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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: 1,870 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 15 02:55:05 2008
Latest article: Mon Sep 22 00:55:24 2008
Original articles: 114, replies: 1,756
Total size of posts: 6,051,085 bytes (5,909K) (5.77M)
Average 267 articles per day, 0.82 MB per day, 3,235 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,708 KB bodies: 3,200 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,643 KB, original: 990 KB = 37.59%, sigs: 557 KB
Total number of posters: 306, average 19,774 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 190, average 31,847 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 47

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 124
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 96
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 82
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 71
5: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 63
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 56
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 47
8: ................................. : 45
9: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 42
10: Gunner .................... ...... : 40
11: Christopher Tidy .................. : 39
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 35
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 32
14: Jon Elson ............................. : 28
15: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 27
16: wf3h ............................ ........ : 26
17: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 22
18: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 20
19: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 19
20: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 16

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 353
2: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 343
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 294
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 259
5: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 252
6: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 190
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 183
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 177
9: ................................. : 162
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 161
11: Gunner .................... ...... : 141
12: Christopher Tidy .................. : 106
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 106
14: wf3h ............................ ........ : 98
15: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 78
16: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 71
17: Jon Elson ............................. : 70
18: Wes ................................ ......... : 61
19: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 57
20: Snarky ..................... ...... : 57

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "azotic" .................................. .... : 89.91%
2: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 85.91%
3: sittingduck ........................... . : 83.74%
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 78.45%
5: "Vaughn Simon" ............. : 76.68%
6: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 76.63%
7: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 71.60%
8: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 69.30%
9: " ............................ : 68.04%
10: ................................... : 67.48%
11: Don Foreman ................... . : 66.05%
12: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 60.36%
13: Jon Elson ............................. : 60.04%
14: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 59.95%
15: Winston .......................... ..... : 59.36%
16: spaco .............................. : 59.32%
17: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 58.86%
18: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 58.40%
19: Wes ................................ ......... : 57.16%
20: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 57.16%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ah ........................... .......... : 2.32%
2: "Wim Jay" .......................... ... : 9.04%
3: BAR ................................... ......... : 11.98%
4: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 12.01%
5: john .......................... ........ : 12.24%
6: "Eisboch" ................................. ... : 13.19%
7: A Real Boater .............................. : 14.49%
8: ................................. : 15.38%
9: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 16.35%
10: strabo ........................... ...... : 16.94%
11: Bob Brock .............................. : 17.91%
12: " .................... : 17.97%
13: ................................. : 18.98%
14: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 19.54%
15: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 19.60%
16: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 19.74%
17: Snarky ..................... ...... : 19.75%
18: "Roy Blankenship" .................. : 19.79%
19: Ignoramus18195 ........... : 20.67%
20: (Ray Fischer)............................... : 21.04%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: I'm voting republican because.................................. : 228
2: OT: another domino thud-thud-thud-thud-thud----................ : 127
3: Banning Books............................................. ..... : 84
4: Our economy........................................... ......... : 75
5: PT: First as tradegy, second as farce.......................... : 45
6: A rhetorical question.......................................... : 44
7: Health Care.............................................. ...... : 43
8: Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products which. : 42
9: McCain wants to "put an end to greed".......................... : 41
10: Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products which : 37
11: Welding is very dangerous...................................... : 36
12: This is Your Nation on White Privilege......................... : 35
13: Automotive question.......................................... .. : 32
14: Looking for a hard felt washer 1/2" x 1" x 1/8"................ : 32
15: Stock Market Tanks!! Thanks GOP................................ : 27
16: Obviously, Republicans are socialists.......................... : 22
17: Lathe rebuild........................................... ....... : 22
18: OT Survey, Which Party Do You Think Will Be Better For Machine : 22
19: pump design help.............................................. . : 20
20: What is it? Set 250............................................ : 20

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: I'm voting republican because.................................. : 774
2: OT: another domino thud-thud-thud-thud-thud----................ : 438
3: Our economy........................................... ......... : 300
4: Health Care.............................................. ...... : 297
5: Banning Books............................................. ..... : 268
6: This is Your Nation on White Privilege......................... : 164
7: McCain wants to "put an end to greed".......................... : 121
8: PT: First as tradegy, second as farce.......................... : 118
9: Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products which. : 115
10: Obviously, Republicans are socialists.......................... : 112
11: A rhetorical question.......................................... : 111
12: Welding is very dangerous...................................... : 105
13: OT Survey, Which Party Do You Think Will Be Better For Machine : 99
14: I'm voting republican because... -- Another HH&C lie.......... : 99
15: Is our view of old engineering distorted by the products which : 95
16: Stock Market Tanks!! Thanks GOP................................ : 81
17: Automotive question.......................................... .. : 80
18: Looking for a hard felt washer 1/2" x 1" x 1/8"................ : 77
19: NOMINATION: KOTM $520...................................... : 71
20: Lathe rebuild........................................... ....... : 67

