = 2344 33.1%
6. 86watches 16167 / 7 = 2309
7. Scott S. Logan 9270 / 5 = 1854 4.9%
8. David Moffitt 35330 / 20 = 1766 45.0%
9. D Murphy 8428 / 5 = 1685 55.1%
10. The Pre-Meltdown Kid entropic3.14decay@opt 6024 / 4 = 1506 30.6%
11. DoN. Nichols 155218 / 104 = 1492 41.3%
12. 7099 / 5 = 1419 44.8%
13. Atlas Bugged 9877 / 7 = 1411 29.6%
14. Robin S. 5323 / 4 = 1330 12.0%
15. Carl M 9162 / 7 = 1308 40.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Human Evolution Speeding Up 208 264710
2. Axis of Idiots; Oh Look! Gunner Just ****ed Six Feet! Bet 186 329178
3. OT - Thought for the day 171 321955
4. Punched a hole in my gas tank last night 114 115372
5. Banning incandescent lamps? 105 116364
6. Take yer gun to the mall 104 207191
7. Are higher grade bolts more brittle? 102 111056
8. Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup 87 127319
9. Why use heavy oils in gearbox? 69 87896
10. Fixing Welding Holes 68 64812
11. Good News for Wingers !!! 67 91322
12. Clausing 5914 has arrived 65 242358
13. A serious discussion about the need for more gun control 63 129535
CHEAP, SAFE generator xfer switch? 63 72340
15. Of Interest -metalworking..uranium 60 86231

A total of 519 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1213
2. Forte Agent 1149
3. G2 559
4. Mozilla 515
5. Forte Free Agent 286
6. slrn 277
7. MT-NewsWatcher 244
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 235
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 142
10. KNode 81
11. tin 70
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 64
13. Xnews 62
14. Pan 55
15. News Xpress 47

A total of 49 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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