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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: 1,342 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jun 30 00:55:11 2008
Latest article: Sun Jul 6 22:55:24 2008
Original articles: 75, replies: 1,267
Total size of posts: 4,306,432 bytes (4,205K) (4.11M)
Average 191 articles per day, 0.59 MB per day, 3,208 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,875 KB bodies: 2,330 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,135 KB, original: 813 KB = 41.75%, sigs: 372 KB
Total number of posters: 243, average 17,721 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 120, average 35,886 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 40

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 132
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 69
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 68
4: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 61
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 50
6: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 28
7: ................................. : 27
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 27
9: cavelamb himself ..................... : 22
10: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 20
11: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 19
12: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 17
13: Tom Quackenbush ...................... : 17
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 15
15: "RAM³" ...................... ...... : 15
16: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 14
17: Gunner .................... ...... : 14
18: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 14
19: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 13
20: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 13

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 418
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 282
3: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 279
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 159
5: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 152
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 140
7: "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" .................... : 122
8: ................................. : 106
9: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 103
10: =?GB2312?B?of6Mo5hJSUdCVOROytuh/g==?= : 97
11: Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killing and Yardwor : 90
12: cavelamb himself ..................... : 67
13: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 63
14: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 50
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 47
16: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 47
17: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 46
18: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 44
19: Wes ................................ ......... : 42
20: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 38

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 89.77%
2: "Dave, I can't do that" .................. : 86.90%
3: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 84.06%
4: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 81.89%
5: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 79.15%
6: axolotl ............................. ..... : 74.07%
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 68.17%
8: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 67.52%
9: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 67.16%
10: (Curt Welch)..................................... : 65.75%
11: "BillM" ........................... ..... : 64.96%
12: Winston .......................... ..... : 64.46%
13: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 63.34%
14: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 61.26%
15: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 59.98%
16: "*" ............................ ......... : 58.46%
17: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 57.77%
18: Tom Quackenbush ...................... : 56.43%
19: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 55.51%
20: "RAM³" ...................... ...... : 54.30%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 10.50%
2: "Kadaitcha Man" ............... : 11.28%
3: JanBen Hëlmüt ................. . : 12.39%
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 16.85%
5: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 17.60%
6: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 19.36%
7: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 19.64%
8: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 20.21%
9: ................................. : 21.15%
10: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 21.17%
11: RB ............................ .......... : 21.52%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 22.65%
13: Ignoramus5615 ............. . : 23.22%
14: Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killing and Yardwor : 25.51%
15: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 25.66%
16: " .................... : 25.94%
17: Ignoramus4323 ............. . : 27.70%
18: "Stuart & Kathryn Fields" .................... : 28.14%
19: cavelamb himself ..................... : 28.33%
20: Jeff Wisnia .......................... . : 30.23%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Obama's Lies.............................................. ..... : 198
2: OT-143 days.............................................. ...... : 96
3: IMF Investigating the Fed...................................... : 68
4: surface gauge - why flat base?................................. : 66
5: Support for NOMINATION: Pickett Fundi "Teacher" Fired...... : 38
6: What's going to happen with Ethanol?........................... : 38
7: Fundi "Teacher" Fired.......................................... : 32
8: OT - The Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for Denver.. : 31
9: Antigun spin ...ike a mixmaster................................ : 27
10: Clothes line poles............................................. : 27
11: What is it? Set 239............................................ : 25
12: OT - Banning Cell Phones and Driving........................... : 24
13: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 23
14: Why is machining so dirty?..................................... : 21
15: pressure switch wire........................................... : 21
16: Lathe tooling, pictures "before" and "after"................... : 21
17: water heater............................................ ....... : 19
18: Prepping and painting angle iron............................... : 19
19: OT - Six stroke engine......................................... : 19
20: Welding tanks Explode.......................................... : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Obama's Lies.............................................. ..... : 827
2: OT-143 days.............................................. ...... : 511
3: IMF Investigating the Fed...................................... : 226
4: Support for NOMINATION: Pickett Fundi "Teacher" Fired...... : 194
5: surface gauge - why flat base?................................. : 161
6: OT - The Greenest Show on Earth: Democrats Gear Up for Denver.. : 109
7: =?GB2312?B?of7FX56ztPrA7cnM5E7K20lHQlShokdUUqGiSVB NoaJQSU2hor/J : 97
8: What's going to happen with Ethanol?........................... : 88
9: Fundi "Teacher" Fired.......................................... : 83
10: Clothes line poles............................................. : 72
11: Antigun spin ...ike a mixmaster................................ : 68
12: Miller Trailblazer 55G further updates......................... : 66
13: Lathe tooling, pictures "before" and "after"................... : 57
14: OT - Banning Cell Phones and Driving........................... : 54
15: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 50
16: What is it? Set 238............................................ : 48
17: pressure switch wire........................................... : 48
18: What is it? Set 239............................................ : 47
19: OT Space Shuttle question...................................... : 45
20: Cylinder Machining Order of Operations......................... : 44

