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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: 1,980 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 3 02:55:10 2008
Latest article: Mon Nov 10 00:55:35 2008
Original articles: 78, replies: 1,902
Total size of posts: 6,021,976 bytes (5,880K) (5.74M)
Average 282 articles per day, 0.82 MB per day, 3,041 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,811 KB bodies: 3,069 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,883 KB, original: 952 KB = 33.59%, sigs: 224 KB
Total number of posters: 303, average 19,874 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 169, average 35,632 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 42

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 151
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 132
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 124
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 83
5: rand mair fheal ............................ : 66
6: ah ........................... .......... : 60
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 49
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 44
9: Tag Heuer ...................... ... : 33
10: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 32
11: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 28
12: Some Guy ............. .... : 28
13: "marika" ............................ .... : 26
14: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 25
15: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 25
16: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 24
17: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 24
18: F. George McDuffee .......... : 23
19: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 22
20: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 21

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 397
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 382
3: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 336
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 304
5: Tag Heuer ...................... ... : 252
6: rand mair fheal ............................ : 212
7: ah ........................... .......... : 164
8: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 136
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 134
10: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 92
11: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 90
12: Some Guy ............. .... : 80
13: F. George McDuffee .......... : 80
14: Wes ................................ ......... : 80
15: "marika" ............................ .... : 78
16: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 78
17: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 78
18: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 68
19: Strider .......................... ..... : 68
20: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 67

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" ................... : 91.62%
2: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 77.22%
3: axolotl ............................. ..... : 76.60%
4: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 76.04%
5: Christopher Tidy .................. : 71.37%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 70.59%
7: "marika" ............................ .... : 69.66%
8: ............................................. : 66.51%
9: Ignoramus32310 ........... : 65.34%
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 63.20%
11: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 62.58%
12: "AndrewV" .......... ... : 62.34%
13: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 61.33%
14: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 60.41%
15: Matt Stawicki ......................... . : 57.99%
16: Randy ............................. ....... : 54.51%
17: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 52.11%
18: Winston .......................... ..... : 49.78%
19: ................................... : 49.70%
20: "Jon Danniken" ................. : 49.26%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Jeff McCann ............................. . : 5.79%
2: ah ........................... .......... : 6.19%
3: "John \"C\"" ..................... .. : 8.38%
4: ................................. : 9.65%
5: Dan ............................ ......... : 9.91%
6: Strider .......................... ..... : 10.16%
7: Tag Heuer ...................... ... : 10.33%
8: Bob Brock .............................. : 11.03%
9: Boater .......................... ...... : 13.54%
10: "Sid9" .............................. ...... : 14.10%
11: "Sick&Tired" ............................. .. : 15.07%
12: .......................................... : 15.52%
13: "SteveB" toquerville@zionvistas.......................... .... : 15.55%
14: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 15.99%
15: Ignoramus7319 ............. . : 17.12%
16: cavelamb himself ..................... : 17.82%
17: Snarky ..................... ...... : 17.89%
18: rigger ................................... ...... : 18.80%
19: strabo ........................... ...... : 19.31%
20: "Tag Heuer" ................... . : 19.38%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: What is 200 + 77? Answer: President Obama...................... : 182
2: Obama's landslide?........................................ ..... : 100
3: Republicans are sore losers.................................... : 95
4: Sic semper tyrannis.......................................... .. : 69
5: Republican Voter Suppression: A Guide.......................... : 60
6: Another repub bites the dust................................... : 59
7: OT - God, then and now......................................... : 57
8: Fox News goes rogue on Palin................................... : 53
9: Obama and your Wallet - Was: What is 200 + 77? Answer: Presi : 49
10: Why mcain might win............................................ : 37
11: OT Political - Here's your CHANGE...Hope you like it........... : 36
12: McSame-Palin defend hate groups & racism....................... : 35
13: The Winds............................................. ......... : 35
14: Still Time to Vote?............................................ : 33
15: Stupid Winger............................................ ...... : 32
16: Why is Sarah Palin in... Deep Sh&t............................. : 31
17: NOMINATION: Gunner for Coward of the Month..................... : 31
18: need suggestions for a multimeter in the shop.................. : 29
19: What is it? Set 257............................................ : 29
20: Intrade Electoral Vote Predictor............................... : 27

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: What is 200 + 77? Answer: President Obama...................... : 554
2: Republicans are sore losers.................................... : 333
3: Obama's landslide?........................................ ..... : 284
4: Republican Voter Suppression: A Guide.......................... : 232
5: OT - God, then and now......................................... : 199
6: Another repub bites the dust................................... : 173
7: Sic semper tyrannis.......................................... .. : 168
8: Obama and your Wallet - Was: What is 200 + 77? Answer: Presi : 161
9: Why is Sarah Palin in... Deep Sh&t............................. : 158
10: McSame-Palin defend hate groups & racism....................... : 153
11: Why mcain might win............................................ : 136
12: Fox News goes rogue on Palin................................... : 127
13: The Winds............................................. ......... : 104
14: Why is Sarah Palin in... Deep Sh&t - Another Sick Gerbil Packer : 97
15: OT Political - Here's your CHANGE...Hope you like it........... : 94
16: Still Time to Vote?............................................ : 90
17: Intrade Electoral Vote Predictor............................... : 89
18: NOMINATION: Gunner for Coward of the Month..................... : 86
19: Do you call that "deflation"?.................................. : 85
20: What is it? Set 257............................................ : 80

