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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: 1,503 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon May 19 04:00:20 2008
Latest article: Sun May 25 22:55:20 2008
Original articles: 112, replies: 1,391
Total size of posts: 4,272,332 bytes (4,172K) (4.07M)
Average 214 articles per day, 0.58 MB per day, 2,842 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,057 KB bodies: 2,115 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,199 KB, original: 764 KB = 38.91%, sigs: 145 KB
Total number of posters: 283, average 15,096 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 171, average 24,984 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 38

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 120
2: Gunner .................... ...... : 56
3: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 56
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 51
5: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 47
6: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 45
7: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 44
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 38
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 38
10: Bob Brock .............................. : 35
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 32
12: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 25
13: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 22
14: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 21
15: "*" ............................ ......... : 19
16: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 19
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 18
18: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 16
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 16
20: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 277
2: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 206
3: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 176
4: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 172
5: Gunner .................... ...... : 157
6: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 134
7: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 124
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 120
9: Bob Brock .............................. : 105
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 98
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 86
12: Larry Jaques ................... : 83
13: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 83
14: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 82
15: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 64
16: D Murphy ........................... .... : 59
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 51
18: "Steve ................. ...... : 47
19: "*" ............................ ......... : 44
20: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 42

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 81.63%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 77.83%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73.94%
4: Tim May ...................... ..... : 71.99%
5: "R.H." ............................. ...... : 67.74%
6: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 64.10%
7: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 61.50%
8: Steve Ackman .............. : 61.45%
9: "William Noble" ........................... : 61.38%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 60.85%
11: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 58.00%
12: nick hull ................................... ... : 56.52%
13: "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" .................... : 55.02%
14: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 54.83%
15: "Paul K. Dickman" .................... : 52.52%
16: Christopher Tidy .................. : 51.58%
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 50.01%
18: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 49.44%
19: Larry Jaques ................... : 48.36%
20: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 46.68%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 6.73%
2: tad .......................... ......... : 14.57%
3: cavelamb himself ..................... : 16.33%
4: Bob Brock .............................. : 17.08%
5: Rex .................................... ......... : 17.32%
6: Ignoramus31588 ........... : 17.90%
7: " .................... : 18.36%
8: David Billington ............ : 18.82%
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 19.31%
10: Toilet Pepper .................... . : 19.91%
11: .......................................... : 20.83%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 20.84%
13: Wolf 253 ........................... .... : 21.34%
14: Ignoramus14615 ........... : 21.42%
15: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 22.34%
16: Zapanaz http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl..................... : 23.77%
17: Bruce in Bangkok ........... : 24.69%
18: Gunner .................... ...... : 25.06%
19: "RM v2.0" ................................. ... : 25.34%
20: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 25.44%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: How to REALLY cut US taxes..................................... : 171
2: Obamas plans for the US........................................ : 81
3: Sami.............................................. ............. : 79
4: Kennedy........................................... ............. : 57
5: crude oil's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barrel..... : 52
6: Hardince HC Chucker -- someone needs help...................... : 49
7: 40,000............................................ ............. : 43
8: Bush was satisfied......................................... .... : 41
9: If ya don't feel good ... pay attention!....................... : 41
10: Harbor freight lathe........................................... : 35
11: OT: Wayward sock turns up!..................................... : 32
12: How to REALLY cut US taxes - ID, deporting..................... : 26
13: Threadlockers and superglue.................................... : 25
14: Do you wear Shorts while Working?.............................. : 22
15: OT: The Taboo Word............................................. : 22
16: tuned exhaust for a Lycoming 0320.............................. : 21
17: Suggestions on 'dumbwaiter design'............................. : 20
18: You saw Excavator Vs. Bridge, now try 80 ton locomotive........ : 20
19: OT:On Wrong Track............................................. . : 19
20: What is it? Set 233............................................ : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: How to REALLY cut US taxes..................................... : 577
2: Obamas plans for the US........................................ : 319
3: Sami.............................................. ............. : 272
4: Bush was satisfied......................................... .... : 149
5: Hardince HC Chucker -- someone needs help...................... : 138
6: Kennedy........................................... ............. : 137
7: crude oil's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barrel..... : 129
8: If ya don't feel good ... pay attention!....................... : 104
9: 40,000............................................ ............. : 100
10: How to REALLY cut US taxes - ID, deporting..................... : 89
11: Continuing lathe chatter (from people now, not the lathe. :-).. : 82
12: tuned exhaust for a Lycoming 0320.............................. : 76
13: Harbor freight lathe........................................... : 72
14: OT: Wayward sock turns up!..................................... : 70
15: No longer about "Trepanning and Parting Off -- part 2"......... : 63
16: Threadlockers and superglue.................................... : 62
17: OT: The Taboo Word............................................. : 59
18: Do you wear Shorts while Working?.............................. : 53
19: Suggestions on 'dumbwaiter design'............................. : 51
20: OT- The gun is civilization.................................... : 49