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 701
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 700
3: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 537
4: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 501
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 313
6: alt.abortion...................................... ............. : 153
7: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 112
8: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 110
9: alt.stupidity..................................... ............. : 80
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 71

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 68
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 63
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 42
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 22
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 21
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 9
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 8
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 7
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 407 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 355 (19%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 215 (11%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 196 (10%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 186 (10%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 85 ( 5%)
7: unknown........................................... ........ : 81 ( 4%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 77 ( 4%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 47 ( 3%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 34 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 514
2: -0400.............................................. ............ : 506
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 314
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 223
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 215
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 32
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 24
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 17
9: +0200............................................. ............. : 11
10: -0600.............................................. ............ : 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 7372 messages written between 2008-08-22 00:02:21 and
2008-09-21 23:47:16

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 9 97.45%
2. Joe788 3 96.08%
3. Naked Gonad 3 95.90%
4. 4 93.51%
5. Mark F 6 91.75%
6. Lamont Cranston 7 91.73%
7. Bob Brock 50 90.85%
8. Wim Jay 6 90.71%
9. gk 3 90.18%
10. Harold Burton 26 88.19%
11. BAR 7 88.13%
12. 6 87.96%
13. 47 87.16%
14. Eisboch 6 87.15%
15. 160 85.89%

A total of 12137075 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6567127, or 54.11%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 388 752253 56.9%
2. Cliff 380 418705 63.0%
3. Ed Huntress 374 829937 13.9%
4. Larry Jaques 290 476552 58.7%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 278 682325 1.2%
6. Hawke 227 516383 67.3%
7. Michael A. Terrell 218 315697 54.3%
8. John R. Carroll 187 393334 48.9%
9. Wes 161 116986 43.2%
10. 160 323835 85.9%
11. Jerry 133 167183 63.6%
12. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 127 259773 17.1%
13. Tom Gardner 97 135102 71.3%
14. DoN. Nichols 80 172687 43.5%
Jim Wilkins 80 77557 35.3%

A total of 595 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. 80839 / 3 = 26946
2. Statistics 96737 / 7 = 13819
3. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj157738 / 14 = 11267 8.9%
4. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs 60487 / 6 = 10081 9.5%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p110220 / 16 = 6888 13.5%
6. Demon Lord Benedict Snodgrass Jr of Confusi113865 / 17 = 6697 25.7%
7. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie218192 / 37 = 5897 17.6%
8. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 17680 / 3 = 5893 24.2%
9. Lola Stonewall Riot 32723 / 6 = 5453 30.3%
10. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for 24703 / 5 = 4940 14.1%
11. 11802 / 3 = 3934
12. None4You 26478 / 9 = 2942 50.1%
13. Ignoramus29035 8672 / 3 = 2890 16.0%
14. 7918 / 3 = 2639
15. 7907 / 3 = 2635

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT: McCain Picks a Gal 371 696258
2. Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain 369 776114
3. I'm voting republican because... 368 580232
4. Old Age 275 574491
5. McCain / Repub / Winger Family Values 214 421461
6. OT It runs in the vice presidential family 167 280781
7. OT:McCain's for Change? 148 292298
8. $520 133 335300
9. Cut-and-Runners Have Won 130 304219
10. OT: another domino thud-thud-thud-thud-thud---- 129 236277
11. Banning Books 80 131783
12. Our economy... 75 161680
I give up ........... never say never. 75 123305
14. Obama 71 117249
15. On topic -- Schick vs. Gillette blades 68 70535

A total of 586 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1618
2. Forte Agent 1114
3. G2 829
4. Forte Free Agent 553
5. Mozilla 496
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 479
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 412
8. Pan 390
9. slrn 273
10. Xnews 161
11. MT-NewsWatcher 136
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 121
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 119
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 48
15. tin 34

A total of 43 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! I've become invisible and invaluable. I see myself
nowhere on the list. Funny, I DID get some metalworking done this week.
Does that qualify me?

Steve

"SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas wrote:

ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! I've become invisible and invaluable. I see myself
nowhere on the list. Funny, I DID get some metalworking done this week.
Does that qualify me?

Steve


Sadly, the scripts can't separate politics from metalworking. Might be fun though to drop
Cliff from the stats, I hope I'm not encouraging him.

Hang in there, the election will be over soon.

Wes