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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: 1,686 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jun 23 00:55:07 2008
Latest article: Sun Jun 29 22:55:32 2008
Original articles: 115, replies: 1,571
Total size of posts: 5,472,513 bytes (5,344K) (5.22M)
Average 240 articles per day, 0.75 MB per day, 3,245 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,286 KB bodies: 3,057 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,450 KB, original: 1,135 KB = 43.90%, sigs: 462 KB
Total number of posters: 311, average 17,596 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 172, average 31,816 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: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 97
2: Larry Jaques ................... : 68
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 65
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 55
5: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 45
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 45
7: Gunner .................... ...... : 39
8: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 36
9: Carl Nisarel ............................. .. : 32
10: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 28
11: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 28
12: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 28
13: "*" ............................ ......... : 27
14: RB ............................ .......... : 22
15: Fred Tehbot ........................... . : 21
16: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20
17: Theotis Johnson ............................. : 20
18: F. George McDuffee .......... : 19
19: "William Noble" ........................... : 19
20: strabo ........................... ...... : 18
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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 329
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 198
3: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCIi5VczZIGyhCSUdCVBskQm55UzQiLhsoQg==?= lim : 191
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 182
5: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 180
6: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 152
7: Cliff ............................... ....... : 140
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 137
9: =?GB2312?B?of6Mo5hJSUdCVOROytuh/g==?= : 96
10: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 92
11: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 91
12: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 88
13: "*" ............................ ......... : 82
14: "The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt" popesnarky.godofodd : 81
15: strabo ........................... ...... : 79
16: Wes ................................ ......... : 74
17: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 71
18: F. George McDuffee .......... : 68
19: Carl Nisarel ............................. .. : 66
20: Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killing and Yardwor : 65
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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 81.79%
2: sittingduck ........................... . : 77.26%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 75.05%
4: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 74.35%
5: Bob AZ .............................. ..... : 71.25%
6: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 71.13%
7: Winston .......................... ..... : 67.76%
8: Dan@ (Dan H)................................................ ... : 66.59%
9: John Doe ......................... .... : 62.88%
10: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 62.27%
11: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 60.81%
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 58.98%
13:
(Ralph)....................................... : 57.98%
14: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 57.93%
15: spaco .............................. : 57.52%
16: Fred Tehbot ........................... . : 57.03%
17: Trevor Jones ........................... .. : 56.57%
18: .............................................. : 55.09%
19: cavelamb himself ..................... : 54.50%
20: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 53.52%
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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bob Brock .............................. : 9.76%
2: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 10.93%
3: " .................... : 11.15%
4: Curly Surmudgeon ............. : 12.15%
5: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 12.50%
6: Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion popesnarky.verwarring@ve : 13.35%
7: The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity absurd_number_of_nicks@ : 13.44%
8: ................................. : 14.06%
9: Theotis Johnson ............................. : 15.09%
10: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 15.16%
11: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 15.61%
12: (Gray Ghost)................ : 15.73%
13: ................................. : 17.56%
14: Ignoramus27719 ........... : 19.08%
15: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19.11%
16: David Billington ............ : 19.44%
17: "*" ............................ ......... : 20.11%
18: Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition : 20.55%
19: Ignoramus28029 ........... : 21.00%
20: .......................................... : 21.09%
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT-143 days.............................................. ...... : 174
2: NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court.................................... : 98
3: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 72
4: ****, ****, ****! Carlin dead at 71............................ : 65
5: Fishing-Red Stte Style......................................... : 64
6: OT- The gun is civilization.................................... : 58
7: Fundi "Teacher" Fired.......................................... : 47
8: Inexpensive but worthwhile wirefeed?........................... : 38
9: Pneumatic rack and pinion drive................................ : 34
10: We may have a Muslim President! Hehe!.......................... : 34
11: OT - Banning Cell Phones and Driving........................... : 31
12: Heard from Hamei............................................. .. : 31
13: 049 test stand dont's.......................................... : 29
14: GIVE ... ME ... A ... BREAK.................................... : 26
15: Convert a Pedestal Drill to a Mill............................. : 24
16: Bitch-slapping neocons & wngers for fun & profit............... : 23
17: Chilling.......................................... ............. : 22
18: Roald W. Reagan, Beloved Blue State President.................. : 20
19: SHOCKING! Quincy compressor needs maintenence!................. : 20
20: Same sex marriage.......................................... .... : 20
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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT-143 days.............................................. ...... : 582
2: NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court.................................... : 363
3: Fundi "Teacher" Fired.......................................... : 234
4: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 221
5: Fishing-Red Stte Style......................................... : 198