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 975
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 908
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 688
4: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 574
5: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 454
6: alt.aratzio....................................... ............. : 166
7: alt.usenet.legends.lester-mosley............................... : 88
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 74
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 50
10: alt.politics.democrats............................ ............. : 49

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 66
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 62
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 44
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)........................ : 22
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 19
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 11
7: rn................................................ ............. : 11
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 10
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 9
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 452 (23%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 431 (22%)
3: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 181 ( 9%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 161 ( 8%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 144 ( 7%)
6: unknown........................................... ........ : 118 ( 6%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows............................. : 95 ( 5%)
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 76 ( 4%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 70 ( 4%)
10: Mariozilla........................................ ........ : 60 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 638
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 625
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 270
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 182
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 161
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 70
7: +0700............................................. ............. : 15
8: -0400.............................................. ............ : 6
9: +1300............................................. ............. : 4
10: +0100............................................. ............. : 3

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

This report covers 7353 messages written between 2008-10-10 00:07:08 and
2008-11-09 23:13:38

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. marcodbeast 3 97.77%
2. Non scrivetemi 3 96.24%
3. ah 110 95.30%
4. Jeff McCann 5 94.32%
5. Dave B 3 93.63%
6. Don Ocean 4 92.13%
7. Git_RDunn 4 90.74%
8. John \"C\" 26 89.69%
9. BAR 31 89.63%
10. Bob Brock 28 89.30%
11. 3 89.21%
12. jk 6 88.22%
13. Patriot Games 5 88.12%
14. 37 88.03%
15. Carl Boyd 3 87.94%

A total of 11647502 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6671496, or 57.28%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 471 449123 66.6%
2. Ed Huntress 369 886388 12.5%
3. Gunner Asch 328 529321 59.0%
4. Larry Jaques 247 369910 58.0%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 210 541364 68.7%
6. rand mair fheal 189 241129 57.9%
7. Wes 175 111244 39.6%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 130 322587 21.5%
9. ah 110 180066 95.3%
10. Hawke 98 215942 66.4%
11. Aratzio 97 159293 76.6%
12. DoN. Nichols 86 190883 41.7%
Christopher Tidy 86 142259 68.9%
14. Tag Heuer 83 443812 86.7%
Jim Wilkins 83 78085 41.2%

A total of 672 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 110416 / 7 = 15773
2. The Original Demon Prince of Absurdity abs113783 / 11 = 10343 6.4%
3. The God of Odd Statements, Henry Schmidt p 44391 / 6 = 7398 10.9%
4. The Black Goat With A Thousand Young ancie 88263 / 12 = 7355 14.9%
5. Demon Lord Benedict Snodgrass Jr of Confusi153603 / 23 = 6678 19.7%
6. the great win 18954 / 3 = 6318
7. m+a+r+y+a+ 28024 / 5 = 5604
8. The Demon of Mockery & Silliness, Chas. E. 16178 / 5 = 3235 45.5%
9. Ignoramus12952 12065 / 4 = 3016 8.7%
10. sittingduck 23534 / 8 = 2941 4.3%
11. Lola Stonewall Riot 27976 / 10 = 2797 31.0%
12. The Demon of Mockery & Silliness, Chas. E. 10432 / 4 = 2608 23.7%
13. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
14. Snarky 146337 / 61 = 2398 32.8%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso253241 / 130 = 1948 21.5%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Obama again wins "debate" 213 449472
2. What is 200 + 77? Answer: President Obama 180 247234
3. Why is Sarah Palin in... 149 310530
4. OT: Whoops! That really IS Sam the Plumber 145 320004
5. The Horror, The Horror Yet To Come 139 287098
6. OT - God, then and now 138 253059
7. English bike lovers...help! 112 135837
8. Where are YOU cutting back? 110 121476
9. OT: Socialism You Can Believe In 107 210915
10. Republican Voter Suppression: A Guide 104 231571
Ultra thin screwdriver 104 197624
12. Obama's landslide? 100 151450
13. McSame-Palin defend hate groups & racism 94 191579
14. Republicans are sore losers.... 91 195776
15. OT Proven Alternative Energy 86 100464

A total of 600 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1521
2. Forte Agent 1140
3. G2 675
4. Forte Free Agent 626
5. Mozilla 509
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 485
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 457
8. slrn 309
9. MT-NewsWatcher 240
10. Pan 214
11. Xnews 172
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 128
13. Mariozilla 110
14. tin 63
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 38

A total of 44 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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