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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: 1,138 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jan 21 04:55:06 2008
Latest article: Mon Jan 28 02:55:07 2008
Original articles: 87, replies: 1,051
Total size of posts: 2,512,548 bytes (2,453K) (2.40M)
Average 162 articles per day, 0.34 MB per day, 2,207 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,239 KB bodies: 1,214 KB
Body text - quoted: 608 KB, original: 529 KB = 46.53%, sigs: 71 KB
Total number of posters: 268, average 9,375 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 131, average 19,179 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 51
2: Gunner .................... ...... : 40
3: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 32
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 32
5: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 30
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 27
7: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 26
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 26
9: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 22
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 21
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 20
12: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 20
13: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 19
14: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 18
15: Terry Coombs ......................... .. : 15
16: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 15
17: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 15
18: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 15
19: Christopher Tidy .................. : 15
20: "Stormin Mormon" .......... : 13

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 114
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 98
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 73
4: Gunner .................... ...... : 69
5: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 67
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 62
7: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 60
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 53
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 47
10: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 44
11: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 42
12: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 41
13: Terry Coombs ......................... .. : 40
14: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 39
15: Christopher Tidy .................. : 35
16: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 32
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 32
18: Wes ................................ ......... : 31
19: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 31
20: Don Foreman ................... . : 29

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 88.07%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 87.61%
3: steamer ............................... ..... : 84.69%
4: "Jeff R." .............................. ... : 84.07%
5: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 83.89%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 80.20%
7: " ........................ : 77.87%
8: cavalamb himself ..................... : 74.43%
9: "Al A." ........................... ..... : 72.81%
10: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 71.26%
11: Nick Mueller ............................ .. : 66.86%
12: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 66.15%
13: ............................................... : 64.91%
14: " ............................ : 63.88%
15: spaco .............................. : 62.70%
16: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 61.22%
17: (DT).............................. : 60.21%
18: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 59.42%
19: Black Dragon ............................. .. : 59.36%
20: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 55.72%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 11.71%
2: Protagonist ............................. . : 12.92%
3: Winston .......................... ..... : 15.78%
4: Ignoramus13999 ........... : 17.54%
5: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 17.79%
6: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 27.74%
7: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 27.84%
8: Terry Coombs ......................... .. : 28.31%
9: "Adam Corolla" .................. : 28.57%
10: Gunner .................... ...... : 30.14%
11: Cliff ............................... ....... : 30.29%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 31.32%
13: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 31.55%
14: Gerry .............................. ....... : 31.71%
15: " ...................... : 31.84%
16: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 32.97%
17: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 34.45%
18: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 34.49%
19: Ignoramus28017 ........... : 35.24%
20: Ignoramus2378 ............. . : 37.59%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT; Is scientific process flawed?.............................. : 83
2: My wife caught me watching tool porn........................... : 43
3: Indexable lathe tools.......................................... : 37
4: Restoring luster to an old rusted tool......................... : 33
5: New Crescent Wrench design..................................... : 32
6: Retraining........................................ ............. : 32
7: Valve Grinder........................................... ....... : 31
8: Blowtorch......................................... ............. : 31
9: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 31
10: Very OT: Waiting past your appointment at the clinic........... : 28
11: WTB/Trade power cable for Tektronix 323 portable Oscope........ : 27
12: Horrid Fright flyer arrived.................................... : 26
13: source for motor brushes?...................................... : 22
14: Toolpost grinder........................................... .... : 22
15: Terminal metalurgy......................................... .... : 21
16: Queueing Theory Course Outline................................. : 21
17: Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws...................... : 21
18: Harbor Freight multipurpose machine any good?.................. : 17
19: What is it? CCXVI............................................. . : 17
20: Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup........................ : 17

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT; Is scientific process flawed?.............................. : 178
2: Retraining........................................ ............. : 102
3: Indexable lathe tools.......................................... : 90
4: Restoring luster to an old rusted tool......................... : 81
5: OT - Thought for the day....................................... : 80
6: Very OT: Waiting past your appointment at the clinic........... : 74
7: My wife caught me watching tool porn........................... : 70
8: Blowtorch......................................... ............. : 61
9: New Crescent Wrench design..................................... : 61
10: Queueing Theory Course Outline................................. : 55
11: WTB/Trade power cable for Tektronix 323 portable Oscope........ : 55
12: Valve Grinder........................................... ....... : 53
13: Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup........................ : 52
14: source for motor brushes?...................................... : 50
15: Horrid Fright flyer arrived.................................... : 45
16: Sharpening tool steel.......................................... : 45
17: Question: Temp reached by black anodized aluminum in direct sun : 44
18: Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws...................... : 44
19: Toolpost grinder........................................... .... : 34
20: OT - Political : Illegals may be registering to vote........... : 34