6: Japanese halberd Lima Electronics (Singapore) Ltd. Japanese hal : 191
7: OT- The gun is civilization.................................... : 175
8: Bitch-slapping neocons & wngers for fun & profit............... : 155
9: We may have a Muslim President! Hehe!.......................... : 140
10: ****, ****, ****! Carlin dead at 71............................ : 133
11: Pneumatic rack and pinion drive................................ : 98
12: OT - Banning Cell Phones and Driving........................... : 97
13: Inexpensive but worthwhile wirefeed?........................... : 96
14: =?GB2312?B?of7FX56ztPrA7cnM5E7K20lHQlShokdUUqGiSVB NoaJQSU2hor/J : 96
15: political -- THE PROBLEM WITH RINOs IS......................... : 90
16: 049 test stand dont's.......................................... : 87
17: Heard from Hamei............................................. .. : 82
18: Support for NOMINATION: Pickett Fundi "Teacher" Fired...... : 81
19: GIVE ... ME ... A ... BREAK.................................... : 68
20: Ronald Reagan: Beloved Blue Stater............................. : 67
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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 540
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 463
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 365
4: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 305
5: alt.politics.usa.constitution.gun-rights....................... : 226
6: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 103
7: sci.environment................................... ............. : 68
8: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 68
9: rec.models.rc.air................................. ............. : 25
10: alt.religion.christian............................ ............. : 24
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 74
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 60
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 39
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 26
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 22
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 20
7: rn................................................ ............. : 12
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 11
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 10
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 394 (23%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 387 (23%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 157 ( 9%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 130 ( 8%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 103 ( 6%)
6: unknown........................................... ........ : 96 ( 6%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 86 ( 5%)
8: Pan............................................... ........ : 65 ( 4%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 59 ( 3%)
10: slrn.............................................. ........ : 58 ( 3%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 467
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 462
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 269
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 203
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 157
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 29
7: +0545............................................. ............. : 21
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 18
9: -0300.............................................. ............ : 15
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 13
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Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics
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(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson
This report covers 9035 messages written between 2008-05-30 00:13:57 and
2008-06-29 23:35:52
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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. Respondant 3 93.38%
3. Rex 9 93.15%
4. Max Isn't Well luv2^fly99@live.^com 19 92.07%
5. Bob Brock 236 91.98%
6. JosephKK 4 91.64%
7. Ken Sterling 3 89.64%
8. rigger 5 88.92%
9. Scout 44 88.01%
10. gregvk 56 87.94%
11. Bertie the Bunyip 6 87.84%
12. Daryl Hunt 6 87.60%
13. SE¤hwO/œf 46 87.59%
14. 63 87.19%
15. 41 87.02%
A total of 18175951 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
11003776, or 60.54%, were quotes.
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Toplist of writers
Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Aratzio 667 1878612 11.0%
2. mariposas rand mair fheal 502 766206 9.2%
3. Cliff 336 380209 73.0%
4. Gunner 306 526609 64.8%
5. Ed Huntress 288 634139 60.7%
6. Gunner Asch 283 387603 63.8%
7. RD (The Sandman) 238 694095 13.5%
8. Bob Brock 236 687895 29.5%
9. Larry Jaques 168 213241 54.3%
10. Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries 155 510384 73.9%
11. Hawke 146 355527 64.7%
12. Wes 131 102664 26.6%
13. John R. Carroll 123 231377 55.7%
14. Jim Wilkins 109 96701 37.0%
15. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killin 100 568958 27.0%
A total of 687 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. $B".Us6H(BIGBT$BnyS4".(B lima137141025199463 / 5 = 39892
2. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj135088 / 12 = 11257 15.7%
3. Statistics 35947 / 4 = 8986
4. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs306552 / 43 = 7129 15.5%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p137867 / 21 = 6565 16.8%
6. Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion pope259841 / 40 = 6496 27.2%
7. m+a+r+y+a+ 18276 / 3 = 6092
8. Porsche Monkey For Life PorscheMonkey4Life139938 / 24 = 5830 24.1%
9. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 107798 / 19 = 5673 31.5%
10. Teh Czar ov Awl Teh Flonkers flonkerczar@p 12865 / 3 = 4288 21.7%
11. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for415250 / 100 = 4152 27.0%
12. TransWench 40087 / 11 = 3644 40.6%
13. Steve Ackman 34132 / 11 = 3102 9.6%
14. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie172548 / 64 = 2696 44.1%
15. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
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Toplist of subjects
Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court 2350 6860271
2. OT- The gun is civilization 1029 2307281
3. How to REALLY cut US taxes 278 400591
4. Chilling 207 275268
5. OT-143 days 174 324968
6. Bitch-slapping neocons & wngers for fun & profit 158 441336
7. OT - Girl shoots herself with grandma's gun at SC store 139 278125
8. Fishing-Red Stte Style 129 240808
9. Bayonet ID 94 114185
10. Application of algebra 90 118548
11. Sami 87 156388
12. Thirty-five Articles of Impeachment 86 260388
13. PICTURE -- Big vs. small impact wrench 76 105548
14. OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case) 72 125236
15. 20 HP Lathe 63 90408
A total of 510 subjects were identified.
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Toplist of programs
Place Program Msgs
1. Forte Agent 2014
2. Microsoft Outlook Express 1823
3. G2 726
4. MT-NewsWatcher 664
5. Xnews 508
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 450
7. Forte Free Agent 439
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 426
9. Mozilla 421
10. Pan 355
11. slrn 313
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 84
13. MicroPlanet-Gravity 79
14. Microsoft Internet News 51
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 49
A total of 41 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.
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