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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: 1,500 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Feb 25 00:55:06 2008
Latest article: Sun Mar 2 22:55:30 2008
Original articles: 125, replies: 1,375
Total size of posts: 4,622,360 bytes (4,514K) (4.41M)
Average 214 articles per day, 0.63 MB per day, 3,081 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,934 KB bodies: 2,579 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,353 KB, original: 1,061 KB = 43.96%, sigs: 157 KB
Total number of posters: 295, average 15,669 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 166, average 27,845 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 44

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner .................... ...... : 153
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 104
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 61
4: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 60
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 36
6: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 33
7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 32
8: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 31
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 29
10: John Doe ......................... .... : 27
11: Observer .............................. .... : 26
12: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 23
13: Rex ............................ ......... : 23
14: Wes ................................ ......... : 23
15: BostonBlackie© .................. : 20
16: "SteveB" meagain@rockvilleUSA............................ .... : 17
17: Christopher Tidy .................. : 17
18: nick hull ................................... ... : 16
19: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 16
20: miguel ................................ ...... : 14

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner .................... ...... : 425
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 308
3: .................................... : 188
4: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 158
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 135
6: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 122
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 108
8: Observer .............................. .... : 98
9: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 97
10: Larry Jaques ................... : 96
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 91
12: BostonBlackie© .................. : 77
13: John Doe ......................... .... : 74
14: "www.myshoesdepot.com" .................... : 72
15: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 64
16: miguel ................................ ...... : 57
17: Protagonist ............................. . : 57
18: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 56
19: Rex ............................ ......... : 55
20: .................................... : 50

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: yourname ................................... .... : 87.26%
2: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 83.67%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 81.11%
4: ............................................. : 74.72%
5: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 72.77%
6: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 71.31%
7: oldjag .......................... ...... : 67.56%
8: Jon Elson ............................. : 64.86%
9: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 63.43%
10: "BillM" ........................... ..... : 62.80%
11: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 62.66%
12: Mechanical Magic .................. : 62.42%
13: "William Noble" ........................... : 59.52%
14: Louis Ohland ............................ .. : 59.44%
15: Werner ................................ ...... : 58.79%
16: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 56.53%
17: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 55.50%
18: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 54.82%
19: rpseguin .............................. .... : 53.09%
20: Larry Jaques ................... : 50.89%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Daedalus ............................ .... : 6.33%
2: Rex ............................ ......... : 11.84%
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 12.32%
4: "NewsGroups" spar@plaus.................................... .. : 13.41%
5: BostonBlackie© .................. : 15.78%
6: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 16.86%
7: "Steve Lusardi" ....................... : 16.99%
8: cavelamb himself ..................... : 20.37%
9: Ignoramus31093 ........... : 21.76%
10: Observer .............................. .... : 21.81%
11: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 21.94%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 22.28%
13: miguel ................................ ...... : 22.99%
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 24.40%
15: "Gary H. Lucas" ....................... : 24.50%
16: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 24.62%
17: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 25.18%
18: "John R. Carroll" ............. : 25.70%
19: nick hull ................................... ... : 25.86%
20: "cncfixxer1" ........................ .. : 25.92%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Inbox Trivia............................................ ....... : 150
2: Poverty in the US.............................................. : 147
3: House Holds Bush Confidants in Contempt........................ : 81
4: Boring a hole question......................................... : 58
5: One more law............................................... .... : 54
6: Obama's "Changes"......................................... ..... : 53
7: Where to buy machine screw assortment?......................... : 49
8: Ebay fraud............................................. ........ : 45
9: Shorts for Gunner............................................ .. : 44
10: good bye............................................... ........ : 37
11: Oh boy............................................... .......... : 37
12: Secession......................................... ............. : 35
13: NOMINATION: Gunner Asch - Pathetic Anal Pineapple was: House Ho : 33
14: Ohio Job Losses............................................ .... : 32
15: Drain plug removal........................................... .. : 26
16: Rotary phase converter: local ground or all the way to the pane : 24
17: Reefer Trailer's AirConditioner Compressor - Oil??............. : 20
18: What is it? CCXXI............................................. . : 19
19: Forklift battery info.......................................... : 19
20: OT: Ampro lift, America's Pride lifts ......................... : 19

