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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: 2,230 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jan 12 16:13:53 2009
Latest article: Mon Jan 12 16:55:31 2009
Original articles: 107, replies: 2,123
Total size of posts: 7,001,922 bytes (6,837K) (6.68M)
Average 318 articles per day, 0.95 MB per day, 3,139 bytes per article
Total headers: 3,053 KB bodies: 3,784 KB
Body text - quoted: 2,175 KB, original: 1,312 KB = 37.63%, sigs: 287 KB
Total number of posters: 317, average 22,088 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 175, average 40,010 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 49

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 142
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 134
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 130
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 81
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 70
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 63
7: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 56
8: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 51
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 46
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 42
11: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 38
12: ................................. : 35
13: Don Foreman ................... . : 33
14: Cliff ............................... ....... : 32
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 31
16: D Murphy ........................... .... : 30
17: terryc ......................... : 27
18: Winston_Smith ............................ . : 25
19: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 24
20: ................................... : 23

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 562
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 470
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 461
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 361
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 222
6: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 193
7: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 188
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 137
9: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 134
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 129
11: ................................. : 127
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 124
13: D Murphy ........................... .... : 123
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 83
15: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 81
16: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 80
17: Don Foreman ................... . : 77
18: cavelamb .......................... .... : 74
19: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 68
20: phil scott .............................. .. : 67

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 99.91%
2: steamer ............................... ..... : 95.65%
3: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 93.37%
4: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 83.32%
5: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 82.42%
6: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 79.85%
7: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 73.80%
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73.61%
9: axolotl ............................. ..... : 73.14%
10: ......................................... : 72.25%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 70.91%
12: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 69.70%
13: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 66.97%
14: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 66.08%
15: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 65.89%
16: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 64.44%
17: Ernst ........................... ....... : 63.34%
18: Jon Elson ............................. : 61.42%
19: cavelamb .......................... .... : 54.77%
20: ....................................... : 54.63%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bob Brock .............................. : 8.40%
2: ................................. : 12.58%
3: Ignoramus10426 ........... : 12.87%
4: phil scott .............................. .. : 13.11%
5: .......................................... : 14.54%
6: "Rod Speed" ......................... . : 16.79%
7: "Curly Smurf****er" ......................... : 18.34%
8: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 18.42%
9: Strabo ........................... ...... : 18.79%
10: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 20.60%
11: Ignoramus13440 ........... : 20.80%
12: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 21.55%
13: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 22.75%
14: "Bipolar Bear" .............................. : 22.96%
15: krw ........................... ......... : 23.15%
16: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 23.25%
17: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 23.67%
18: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 24.46%
19: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 24.64%
20: Ignoramus17663 ........... : 25.37%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 212
2: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 201
3: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 103
4: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 60
5: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 59
6: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 50
7: Honda Headscratching.................................... ....... : 48
8: Compatibility of implanted cardio defib with MIG and TIG....... : 45
9: Manufacturing our own spectacles?.............................. : 44
10: 693,000 more jobs lost in December..and the Republicans still d : 42
11: Pacemakers and welding......................................... : 41
12: Obama & Blagojevich....................................... ..... : 41
13: Lifting B'port series I R2E4 BOSS-9............................ : 35
14: #OT# more insight on mirage of a Detroit bailout............... : 34
15: WTC 7................................................. ......... : 30
16: Cobalt Drill Bits.............................................. : 30
17: Sorry, that part is discontinued............................... : 29
18: What, your ME262 won't start?.................................. : 29
19: Lathe wear, got some numbers................................... : 28
20: Tom's experimental swarf brushes............................... : 28

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 796
2: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 670
3: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 329
4: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 193
5: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 191
6: Honda Headscratching.................................... ....... : 189
7: Obama & Blagojevich....................................... ..... : 166
8: 693,000 more jobs lost in December..and the Republicans still d : 148
9: Compatibility of implanted cardio defib with MIG and TIG....... : 144
10: #OT# more insight on mirage of a Detroit bailout............... : 142
11: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 137
12: Manufacturing our own spectacles?.............................. : 112
13: 693,000 more jobs lost in December..and the Republicans still . : 104
14: Sorry, that part is discontinued............................... : 103
15: Pacemakers and welding......................................... : 99
16: OT - The Climaxing of the Dark Legacy of Bush continues........ : 92
17: WTC 7................................................. ......... : 87
18: OT -- Let Detroit Build Profitable Cars -- UAW chief Ron Gettel : 84
19: Lathe wear, got some numbers................................... : 83
20: Lifting B'port series I R2E4 BOSS-9............................ : 77

