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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: 1,095 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jul 7 02:55:07 2008
Latest article: Sun Jul 13 22:55:21 2008
Original articles: 72, replies: 1,023
Total size of posts: 3,353,371 bytes (3,274K) (3.20M)
Average 156 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 3,062 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,529 KB bodies: 1,745 KB
Body text - quoted: 853 KB, original: 599 KB = 41.27%, sigs: 288 KB
Total number of posters: 228, average 14,707 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 112, average 29,940 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: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 56
2: Larry Jaques ................... : 37
3: ................................. : 36
4: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 34
5: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 31
6: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 29
7: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 27
8: Gunner .................... ...... : 23
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 20
10: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19
11: Tom Quackenbush ...................... : 18
12: cavelamb himself ..................... : 16
13: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 15
14: strabo ........................... ...... : 15
15: Bob Brock .............................. : 14
16: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 13
17: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 13
18: Winston .......................... ..... : 13
19: " ............................ : 12
20: F. George McDuffee .......... : 12

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 212
2: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 142
3: ................................. : 128
4: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 97
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 94
6: Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killing and Yardwor : 89
7: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 83
8: "The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt" popesnarky.godofodd : 76
9: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 75
10: strabo ........................... ...... : 63
11: Gunner .................... ...... : 60
12: Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition : 55
13: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 52
14: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCIi5VczZIGyhCSUdCVBskQm55UzQiLhsoQg==?= lim : 47
15: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 47
16: Tom Quackenbush ...................... : 46
17: Bob Brock .............................. : 44
18: cavelamb himself ..................... : 43
19: " ............................ : 43
20: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 36

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 90.22%
2: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 85.37%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 83.86%
4: Don Foreman ................... . : 82.39%
5: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 78.68%
6: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 74.38%
7: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 72.31%
8: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 70.39%
9: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 69.55%
10: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 69.16%
11: ............................................. : 62.15%
12: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 62.14%
13: Jon Elson ............................. : 62.11%
14: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 62.10%
15: Gerry .............................. ....... : 60.32%
16: Dave.............................................. ............. : 59.50%
17: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 58.67%
18: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 58.62%
19: cavelamb himself ..................... : 58.22%
20: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 54.94%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Dan ............................ ......... : 10.17%
2: Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition : 11.80%
3: ................................. : 14.66%
4: TransWench ............................. .. : 15.13%
5: Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for Killing and Yardwor : 15.55%
6: Ignoramus32025 ........... : 16.72%
7: "The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt" popesnarky.godofodd : 17.14%
8: RB ............................ .......... : 17.44%
9: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 17.49%
10: Ignoramus2215 ............. . : 18.28%
11: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20.94%
12: JanBen Hëlmüt ................. . : 21.67%
13: Gunner .................... ...... : 23.03%
14: Ignoramus16038 ........... : 23.82%
15: strabo ........................... ...... : 24.15%
16: "William Noble" ........................... : 24.17%
17: Bob Brock .............................. : 24.76%
18: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 25.68%
19: "Jon" ....................... ....... : 26.94%
20: David Billington ............ : 27.89%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Obama's Lies.............................................. ..... : 226
2: Gunner's kind.............................................. .... : 60
3: Signed up for Welding class.................................... : 48
4: Mustang gets 110 mpg........................................... : 42
5: Noah's Ark............................................... ...... : 42
6: Welding Machines.......................................... ..... : 31
7: Thread cutting on a reversible lathe........................... : 26
8: Steel wire cut to length....................................... : 24
9: What is it? Set 240............................................ : 24
10: Prepping and painting angle iron............................... : 21
11: Tying down a lathe............................................. : 20
12: Troy Built Horse tiller older engine blow up. What to do....... : 18
13: OT - Six stroke engine......................................... : 18
14: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 17
15: Welding tanks Explode.......................................... : 16
16: A useful little project........................................ : 16
17: BANG SCHMUCK BONG CRASH........................................ : 15
18: OT? 550 tons of Yellow cake.................................... : 15
19: Autodark welding helmet recommendations........................ : 14
20: Needed: Bandsaw Table Trunnions................................ : 14

