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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: 2,033 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Apr 14 00:55:06 2008
Latest article: Sun Apr 20 22:55:33 2008
Original articles: 463, replies: 1,570
Total size of posts: 6,528,464 bytes (6,375K) (6.23M)
Average 290 articles per day, 0.89 MB per day, 3,211 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,698 KB bodies: 3,676 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,345 KB, original: 2,175 KB = 61.78%, sigs: 148 KB
Total number of posters: 562, average 11,616 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 521, average 12,530 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 41

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 138
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 80
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 77
4: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 60
5: Don Foreman ................... . : 54
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 51
7: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 30
8: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 30
9: ................................. : 30
10: clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada......................... : 30
11: Eregon .............................. ...... : 30
12: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 29
13: Rightisright .............................. .. : 26
14: Bob Brock .............................. : 24
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 21
16: cavelamb himself ..................... : 20
17: stryped ........................... ..... : 20
18: Wes ................................ ......... : 19
19: Bruce in Bangkok ...................... : 17
20: stryped ............................. ..... : 14

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 292
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 288
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 255
4: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 227
5: Don Foreman ................... . : 135
6: ................................. : 124
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 117
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 102
9: Bob Brock .............................. : 95
10: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 91
11: Rightisright .............................. .. : 90
12: clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada......................... : 79
13: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 79
14: Eregon .............................. ...... : 64
15: cavelamb himself ..................... : 62
16: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 61
17: Bruce in Bangkok ...................... : 54
18: stryped ........................... ..... : 51
19: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 50
20: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 44

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Gunner .................... ...... : 90.57%
2: Dave99 ................................ ...... : 88.80%
3: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 81.67%
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 77.98%
5: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 76.68%
6: Russ ............................... ........ : 75.99%
7: spaco .............................. : 72.28%
8: Bill .............................. ........ : 68.12%
9: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 65.31%
10: cavelamb himself ..................... : 63.71%
11: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 62.42%
12: (Doug Miller).............................. : 61.10%
13: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 60.40%
14: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 60.16%
15: "William Noble" ........................... : 59.16%
16: Wes ................................ ......... : 58.06%
17: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 57.81%
18: Joe ............................. ......... : 56.02%
19: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 55.77%
20: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 55.77%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: dozr ........................... ........ : 8.61%
2: Bob Brock .............................. : 8.66%
3: Rightisright .............................. .. : 9.09%
4: ................................. : 11.07%
5: Ignoramus11166 ........... : 14.95%
6: "Jon" ....................... ....... : 16.28%
7: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 16.45%
8: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 17.69%
9: jon_banquer ........................... . : 17.92%
10: strabo ........................... ...... : 18.38%
11: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 19.40%
12: Dan ............................ ......... : 19.86%
13: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 22.57%
14: Ignoramus15242 ........... : 22.59%
15: stryped ........................... ..... : 23.20%
16: stryped ............................. ..... : 24.35%
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 24.63%
18: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 24.91%
19: Spehro Pefhany ............. : 25.12%
20: Ronald Thompson ............... : 25.59%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Black Holes............................................. ....... : 201
2: OT - As the noose tightens on the progun crowd................. : 142
3: Surprising increase in truck MPG............................... : 138
4: $4 dollar gas and its effects on metalworking.................. : 82
5: OT - You Thought You Had an Equity Line........................ : 73
6: Bolting a trailer and welding?................................. : 50
7: Try this philosophy:....................................... .... : 47
8: IMF head gives food price warning.............................. : 42
9: Advice: Drill Press and Band Saw pick-up....................... : 40
10: Did bad rivets cause sinking of Titanic........................ : 40
11: OT Diesel engines........................................... ... : 39
12: Inbox Trivia............................................ ....... : 31
13: New MidWest US Earthquake(s)................................... : 25
14: What is it? CCXXVIII.......................................... . : 25
15: Technical aspects of drill bit sharpening...................... : 24
16: Service guys may relate........................................ : 23
17: Yak horn bombs............................................. .... : 23
18: Ryobi BGH827 8" bench grinder vibration........................ : 21
19: Is this trailer properly balanced?............................. : 21
20: US Inflation Report............................................ : 21

