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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: 1,384 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Dec 7 14:42:23 2008
Latest article: Sun Dec 7 20:55:46 2008
Original articles: 89, replies: 1,295
Total size of posts: 4,042,039 bytes (3,947K) (3.85M)
Average 197 articles per day, 0.55 MB per day, 2,920 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,802 KB bodies: 2,144 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,027 KB, original: 834 KB = 44.81%, sigs: 273 KB
Total number of posters: 244, average 16,565 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 179, average 22,581 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 44

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 85
2: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 56
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 51
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 51
5: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 38
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 37
7: ............................................. : 31
8: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 31
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 30
10: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 26
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 22
12: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 22
13: Gunner .................... ...... : 21
14: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 20
15: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 20
16: matthew maguire ........................ : 20
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 19
18: stryped ........................... ..... : 19
19: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 17
20: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 17

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 265
2: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 233
3: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 146
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 128
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 104
6: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 102
7: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 101
8: ............................................. : 98
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 89
10: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 86
11: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 82
12: Cliff ............................... ....... : 70
13: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 66
14: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 58
15: Gunner .................... ...... : 54
16: RB ............................ .......... : 52
17: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 51
18: stryped ........................... ..... : 51
19: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 50
20: matthew maguire ........................ : 49

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 95.83%
2: Winston .......................... ..... : 92.49%
3: "nick.fashionmoods" ................. : 92.11%
4: .............................................. : 87.67%
5: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 86.96%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 82.11%
7: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 81.72%
8: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 75.10%
9: spaco .............................. : 73.10%
10: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 72.04%
11: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 72.03%
12: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 67.48%
13: jk .......................... .......... : 66.75%
14: ......................................... : 65.97%
15: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 65.95%
16: Al Patrick ................................... .. : 65.90%
17: "Jon Danniken" ................. : 65.86%
18: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 65.61%
19: Terry ............................ ....... : 63.93%
20: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 63.56%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ah ........................... .......... : 5.58%
2: RB ............................ .......... : 11.68%
3: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 13.46%
4: JoanD'arcRoast ..................... : 14.74%
5: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 17.00%
6: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 18.18%
7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 18.30%
8: "Up North" .............................. .. : 21.34%
9: "David R.Birch" ............................. : 21.78%
10: Vernon ............................. ...... : 23.25%
11: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 23.46%
12: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 23.98%
13: ......................................... : 24.34%
14: E Z Peaces ............................ .. : 24.52%
15: ............................................. : 25.12%
16: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 25.18%
17: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 25.44%
18: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 26.65%
19: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 26.80%
20: Ignoramus14497 ........... : 28.13%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: GM Failure........................................... .......... : 76
2: killed my computer.......................................... ... : 56
3: Tecumseh starter/engine update................................. : 52
4: Indian Student........................................... ...... : 44
5: Anyone here experienced in (homebrewed) Cryo-Treatment of O-1 ? : 43
6: OT Buying Good Used Car........................................ : 43
7: Saw Blades And HSS References.................................. : 40
8: Turning speeds re-visited...................................... : 37
9: OT latest eBay shakeup......................................... : 36
10: What is it? Set 261............................................ : 34
11: The lesson from the Mumbai mayhem.............................. : 27
12: Watery Compressor Oil, Amsoil and MLM.......................... : 26
13: O.J. is going to prison........................................ : 26
14: "How does a starter work" question............................. : 25
15: steel bolts stuck in AL........................................ : 25
16: Amero Hint?............................................. ....... : 23
17: Cleaning morse taper in headstock.............................. : 22
18: working with high speed steel.................................. : 22
19: Old ships, railroad cars re scrap metal........................ : 21
20: OT -- A Car Wreck Made in Washington - Can Democrats afford to : 19

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: GM Failure........................................... .......... : 237
2: Turning speeds re-visited...................................... : 210
3: killed my computer.......................................... ... : 165
4: Saw Blades And HSS References.................................. : 147
5: Anyone here experienced in (homebrewed) Cryo-Treatment of O-1 ? : 144
6: Amero Hint?............................................. ....... : 129
7: Tecumseh starter/engine update................................. : 127
8: Indian Student........................................... ...... : 118
9: OT Buying Good Used Car........................................ : 113
10: OT latest eBay shakeup......................................... : 98
11: The lesson from the Mumbai mayhem.............................. : 95
12: O.J. is going to prison........................................ : 72
13: What is it? Set 260............................................ : 66
14: "How does a starter work" question............................. : 62
15: OT -- A Car Wreck Made in Washington - Can Democrats afford to : 60
16: working with high speed steel.................................. : 60
17: Cleaning morse taper in headstock.............................. : 58
18: Watery Compressor Oil, Amsoil and MLM.......................... : 57
19: What is it? Set 261............................................ : 57
20: steel bolts stuck in AL........................................ : 51

