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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: 5,199 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jan 19 14:43:00 2009
Latest article: Sun Jan 25 22:55:18 2009
Original articles: 329, replies: 4,870
Total size of posts: 15,741,775 bytes (15,372K) (15.01M)
Average 742 articles per day, 2.14 MB per day, 3,027 bytes per article
Total headers: 6,922 KB bodies: 8,449 KB
Body text - quoted: 4,816 KB, original: 3,010 KB = 38.46%, sigs: 600 KB
Total number of posters: 525, average 29,984 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 442, average 35,614 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 53

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 314
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 295
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 191
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 180
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 155
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 153
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 121
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 114
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 95
10: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 95
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 82
12: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 79
13: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 77
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 70
15: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 64
16: "SteveB" ............................. .... : 62
17: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 62
18: ................................. : 57
19: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 52
20: cavelamb .......................... .... : 51

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 1305
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 981
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 634
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 629
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 396
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 357
7: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 333
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 320
9: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 298
10: Cliff ............................... ....... : 297
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 266
12: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 228
13: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 218
14: Don Foreman ................... . : 214
15: ................................. : 195
16: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 176
17: "SteveB" ............................. .... : 174
18: D Murphy ........................... .... : 164
19: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 162
20: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 160

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 99.92%
2: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 90.79%
3: steamer ............................... ..... : 87.02%
4: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 87.01%
5: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 85.29%
6: "(PeteCresswell)" ................................ : 82.85%
7: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 82.46%
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 80.70%
9: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 77.17%
10: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 76.74%
11: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 76.66%
12: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 76.54%
13: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 74.90%
14: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73.44%
15: ......................................... : 72.01%
16: "Bill Marrs" ......................... .. : 71.64%
17: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 71.60%
18: "Terry J. Wood" ....................... : 69.23%
19: robert bowman ............................ . : 66.89%
20: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 66.79%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: b .......................... ........... : 1.34%
2: ah ........................... .......... : 2.09%
3: Myal ............................... ........ : 11.27%
4: hk ................................. .......... : 12.40%
5: Bob Brock .............................. : 12.58%
6: ................................. : 12.63%
7: phil scott .............................. .. : 13.11%
8: Ignoramus31576 ........... : 14.44%
9: ............................................... : 14.56%
10: Mark F ............................... ...... : 14.93%
11: .......................................... : 14.95%
12: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 15.11%
13: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 15.51%
14: ............................................. : 15.53%
15: "Rod Speed" ......................... . : 16.79%
16: Ignoramus10426 ........... : 17.09%
17: HK .......................... .......... : 17.26%
18: James Arthur ....................... .. : 17.92%
19: "Curly Smurf****er" ......................... : 18.34%
20: Gerry .............................. ....... : 19.24%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 257
2: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 202
3: "I Hope Obama Fails"........................................... : 112
4: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 106
5: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 105
6: Antarctica not immune to warming............................... : 99
7: OT - Don't eat the peanut butter............................... : 88
8: What kind of car do American companies need to make?........... : 78
9: Small engine rebuild update.................................... : 76
10: Keeping home life-support up when power goes out............... : 76
11: OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives............ : 75
12: BP disaster: snapped r8 collet?................................ : 70
13: Funny Cartoons - Bush good riddance............................ : 61
14: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 60
15: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 59
16: Update on welding with implanted defibrillator................. : 55
17: Justice........................................... ............. : 49
18: Honda Headscratching.................................... ....... : 48
19: Commander in Chief Obama says it is time to bring the troops ho : 47
20: OT We do not torture........................................... : 46

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 943
2: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 675
3: "I Hope Obama Fails"........................................... : 372
4: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 335
5: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 298
6: OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives............ : 283
7: Small engine rebuild update.................................... : 282
8: Antarctica not immune to warming............................... : 252
9: OT - Don't eat the peanut butter............................... : 237
10: Keeping home life-support up when power goes out............... : 228
11: What kind of car do American companies need to make?........... : 201
12: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 193
13: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 191
14: Honda Headscratching.................................... ....... : 189
15: Windmills and energy input..................................... : 177
16: Update on welding with implanted defibrillator................. : 175
17: OT We do not torture........................................... : 173
18: Obama & Blagojevich....................................... ..... : 166
19: Justice........................................... ............. : 164
20: Banks in Need of Even More Bailout Money....................... : 156

