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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: 1,906 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Sep 22 02:55:08 2008
Latest article: Mon Sep 29 00:56:59 2008
Original articles: 128, replies: 1,778
Total size of posts: 5,983,030 bytes (5,842K) (5.71M)
Average 272 articles per day, 0.82 MB per day, 3,139 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,677 KB bodies: 3,165 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,743 KB, original: 938 KB = 34.99%, sigs: 474 KB
Total number of posters: 328, average 18,240 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 227, average 26,356 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 46

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 123
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 100
3: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 85
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 55
5: ................................. : 53
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 47
7: Gunner .................... ...... : 42
8: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 39
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 37
10: Christopher Tidy .................. : 33
11: D Murphy ........................... .... : 30
12: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 29
13: F. George McDuffee .......... : 27
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 27
15: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 26
16: Winston .......................... ..... : 25
17: cavelamb himself ..................... : 24
18: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 22
19: "Tom Gardner" ............................. . : 21
20: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 19

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 321
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 319
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 253
4: ................................. : 196
5: The Black Goat With A Thousand Young : 189
6: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 157
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 155
8: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 129
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 111
10: Gunner .................... ...... : 109
11: D Murphy ........................... .... : 99
12: F. George McDuffee .......... : 91
13: cavelamb himself ..................... : 87
14: Christopher Tidy .................. : 86
15: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 82
16: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 82
17: "Notabot" ......................... ... : 74
18: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 73
19: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 72
20: "Obama-Biden in 08" ...................... : 65

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 94.90%
2: "Dave, I can't do that" .................. : 90.14%
3: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 87.81%
4: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 85.68%
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 83.16%
6: bill ..................... ........ : 82.45%
7: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 76.56%
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 75.11%
9: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 71.31%
10: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 67.50%
11: "Bob La Londe" .............................. : 66.12%
12: spaco .............................. : 65.72%
13: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 64.87%
14: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 64.57%
15: Winston .......................... ..... : 61.66%
16: Ignoramus18870 ........... : 61.63%
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 61.63%
18: rand mair fheal ............................ : 60.97%
19: Bruce L. Bergman ........... : 58.54%
20: "Bob in Phx" ............................. .. : 58.42%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 7.18%
2: Lola Stonewall Riot ..................... : 8.01%
3: RecBoats ........................ .... : 8.78%
4: ................................ : 9.87%
5: Bob Brock .............................. : 9.92%
6: ". tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! ." . tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! . : 12.37%
7: Porsche Monkey For Life : 12.77%
8: Strabo ........................... ...... : 14.02%
9: A Real Boater .............................. : 14.62%
10: "Tom Gardner" ..................... . : 14.75%
11: ................................. : 14.98%
12: "Jerry" ................................. ..... : 15.60%
13: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 15.78%
14: "mich" ........................... ...... : 15.89%
15: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 17.07%
16: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 18.20%
17: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 19.51%
18: "Lamont Cranston" ................ : 19.60%
19: Snarky ..................... ...... : 20.15%
20: Ignoramus21406 ........... : 20.16%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: I'm a little confused.......................................... : 148
2: I'm voting republican because.................................. : 103
3: Banning Books............................................. ..... : 91
4: CEO'S and GREED............................................. ... : 64
5: OT: WaMu bites the big one..................................... : 61
6: Health Care.............................................. ...... : 49
7: "Flash of Genius" movie........................................ : 46
8: "Gummer Asch" .,NEW NOMINATION: KOTM........................... : 44
9: McCain Wants A Time Out........................................ : 42
10: Why the Financial Meltdown? by Victor Gerhard.................. : 40
11: shocking product from China.................................... : 40
12: purge a oil tank for safty..................................... : 38
13: Spot the crazed foaming winger................................. : 34
14: POLITICS in metal working group................................ : 33
15: What is it? Set 251............................................ : 28
16: Old Age............................................... ......... : 27
17: Is Sarah Palin a Pathological Liar? / Will McCain / Palin lie t : 25
18: DB-25 Panel cutout dimensions.................................. : 25
19: Electronical question.......................................... : 25
20: obama lovers............................................ ....... : 24