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Black Holes............................................. ....... : 614
2: OT - As the noose tightens on the progun crowd................. : 464
3: Surprising increase in truck MPG............................... : 362
4: OT - You Thought You Had an Equity Line........................ : 304
5: $4 dollar gas and its effects on metalworking.................. : 252
6: Try this philosophy:....................................... .... : 146
7: Bolting a trailer and welding?................................. : 126
8: OT Diesel engines........................................... ... : 117
9: IMF head gives food price warning.............................. : 114
10: Advice: Drill Press and Band Saw pick-up....................... : 101
11: Inbox Trivia............................................ ....... : 93
12: Did bad rivets cause sinking of Titanic........................ : 89
13: Service guys may relate........................................ : 84
14: Technical aspects of drill bit sharpening...................... : 71
15: Bulb Tricks............................................ ........ : 58
16: OT- Mandatory Overtime......................................... : 55
17: New MidWest US Earthquake(s)................................... : 54
18: Ryobi BGH827 8" bench grinder vibration........................ : 54
19: Is this trailer properly balanced?............................. : 51
20: Rear fold down ramp for trailer. (Is solid ok?)................ : 48

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 595
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 423
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 401
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 382
5: rec.autos.tech.................................... ............. : 105
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 31
7: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 30
8: alt.usage.english................................. ............. : 28
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 25
10: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 20

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 345
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 59
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 32
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 23
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213)........................ : 21
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 7
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480.......................... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 653 (32%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 366 (18%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 293 (14%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 147 ( 7%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 139 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows............................. : 99 ( 5%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 68 ( 3%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 64 ( 3%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 49 ( 2%)
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11................................. : 17 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 653
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 492
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 303
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 252
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 204
6: +1000............................................. ............. : 37
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 26
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 20
9: +0200............................................. ............. : 13
10: -0600.............................................. ............ : 10

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

This report covers 8282 messages written between 2008-03-21 00:02:50 and
2008-04-20 22:35:41

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. zynteq7 4 96.32%
2. reinhardt 3 94.35%
3. Malingo 4 92.76%
4. Mark F 5 91.81%
5. Art Deco 4 91.76%
6. Jim Insolo 3 91.33%
7. Bob Brock 91 90.41%
8. dozr 21 89.72%
9. Bob 4 88.98%
10. DaveB 3 88.74%
11. 120 88.14%
12. NewsGroups spar@plaus 9 87.89%
13. Myal 26 87.50%
14. krw 5 87.24%
15. Observer 18 86.41%

A total of 15124756 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6125624, or 40.50%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 510 478019 56.2%
2. Ed Huntress 362 744303 5.7%
3. Too_Many_Tools 308 777423 11.9%
4. Larry Jaques 232 256823 53.0%
5. Gunner Asch 222 483176 41.1%
6. Gunner 201 324958 60.3%
7. Michael A. Terrell 175 162909 51.2%
8. Wes 141 90514 45.2%
9. Don Foreman 127 161092 58.6%
10. cavelamb himself 123 135003 57.7%
11. 120 252958 88.1%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 111 267483 19.5%
13. Hawke 105 258614 62.1%
14. mariposas rand mair fheal 102 115507 61.1%
15. clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada 98 191738 72.1%

A total of 1220 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. 67988 / 3 = 22662
3. Statistics 87910 / 4 = 21977
4. 215598 / 11 = 19599
5. 57377 / 3 = 19125
6. 110622 / 7 = 15803
7. 47109 / 3 = 15703
8. 45477 / 3 = 15159
9. 84911 / 6 = 14151
10. 56536 / 4 = 14134
11. 80808 / 6 = 13468
12. 39566 / 3 = 13188
13. 12345678 181703 / 15 = 12113
14. okexport 27072 / 3 = 9024
15. n+s+m+tm a+y+m+a+n+ 37248 / 6 = 6208 2.5%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Black Holes 253 375719
2. Recession is a given. Can we avoid a Bush Depression? 229 524334
3. Bulb Tricks 215 277975
4. 4000 and counting ... 187 295675
5. Wilkins Ice Shelf disintegrating 178 294261
6. $4 dollar gas and its effects on metalworking 164 227176
7. McCain 161 157810
8. OT - The Affluent, Too, Couldn't Resist Adjustable Rates 157 263183
9. OT - As the noose tightens on the progun crowd... 142 266092
10. For Non-Muslims 138 214477
Surprising increase in truck MPG 138 181443
12. Truckers slowing down to save fuel..how about you? 132 217323
13. OT Diesel engines 117 249402
14. Lathe update/questions 115 189304
15. Oops...A CCW Owner Does It Again 113 179063

A total of 1529 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. G2 2171
2. Microsoft Outlook Express 1375
3. Forte Agent 1312
4. Forte Free Agent 656
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 546
6. Mozilla 428
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 331
8. slrn 280
9. MT-NewsWatcher 199
10. Xnews 192
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 62
12. Pan 54
13. MicroPlanet-Gravity 43
14. Thunderbird 1.5.0.14 36
15. Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 29

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

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