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Rec.Crafts.Metalworking

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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: 1,940 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Mar 24 00:51:34 2008
Latest article: Sun Mar 30 22:55:29 2008
Original articles: 193, replies: 1,747
Total size of posts: 6,085,750 bytes (5,943K) (5.80M)
Average 277 articles per day, 0.83 MB per day, 3,136 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,565 KB bodies: 3,377 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,515 KB, original: 1,622 KB = 51.71%, sigs: 229 KB
Total number of posters: 327, average 18,610 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 232, average 26,231 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: Cliff ............................... ....... : 118
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 105
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 100
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 100
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 69
6: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 68
7: cavelamb himself ..................... : 49
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 40
9: Man with foreskin ............................. : 40
10: jon_banquer ........................... . : 36
11: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 34
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 31
13: Don Foreman ................... . : 30
14: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 30
15: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 28
16: Kali ................................. ........ : 23
17: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 22
18: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 19
19: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 18
20: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 18

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 408
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 299
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 258
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 250
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 172
6: Man with foreskin ............................. : 156
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 135
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 129
9: cavelamb himself ..................... : 128
10: jon_banquer ........................... . : 120
11: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 96
12: ........................................ : 89
13: ............................................ : 88
14: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 88
15: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 86
16: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 79
17: Don Foreman ................... . : 74
18: ......................................... : 72
19: ....................................... : 72
20: Kali ................................. ........ : 63

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 81.73%
2: F. George McDuffee .......... : 77.26%
3: Curly Surmudgeon ................ : 74.69%
4: jon_banquer ........................... . : 72.97%
5: "William Wixon" ....................... : 66.99%
6: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 66.38%
7: "SteveB" .......................... .... : 65.76%
8: David Harmon ............................. .. : 65.69%
9: "R.H." ............................. ...... : 63.66%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 62.02%
11: John Martin .............................. . : 61.40%
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 60.62%
13: Bill .............................. ........ : 59.94%
14: ED ...................... .......... : 56.71%
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 54.20%
16: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 51.02%
17: Dave Hinz .............................. ... : 50.91%
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 49.77%
19: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 49.25%
20: Man with foreskin ............................. : 49.22%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Observer .............................. .... : 7.77%
2: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 10.15%
3: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 10.35%
4: " .................... : 10.58%
5: Rex ............................ ......... : 13.65%
6: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 14.23%
7: "Jeffrey Lebowski" ............ : 14.60%
8: Nicholas ............................ .... : 15.32%
9: ................................. : 16.06%
10: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 18.65%
11: Bob Brock .............................. : 20.36%
12: Ignoramus16148 ........... : 21.08%
13: Pete Keillor ..................... .. : 21.31%
14: Ignoramus17370 ........... : 21.42%
15: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= .... : 21.63%
16: Ignoramus6291 ............. . : 21.68%
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 22.94%
18: clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada......................... : 23.53%
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 23.72%
20: Robert Sturgeon .......................... : 24.74%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating............................... : 145
2: McCain............................................ ............. : 124
3: Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you?............. : 117
4: Bulb Tricks............................................ ........ : 117
5: Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again............................... : 112
6: The Bush Economic Legacy....................................... : 76
7: 4000 and counting ............................................. : 71
8: Foreclosed Homes: Compliments of George Bush................... : 67
9: McMaster Carr bitch............................................ : 66
10: Recession is a given. Can we avoid a Bush Depression?.......... : 61
11: OT: You couldn't make this stuff up!........................... : 59
12: OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates....... : 56
13: OT: 2nd Amendment case......................................... : 56
14: treat yer own wood............................................. : 32
15: Heating the garage shop........................................ : 31
16: Yellow thingy............................................ ...... : 29
17: Checking welding current....................................... : 28
18: What is it? CCXXV............................................. . : 25
19: bandwidth......................................... ............. : 25
20: Shower head repair............................................ . : 24

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating............................... : 435
2: Bulb Tricks............................................ ........ : 400
3: Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you?............. : 350
4: Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again............................... : 321
5: McCain............................................ ............. : 298
6: Recession is a given. Can we avoid a Bush Depression?.......... : 255
7: The Bush Economic Legacy....................................... : 250
8: 4000 and counting ............................................. : 185
9: Foreclosed Homes: Compliments of George Bush................... : 182
10: OT: You couldn't make this stuff up!........................... : 169
11: OT: 2nd Amendment case......................................... : 166
12: OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates....... : 163
13: McMaster Carr bitch............................................ : 162
14: cheap , shoes,sport shoes ( paypal accept ) ( ................. : 80
15: Yellow thingy............................................ ...... : 75
16: Checking welding current....................................... : 70
17: Heating the garage shop........................................ : 63
18: Guess who else has been not been doing their maintainance?..... : 61
19: treat yer own wood............................................. : 61
20: Banks at the public tit...will they choke?..................... : 58

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 758
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 501
3: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 422
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 372
5: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 125
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 70
7: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 58
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 36
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 26
10: alt.usage.english................................. ............. : 22

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 115
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 66
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 38
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213)........................ : 18
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 7
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 420 (22%)
2: G2................................................ ........ : 372 (19%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 368 (19%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 204 (11%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 167 ( 9%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows............................. : 101 ( 5%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 74 ( 4%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 59 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 27 ( 1%)
10: unknown........................................... ........ : 26 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 397
2: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 372
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 350
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 303
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 197
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 186
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 75
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 19
9: -0300.............................................. ............ : 18
10: +0900............................................. ............. : 11

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

This report covers 7444 messages written between 2008-03-02 00:05:15 and
2008-03-30 23:45:36

