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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: 1,586 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jul 28 00:55:10 2008
Latest article: Sun Aug 3 22:55:40 2008
Original articles: 87, replies: 1,499
Total size of posts: 4,772,044 bytes (4,660K) (4.55M)
Average 226 articles per day, 0.65 MB per day, 3,008 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,160 KB bodies: 2,499 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,434 KB, original: 887 KB = 38.22%, sigs: 171 KB
Total number of posters: 257, average 18,568 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 130, average 36,708 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 42

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 81
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 65
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 59
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 57
5: Gunner .................... ...... : 52
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 52
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 32
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 31
9: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 30
10: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 29
11: (Curt Welch)..................................... : 28
12: Abrasha ............................. ..... : 25
13: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 23
14: nick hull ................................... ... : 22
15: Christopher Tidy .................. : 22
16: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 21
17: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 20
18: RB ............................ .......... : 19
19: Siobhan Medeiros ............................. : 19
20: cavelamb himself ..................... : 18

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 297
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 232
3: Gunner .................... ...... : 169
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 152
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 128
6: (Curt Welch)..................................... : 125
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 103
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 96
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 95
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 89
11: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 86
12: Siobhan Medeiros ............................. : 85
13: "Sid9" .............................. ...... : 78
14: Abrasha ............................. ..... : 77
15: Starkiller .................... .. : 75
16: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 66
17: Christopher Tidy .................. : 65
18: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 63
19: RB ............................ .......... : 54
20: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 54

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 85.70%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 83.69%
3: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 73.83%
4: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 72.04%
5: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 71.24%
6: Winston .......................... ..... : 64.32%
7: "William Noble" ........................... : 62.50%
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 62.39%
9: Anthony .......................... ..... : 62.02%
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 61.91%
11: "Bob La Londe" .............................. : 59.49%
12: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 59.42%
13: sittingduck ........................... . : 57.29%
14: (Curt Welch)..................................... : 56.74%
15: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 56.08%
16: ............................................. : 55.38%
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 55.38%
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 55.36%
19: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 54.70%
20: F. George McDuffee .......... : 52.04%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Sid9" .............................. ...... : 7.34%
2: Siobhan Medeiros ............................. : 9.98%
3: RB ............................ .......... : 12.66%
4: Curly Surmudgeon ............. : 15.47%
5: tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!.......................................... : 16.07%
6: Abrasha ............................. ..... : 16.13%
7: Griff .............................. ....... : 16.77%
8: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 16.94%
9: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 17.45%
10: genie ............................. ....... : 17.83%
11: "CharlesTheCurmudgeon" ..................... : 18.14%
12: (DaveB)......................................... : 18.23%
13: ................................. : 18.74%
14: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 19.27%
15: Jeff McCann ............................. . : 19.61%
16: Ignoramus31137 ........... : 20.42%
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 20.98%
18: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 21.93%
19: Ignoramus22222 ........... : 21.94%
20: Ignoramus25244 ........... : 23.40%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid............................ : 214
2: Pentagon blocked Obama's access to injured U.S. troops......... : 122
3: $520.............................................. ............. : 78
4: Had a "smash and grab" accident today.......................... : 75
5: Solar Power............................................. ....... : 64
6: OT: John Mc Cain ... says he has no clue how to use a computer. : 58
7: Do modern engines last longer?................................. : 51
8: Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society...... : 42
9: OT? 150' extension cord........................................ : 42
10: Achieving fine finish on turned parts.......................... : 40
11: What is mercury worth?......................................... : 34
12: what's involved in re-tinning a steel pot?..................... : 34
13: OT - Sam's Club warranties?.................................... : 29
14: Need help with storage shelf design - help me get a new welder! : 27
15: Hydraulic lathes?........................................... ... : 26
16: Need help with stoarge shelf design - help me get a new welder! : 26
17: VERY OT - A View Of America.................................... : 24
18: China trade costs jobs in every state.......................... : 21
19: math help.............................................. ........ : 21
20: Hidden price increases......................................... : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid............................ : 891
2: Pentagon blocked Obama's access to injured U.S. troops......... : 356
3: $520.............................................. ............. : 209
4: Had a "smash and grab" accident today.......................... : 194
5: OT: John Mc Cain ... says he has no clue how to use a computer. : 190
6: Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society...... : 160
7: Do modern engines last longer?................................. : 155
8: Need help with stoarge shelf design - help me get a new welder! : 144
9: Solar Power............................................. ....... : 133
10: Achieving fine finish on turned parts.......................... : 126
11: OT - Sam's Club warranties?.................................... : 96
12: Need help with storage shelf design - help me get a new welder! : 96
13: OT? 150' extension cord........................................ : 82
14: What is mercury worth?......................................... : 81
15: what's involved in re-tinning a steel pot?..................... : 79
16: VERY OT - A View Of America.................................... : 79
17: China trade costs jobs in every state.......................... : 73
18: Hydraulic lathes?........................................... ... : 69
19: math help.............................................. ........ : 49
20: Source of compresed air........................................ : 43