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 153
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 126
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 109
4: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 51
5: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 47
6: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 44
7: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 35
8: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 22
9: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 12
10: alt.fan.oj-simpson........................................... .. : 11

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 52
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 45
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 38
4: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105)........................ : 12
6: rn................................................ ............. : 11
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 9
8: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 9
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 346 (25%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 306 (22%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 147 (11%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 85 ( 6%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 73 ( 5%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 70 ( 5%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows............................. : 69 ( 5%)
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 56 ( 4%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 42 ( 3%)
10: Xnews............................................. ........ : 40 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 480
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 282
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 229
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 130
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 120
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 67
7: -0400.............................................. ............ : 43
8: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 17
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 6
10: +1100............................................. ............. : 5

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

This report covers 6028 messages written between 2008-11-08 00:07:36 and
2008-12-07 22:46:08

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 114 92.86%
2. Naked Gonad 9 90.72%
3. Hang Dog 5 89.93%
4. ViperSpit 3 89.77%
5. Eli Grubman 7 88.83%
6. J. Clarke 5 87.84%
7. Ken Sterling 3 87.10%
8. 4 86.83%
9. Bob Brock 24 86.80%
10. Too_Many_Tools 23 86.57%
11. 5 86.41%
12. Sid9 5 86.08%
13. Millwright Ron 5 85.92%
14. 67 85.72%
15. RB 47 84.67%

A total of 8733486 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4929459, or 56.44%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 352 778131 7.0%
2. Cliff 281 237207 66.9%
3. Larry Jaques 244 322624 60.5%
4. Gunner Asch 217 290953 61.0%
5. Wes 208 145687 44.3%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 122 274097 65.3%
7. ah 114 140814 92.9%
8. Terry Coombs 99 128003 74.1%
9. Jim Wilkins 96 84876 33.2%
10. rand mair fheal 94 114189 62.8%
11. DoN. Nichols 89 276166 45.6%
12. marika 88 67897 30.2%
13. Wild_Bill 84 224016 46.5%
14. RogerN 82 176246 44.9%
15. Harold and Susan Vordos 80 124179 38.7%

A total of 485 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 73024 / 4 = 18256
2. 23673 / 3 = 7891
3. Bob Summers powermatic66.removethis@yahoo. 20381 / 5 = 4076 31.7%
4. 13638 / 4 = 3409 22.4%
5. spaco 46752 / 16 = 2922 12.8%
6. Winston 198311 / 76 = 2609 11.1%
7. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso123161 / 65 = 1894 24.2%
9. Grumpy 29369 / 16 = 1835 32.2%
10. DoN. Nichols 150153 / 89 = 1687 45.6%
11. Wayne C. Gramlich 6075 / 4 = 1518 69.2%
12. nick.fashionmoods 18667 / 13 = 1435 3.5%
13. Wild_Bill 119906 / 84 = 1427 46.5%
14. Andrew Erickson 5435 / 4 = 1358 2.8%
15. 7638 / 6 = 1273 30.4%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. What is 200 + 77? Answer: President Obama 315 352075
2. The lesson from the Mumbai mayhem 147 233758
3. The Winds 132 237560
4. Republicans are sore losers.... 107 200254
5. Still Time to Vote? 102 163248
6. OT - God, then and now 87 166961
Wish Me Luck ! 87 105272
8. AR15 evaluation 85 93557
9. Obama and your Wallet 79 94605
10. What is it? Set 260 77 106905
11. GM Failure 76 150916
12. Cutting 1"-8 thread 75 58193
13. Obama "Would like to teach the world to sing" 73 144040
14. Bush Bailout 69 127826
15. Simple Machines: three or six? 60 86873

A total of 489 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1458
2. Forte Agent 1025
3. G2 561
4. Forte Free Agent 381
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 303
6. slrn 278
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 248
8. Mozilla 245
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 239
10. Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 228
11. MT-NewsWatcher 177
12. Xnews 126
13. Mariozilla 114
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 52
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 47

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

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