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: I'm a little confused.......................................... : 627
2: Banning Books............................................. ..... : 366
3: I'm voting republican because.................................. : 358
4: OT: WaMu bites the big one..................................... : 213
5: Health Care.............................................. ...... : 188
6: CEO'S and GREED............................................. ... : 186
7: "Gummer Asch" .,NEW NOMINATION: KOTM........................... : 158
8: Spot the crazed foaming winger................................. : 153
9: Why the Financial Meltdown? by Victor Gerhard.................. : 152
10: "Flash of Genius" movie........................................ : 141
11: shocking product from China.................................... : 111
12: Is Sarah Palin a Pathological Liar? / Will McCain / Palin lie t : 110
13: When the Going Gets Tough...................................... : 97
14: McCain Wants A Time Out........................................ : 92
15: POLITICS in metal working group................................ : 88
16: purge a oil tank for safty..................................... : 80
17: Another neocon homoerotic fantasy.............................. : 74
18: Old Age............................................... ......... : 67
19: obama lovers............................................ ....... : 62
20: Automotive question.......................................... .. : 62

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 772
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 730
3: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 582
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 406
5: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 338
6: rec.bicycles.racing............................... ............. : 144
7: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 97
8: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 97
9: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 76
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 72

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 75
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 74
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 45
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 19
5: Pan............................................... ............. : 13
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 13
7: rn................................................ ............. : 11
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 10
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)........................ : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 431 (23%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 355 (19%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 242 (13%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 182 (10%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 157 ( 8%)
6: unknown........................................... ........ : 111 ( 6%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 63 ( 3%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 62 ( 3%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 51 ( 3%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 47 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 566
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 486
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 254
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 249
5: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 242
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 34
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 26
8: -0800.............................................. ............ : 12
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 11
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 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 7698 messages written between 2008-08-29 00:01:34 and
2008-09-28 23:34:03

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 13 96.97%
2. Joe788 3 96.08%
3. Jim 3 95.83%
4. Naked Gonad 4 95.24%
5. 3 94.74%
6. RIP rec.boats 3 94.22%
7. RecBoats 7 91.45%
8. Wim Jay 6 90.71%
9. gk 3 90.18%
10. Bob Brock 33 89.66%
11. 17 88.99%
12. Mark F 5 88.16%
13. 6 87.96%
14. . tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! . . tHe_PC_JeLLy BeAn!! 9 87.93%
15. Eisboch 6 87.15%

A total of 12674772 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6850606, or 54.05%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 450 960688 20.3%
2. Cliff 407 403308 61.2%
3. Larry Jaques 308 514145 59.4%
4. Gunner Asch 304 615684 58.8%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 288 704433 0.1%
6. Hawke 201 446647 66.3%
7. John R. Carroll 192 412740 47.5%
8. Michael A. Terrell 168 228041 56.3%
9. Wes 160 105680 44.4%
10. 150 271434 84.8%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 138 293915 15.7%
12. Jerry 128 187461 67.6%
13. Tom Gardner 113 155252 70.7%
14. Gunner 99 135289 62.6%
15. DoN. Nichols 94 193593 42.4%

A total of 669 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 96717 / 7 = 13816
3. The Secretary of HomIntern cbcrfanexl@zrbj 90848 / 8 = 11356 9.1%
4. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs 60560 / 6 = 10093 14.7%
5. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p 96671 / 14 = 6905 12.8%
6. Demon Lord Benedict Snodgrass Jr of Confusi141875 / 21 = 6755 23.9%
7. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie333534 / 52 = 6414 15.6%
8. Cardinal Snarky of the Fannish Inquisition 31172 / 5 = 6234 21.2%
9. Porsche Monkey For Life PorscheMonkey4Life 33100 / 6 = 5516 23.6%
10. Synthetic Networked Android Responsible for 24703 / 5 = 4940 14.1%
11. 7907 / 3 = 2635
12. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
13. 7114 / 3 = 2371
14. Lola Stonewall Riot 16910 / 8 = 2113 52.3%
15. None4You 17826 / 9 = 1980 52.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. I'm voting republican because... 473 764678
2. OT: McCain Picks a Gal 371 696258
3. McCain / Repub / Winger Family Values 231 450934
4. Banning Books 175 378788
5. OT It runs in the vice presidential family 167 280781
6. I'm a little confused... 148 365801
OT:McCain's for Change? 148 292298
8. OT: another domino thud-thud-thud-thud-thud---- 142 265378
9. Cut-and-Runners Have Won 112 274991
10. Health Care 92 340586
11. Our economy... 78 167579
12. Deployed Troops Donate to Obama 6-1 Over McCain 76 162120
13. I give up ........... never say never. 75 123305
14. On topic -- Schick vs. Gillette blades 68 70535
15. Welding is very dangerous 66 81310

A total of 688 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1785
2. Forte Agent 1167
3. G2 869
4. Forte Free Agent 592
5. Mozilla 552
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 429
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 409
8. slrn 301
9. Pan 298
10. Xnews 165
11. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 139
12. MT-NewsWatcher 115
13. Microsoft Windows Mail 104
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 52
15. tin 51

A total of 45 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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