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 433
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 279
3: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 248
4: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 248
5: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 219
6: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 159
7: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 99
8: sci.environment................................... ............. : 68
9: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 68
10: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 60

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 55
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 51
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 18
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
7: rn................................................ ............. : 9
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 8
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 380 (24%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 368 (23%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 149 ( 9%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 129 ( 8%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 109 ( 7%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 109 ( 7%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 68 ( 4%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 45 ( 3%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 41 ( 3%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 29 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 452
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 366
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 327
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 214
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 129
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 18
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 18
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 13
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 11
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 10

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

This report covers 5912 messages written between 2008-07-04 00:09:21 and
2008-08-03 23:59:31

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. marika 4 94.19%
2. Sid9 13 92.85%
3. Gray Ghost 9 91.56%
4. Siobhan Medeiros 19 90.15%
5. GORF 4 90.09%
6. 4 90.00%
7. erik litchy 3 88.94%
8. mich 14 87.61%
9. John L. Weatherly 3 87.21%
10. Abrasha 40 86.69%
11. Wayne Cook 3 86.51%
12. Art Deco 3 86.43%
13. 4 86.34%
14. Mark F 5 85.88%
15. 3 85.76%

A total of 9227286 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5073583, or 54.98%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 337 715588 6.7%
2. Gunner Asch 244 459610 53.9%
3. John R. Carroll 195 426956 48.1%
4. Larry Jaques 176 227590 57.0%
5. Cliff 160 178316 64.8%
6. Hawke 151 353084 67.3%
7. Wes 145 87204 37.7%
8. Gunner 131 185046 62.5%
9. Michael A. Terrell 113 125978 53.7%
10. Tom Gardner 104 166976 77.3%
11. cavelamb himself 100 103681 67.5%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 95 180940 26.8%
13. DoN. Nichols 72 156843 31.7%
72 122221 82.4%
15. Jim Wilkins 65 49855 37.2%

A total of 530 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 88167 / 4 = 22041
2. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj123135 / 11 = 11194 8.8%
3. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p 98130 / 15 = 6542 14.5%
4. Porsche Monkey For Life PorscheMonkey4Life 18245 / 3 = 6081 21.5%
5. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 34328 / 6 = 5721 22.3%
6. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for101086 / 21 = 4813 23.0%
7. TransWench 15590 / 5 = 3118 33.3%
8. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 11563 / 4 = 2890 31.6%
9. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie 18033 / 7 = 2576 36.4%
10. 9272 / 4 = 2318 31.8%
11. texasjim1093 14714 / 7 = 2102 1.2%
12. Scott S. Logan 8239 / 4 = 2059 2.5%
13. Starkiller 26479 / 14 = 1891 66.5%
14. Proctologically ViolatedRgCo entropic3.14d 10677 / 6 = 1779 65.8%
15. Curt Welch 102405 / 58 = 1765 36.1%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Obama's Lies 433 1072425
2. It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid 214 545639
3. OT-Taxpayer Surprise. 183 321519
4. Pentagon blocked Obama's access to injured U.S. troops 144 211677
5. OT: John Mc Cain ... says he has no clue how to use a co 106 153308
6. Gunner's kind 79 158025
Miller Trailblazer 55G further questions...stuck valve 79 115054
8. $520 78 102117
9. IMF Investigating the Fed 74 129146
Had a "smash and grab" accident today 74 95476
11. Productivity Problem 70 150300
12. OT: 69% are worse off 65 104517
13. Signed up for Welding class 64 104301
Solar Power 64 49255
15. Evidently winning isnt noteworthy.... 54 155932

A total of 489 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1567
2. Forte Agent 964
3. G2 630
4. Mozilla 397
5. Forte Free Agent 342
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 329
7. slrn 286
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 284
9. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 147
10. Xnews 119
11. MT-NewsWatcher 106
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 65
13. NewsReader.Com 58
14. Pan 56
15. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 46

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

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