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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: 1,288 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 8 14:40:53 2008
Latest article: Sun Dec 14 22:55:17 2008
Original articles: 76, replies: 1,212
Total size of posts: 3,805,744 bytes (3,716K) (3.63M)
Average 184 articles per day, 0.52 MB per day, 2,954 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,673 KB bodies: 2,043 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,092 KB, original: 696 KB = 38.95%, sigs: 246 KB
Total number of posters: 257, average 14,808 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 131, average 29,051 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: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 83
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 53
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 49
4: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 46
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 44
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 30
7: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 29
8: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 29
9: Gunner .................... ...... : 27
10: Kali .................................. ........ : 27
11: "Dick 'Tater" ......................... . : 25
12: David Billington ............ : 23
13: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 23
14: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 22
15: Winston .......................... ..... : 19
16: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 18
17: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 16
18: Richard .......................... ..... : 16
19: spaco .............................. : 14
20: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 14

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 302
2: F. George McDuffee .......... : 188
3: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 147
4: Kali .................................. ........ : 125
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 123
6: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 93
7: Gunner .................... ...... : 87
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 81
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 78
10: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 77
11: "Dick 'Tater" ......................... . : 74
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 69
13: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 69
14: David Billington ............ : 68
15: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 64
16: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 60
17: Winston .......................... ..... : 56
18: "Gregory Hall" ............................ : 55
19: Richard .......................... ..... : 52
20: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 42

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 88.23%
2: Winston .......................... ..... : 85.82%
3: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 85.39%
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 78.46%
5: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 74.76%
6: Steve Ackman .............. : 69.70%
7: "SteveB" toquervilla@zionvistas.......................... .... : 67.70%
8: Millwright Ron ..................... : 67.38%
9: spaco .............................. : 65.36%
10: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 60.79%
11: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 60.61%
12: David Lesher .............................. .. : 60.33%
13: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 58.73%
14: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 58.42%
15: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 56.32%
16: matthew maguire ........................ : 53.62%
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 51.91%
18: " ............................ : 50.11%
19: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 50.05%
20: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 49.95%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Dan ............................ ......... : 3.31%
2: =?iso-8859-1?b?p/H8aHfYo2Y=?= ............. : 9.25%
3: ............................................... : 10.46%
4: Kali .................................. ........ : 14.44%
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 17.86%
6: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 20.07%
7: ............................................. : 20.18%
8: morgan mair fheal ....................... : 21.32%
9: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 21.40%
10: David Billington ............ : 22.04%
11: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 22.81%
12: "Gregory Hall" ............................ : 22.85%
13: Cliff ............................... ....... : 23.34%
14: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 24.56%
15: Ignoramus25884 ........... : 25.42%
16: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 25.48%
17: Gunner .................... ...... : 25.75%
18: "Dick 'Tater" ......................... . : 25.80%
19: "Rick" ............................... ...... : 26.82%
20: "Paul Hovnanian P.E." ..................... : 27.35%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Another Neocon Loss............................................ : 103
2: Deficits no concern?.......................................... . : 96
3: What is it? Set 262............................................ : 45
4: Guide to electric air compressors for home shops............... : 41
5: Grinding a blank lathe tool for parting or cutoff.............. : 39
6: Chemical experiment not going well............................. : 37
7: OT: Deficits no concern?....................................... : 37
8: $73 an Hour.............................................. ...... : 37
9: a welling of disdain........................................... : 36
10: OT UNION BUSTING........................................... .... : 35
11: OT: labor costs, auto bailout.................................. : 34
12: OT The Autobahn.......................................... ...... : 29
13: Networking...got some people that need help.................... : 28
14: GM Failure........................................... .......... : 28
15: Slighly OT: toilet spacer...................................... : 27
16: HSM looking for scrap metal. Are truck driveshafts solid?...... : 25
17: Help with 2002 Dakota.......................................... : 25
18: Vibration analysis.......................................... ... : 24
19: Bridgeport milling questions................................... : 24
20: Turning speeds re-visited...................................... : 22

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Another Neocon Loss............................................ : 486
2: Deficits no concern?.......................................... . : 349
3: OT: Deficits no concern?....................................... : 126
4: OT: labor costs, auto bailout.................................. : 126
5: $73 an Hour.............................................. ...... : 118
6: GM Failure........................................... .......... : 111
7: Guide to electric air compressors for home shops............... : 101
8: a welling of disdain........................................... : 99
9: Grinding a blank lathe tool for parting or cutoff.............. : 97
10: What is it? Set 262............................................ : 96
11: Turning speeds re-visited...................................... : 90
12: OT UNION BUSTING........................................... .... : 86
13: Chemical experiment not going well............................. : 83
14: Bridgeport milling questions................................... : 81
15: Vibration analysis.......................................... ... : 78
16: Networking...got some people that need help.................... : 70
17: Help with 2002 Dakota.......................................... : 63
18: OT The Autobahn.......................................... ...... : 60
19: Slighly OT: toilet spacer...................................... : 55
20: OT: Medical Histories......................................... . : 53

