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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: 1,692 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 1 02:55:18 2008
Latest article: Mon Sep 8 00:55:25 2008
Original articles: 112, replies: 1,580
Total size of posts: 5,270,843 bytes (5,147K) (5.03M)
Average 241 articles per day, 0.72 MB per day, 3,115 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,331 KB bodies: 2,815 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,492 KB, original: 898 KB = 37.58%, sigs: 412 KB
Total number of posters: 261, average 20,194 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 183, average 28,802 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" ....................... . : 111
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 101
3: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 76
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 73
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 64
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 58
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 52
8: Don Foreman ................... . : 33
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 33
10: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 32
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 30
12: "Tom Gardner" ............................. . : 29
13: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 28
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 25
15: john .......................... ........ : 20
16: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 19
17: Patriot Games ........................... . : 19
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 18
19: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 17
20: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 17

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 364
2: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 271
3: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 245
4: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 239
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 235
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 205
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 173
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 117
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 108
10: "The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt" popesnarky.godofodd : 106
11: "Tom Gardner" ............................. . : 85
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 81
13: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 80
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 76
15: Snarky ..................... ...... : 74
16: john .......................... ........ : 72
17: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 69
18: "The Demon of Mockery & Silliness, Chas. E. Pemberton" lola.st : 66
19: Patriot Games ........................... . : 66
20: .......................................... : 58

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 91.79%
2: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 90.31%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 85.94%
4: BottleBob .......................... ... : 75.47%
5: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 72.81%
6: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 69.19%
7: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 66.17%
8: Ignoramus29627 ........... : 65.90%
9: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 65.42%
10: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 64.21%
11: Jon Elson ............................. : 64.06%
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 63.05%
13: Winston .......................... ..... : 61.16%
14: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 59.29%
15: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 59.21%
16: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 57.04%
17: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 56.64%
18: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 55.79%
19: "RAM³" ...................... ...... : 55.77%
20: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 54.77%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= .......... : 10.74%
2: .............................................. : 10.79%
3: cavelamb himself ..................... : 11.94%
4: .......................................... : 12.41%
5: Harold Burton ...................... . : 12.42%
6: Demon Lord Benedict Snodgrass Jr of Confusion popesnarky.verwa : 13.76%
7: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 14.25%
8: .......................................... : 14.84%
9: Curly Surmudgeon .................................. : 15.14%
10: ................................. : 15.23%
11: "The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt" popesnarky.godofodd : 15.81%
12: "Kadaitcha Man" ...................... : 16.67%
13: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 19.43%
14: "The Demon of Mockery & Silliness, Chas. E. Pemberton" lola.st : 19.64%
15: Snarky ..................... ...... : 20.04%
16: Patriot Games ........................... . : 20.80%
17: " .................... : 20.82%
18: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 21.76%
19: Ignoramus27629 ........... : 22.31%
20: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 22.81%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: McCain / Repub / Winger Family Values.......................... : 166
2: OT It runs in the vice presidential family..................... : 139
3: OT: McCain Picks a Gal......................................... : 129
4: Loctite discovery......................................... ..... : 58
5: Cut-and-Runners Have Won....................................... : 52
6: differentiated thought before cutting metal.................... : 50
7: Cutting steel plate............................................ : 46
8: $520.............................................. ............. : 45
9: Accuracy vs. Precision......................................... : 39
10: Top McCain Aide Lobbied for Gun Rights for Terrorists.......... : 34
11: OT: best presidential speeches................................. : 32
12: Is it fixed? OT................................................ : 30
13: Differentiated thought update.................................. : 29
14: Question about CNC lathes...................................... : 28
15: OT: GM/Chrysler alert.......................................... : 27
16: Sarah Palin's Underage Teenage Daughter Pregnant............... : 27
17: On topic -- Schick vs. Gillette blades......................... : 24
18: OT-Date line Las Vegas 2:07 AM................................. : 22
19: Future vice presidential family is growing very fast........... : 22
20: OT Look at this mayor of Arkhangelsk, Russia................... : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: McCain / Repub / Winger Family Values.......................... : 531
2: OT: McCain Picks a Gal......................................... : 479
3: OT It runs in the vice presidential family..................... : 432
4: $520.............................................. ............. : 220
5: Top McCain Aide Lobbied for Gun Rights for Terrorists.......... : 198
6: Cut-and-Runners Have Won....................................... : 172
7: differentiated thought before cutting metal.................... : 164
8: Loctite discovery......................................... ..... : 123
9: OT: best presidential speeches................................. : 111
10: Accuracy vs. Precision......................................... : 109
11: Cutting steel plate............................................ : 109
12: Sarah Palin's Underage Teenage Daughter Pregnant............... : 105
13: OT: GM/Chrysler alert.......................................... : 96
14: Question about CNC lathes...................................... : 94
15: NOMINATION: MoCJ $520...................................... : 91
16: Differentiated thought update.................................. : 84
17: NOMINATION: KOTM $520...................................... : 76
18: What Price to Expect, what place to ask?....................... : 68
19: OT-Date line Las Vegas 2:07 AM................................. : 61
20: Is it fixed? OT................................................ : 59

