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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: 1,253 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Aug 11 00:55:08 2008
Latest article: Sun Aug 17 22:55:19 2008
Original articles: 77, replies: 1,176
Total size of posts: 3,730,957 bytes (3,643K) (3.56M)
Average 179 articles per day, 0.51 MB per day, 2,977 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,716 KB bodies: 1,926 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,013 KB, original: 659 KB = 39.42%, sigs: 246 KB
Total number of posters: 234, average 15,944 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 121, average 30,834 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 35

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 71
2: Wes ................................ ......... : 47
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 37
4: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 34
5: ................................. : 33
6: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 31
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 27
8: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 21
9: tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!.......................................... : 21
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20
11: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 20
12: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 20
13: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 20
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 19
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 19
16: Gunner .................... ...... : 18
17: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 17
18: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 16
19: Don Foreman ................... . : 16
20: Jeff McCann ............................. . : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 189
2: "\"The Rifleman\"" .................... : 173
3: ................................. : 123
4: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 110
5: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 101
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 100
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 90
8: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 89
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 81
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 69
11: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 64
12: F. George McDuffee .......... : 61
13: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 60
14: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 59
15: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 56
16: Jeff McCann ............................. . : 54
17: strabo ........................... ...... : 54
18: tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!.......................................... : 53
19: Gunner .................... ...... : 50
20: ......................................... : 46

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 94.45%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 87.05%
3: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 79.76%
4: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 78.04%
5: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 71.45%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 70.59%
7: BottleBob .......................... ... : 65.98%
8: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 65.97%
9: "Flash" ....................... ..... : 64.30%
10: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 63.92%
11: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 62.42%
12: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 60.07%
13: "\"The Rifleman\"" .................... : 59.67%
14: Wes ................................ ......... : 57.97%
15: mariposas rand mair fheal ............... : 55.38%
16: cavelamb himself ..................... : 54.98%
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 53.32%
18: ............................................. : 53.17%
19: ............................................. : 51.59%
20: Retief ................................................ ...... : 49.88%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: " .................... : 13.69%
2: Bruce in Bangkok ........... : 14.49%
3: ................................. : 16.09%
4: Dan ............................ ......... : 16.64%
5: "Jon" ....................... ....... : 19.49%
6: David Billington ............ : 21.10%
7: Christopher Tidy .................. : 21.95%
8: Ignoramus6985 ............. . : 21.96%
9: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 22.38%
10: Snarky ..................... ...... : 22.68%
11: clare at snyder dot ontario dot canada......................... : 22.88%
12: Jeff McCann ............................. . : 23.70%
13: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 24.47%
14: ......................................... : 25.84%
15: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 26.05%
16: Spehro Pefhany ............. : 26.90%
17: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 27.24%
18: "Den" ........................... ....... : 27.35%
19: strabo ........................... ...... : 27.39%
20: Gunner .................... ...... : 28.22%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society...... : 115
2: $520.............................................. ............. : 87
3: Viewsonic monitors.......................................... ... : 50
4: Abiotic oil............................................... ..... : 49
5: Drilling a BIG hole at 40 deg.................................. : 46
6: Snicker........................................... ............. : 40
7: What is it? Set 245............................................ : 39
8: Roll up door installation question............................. : 37
9: noisy relay............................................. ....... : 36
10: sorta OT - Back Attack......................................... : 34
11: Degreasing aluminum.......................................... .. : 28
12: "gunner" gets a little bit ****ed!.........LOL!................ : 28
13: Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain................ : 26
14: Vacuum generator venturi - any made one?....................... : 26
15: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 26
16: DIY VFD Update............................................ ..... : 26
17: Long term gasoline storage..................................... : 23
18: Old Vigor Burnout Furnace adapted to heat treating............. : 21
19: Telescopic track for hoist?.................................... : 19
20: Progress report X 2............................................ : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society...... : 413
2: $520.............................................. ............. : 323
3: Snicker........................................... ............. : 251
4: Abiotic oil............................................... ..... : 156
5: Roll up door installation question............................. : 136
6: Old Vigor Burnout Furnace adapted to heat treating............. : 130
7: Viewsonic monitors.......................................... ... : 125
8: Drilling a BIG hole at 40 deg.................................. : 112
9: sorta OT - Back Attack......................................... : 94
10: "gunner" gets a little bit ****ed!.........LOL!................ : 81
11: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 80
12: noisy relay............................................. ....... : 77
13: Degreasing aluminum.......................................... .. : 69
14: Vacuum generator venturi - any made one?....................... : 67
15: OT- 2 stroke-/ variable c/r, direct injection engine........... : 66
16: What is it? Set 245............................................ : 64
17: Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain................ : 60
18: DIY VFD Update............................................ ..... : 58
19: Telescopic track for hoist?.................................... : 53
20: Progress report X 2............................................ : 41

