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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: 2,175 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jun 2 00:55:08 2008
Latest article: Sun Jun 8 22:55:26 2008
Original articles: 92, replies: 2,083
Total size of posts: 7,957,532 bytes (7,771K) (7.59M)
Average 310 articles per day, 1.08 MB per day, 3,658 bytes per article
Total headers: 3,237 KB bodies: 4,533 KB
Body text - quoted: 3,054 KB, original: 1,159 KB = 27.52%, sigs: 312 KB
Total number of posters: 314, average 25,342 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 143, average 55,647 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: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 190
2: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 184
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 112
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 108
5: ZeD ................................. ......... : 71
6: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" .................. : 63
7: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 53
8: tankfixer ......................... ... : 52
9: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 52
10: Bob Brock .............................. : 44
11: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 42
12: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 36
13: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 30
14: "Scout" ....... ..... : 28
15: " .............. : 28
16: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 25
17: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 23
18: Larry Jaques ................... : 23
19: Whata Fool .................................. .. : 22
20: gregvk ............................... ...... : 19

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 879
2: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 706
3: ZeD ................................. ......... : 376
4: Gunner .................... ...... : 361
5: tankfixer ......................... ... : 279
6: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" .................. : 264
7: Cliff ............................... ....... : 253
8: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 242
9: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 187
10: Bob Brock .............................. : 184
11: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 154
12: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 146
13: " .............. : 143
14: "Scout" ....... ..... : 140
15: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 140
16: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 111
17: Max Isn't Well luv2^fly99@live.^com.......................... : 109
18: gregvk ............................... ...... : 99
19: TransWench ............................. .. : 86
20: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 83

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "V-for-Vendicar" ........... : 94.51%
2: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 91.78%
3: Wes ................................ ......... : 86.89%
4: "William Noble" ........................... : 76.76%
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 71.09%
6: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 64.51%
7: nick hull ................................... ... : 61.90%
8: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 59.40%
9: Jim Bianchi ................................. . : 55.94%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 55.34%
11: Winston .......................... ..... : 55.07%
12: ........................................ : 52.67%
13: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 52.20%
14: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 51.04%
15: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 49.59%
16: "0ZBN0" ............................... ..... : 48.33%
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 45.22%
18: Randy ............................. ....... : 43.02%
19: Whata Fool .................................. .. : 41.82%
20: strabo ........................... ...... : 39.71%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Rex .................................... ......... : 4.03%
2: "Ouroboros_Rex" ............................... : 4.22%
3: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" .................. : 5.02%
4: Max Isn't Well luv2^fly99@live.^com.......................... : 7.17%
5: gregvk ............................... ...... : 8.35%
6: Bob Brock .............................. : 9.20%
7: tankfixer ......................... ... : 11.27%
8: "Scout" ....... ..... : 11.33%
9: " .............. : 14.35%
10: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 14.82%
11: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 15.87%
12: Ignoramus16961 ........... : 16.29%
13: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 16.60%
14: Dan ............................ ......... : 16.70%
15: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 16.96%
16: TransWench ............................. .. : 17.87%
17: "Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries" .................. : 18.05%
18: .......................................... : 18.47%
19: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 21.97%
20: Joe Pfeiffer .......................... .. : 23.32%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court.................................... : 728
2: OT- The gun is civilization.................................... : 321
3: Chilling.......................................... ............. : 124
4: Application of algebra......................................... : 65
5: Increasing strength of steel through rolling................... : 49
6: How to REALLY cut US taxes..................................... : 41
7: castellated socket............................................ . : 34
8: OT: Scott McClellan Betrays GOP................................ : 31
9: A case for Aluminum Welding?................................... : 27
10: Bonzo caught lying again....................................... : 27
11: Chicom Pellet rifle rear sight needed.......................... : 27
12: OT: Sorry, this is TOO good---Method used to recrute Global War : 24
13: does 440 volt power exist?..................................... : 23
14: Bayonet ID................................................ ..... : 21
15: An old guy died, you should have seen his shop!................ : 20
16: Unusual metal machining process?............................... : 20
17: OT: VP Question.......................................... ...... : 19
18: SLACK's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barrel......... : 19
19: A premonition....................................... ........... : 17
20: Cutting straight with a die.................................... : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court.................................... : 3258
2: OT- The gun is civilization.................................... : 1311
3: Chilling.......................................... ............. : 328
4: Continuing lathe chatter (from people now, not the lathe. :-).. : 218
5: Application of algebra......................................... : 176
6: OT: Scott McClellan Betrays GOP................................ : 127
7: How to REALLY cut US taxes..................................... : 121
8: Increasing strength of steel through rolling................... : 119
9: Bonzo caught lying again....................................... : 94
10: castellated socket............................................ . : 83
11: Chicom Pellet rifle rear sight needed.......................... : 78
12: Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed................................ : 69
13: does 440 volt power exist?..................................... : 69
14: A case for Aluminum Welding?................................... : 67
15: SLACK's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barrel......... : 62
16: OT: Sorry, this is TOO good---Method used to recrute Global War : 58
17: Cutting straight with a die.................................... : 50
18: OT: VP Question.......................................... ...... : 49
19: Unusual metal machining process?............................... : 48
20: A premonition....................................... ........... : 46

