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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: 1,723 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Aug 25 00:55:09 2008
Latest article: Sun Aug 31 22:55:26 2008
Original articles: 77, replies: 1,646
Total size of posts: 5,647,970 bytes (5,515K) (5.39M)
Average 246 articles per day, 0.77 MB per day, 3,277 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,551 KB bodies: 2,964 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,606 KB, original: 992 KB = 38.20%, sigs: 357 KB
Total number of posters: 236, average 23,932 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 124, average 45,548 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 36

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 138
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 88
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 70
4: ................................. : 68
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 68
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 61
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 53
8: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 48
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 47
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 40
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 34
12: Bob Brock .............................. : 30
13: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 29
14: ................................. : 29
15: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 28
16: Morris Dovey .............................. .. : 25
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 22
18: Jon Elson ............................. : 21
19: Snarky ..................... ...... : 20
20: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 19

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 481
2: ................................. : 299
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 293
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 267
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 214
6: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 181
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 175
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 164
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 163
10: ................................. : 114
11: Bob Brock .............................. : 107
12: F. George McDuffee .......... : 99
13: Wes ................................ ......... : 89
14: Snarky ..................... ...... : 86
15: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 85
16: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 84
17: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 83
18: Jon Elson ............................. : 60
19: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 59
20: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CF=EE=EC=EE=F9=FC A=F1=EF=E8p=E0=ED=F2=E0=EC?= : 58

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 84.93%
2: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 82.90%
3: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 78.42%
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 75.38%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 74.74%
6: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 74.34%
7: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 69.18%
8: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 69.09%
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 67.09%
10: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 63.78%
11: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 62.60%
12: Jon Elson ............................. : 60.02%
13: Morris Dovey .............................. .. : 59.51%
14: (Curt Welch)..................................... : 58.58%
15: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 56.76%
16: "Chet" ...................... ...... : 54.23%
17: BottleBob .......................... ... : 54.03%
18: Wes ................................ ......... : 53.89%
19: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 53.17%
20: " ............................ : 50.94%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bob Brock .............................. : 7.95%
2: Harold Burton ...................... . : 11.42%
3: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 11.66%
4: ................................. : 12.18%
5: ................................. : 13.08%
6: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 13.84%
7: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 15.50%
8: Snarky ..................... ...... : 16.79%
9: cavelamb himself ..................... : 17.29%
10: Patriot Games ........................... . : 17.50%
11: "Tom Gardner" ................... . : 17.89%
12: The Secretary of HomIntern ............... : 18.38%
13: David Billington ............ : 18.63%
14: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 20.47%
15: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 21.28%
16: .......................................... : 22.51%
17: D Murphy ........................... .... : 23.39%
18: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 24.94%
19: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 25.14%
20: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 25.62%

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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................ : 245
2: OT: McCain Picks a Gal......................................... : 197
3: Old Age............................................... ......... : 128
4: $520.............................................. ............. : 82
5: Obama............................................. ............. : 70
6: Cut-and-Runners Have Won....................................... : 61
7: I give up ........... never say never.......................... : 57
8: Where In The World Is Iggy?.................................... : 45
9: Any refrigeration experts out there?........................... : 43
10: Homelite ST175 String trimmer parts?........................... : 34
11: tax question: switching over from hobby to business?........... : 33
12: Top McCain Aide Lobbied for Gun Rights for Terrorists.......... : 26
13: Red-neck lathe v2.0............................................ : 25
14: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 25
15: DIY Vacuum Actuator?......................................... .. : 25
16: Catalytic converters........................................ ... : 24
17: What is it? Set 247............................................ : 23
18: It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid............................ : 23
19: bond foam rubber............................................ ... : 21
20: Well quit - trouble shooting................................... : 20

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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................ : 973
2: OT: McCain Picks a Gal......................................... : 554
3: Old Age............................................... ......... : 532
4: $520.............................................. ............. : 315
5: Cut-and-Runners Have Won....................................... : 254
6: Obama............................................. ............. : 214
7: I give up ........... never say never.......................... : 171
8: Homelite ST175 String trimmer parts?........................... : 128
9: Any refrigeration experts out there?........................... : 128
10: Where In The World Is Iggy?.................................... : 117
11: Red-neck lathe v2.0............................................ : 107
12: BEST CARS.............................................. ........ : 93
13: tax question: switching over from hobby to business?........... : 86
14: It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid............................ : 78
15: edge finder sensitivity....................................... . : 76
16: Neo-cons dream of global dominance............................. : 68
17: Top McCain Aide Lobbied for Gun Rights for Terrorists.......... : 66
18: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=CF=EE=EC=EE=F9=FC =E0=F1=EF=E8=F0=E0=ED=F2=E0=E : 58
19: DIY Vacuum Actuator?......................................... .. : 57
20: Catalytic converters........................................ ... : 53