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 547
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 446
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 393
4: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 335
5: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 333
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 237
7: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 199
8: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 191
9: alt.stupidity..................................... ............. : 161
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 21

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 59
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 53
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 34
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 24
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 16
6: Pan............................................... ............. : 14
7: rn................................................ ............. : 11
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 409 (24%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 328 (19%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 150 ( 9%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 139 ( 8%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 136 ( 8%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 106 ( 6%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 91 ( 5%)
8: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 78 ( 5%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 71 ( 4%)
10: unknown........................................... ........ : 51 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 510
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 418
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 312
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 216
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 150
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 20
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 19
8: -0600.............................................. ............ : 13
9: -1200.............................................. ............ : 12
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 6479 messages written between 2008-08-08 00:04:31 and
2008-09-07 23:55:33

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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. Lamont Cranston 5 96.20%
4. Too_Many_Tools 3 94.08%
5. Bob Brock 52 91.16%
6. gk 3 90.18%
7. Joe788 4 89.48%
8. Harold Burton 26 88.19%
9. 6 87.96%
10. 41 87.53%
11. 175 85.72%
12. W. Stief 8 84.85%
13. 16 84.52%
14. Mark F 9 83.32%
15. 25 81.97%

A total of 10296907 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5729077, or 55.64%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 349 430089 63.0%
2. Gunner Asch 308 550162 58.5%
3. Ed Huntress 249 520689 64.1%
4. Larry Jaques 203 307326 57.4%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 200 434284 69.2%
6. Hawke 197 428914 64.2%
7. Wes 178 128251 43.2%
8. 175 356437 85.7%
9. Michael A. Terrell 163 256515 51.0%
10. John R. Carroll 132 242996 49.8%
11. Jerry 124 166173 65.3%
12. Tom Gardner 92 113825 73.9%
13. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 90 168895 21.7%
14. Jim Wilkins 87 101462 32.2%
15. SteveB toquerville@zionvistas 71 102203 65.6%

A total of 535 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 73084 / 4 = 18271
2. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj100972 / 9 = 11219 8.6%
3. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs 40278 / 4 = 10069 12.1%
4. \"The Rifleman\" 125067 / 17 = 7356 20.2%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p123600 / 18 = 6866 13.0%
6. Demon Lord Benedict Snodgrass Jr of Confusi 74094 / 11 = 6735 29.4%
7. Lola Stonewall Riot 30974 / 5 = 6194 22.3%
8. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 23204 / 4 = 5801 23.3%
9. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie 52369 / 10 = 5236 12.8%
10. 11802 / 3 = 3934
11. 9169 / 3 = 3056
12. Ignoramus29035 8672 / 3 = 2890 16.0%
13. 7918 / 3 = 2639
14. sittingduck 12541 / 5 = 2508 7.4%
15. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain 545 1037003
2. OT: McCain Picks a Gal 328 594823
3. Old Age 292 595469
4. $520 229 526268
5. McCain / Repub / Winger Family Values 166 278709
6. Lets send the progressives to their more prefered society 155 305109
7. OT It runs in the vice presidential family 139 239187
8. Cut-and-Runners Have Won 130 304219
9. edge finder sensitivity 112 167250
10. McCain 90 103225
11. I give up ........... never say never. 75 123305
12. Obama 71 117249
13. Loctite discovery 61 59115
14. Top McCain Aide Lobbied for Gun Rights for Terrorists 60 177211
Roll up door installation question 60 129177

A total of 487 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1477
2. Forte Agent 941
3. G2 784
4. Forte Free Agent 520
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 399
6. Mozilla 388
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 385
8. Pan 367
9. slrn 210
10. MT-NewsWatcher 163
11. Xnews 156
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 103
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 98
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 55
15. tin 28

A total of 37 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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