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 1308
2: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 1099
3: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 874
4: alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights....................... : 736
5: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 550
6: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 277
7: sci.environment................................... ............. : 158
8: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 158
9: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 25
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 24

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 76
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 68
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 19
5: Xnews............................................. ............. : 16
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 15
7: rn................................................ ............. : 12
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 11
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 576 (26%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 468 (22%)
3: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 225 (10%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 190 ( 9%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 138 ( 6%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 117 ( 5%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 112 ( 5%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 89 ( 4%)
9: MicroPlanet-Gravity....................................... : 72 ( 3%)
10: slrn.............................................. ........ : 65 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 828
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 550
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 328
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 198
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 190
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 25
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 16
8: +1000............................................. ............. : 9
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 9
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 8

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

This report covers 7424 messages written between 2008-05-09 00:00:39 and
2008-06-08 23:36:19

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Ouroboros_Rex 6 96.68%
2. Max Isn't Well luv2^fly99@live.^com 19 92.07%
3. gregvk 19 91.26%
4. rigger 3 90.60%
5. Ken Sterling 5 89.25%
6. Rex 23 89.19%
7. Bob Brock 231 88.75%
8. Scout 27 88.19%
9. Jim Stewart 10 87.02%
10. tankfixer 52 86.77%
11. Rev. 11D Meow! 10 86.55%
12. Myal 17 86.42%
13. 46 86.41%
14. azotic 3 86.26%
15. DaveB 18 86.04%

A total of 12443816 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
7962613, or 63.99%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 507 520001 66.8%
2. Aratzio 463 1279101 11.2%
3. mariposas rand mair fheal 434 621025 63.4%
4. Gunner 374 547517 71.8%
5. Ed Huntress 320 666690 62.8%
6. Bob Brock 231 487372 0.6%
7. Hawke 154 387907 59.2%
8. John R. Carroll 151 261130 63.3%
9. Wes 145 106631 37.6%
10. Larry Jaques 136 180061 55.4%
11. strabo 89 206129 66.7%
12. Martin H. Eastburn 83 164762 55.7%
13. Jim Wilkins 82 71697 41.7%
14. Joseph Gwinn 79 445181 73.4%
15. cavelamb himself 75 70583 72.3%

A total of 699 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 57725 / 5 = 11545
2. $B".Us6H(BIGBT$BnyS4".(B lima137141025 19464 / 3 = 6488
3. 15200 / 3 = 5066
4. TransWench 40087 / 11 = 3644 40.6%
5. Ignoramus22089 11659 / 4 = 2914 15.5%
6. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
7. 55422 / 24 = 2309
8. DoN. Nichols 144606 / 70 = 2065 63.0%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso138658 / 70 = 1980 18.5%
10. sittingduck 7526 / 4 = 1881 17.4%
11. V-for-Vendicar Justice@ExecuteTheBushTrait 42257 / 23 = 1837 5.5%
12. Andrew Erickson 4548 / 3 = 1516 7.8%
13. Joseph Gwinn 118321 / 79 = 1497 73.4%
14. sweet&soft 5914 / 4 = 1478
15. 0ZBN0 7107 / 5 = 1421 48.2%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. How to REALLY cut US taxes 1030 1778417
2. NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court 726 1997539
3. OT- The gun is civilization 441 1022492
4. How to REALLY cut US taxes - ID, deporting 258 383649
5. crude oil's record ascent to solidly above $121 per barre 223 348344
6. OT..How come we still export oil to Japan? 169 204282
7. Obamas plans for the US 157 348081
8. Sami 131 227760
9. Chilling 124 177047
10. OT:McCain's War Record 115 245580
11. Hardince HC Chucker -- someone needs help 71 94517
12. Application of algebra 65 91140
13. IN OBAMA'S OWN WORDS............ 62 87668
14. Kennedy 58 54987
15. 40,000 54 72532

A total of 640 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Forte Agent 1754
2. Microsoft Outlook Express 1518
3. G2 747
4. Forte Free Agent 629
5. MT-NewsWatcher 577
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 422
7. Mozilla 349
8. slrn 247
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 236
10. Xnews 202
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 76
12. MicroPlanet-Gravity 73
13. Pan 51
14. Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 50
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 44

A total of 42 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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