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Jerry Wass 4 96.03%
2. Jeff McCann 4 90.01%
3. Ignoramus25365 5 89.14%
4. Art Deco 3 88.93%
5. 4 88.50%
6. Kadaitcha Man 17 87.91%
7. Observer 8 87.79%
8. Myal 6 87.62%
9. Bob 6 86.89%
10. Jim Chandler 53 86.43%
11. Jeb 19 85.50%
miguel 6 85.50%
13. 21 85.43%
14. Mark F 11 85.02%
15. Rex 54 84.70%

A total of 12399567 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5813474, or 46.88%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Michael A. Terrell 390 355347 59.4%
2. Ed Huntress 379 842629 11.8%
3. Cliff 344 365400 53.3%
4. Too_Many_Tools 265 649792 65.2%
5. Larry Jaques 244 320377 52.9%
6. Gunner 200 275628 71.9%
7. Gunner Asch 198 308993 57.5%
8. Hawke 182 463759 62.3%
Wes 182 105684 48.0%
10. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 169 380321 16.9%
11. Don Foreman 137 187231 59.2%
12. Tom Gardner 129 147927 70.2%
13. cavelamb himself 127 140270 68.5%
14. Pete C. 81 96585 76.0%
15. SteveB meagain@rockvilleUSA 80 74115 48.6%

A total of 829 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. 85284 / 3 = 28428
2. 68668 / 3 = 22889
3. 67988 / 3 = 22662
4. 57377 / 3 = 19125
5. Statistics 79803 / 5 = 15960
6. 45932 / 3 = 15310
7. 45477 / 3 = 15159
8. 80808 / 6 = 13468
9. The Rifleman 106896 / 9 = 11877 9.7%
10. 35297 / 3 = 11765
11. 25401 / 3 = 8467
12. 18941 / 3 = 6313 0.0%
13. 17278 / 3 = 5759
14. 17030 / 3 = 5676
15. 18662 / 4 = 4665

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT: 2nd Amendment case 163 510047
2. Poverty in the US 160 284343
3. OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates 156 250028
4. still work out there - MN 150 222503
Bulb Tricks 150 204116
6. Inbox Trivia 146 174483
7. Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating 142 241228
8. Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you? 132 217323
9. OT: when to shoot back 127 169388
10. McCain 123 124402
11. reducing the cost of labor 116 296985
12. Foreclosed Homes: Compliments of George Bush 115 206774
13. Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again 112 178456
14. Cleaning solvent 110 99902
15. Winger Radio Love Fest 96 133643

A total of 914 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1476
2. G2 1332
3. Forte Agent 1307
4. Forte Free Agent 544
5. Mozilla 473
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 425
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 317
8. slrn 300
9. Xnews 143
10. MT-NewsWatcher 141
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 69
12. Pan 44
13. Microsoft Internet News 39
14. tin 37
15. MicroPlanet-Gravity 30

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

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:37:40 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
(Statistics) quickly quoth:

This post is generated weekly as a service to the participants of
Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
--snip--
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating............................... : 145
2: McCain............................................ ............. : 124
3: Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you?............. : 117
4: Bulb Tricks............................................ ........ : 117
5: Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again............................... : 112
6: The Bush Economic Legacy....................................... : 76
7: 4000 and counting ............................................. : 71
8: Foreclosed Homes: Compliments of George Bush................... : 67
9: McMaster Carr bitch............................................ : 66
10: Recession is a given. Can we avoid a Bush Depression?.......... : 61
11: OT: You couldn't make this stuff up!........................... : 59
12: OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates....... : 56
13: OT: 2nd Amendment case......................................... : 56
14: treat yer own wood............................................. : 32
15: Heating the garage shop........................................ : 31
16: Yellow thingy............................................ ...... : 29
17: Checking welding current....................................... : 28
18: What is it? CCXXV............................................. . : 25
19: bandwidth......................................... ............. : 25
20: Shower head repair............................................ . : 24
--snip--

Hmm, how many of these are directly related to metalworking? Maybe 2?
Interestinger and interestinger. I blame Herr(ball) Mueller for all of
this. His reverse psychology did us in.


--
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other
men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
--Jesse Lee Bennett

Right you are Larry. I think CCxxv and the others are large consumers
of real time away from metal. Then Eco, Political .

Anything regarding metal or shop is positive. Home repair needing metal
is positive...

Martin

Martin H. Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
TSRA, Endowed; NRA LOH & Patron Member, Golden Eagle, Patriot's Medal.
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member.
http://lufkinced.com/


Larry Jaques wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:37:40 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
(Statistics) quickly quoth:

This post is generated weekly as a service to the participants of
Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
--snip--
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating............................... : 145
2: McCain............................................ ............. : 124
3: Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you?............. : 117
4: Bulb Tricks............................................ ........ : 117
5: Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again............................... : 112
6: The Bush Economic Legacy....................................... : 76
7: 4000 and counting ............................................. : 71
8: Foreclosed Homes: Compliments of George Bush................... : 67
9: McMaster Carr bitch............................................ : 66
10: Recession is a given. Can we avoid a Bush Depression?.......... : 61
11: OT: You couldn't make this stuff up!........................... : 59
12: OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates....... : 56
13: OT: 2nd Amendment case......................................... : 56
14: treat yer own wood............................................. : 32
15: Heating the garage shop........................................ : 31
16: Yellow thingy............................................ ...... : 29
17: Checking welding current....................................... : 28
18: What is it? CCXXV............................................. . : 25
19: bandwidth......................................... ............. : 25
20: Shower head repair............................................ . : 24
--snip--

Hmm, how many of these are directly related to metalworking? Maybe 2?
Interestinger and interestinger. I blame Herr(ball) Mueller for all of
this. His reverse psychology did us in.


--
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other
men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
--Jesse Lee Bennett


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