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 823
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 306
3: misc.consumers.frugal-living................................... : 162
4: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 154
5: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 105
6: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 90
7: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 78
8: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 62
9: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 54
10: uk.rec.models.engineering......................... ............. : 41

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 73
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 56
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 39
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 20
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 17
6: rn................................................ ............. : 15
7: Unknown........................................... ............. : 13
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 9
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 8
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 489 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 425 (19%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 361 (16%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 139 ( 6%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 120 ( 5%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 107 ( 5%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 98 ( 4%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 71 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 61 ( 3%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 56 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 535
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 448
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 423
4: UTC............................................... ............. : 364
5: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 361
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 52
7: +1100............................................. ............. : 18
8: -0400.............................................. ............ : 9
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 8
10: +0100............................................. ............. : 8

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

This report covers 7169 messages written between 2008-12-12 00:05:35 and
2009-01-11 22:40:00

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. marcodbeast 4 98.11%
2. ah 43 94.94%
3. rwa2play (Lost mode on) 4 92.76%
4. SE¤�hwO/œf 4 92.14%
5. MarkQ 4 91.25%
6. Bob Brock 15 90.65%
7. Any one ?O75z!/9²s@WqP0SZXAs0NO2&D}CA³1_G.#`} 8 90.48%
8. 3 89.79%
9. Gunner 5 89.27%
10. T.Alan Kraus 10 88.54%
11. Boater 14 87.86%
12. 65 87.63%
13. kT 4 87.45%
14. phil scott 13 87.09%
15. My Conscience 11 86.85%

A total of 11460111 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6811371, or 59.44%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 494 916906 12.9%
2. Ed Huntress 368 894911 13.2%
3. Cliff 293 278185 68.4%
4. Wes 260 204340 55.6%
5. Too_Many_Tools 223 617422 67.2%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 197 480133 71.5%
7. Wild_Bill 172 348744 49.3%
8. John R. Carroll 167 287041 59.1%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 166 383152 21.6%
10. DoN. Nichols 145 303614 38.8%
11. Larry Jaques 143 214215 57.1%
12. Kali 96 222834 84.3%
13. Jim Wilkins 94 101791 38.8%
14. Michael A. Terrell 90 131479 54.5%
15. Buerste 86 142886 75.4%

A total of 571 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 88159 / 4 = 22039
2. www.iofferkicks.com 19881 / 7 = 2840
3. 25297 / 10 = 2529
4. Scott S. Logan 9713 / 4 = 2428
5. hhhhhh 8238 / 4 = 2059
6. amdx 5987 / 3 = 1995 20.3%
7. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso300446 / 166 = 1809 21.6%
8. willray 6139 / 4 = 1534 35.2%
9. 23959 / 16 = 1497 30.0%
10. RLM 8939 / 6 = 1489 49.7%
11. TwoGuns 7434 / 5 = 1486 29.7%
12. Masp Erewhon 4246 / 3 = 1415 50.1%
13. Millwright Ron 9712 / 7 = 1387 27.5%
14. 17554 / 13 = 1350 35.4%
15. DoN. Nichols 185942 / 145 = 1282 38.8%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. a welling of disdain 437 769768
2. Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low 423 784702
3. OT - Survivalism Retail Style 190 447055
4. OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you.. 166 273676
5. #OT# more insight on mirage of a Detroit bailout 122 255381
6. Ping Gunner: Logic 101 118 224086
7. Lantern Mantles? Coleman or generic? 111 119225
8. OT Illinois or Louisiana? 108 195498
9. Illinois or Louisiana? 103 139927
10. Flipping Flopper 95 164469
11. The Bush Legacy for America? 88 239931
12. Which would you choose? 87 170938
Severe deflation? What deflation? 87 164904
14. Obama & Blagojevich 77 194805
15. OT: Deficits no concern? 69 148258

A total of 482 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1588
2. Forte Agent 960
3. G2 835
4. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 519
5. Forte Free Agent 495
6. slrn 330
7. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 323
8. Microsoft Windows Mail 272
9. Mozilla 239
10. Pan 233
11. Xnews 227
12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 212
13. MicroPlanet Gravity 96
14. MT-NewsWatcher 82
15. tin 63

A total of 57 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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