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Obama's Lies.............................................. ..... : 935
2: Gunner's kind.............................................. .... : 194
3: Signed up for Welding class.................................... : 149
4: Mustang gets 110 mpg........................................... : 122
5: Noah's Ark............................................... ...... : 112
6: Welding Machines.......................................... ..... : 103
7: Thread cutting on a reversible lathe........................... : 68
8: Support for NOMINATION: Pickett Fundi "Teacher" Fired...... : 64
9: OT? 550 tons of Yellow cake.................................... : 62
10: OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case)...................... : 56
11: Steel wire cut to length....................................... : 54
12: What is it? Set 240............................................ : 49
13: Tying down a lathe............................................. : 48
14: Japanese halberd Lima Electronics (Singapore) Ltd. Japanese hal : 47
15: Prepping and painting angle iron............................... : 46
16: Troy Built Horse tiller older engine blow up. What to do....... : 46
17: Welding tanks Explode.......................................... : 45
18: OT - Six stroke engine......................................... : 40
19: PICTURES -- Lathe transport, cleanup etc (it runs)............. : 36
20: OT-143 days.............................................. ...... : 35

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 268
2: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 236
3: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 158
4: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 26
5: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 24
6: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 24
7: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 17
8: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 17
9: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 16
10: sci.environment................................... ............. : 9

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 53
2: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 35
3: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 35
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 16
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 14
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 14
7: rn................................................ ............. : 11
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 9
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 298 (27%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 231 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 126 (12%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 96 ( 9%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 70 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 64 ( 6%)
7: unknown........................................... ........ : 37 ( 3%)
8: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 37 ( 3%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 26 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 21 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 266
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 250
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 200
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 156
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 126
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 40
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 12
8: +0200............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 9
10: -0600.............................................. ............ : 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 6540 messages written between 2008-06-14 00:03:04 and
2008-07-13 23:57:38

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. 3 93.32%
2. JosephKK 4 91.64%
3. Bob Brock 62 89.51%
4. David R. Birch 3 88.80%
5. Wayne Cook 3 87.86%
6. mich 12 87.76%
7. Mark F 8 86.70%
8. Myal 3 86.51%
9. Dan 8 86.01%
10. David R.Birch 4 85.94%
11. Matt Stawicki 4 85.66%
12. dpb 3 84.82%
13. SE¤�hwO/œf 39 84.42%
14. bq340 3 84.30%
15. Jim Stewart 15 84.15%

A total of 11559810 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5930863, or 51.31%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 355 492911 65.9%
2. Ed Huntress 295 732918 5.0%
3. Larry Jaques 201 287694 56.2%
4. mariposas rand mair fheal 180 226953 61.7%
5. Cliff 155 165601 66.9%
6. Aratzio 151 342648 73.5%
7. John R. Carroll 147 342790 43.6%
8. Gunner 142 197647 72.7%
9. Wes 126 83565 33.2%
10. Hawke 125 313907 66.2%
11. RD (The Sandman) 108 293223 74.0%
12. Carl Nisarel 95 76228 59.9%
13. 86 162248 84.0%
14. Zombywoof 84 144490 61.7%
15. Tom Gardner 77 96800 67.2%

A total of 594 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 lima137141025233806 / 4 = 58451
2. Statistics 57918 / 4 = 14479
3. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj258223 / 23 = 11227 12.5%
4. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs203655 / 29 = 7022 12.1%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p216477 / 33 = 6559 16.5%
6. Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion pope176448 / 28 = 6301 24.3%
7. Porsche Monkey For Life PorscheMonkey4Life131796 / 23 = 5730 22.5%
8. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 90755 / 16 = 5672 29.9%
9. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for213150 / 46 = 4633 26.1%
10. TransWench 15590 / 5 = 3118 33.3%
11. 9084 / 3 = 3028
12. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie150152 / 52 = 2887 40.1%
13. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
14. Steve Ackman 18755 / 8 = 2344 16.0%
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 800 2052899
2. Obama's Lies 424 1037071
3. OT- The gun is civilization 281 502647
4. OT-143 days 277 708155
5. Bitch-slapping neocons & wngers for fun & profit 148 434500
6. Fishing-Red Stte Style 129 240808
7. OT: Case decided (was 2nd Amendment case) 112 172385
8. IMF Investigating the Fed 94 162513
9. Fundi "Teacher" Fired 81 191911
10. surface gauge - why flat base? 69 72845
11. Sami 67 124323
12. Chilling 66 90917
13. Support for NOMINATION: Pickett Fundi "Teacher" Fired 60 230762
Gunner's kind 60 114349
15. ****, ****, ****! Carlin dead at 71 59 43325

A total of 449 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1492
2. Forte Agent 1198
3. G2 550
4. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 396
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 363
6. Mozilla 351
7. Xnews 319
8. slrn 277
9. Forte Free Agent 270
10. MT-NewsWatcher 246
11. Pan 219
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 64
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 51
tin 51
15. Microsoft Internet News 43

A total of 48 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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