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 540
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 529
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 442
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 436
5: alt.slack......................................... ............. : 57
6: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 47
7: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 40
8: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 37
9: rec.gambling.poker................................ ............. : 31
10: uk.d-i-y................................................. ...... : 31

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 73
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 59
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 42
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 20
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 14
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
8: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 382 (25%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 286 (19%)
3: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 165 (11%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 142 ( 9%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 142 ( 9%)
6: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 88 ( 6%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 77 ( 5%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 73 ( 5%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 28 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155......................... : 19 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 455
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 389
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 285
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 162
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 142
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 23
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 11
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 8
10: +0700............................................. ............. : 6

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

This report covers 5773 messages written between 2008-04-26 00:00:19 and
2008-05-25 23:17:00

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Mark F 8 90.67%
2. Myal 15 90.53%
3. DaveB 5 88.99%
4. Tom 10 87.81%
5. Ken Sterling 5 86.12%
6. tad 7 85.43%
7. Rex 14 85.33%
8. Rev. 11D Meow! 5 85.21%
9. Wolf 253 53 85.00%
10. The Davenport's 3 84.61%
11. 32 84.49%
12. Toilet Pepper 8 84.05%
13. Jim Stewart 7 83.74%
14. Bob Brock 49 83.06%
15. 16 83.00%

A total of 8445143 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4616053, or 54.66%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 326 339998 55.4%
2. Ed Huntress 323 729308 5.0%
3. Gunner 297 426951 69.7%
4. mariposas rand mair fheal 179 249271 62.6%
5. Wes 163 107850 46.4%
6. Larry Jaques 137 211777 58.9%
7. Hawke 125 320208 60.3%
8. John R. Carroll 102 188440 54.5%
9. Bruce in Bangkok 88 172528 69.9%
10. DoN. Nichols 85 293255 58.2%
11. Gunner Asch 84 129563 57.1%
12. cavelamb himself 76 64553 77.5%
13. Michael A. Terrell 72 77924 58.9%
14. Martin H. Eastburn 71 141774 58.6%
15. Joseph Gwinn 67 269912 70.2%

A total of 691 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. TRMF4445 131190 / 3 = 43730
2. Statistics 79613 / 5 = 15922
3. 15800 / 3 = 5266
4. 15200 / 3 = 5066
5. $B".Us6H(BIGBT$BnyS4".(B lima137141025 14260 / 4 = 3565
6. 10580 / 3 = 3526
7. 30608 / 9 = 3400
8. Ignoramus22089 11659 / 4 = 2914 15.5%
9. 8584 / 3 = 2861
10. 7567 / 3 = 2522
11. Scott S. Logan 9672 / 4 = 2418
12. sittingduck 7149 / 3 = 2383 17.9%
13. 55422 / 24 = 2309
14. 6584 / 3 = 2194
15. 8407 / 4 = 2101

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. How to REALLY cut US taxes 449 788449
2. How to REALLY cut US taxes - ID, deporting 258 383649
3. crude oil's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barre 254 386633
4. OT:McCain's War Record 195 339194
5. OK which is it Global Warming or Cooling? 139 300371
6. Obamas plans for the US 138 318680
7. Sami 116 205313
8. OT_Rev.Wright 95 159815
9. US Life Expectancy Falls 92 168659
10. Steel wire carrying twelve volts ? 85 89807
11. old techniques still in use? 81 99293
12. Who ya votin' for??? 80 144307
13. Hardince HC Chucker -- someone needs help 71 94517
14. Kennedy 57 54429
15. Bush was satisfied... 50 111647

A total of 828 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1213
2. Forte Agent 1124
3. G2 831
4. Forte Free Agent 441
5. Mozilla 332
6. MT-NewsWatcher 303
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 283
8. slrn 215
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 213
10. Xnews 129
11. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 93
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 59
13. Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 54
14. KNode 43
15. Microsoft Internet News 38

A total of 39 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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