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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: 1,268 over 7 days
Earliest article: Tue Aug 19 16:55:09 2008
Latest article: Tue Aug 19 14:55:13 2008
Original articles: 59, replies: 1,209
Total size of posts: 3,779,976 bytes (3,691K) (3.60M)
Average 181 articles per day, 0.51 MB per day, 2,981 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,886 KB bodies: 1,804 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,049 KB, original: 629 KB = 37.50%, sigs: 121 KB
Total number of posters: 226, average 16,725 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 99, average 38,181 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: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 90
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 73
3: ................................. : 68
4: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 61
5: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 57
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 55
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 35
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 27
9: morgan mair fheal ....................... : 26
10: Larry Jaques ................... : 23
11: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 19
12: BottleBob .......................... ... : 18
13: Bob Brock .............................. : 17
14: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 16
15: Patriot Games ........................... . : 16
16: "mich" .............................. ...... : 14
17: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 14
18: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 14
19: nick hull ................................... ... : 13
20: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 12

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: ................................. : 264
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 257
3: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 216
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 213
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 212
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 139
7: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 88
8: morgan mair fheal ....................... : 80
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 63
10: Larry Jaques ................... : 61
11: BottleBob .......................... ... : 60
12: Bob Brock .............................. : 56
13: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 55
14: Patriot Games ........................... . : 54
15: ......................................... : 47
16: Snarky ..................... ...... : 47
17: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 43
18: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 43
19: D Murphy ........................... .... : 41
20: ................................. : 38

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: .......................................... : 79.43%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 78.88%
3: spaco .............................. : 75.54%
4: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 73.63%
5: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 70.28%
6: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 67.06%
7: Jon Elson ............................. : 66.16%
8: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 63.20%
9: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 61.02%
10: nick hull ................................... ... : 60.75%
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 60.14%
12: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 58.52%
13: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 58.14%
14: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 57.55%
15: Wes ................................ ......... : 53.16%
16: JR North ..................... .... : 51.06%
17: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 51.04%
18: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 50.74%
19: BottleBob .......................... ... : 50.67%
20: Morris Dovey .............................. .. : 50.11%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ................................. : 10.99%
2: Bob Brock .............................. : 11.21%
3: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 14.70%
4: ................................. : 17.34%
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 19.20%
6: Snarky ..................... ...... : 19.54%
7: "Jon" ....................... ....... : 19.72%
8: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 20.79%
9: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 21.66%
10: ....................................... : 25.21%
11: "over a barrel" .............. : 25.23%
12: RB ............................ .......... : 26.26%
13: "mich" .............................. ...... : 26.59%
14: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 26.93%
15: ............................................... : 27.71%
16: ......................................... : 29.59%
17: Cliff ............................... ....... : 31.39%
18: " ............................ : 31.87%
19: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 32.12%
20: technomaNge ............................ . : 32.26%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain................ : 268
2: Old Age............................................... ......... : 155
3: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 61
4: McCain............................................ ............. : 54
5: Mill or lathe?............................................ ..... : 48
6: My dog died last night...damnit................................ : 42
7: The Middle Class............................................. .. : 39
8: Motor Bearing........................................... ....... : 36
9: OT: house of cards collapsing?................................. : 35
10: What is it? Set 246............................................ : 31
11: How do I straighten Delrin?.................................... : 29
12: OT - TSA inspector breaks nine airliners....................... : 27
13: OT: Serial Hybrids........................................... .. : 26
14: Plastic Drilling Question - Small Hole Process................. : 23
15: Roll up door installation question............................. : 23
16: Things not to say in Post Op................................... : 20
17: 10 Years Later............................................. .... : 19
18: Mobile solid state laser gun................................... : 19
19: Steel grades............................................ ....... : 17
20: OT- taxing the "fuel" on an electric car?...................... : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain................ : 966
2: Old Age............................................... ......... : 495
3: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 218
4: Mill or lathe?............................................ ..... : 164
5: McCain............................................ ............. : 148
6: The Middle Class............................................. .. : 104
7: My dog died last night...damnit................................ : 98
8: OT: house of cards collapsing?................................. : 80
9: Roll up door installation question............................. : 75
10: Motor Bearing........................................... ....... : 74
11: OT: Serial Hybrids........................................... .. : 73
12: What is it? Set 246............................................ : 69
13: How do I straighten Delrin?.................................... : 62
14: Mobile solid state laser gun................................... : 58
15: Plastic Drilling Question - Small Hole Process................. : 54
16: Things not to say in Post Op................................... : 52
17: OT - TSA inspector breaks nine airliners....................... : 50
18: 10 Years Later............................................. .... : 48
19: OT: cutting US corporate taxes................................. : 43
20: Steel grades............................................ ....... : 43