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 371
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 254
3: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 197
4: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 197
5: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 170
6: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 146
7: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 79
8: rec.music.beatles................................. ............. : 67
9: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 64
10: sci.environment................................... ............. : 42

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 57
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 51
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 29
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 18
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 17
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
7: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 7
9: rn................................................ ............. : 7
10: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 352 (28%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 219 (17%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 159 (13%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 114 ( 9%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 103 ( 8%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 92 ( 7%)
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 43 ( 3%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 36 ( 3%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 26 ( 2%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 18 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 366
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 240
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 231
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 159
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 129
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 34
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 34
8: +1000............................................. ............. : 26
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 10
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 6055 messages written between 2008-07-18 00:08:57 and
2008-08-17 23:57:07

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Dennis 3 97.28%
2. Ouroboros_Rex 4 95.69%
3. Sid9 14 92.48%
4. Gray Ghost 6 92.38%
5. Too_Many_Tools 5 91.73%
6. Lamont Cranston 11 91.22%
7. Siobhan Medeiros 27 89.24%
8. Cydrome Leader 9 88.32%
9. JohnB 3 87.33%
10. 4 86.34%
11. 55 85.43%
12. Bob Brock 13 85.40%
13. 33 85.30%
14. Nahmie 4 85.13%
15. Jeff Wisnia 5 84.66%

A total of 9238776 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5263114, or 56.97%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 285 539499 66.0%
2. Cliff 283 358247 66.8%
3. Gunner Asch 219 520567 47.8%
4. Wes 190 113942 38.0%
5. Larry Jaques 178 240226 56.0%
6. Hawke 148 332639 64.5%
7. John R. Carroll 129 200300 62.2%
8. Tom Gardner 128 179138 77.0%
9. Michael A. Terrell 117 137971 50.9%
10. Gunner 111 159908 63.2%
11. Martin H. Eastburn 83 179774 62.7%
cavelamb himself 83 69775 73.1%
13. DoN. Nichols 76 174794 40.2%
14. SteveB toquerville@zionvistas 75 85801 65.1%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 74 124676 26.8%

A total of 545 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 73080 / 4 = 18270
2. \"The Rifleman\" 124024 / 14 = 8858 19.3%
3. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p 40161 / 6 = 6693 10.0%
4. Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion pope 32969 / 5 = 6593 18.7%
5. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 11563 / 4 = 2890 31.6%
6. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!125995 / 54 = 2333 34.3%
7. 9272 / 4 = 2318 31.8%
8. Scott S. Logan 8239 / 4 = 2059 2.5%
9. Proctologically ViolatedRgCo entropic3.14d 10279 / 5 = 2055 66.7%
10. 11685 / 6 = 1947 39.6%
11. 5816 / 3 = 1938 10.5%
12. sittingduck 29546 / 18 = 1641 11.8%
13. Millwright Ron 13009 / 8 = 1626 27.7%
14. Ted Frater 4823 / 3 = 1607 59.2%
15. Curt Welch 89586 / 56 = 1599 38.9%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. $520 362 557568
2. Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society 281 611294
3. It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid 261 657747
4. Pentagon blocked Obama's access to injured U.S. troops 157 246198
5. OT: John Mc Cain ... says he has no clue how to use a co 129 208603
6. Solar Power 96 87786
7. Do modern engines last longer? 81 149304
8. OT-Taxpayer Surprise. 79 105168
Had a "smash and grab" accident today 79 98386
10. Miller Trailblazer 55G further questions...stuck valve 77 112953
11. OT: 69% are worse off 65 104517
12. McCain 63 63065
13. Suskind: Bush admin ordered forgery 57 121444
14. Productivity Problem 53 122079
15. we need unions 52 127830

A total of 497 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1570
2. Forte Agent 924
3. G2 641
4. Forte Free Agent 494
5. Mozilla 402
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 359
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 319
8. slrn 235
9. MT-NewsWatcher 141
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 130
11. Xnews 129
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 105
13. Pan 65
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 59
15. NewsReader.Com 56

A total of 39 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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