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 619
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 579
3: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 334
4: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 303
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 291
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 208
7: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 186
8: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 52
9: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 27
10: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 24

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 54
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 45
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 33
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 19
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 15
6: Pan............................................... ............. : 14
7: rn................................................ ............. : 9
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 416 (24%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 353 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 218 (13%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 192 (11%)
5: Pan............................................... ........ : 131 ( 8%)
6: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 112 ( 7%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 87 ( 5%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 54 ( 3%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 42 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 40 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 526
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 435
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 287
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 218
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 181
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 20
7: -0600.............................................. ............ : 16
8: +0200............................................. ............. : 12
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 12
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 9

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

This report covers 6397 messages written between 2008-08-01 00:02:10 and
2008-08-31 23:48:38

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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 3 96.52%
3. Sid9 8 95.01%
4. Too_Many_Tools 3 94.08%
5. Lamont Cranston 14 92.74%
6. Joe788 3 90.24%
7. gk 3 90.18%
8. Bob Brock 59 90.10%
9. Siobhan Medeiros 24 89.45%
10. Harold Burton 18 88.28%
11. 36 87.88%
12. 188 85.76%
13. 21 83.48%
14. RichL 6 83.02%
15. 19 82.98%

A total of 10279498 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5772034, or 56.15%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 386 790594 51.8%
2. Cliff 344 427445 64.2%
3. Larry Jaques 202 274196 54.8%
4. Wes 200 141418 42.8%
5. Ed Huntress 198 391886 62.5%
6. 188 377934 85.8%
7. Hawke 179 394802 62.2%
8. Michael A. Terrell 152 222026 48.8%
9. John R. Carroll 135 231260 52.6%
10. Curly Surmudgeon 124 284603 71.1%
11. Tom Gardner 96 113397 70.9%
12. Jerry 78 100590 70.9%
13. Jim Wilkins 75 87415 32.1%
14. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 73 130244 27.1%
SteveB toquerville@zionvistas 73 101188 67.7%

A total of 523 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 73103 / 4 = 18275
2. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj 66890 / 6 = 11148 8.7%
3. \"The Rifleman\" 124024 / 14 = 8858 19.3%
4. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p 60899 / 9 = 6766 12.1%
5. Demon Lord Henry Schmidt of Confusion pope 32969 / 5 = 6593 18.7%
6. Lola Stonewall Riot 30974 / 5 = 6194 22.3%
7. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 16621 / 3 = 5540 24.0%
8. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie 26023 / 5 = 5204 10.4%
9. 11802 / 3 = 3934
10. 9169 / 3 = 3056
11. Ignoramus29035 8672 / 3 = 2890 16.0%
12. 7918 / 3 = 2639
13. tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!!125684 / 52 = 2417 32.6%
14. sittingduck 21603 / 9 = 2400 6.8%
15. Scott S. Logan 8239 / 4 = 2059 2.5%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain 539 1015181
2. $520 419 721709
3. Old Age 283 562820
4. Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society 270 581546
5. It's the Economic Stupidity, Stupid 207 582635
6. OT: McCain Picks a Gal 193 287854
7. McCain 117 119811
8. edge finder sensitivity 112 167250
9. Do modern engines last longer? 81 149304
10. Obama 70 116762
11. Cut-and-Runners Have Won 67 160395
12. Had a "smash and grab" accident today 61 68892
13. Roll up door installation question 60 129177
14. Suskind: Bush admin ordered forgery 59 126011
15. My dog died last night...damnit 57 60933

A total of 438 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1458
2. Forte Agent 964
3. G2 768
4. Forte Free Agent 534
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 446
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 425
7. Mozilla 390
8. Pan 269
9. slrn 194
10. MT-NewsWatcher 185
11. Xnews 138
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 126
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 59
14. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 36
15. NewsReader.Com 30

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

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