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 361
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 350
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 294
4: uk.rec.models.engineering......................... ............. : 62
5: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 55
6: sci.environment................................... ............. : 48
7: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 48
8: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 45
9: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 38
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 36

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 57
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 41
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 33
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 18
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 13
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
9: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 346 (26%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 323 (24%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 119 ( 9%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 106 ( 8%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 96 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 58 ( 4%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 48 ( 4%)
8: unknown........................................... ........ : 46 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 42 ( 3%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 35 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 392
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 377
3: UTC............................................... ............. : 195
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 188
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 106
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 35
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 20
8: +0200............................................. ............. : 12
9: -0600.............................................. ............ : 6
10: -1200.............................................. ............ : 5

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

This report covers 8177 messages written between 2008-06-07 00:03:04 and
2008-07-06 21:47:52

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Respondant 3 93.38%
2. 3 93.32%
3. Bob Brock 162 93.01%
4. Max Isn't Well luv2^fly99@live.^com 19 92.07%
5. JosephKK 4 91.64%
6. rigger 4 90.71%
7. Maxwell luv2^fly99@live.^com 5 90.39%
8. Scout 36 89.09%
9. gregvk 54 88.16%
10. Bertie the Bunyip 6 87.84%
11. SE¤�hwO/œf 52 87.58%
12. Mark F 10 85.99%
13. David R. Birch 4 85.84%
14. Matt Stawicki 4 85.66%
15. tankfixer 41 85.48%

A total of 16692512 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
9630731, or 57.69%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Aratzio 469 1369073 16.9%
2. Gunner Asch 415 587867 64.3%
3. mariposas rand mair fheal 378 567168 64.7%
4. Ed Huntress 282 673062 63.8%
5. RD (The Sandman) 224 657835 9.8%
6. Gunner 221 375806 64.5%
7. Cliff 220 224136 68.0%
8. Larry Jaques 191 272573 55.6%
9. Bob Brock 162 547113 14.5%
10. Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries 138 480427 74.3%
11. John R. Carroll 136 339349 41.7%
12. Wes 134 84757 32.3%
13. Hawke 119 301493 66.5%
14. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killin 111 634747 26.2%
15. Carl Nisarel 101 79249 59.8%

A total of 629 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 lima137141025192359 / 4 = 48089
2. Statistics 57900 / 4 = 14475
3. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj258223 / 23 = 11227 12.5%
4. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs298913 / 42 = 7116 15.4%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p151441 / 23 = 6584 16.8%
6. Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion pope259841 / 40 = 6496 27.2%
7. Porsche Monkey For Life PorscheMonkey4Life139938 / 24 = 5830 24.1%
8. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 124850 / 22 = 5675 31.4%
9. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for468571 / 111 = 4221 26.2%
10. TransWench 40087 / 11 = 3644 40.6%
11. 9084 / 3 = 3028
12. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie194800 / 72 = 2705 43.0%
13. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
14. Steve Ackman 19057 / 9 = 2117 17.1%
15. Al A. 6165 / 3 = 2055 9.0%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. NOTICE TO THE Supreme Court 2069 6281812
2. OT- The gun is civilization 704 1504939
3. OT-143 days 270 683130
4. Obama's Lies 195 496584
5. Bitch-slapping neocons & wngers for fun & profit 158 441336
6. OT - Girl shoots herself with grandma's gun at SC store 139 278125
7. Fishing-Red Stte Style 129 240808
8. OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case) 95 141086
9. Bayonet ID 94 114185
Chilling 94 108148
11. Sami 87 156388
12. Thirty-five Articles of Impeachment 86 260388
13. IMF Investigating the Fed 83 148083
14. Fundi "Teacher" Fired 81 191911
15. PICTURE -- Big vs. small impact wrench 76 105548

A total of 452 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1676
2. Forte Agent 1668
3. G2 607
4. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 533
5. MT-NewsWatcher 516
6. Xnews 498
7. Mozilla 413
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 382
9. Pan 366
10. Forte Free Agent 330
11. slrn 298
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 76
13. MicroPlanet-Gravity 66
14. tin 56
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 46

A total of 45 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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