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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: 2,709 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Dec 28 14:40:56 2008
Latest article: Sun Dec 28 22:55:39 2008
Original articles: 134, replies: 2,575
Total size of posts: 8,143,939 bytes (7,953K) (7.77M)
Average 387 articles per day, 1.11 MB per day, 3,006 bytes per article
Total headers: 3,702 KB bodies: 4,250 KB
Body text - quoted: 2,309 KB, original: 1,488 KB = 39.19%, sigs: 438 KB
Total number of posters: 353, average 23,070 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 206, average 39,533 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 51

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 209
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 107
3: Wes ................................ ......... : 104
4: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 80
5: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 69
6: Cliff ............................... ....... : 68
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 66
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 61
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 60
10: Richard .......................... ..... : 58
11: Kali .................................. ........ : 57
12: F. George McDuffee .......... : 51
13: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 50
14: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 46
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 45
16: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 32
17: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 31
18: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 30
19: "John \"C\"" ..................... .. : 29
20: Winston .......................... ..... : 29

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 760
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 401
3: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 256
4: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 253
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 251
6: Kali .................................. ........ : 217
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 203
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 189
9: Wes ................................ ......... : 177
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 176
11: Larry Jaques ................... : 172
12: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 170
13: Cliff ............................... ....... : 154
14: Richard .......................... ..... : 152
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 116
16: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 111
17: "John \"C\"" ..................... .. : 101
18: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 94
19: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 93
20: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 89

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 82.97%
2: steamer ............................... ..... : 81.13%
3: " ........................ : 80.52%
4: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 80.31%
5: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 78.97%
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 76.19%
7: "Bill Marrs" ......................... .. : 72.90%
8: Steve Ackman .............. : 72.34%
9: "Bill Noble" ........................ .. : 68.96%
10: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 67.83%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 67.14%
12: "Azotic" .................................. .... : 66.47%
13: " ........................ : 66.22%
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 65.41%
15: "Steve Lusardi" ....................... : 64.48%
16: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 61.13%
17: ............................................. : 61.00%
18: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 59.56%
19: spaco .............................. : 57.42%
20: "Bill Noble" ............................ .. : 57.12%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ....................................... : 6.31%
2: ah ........................... .......... : 7.42%
3: RB ............................ .......... : 8.49%
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 11.54%
5: My Conscience ........... . : 11.81%
6: Dave B ................................ ...... : 13.19%
7: Jeff Mc ............................. ..... : 14.08%
8: Vernon ............................. ...... : 14.11%
9: ................................. : 14.17%
10: Boater .......................... ...... : 14.57%
11: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 14.97%
12: Kali .................................. ........ : 15.44%
13: ............................................. : 16.48%
14: "John \"C\"" ..................... .. : 17.11%
15: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 17.53%
16: Strabo ........................... ...... : 18.32%
17: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 19.40%
18: " .................... : 19.60%
19: "David R.Birch" ............................. : 19.99%
20: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 21.71%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: a welling of disdain........................................... : 234
2: The Bush Legacy for America?................................... : 88
3: Which would you choose?........................................ : 87
4: Severe deflation? What deflation?.............................. : 85
5: OT Illinois or Louisiana?.................................. : 82
6: It is cold out side, lets take about bifocals.................. : 67
7: How the hell.............................................. ..... : 67
8: OT: Deficits no concern?....................................... : 63
9: Alaskan Drug Bust.............................................. : 60
10: Chuck key was bent into a pretzel.............................. : 50
11: Flipping Flopper........................................... .... : 46
12: Turning Fins.............................................. ..... : 43
13: U.S. officers in Iraq say...................................... : 41
14: Metal (vehicle) detector....................................... : 40
15: What is it? Set 263............................................ : 40
16: Toxic Waste in Chinese drywall................................. : 38
17: 16" gun............................................... ......... : 35
18: Ball Screws in Bridgeport mill?................................ : 35
19: #OT# More BS on oil supplies................................... : 32
20: OT UNION BUSTING........................................... .... : 31

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: a welling of disdain........................................... : 834
2: The Bush Legacy for America?................................... : 369
3: Which would you choose?........................................ : 301
4: Severe deflation? What deflation?.............................. : 286
5: OT Illinois or Louisiana?.................................. : 262
6: OT: Deficits no concern?....................................... : 236
7: How the hell.............................................. ..... : 208
8: Flat Tax - was OT: Deficits no concern?.................... : 183
9: Alaskan Drug Bust.............................................. : 180
10: It is cold out side, lets take about bifocals.................. : 175
11: Flipping Flopper........................................... .... : 136
12: Chuck key was bent into a pretzel.............................. : 133
13: OT - The Real Bush Legacy aka At Your Expense.................. : 120
14: Turning Fins.............................................. ..... : 115
15: Drill bit resharpening...................................... ... : 112
16: OT UNION BUSTING........................................... .... : 108
17: Metal (vehicle) detector....................................... : 106
18: Toxic Waste in Chinese drywall................................. : 106
19: $73 an Hour.............................................. ...... : 104
20: U.S. officers in Iraq say...................................... : 102