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Poverty in the US.............................................. : 483
2: Inbox Trivia............................................ ....... : 416
3: House Holds Bush Confidants in Contempt........................ : 264
4: Shorts for Gunner............................................ .. : 171
5: Boring a hole question......................................... : 149
6: Where to buy machine screw assortment?......................... : 144
7: Obama's "Changes"......................................... ..... : 142
8: One more law............................................... .... : 142
9: Ebay fraud............................................. ........ : 120
10: NOMINATION: Gunner Asch - Pathetic Anal Pineapple was: House Ho : 119
11: Secession......................................... ............. : 112
12: AAA Luxury Movado Replica Watches At AAA-Replica-Watches.com... : 99
13: Ohio Job Losses............................................ .... : 96
14: Clausing 5914 and Dickson Toolpost............................. : 77
15: Oh boy............................................... .......... : 70
16: AAA Luxury Omega Replica Watches At AAA-Replica-Watches.com.... : 66
17: good bye............................................... ........ : 63
18: Rotary phase converter: local ground or all the way to the pane : 61
19: OT: Ohio Job Losses............................................ : 61
20: Large quantity rod storage?.................................... : 53

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 531
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 458
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 440
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 382
5: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 187
6: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 24
7: alt.engineering.electrical........................ ............. : 24
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 19
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 19
10: demon.local....................................... ............. : 12

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 90
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 57
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 39
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213)........................ : 13
6: rn................................................ ............. : 11
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 9
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 388 (26%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 324 (22%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 203 (14%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 119 ( 8%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 106 ( 7%)
6: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 90 ( 6%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows.............................. : 53 ( 4%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 49 ( 3%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows............................. : 45 ( 3%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 38 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.............................................. ............ : 428
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 371
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 233
4: -0600.............................................. ............ : 228
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 203
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 15
7: -0700.............................................. ............ : 14
8: +1100............................................. ............. : 4
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 2
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 1

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

This report covers 6798 messages written between 2008-02-03 00:00:47 and
2008-03-02 23:54:09

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 11 97.99%
2. Art Deco 14 93.99%
3. Daedalus 29 93.16%
4. JosephKK 6 92.53%
5. Nemo 4 90.93%
6. 5 88.12%
7. mich 14 87.74%
8. Bob Brock 6 87.50%
9. Too_Many_Tools 45 86.80%
10. Spacker 12 86.54%
11. 8 85.90%
12. John \"C\" 7 85.08%
13. Randy Replogle 3 84.05%
14. Ken Sterling (Ken Sterling) 13 84.03%
15. tony cooper 3 84.00%

A total of 10941297 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6224814, or 56.89%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 390 365699 52.3%
2. Ed Huntress 376 756510 5.4%
3. Gunner 321 604549 65.5%
4. Michael A. Terrell 240 182648 57.6%
5. mariposas rand mair fheal 238 298327 54.4%
6. Larry Jaques 135 177547 48.3%
7. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 125 222589 20.8%
8. Hawke 122 357184 62.8%
9. Monika Krug 105 228387 58.8%
Wes 105 50480 52.5%
11. Protagonist 99 238511 68.5%
12. Adam Corolla 90 186834 74.8%
13. Tom Gardner 88 104203 70.8%
14. DoN. Nichols 83 289848 47.7%
15. SteveB 80 120040 69.1%

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. 181810 / 6 = 30301
2. Statistics 72901 / 4 = 18225
3. 100770 / 15 = 6718 0.0%
4. 51328 / 9 = 5703 0.6%
5. TRMF4445 20230 / 4 = 5057
6. 40272 / 9 = 4474 2.5%
7. Al Dykes 46263 / 13 = 3558 19.2%
8. www.wholesalenikechina.com sales@myshoesde 38682 / 13 = 2975 47.4%
9. www.myshoesdepot.com 49389 / 17 = 2905 60.1%
10. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
11. 10335 / 5 = 2067
12. DoN. Nichols 151682 / 83 = 1827 47.7%
13. Nicholas 41586 / 23 = 1808 58.4%
14. 4933 / 3 = 1644
15. yourname 9256 / 6 = 1542 12.6%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Shorts for Gunner 546 947271
2. Inbox Trivia 291 462114
3. House Holds Bush Confidants in Contempt 237 439076
4. A premonition 213 373468
5. KGO-AM WingerTalk Radio: Rated for age 12 202 421186
6. Poverty in the US 147 275681
7. A Surge of More Lies 144 256414
8. OT: Why do over 75% of worldwide school shooting happen i 131 250208
9. Trying to form a Union 105 142630
10. manufacturing in Germany. 86 164426
11. RON PAUL: THE CENSORSHIP CONTINUES 84 141454
12. 48 volt car elect not going to happen 83 108332
13. another long off-topic economics thread 75 165601
14. Automotive Oil filters, creepers 73 68607
15. OT: A premonition 72 91013

A total of 633 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1528
2. Forte Agent 1164
3. G2 839
4. Forte Free Agent 585
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 487
6. MT-NewsWatcher 395
7. Mozilla 376
8. slrn 211
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 127
10. Xnews 121
11. Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 112
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 65
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 52
14. Pan 46
15. KNode 44

A total of 53 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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