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 162
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 76
3: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 72
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 50
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 49
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 19
7: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 14
8: rec.crafts.metalworking........................... ............ : 13
9: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............ : 8
10: comp.robotics.misc................................ ............. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 63
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 62
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 34
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 20
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)......................... : 19
6: rn................................................ ............. : 10
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 7
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 250 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 199 (17%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 182 (16%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 144 (13%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 86 ( 8%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 76 ( 7%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 58 ( 5%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 21 ( 2%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 18 ( 2%)
10: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 (Windows............................. : 15 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 244
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 217
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 212
4: -0800.............................................. ............ : 195
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 182
6: +0530............................................. ............. : 26
7: -0700.............................................. ............ : 21
8: +1100............................................. ............. : 14
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 12
10: -0500 (EST)............................................. ....... : 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 5648 messages written between 2007-12-28 00:04:49 and
2008-01-27 23:22:59

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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. Dan 4 89.94%
3. Bob Brock 5 87.61%
4. JimL 3 87.27%
5. Protagonist 5 87.25%
6. SE¤�hwCuœf 32 86.94%
7. Tom 42 84.06%
8. Ignoramus13999 6 82.62%
9. 3 82.60%
10. Rex 7 82.32%
11. Ignoramus17333 4 81.51%
12. Oren 4 81.49%
13. Jim Chandler 15 81.47%
14. Howard R Garner 5 81.08%
15. Ignoramus18728 3 80.36%

A total of 6841126 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
3634808, or 53.13%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner 246 301139 74.7%
2. Ed Huntress 209 420408 57.3%
3. Cliff 165 194170 58.1%
4. Larry Jaques 164 196818 51.7%
5. Gunner Asch 130 185324 55.0%
6. Wes 123 63555 51.6%
7. DoN. Nichols 111 269438 40.7%
8. Louis Ohland 99 80050 62.6%
9. mariposas rand mair fheal 95 120826 56.6%
10. Christopher Tidy 94 85122 67.1%
11. Don Foreman 89 109139 57.0%
12. Too_Many_Tools 87 126737 70.2%
Pete C. 87 99007 75.1%
14. Michael A. Terrell 85 71806 62.0%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 72 114213 21.9%

A total of 591 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 101982 / 6 = 16997
2. 43377 / 3 = 14459 0.1%
3. 88059355 25066 / 6 = 4177
4. Mastic not@thisaddress 18498 / 6 = 3083 3.2%
5. 86watches 16167 / 7 = 2309
6. 86bags 6831 / 3 = 2277
7. Scott S. Logan 9270 / 5 = 1854 4.9%
8. Don Kelly 10999 / 6 = 1833 32.6%
9. The Pre-Meltdown Kid entropic3.14decay@opt 8695 / 5 = 1739 34.0%
10. desperado 6294 / 4 = 1573 60.2%
11. David Moffitt 31322 / 20 = 1566 48.2%
12. 4536 / 3 = 1512 37.2%
13. Atlas Bugged 10182 / 7 = 1454 41.0%
Carl M 5816 / 4 = 1454 37.7%
15. DoN. Nichols 159647 / 111 = 1438 40.7%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT - Thought for the day 166 294368
2. Axis of Idiots; Oh Look! Gunner Just ****ed Six Feet! Bet 163 292070
3. Punched a hole in my gas tank last night 114 115372
4. Armed Store Customer Foils Armed Holdup 104 157150
5. Are higher grade bolts more brittle? 103 111772
6. OT; Is scientific process flawed? 83 83862
7. Good News for Wingers !!! 70 97806
Fixing Welding Holes 70 68330
9. Clausing 5914 has arrived 65 242358
10. A serious discussion about the need for more gun control 63 129535
Bush exempts Navy from environmental laws 63 94316
CHEAP, SAFE generator xfer switch? 63 72340
13. Human Evolution Speeding Up 62 69720
14. Of Interest -metalworking..uranium 61 88203
15. Rusted gears usable? 59 47767

A total of 532 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1221
2. Forte Agent 1134
3. G2 640
4. Mozilla 569
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 295
6. slrn 287
7. Forte Free Agent 269
8. MT-NewsWatcher 224
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 133
10. KNode 73
11. Xnews 68
12. tin 54
13. Microsoft Windows Mail 51
14. News Xpress 44
15. Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 43

A total of 47 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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