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 1635
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 755
3: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 286
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 243
5: misc.consumers.frugal-living................................... : 195
6: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 175
7: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 161
8: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 155
9: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 147
10: sci.environment................................... ............. : 123

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 149
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 95
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 66
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 41
5: rn................................................ ............. : 28
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 22
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 16
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 13
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 12
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 12

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 1136 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 1104 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 830 (16%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 372 ( 7%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 320 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 234 ( 5%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 182 ( 4%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 161 ( 3%)
9: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 154 ( 3%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 88 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 1416
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 991
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 971
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 830
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 702
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 172
7: +1100............................................. ............. : 30
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 28
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 24
10: -0400.............................................. ............ : 23

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

This report covers 7224 messages written between 2008-12-26 00:50:21 and
2009-01-25 23:52:32

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 32 96.00%
2. BAR 3 94.40%
3. Who is John Galt "Men of The 4 94.00%
4. 4 93.14%
5. MarkQ 4 91.25%
6. marcodbeast 4 91.16%
7. My Conscience 4 90.79%
8. Any one ?O75z!/9²s@WqP0SZXAs0NO2&D}CA³1_G.#`} 4 90.48%
9. Myal 15 88.96%
10. Bob Brock 22 88.33%
11. Boater 4 88.11%
12. Half-nutz 4 87.95%
13. 77 87.82%
14. Archie Leach 4 87.29%
15. Wayne 5 87.27%

A total of 11401875 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6723634, or 58.97%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 379 861268 13.3%
2. Gunner Asch 377 717267 59.2%
3. Too_Many_Tools 350 917096 18.9%
4. Wes 276 227781 54.9%
5. Cliff 209 182881 59.6%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 192 447736 69.8%
7. Larry Jaques 183 277819 55.4%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 138 308776 22.4%
9. John R. Carroll 131 237303 58.0%
10. Wild_Bill 113 211757 44.3%
11. Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com 107 61634 27.2%
12. DoN. Nichols 104 236569 42.1%
13. Don Foreman 103 122956 55.2%
14. Jim Wilkins 99 103173 40.2%
15. Libby Loo 89 190388 83.9%

A total of 596 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 79895 / 5 = 15979
2. obnzo 26224 / 3 = 8741 6.1%
3. www.iofferkicks.com 32789 / 11 = 2980
4. Bay Area Holdout 8485 / 3 = 2828 2.6%
5. 12887 / 5 = 2577
6. 25297 / 10 = 2529
7. TwoGuns 7142 / 4 = 1785 22.7%
8. RLM 8707 / 5 = 1741 44.6%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso239464 / 138 = 1735 22.4%
10. 15771 / 10 = 1577
11. willray 6139 / 4 = 1534 35.2%
12. Ignoramus11135 4544 / 3 = 1514 32.8%
13. 22443 / 15 = 1496 28.4%
14. DoN. Nichols 136998 / 104 = 1317 42.1%
15. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNop 44182 / 34 = 1299 60.4%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT - Survivalism Retail Style 258 581773
2. Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low 234 424265
3. a welling of disdain 175 325521
4. OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you.. 174 283680
5. OT - Don't eat the peanut butter 133 177063
6. "I Hope Obama Fails" 112 206215
7. Lantern Mantles? Coleman or generic? 111 119225
8. OT: The Coronation 106 147308
9. Antarctica not immune to warming 98 136300
10. #OT# more insight on mirage of a Detroit bailout 81 164052
11. What kind of car do American companies need to make? 78 98945
12. OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives.... 77 188690
13. Small engine rebuild update. 76 162639
Keeping home life-support up when power goes out 76 111420
15. BP disaster: snapped r8 collet? 70 69874

A total of 582 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1530
2. Forte Agent 1224
3. G2 1021
4. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 481
5. Forte Free Agent 405
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 403
7. slrn 295
8. Pan 246
9. Xnews 222
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 212
11. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 173
12. Mozilla 155
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 105
14. MT-NewsWatcher 74
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 72

A total of 50 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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