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 248
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 216
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 170
4: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 92
5: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 50
6: rec.crafts.woodturning............................ ............. : 49
7: alt.home.repair................................... ............. : 49
8: sci.environment................................... ............. : 48
9: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 44
10: alt.rv............................................ ............. : 41

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 60
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 49
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 31
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105)........................ : 18
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 14
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 14
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
8: rn................................................ ............. : 9
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 8
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 340 (26%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 192 (15%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 145 (11%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 103 ( 8%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 98 ( 8%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows............................. : 69 ( 5%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 65 ( 5%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 43 ( 3%)
9: unknown........................................... ........ : 30 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 29 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 426
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 268
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 240
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 164
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 145
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 33
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 5
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 2
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 2
10: -0700 (MST)............................................. ....... : 1

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

This report covers 5354 messages written between 2008-11-15 00:09:43 and
2008-12-14 23:52:48

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 35 94.15%
2. Aratzio 18 91.11%
3. Naked Gonad 9 90.72%
4. Ken Sterling 5 90.59%
5. 5 89.52%
6. kT 3 88.36%
7. SE¤�hwO/œf 10 86.96%
8. J. Clarke 8 85.76%
9. Kali 27 85.49%
10. marcodbeast 4 84.98%
11. K Ludger 6 84.88%
12. RB 37 84.60%
13. 5 84.53%
14. Pete Keillor 7 84.19%
15. Too_Many_Tools 22 83.93%

A total of 8092724 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4464683, or 55.17%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 341 796473 5.4%
2. Larry Jaques 228 306636 59.9%
3. Cliff 215 212339 70.2%
4. Wes 208 139312 46.3%
5. DoN. Nichols 124 362468 44.7%
6. Wild_Bill 110 270954 47.5%
7. Terry Coombs 99 128337 74.5%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 98 261045 19.3%
9. Gunner Asch 85 112339 64.7%
10. Winston 76 249643 10.3%
Gunner 76 125702 63.8%
Jim Wilkins 76 72861 31.4%
13. John R. Carroll 73 134262 57.5%
14. RogerN 69 134986 44.6%
15. Curly Surmudgeon 67 140796 62.7%

A total of 480 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 73034 / 4 = 18258
2. Bob Summers powermatic66.removethis@yahoo. 20381 / 5 = 4076 31.7%
3. Winston 223882 / 76 = 2945 10.3%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. spaco 54703 / 23 = 2378 13.2%
6. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso210766 / 98 = 2150 19.3%
7. DoN. Nichols 200323 / 124 = 1615 44.7%
8. Wayne C. Gramlich 6075 / 4 = 1518 69.2%
9. Andrew Erickson 6050 / 4 = 1512 4.7%
10. nick.fashionmoods 18667 / 13 = 1435 3.5%
11. Jeff R. 6650 / 5 = 1330 45.2%
12. Wild_Bill 142198 / 110 = 1292 47.5%
13. 11075 / 9 = 1230 12.3%
14. Kadaitcha Man 8515 / 7 = 1216 15.6%
15. Ignoramus4582 8475 / 7 = 1210 35.2%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. The lesson from the Mumbai mayhem 147 233758
2. Another Neocon Loss 114 327900
3. GM Failure 104 221591
4. Deficits no concern? 96 219274
5. Wish Me Luck ! 87 105272
6. AR15 evaluation 85 93557
7. What is it? Set 260 77 106905
8. What is 200 + 77? Answer: President Obama 75 110362
9. OT - God, then and now 72 142560
10. Simple Machines: three or six? 60 86873
11. Turning speeds re-visited 59 215419
OT? American politics 59 189256
13. Depressing 57 104396
Ceramic kitchen knives 57 53331
15. killed my computer 56 86911

A total of 450 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1369
2. Forte Agent 972
3. G2 536
4. Forte Free Agent 339
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 321
6. slrn 269
7. Mozilla 224
8. Microsoft Windows Mail 203
9. Xnews 135
10. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 131
11. MT-NewsWatcher 114
12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 98
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 70
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 52
15. tin 39

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

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