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 684
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 529
3: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 287
4: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 275
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 238
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 195
7: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 149
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 31
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 31
10: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 30

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 52
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 48
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 40
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 16
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 14
6: rn................................................ ............. : 10
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 282 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 250 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 190 (15%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 118 ( 9%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 94 ( 7%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 84 ( 7%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 65 ( 5%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 44 ( 3%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 28 ( 2%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 27 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 419
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 320
3: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 190
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 169
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 122
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 14
7: -0600.............................................. ............ : 8
8: -0800.............................................. ............ : 8
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 7
10: -1200.............................................. ............ : 4

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

This report covers 5946 messages written between 2008-07-25 00:00:07 and
2008-08-24 23:23:39

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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. Too_Many_Tools 3 94.08%
4. Sid9 14 92.48%
5. Lamont Cranston 11 91.22%
6. Joe788 3 90.24%
7. 7 89.46%
8. Siobhan Medeiros 27 89.24%
9. Jeff Wisnia 5 88.06%
10. Bob Brock 29 87.48%
11. john 6 87.41%
12. JohnB 3 87.33%
13. 12 85.88%
14. Nahmie 4 85.13%
15. Dan 14 84.61%

A total of 9065916 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5172470, or 57.05%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 330 362254 66.8%
2. Gunner Asch 248 532922 49.8%
3. Ed Huntress 196 368847 63.8%
4. Wes 185 113206 40.9%
5. Hawke 166 355529 62.0%
Larry Jaques 166 228273 54.9%
7. 123 220835 84.0%
8. John R. Carroll 120 185483 55.9%
9. Michael A. Terrell 119 182978 51.8%
10. Tom Gardner 90 102436 72.3%
11. Martin H. Eastburn 84 180358 62.1%
12. Gunner 79 115498 63.0%
13. SteveB toquerville@zionvistas 72 84470 64.5%
14. DoN. Nichols 71 171355 41.6%
15. cavelamb himself 70 61723 70.0%

A total of 518 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 73100 / 4 = 18275
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. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 16621 / 3 = 5540 24.0%
6. 9169 / 3 = 3056
7. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii 11563 / 4 = 2890 31.6%
8. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!125995 / 54 = 2333 34.3%
9. Scott S. Logan 8239 / 4 = 2059 2.5%
10. Millwright Ron 12768 / 7 = 1824 22.8%
11. Curt Welch 73249 / 43 = 1703 39.5%
12. sittingduck 29546 / 18 = 1641 11.8%
13. 6003 / 4 = 1500 13.7%
14. 5816 / 4 = 1454 51.7%
15. DoN. Nichols 100103 / 71 = 1409 41.6%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. $520 368 564002
2. Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain 294 511884
3. Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society 281 611294
4. It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid 261 657747
5. Pentagon blocked Obama's access to injured U.S. troops 157 246198
6. Old Age 149 237923
7. McCain 117 119811
8. OT: John Mc Cain ... says he has no clue how to use a co 107 192213
9. Solar Power 96 87786
10. edge finder sensitivity 87 138383
11. Do modern engines last longer? 81 149304
12. Had a "smash and grab" accident today 80 99049
13. Roll up door installation question 60 129177
14. Suskind: Bush admin ordered forgery 59 126011
15. we need unions 52 127830

A total of 445 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1433
2. Forte Agent 870
3. G2 674
4. Forte Free Agent 515
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 419
6. Mozilla 361
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 338
8. slrn 210
9. MT-NewsWatcher 173
10. Pan 144
11. Xnews 126
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 119
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 58
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 50
15. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 44

A total of 38 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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