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 582
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 556
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 406
4: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 136
5: sci.environment................................... ............. : 133
6: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 113
7: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 96
8: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 87
9: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 83
10: alt.crafts.blacksmithing.......................... ............. : 77

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 75
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 74
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 50
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105)........................ : 20
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 16
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 9
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 9

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 622 (23%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 590 (22%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 262 (10%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 229 ( 8%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 174 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows............................. : 146 ( 5%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 127 ( 5%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 72 ( 3%)
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 69 ( 3%)
10: Pan............................................... ........ : 66 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 863
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 637
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 565
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 285
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 262
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 34
7: -0400.............................................. ............ : 16
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 14
9: +1100............................................. ............. : 11
10: +0900............................................. ............. : 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 5729 messages written between 2008-11-29 00:00:27 and
2008-12-28 23:36:07

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. T.Alan Kraus 4 95.53%
2. Ken Sterling 4 92.85%
3. ah 18 92.31%
4. RB 33 89.54%
5. SE¤�hwO/œf 7 89.52%
6. 5 89.52%
7. Boater 12 87.93%
8. marcodbeast 7 87.62%
9. kT 4 87.45%
10. Bipolar Bear 7 87.01%
11. My Conscience 11 86.85%
12. 16 86.47%
13. Half-nutz 6 86.31%
14. Jeff Mc 7 86.03%
15. J. Clarke 5 85.85%

A total of 8934553 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5116680, or 57.27%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 317 765876 0.7%
2. Gunner Asch 265 491097 61.6%
3. Cliff 239 252028 69.2%
4. Wes 212 127488 46.1%
5. Larry Jaques 163 222443 59.6%
6. Wild_Bill 157 372387 46.8%
7. DoN. Nichols 134 344790 40.6%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 126 308807 16.5%
9. John R. Carroll 118 208215 57.2%
10. Michael A. Terrell 95 128163 53.4%
11. Kali 90 239150 84.7%
12. Buerste 87 158337 79.4%
13. Curly Surmudgeon 85 166916 71.6%
14. Richard 82 77292 65.5%
15. Jim Wilkins 78 87844 34.3%

A total of 503 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 88181 / 4 = 22045
2. Scott S. Logan 9713 / 4 = 2428
3. hhhhhh 8238 / 4 = 2059
4. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso257822 / 126 = 2046 16.5%
5. 12008 / 6 = 2001 20.2%
6. 18726 / 11 = 1702 32.7%
7. DoN. Nichols 204924 / 134 = 1529 40.6%
8. Masp Erewhon 4246 / 3 = 1415 50.1%
9. Too_Many_Tools 104947 / 75 = 1399 53.7%
10. nick.fashionmoods 12142 / 9 = 1349 5.2%
11. Andrew Erickson 4003 / 3 = 1334 7.0%
12. Wild_Bill 198091 / 157 = 1261 46.8%
13. Christopher Tidy 5036 / 4 = 1259 74.9%
14. Kadaitcha Man 5017 / 4 = 1254 15.8%
15. 3731 / 3 = 1243

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. a welling of disdain 331 611922
2. Another Neocon Loss 124 362299
3. The lesson from the Mumbai mayhem 112 178051
4. GM Failure 104 221591
5. OT Illinois or Louisiana? 103 188218
Illinois or Louisiana? 103 139927
7. OT: Deficits no concern? 100 202744
8. Deficits no concern? 96 219274
9. The Bush Legacy for America? 88 239931
10. Which would you choose? 87 170938
11. Severe deflation? What deflation? 84 162206
12. How the hell 67 120406
It is cold out side, lets take about bifocals 67 85850
14. Alaskan Drug Bust 61 97100
15. Turning speeds re-visited 59 215419

A total of 452 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1387
2. Forte Agent 878
3. G2 600
4. Forte Free Agent 383
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 370
6. slrn 301
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 287
8. Mozilla 256
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 238
10. Xnews 154
11. MT-NewsWatcher 117
12. MicroPlanet Gravity 90
13. Pan 87
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 54
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 47

A total of 48 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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