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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: 6,750 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jan 26 14:42:26 2009
Latest article: Sun Feb 1 22:55:23 2009
Original articles: 425, replies: 6,325
Total size of posts: 20,026,118 bytes (19,556K) (19.10M)
Average 964 articles per day, 2.73 MB per day, 2,966 bytes per article
Total headers: 8,911 KB bodies: 10,645 KB
Body text - quoted: 6,151 KB, original: 3,741 KB = 37.82%, sigs: 724 KB
Total number of posters: 612, average 32,722 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 560, average 35,760 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 55

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 378
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 369
3: Cliff ............................... ....... : 279
4: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 253
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 234
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 197
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 142
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 122
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 121
10: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 111
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 94
12: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 91
13: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 88
14: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 86
15: ................................. : 85
16: "SteveB" ............................. .... : 85
17: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 79
18: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 78
19: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 75
20: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 73

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 1560
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 1234
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 835
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 765
5: Cliff ............................... ....... : 549
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 429
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 424
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 409
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 383
10: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 340
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 318
12: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 283
13: Don Foreman ................... . : 278
14: ................................. : 276
15: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 270
16: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 266
17: "SteveB" ............................. .... : 232
18: Dan ............................ ......... : 227
19: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 217
20: cavelamb .......................... .... : 199

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 99.94%
2: "Bay Area Holdout" ...................... : 92.70%
3: Millwright Ron ..................... : 92.43%
4: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 90.09%
5: Ignoramus2885 ............. . : 89.32%
6: steamer ............................... ..... : 88.83%
7: "Ivan Vegvary" ............................... : 86.14%
8: "V for Vendicar" Execute_The_Traitor_In_The_White_House@hotmai : 85.29%
9: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 82.46%
10: "(PeteCresswell)" ................................ : 81.86%
11: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 80.04%
12: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 79.99%
13: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 77.69%
14: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 76.13%
15: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 75.83%
16: Ecnerwal .............. .... : 74.74%
17: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 73.27%
18: F. George McDuffee .......... : 72.52%
19: ......................................... : 71.45%
20: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 71.44%

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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: Who is John Galt "Men of The ............ : 7.42%
4: "marcodbeast" ................................ . : 8.51%
5: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 10.57%
6: Ignoramus13011 ........... : 10.83%
7: Myal ............................... ........ : 11.27%
8: hk ................................. .......... : 12.40%
9: Beowulf Farukstein ....................... : 12.53%
10: phil scott .............................. .. : 13.11%
11: ................................. : 14.11%
12: ................................. : 14.11%
13: Ignoramus31576 ........... : 14.44%
14: ............................................... : 14.56%
15: Bob Brock .............................. : 14.70%
16: Mark F ............................... ...... : 15.62%
17: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 16.32%
18: "Rod Speed" ......................... . : 16.79%
19: .......................................... : 16.82%
20: Ignoramus10426 ........... : 17.09%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Gunner's Status............................................ .... : 280
2: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 257
3: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 202
4: OT - Don't eat the peanut butter............................... : 133
5: "I Hope Obama Fails"........................................... : 112
6: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 106
7: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 105
8: Antarctica not immune to warming............................... : 94
9: OT: Laptop hard drive - I'm stumped............................ : 80
10: President takes on Rush Limbaugh in new media war.............. : 79
11: What kind of car do American companies need to make?........... : 78
12: Small engine rebuild update.................................... : 76
13: Keeping home life-support up when power goes out............... : 76
14: Funny Cartoons - Bush good riddance............................ : 71
15: OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives............ : 70
16: BP disaster: snapped r8 collet?................................ : 70
17: OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro"............................ : 62
18: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 60
19: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 59
20: Windmills and energy input..................................... : 58

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Survivalism Retail Style.................................. : 943
2: Gunner's Status............................................ .... : 787
3: Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low................ : 675
4: OT - Don't eat the peanut butter............................... : 376
5: "I Hope Obama Fails"........................................... : 372
6: OT - Spinning yourself a legacy when everyone hates you........ : 335
7: OT: The Coronation........................................ ..... : 298
8: OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives............ : 296
9: Small engine rebuild update.................................... : 282
10: President takes on Rush Limbaugh in new media war.............. : 254
11: Keeping home life-support up when power goes out............... : 228
12: Antarctica not immune to warming............................... : 227
13: Windmills and energy input..................................... : 226
14: What kind of car do American companies need to make?........... : 201
15: Can't we all just get along?................................... : 193
16: OT - Why We Need a "No Child Left Behind" effort............... : 191
17: Honda Headscratching.................................... ....... : 189
18: OT: Laptop hard drive - I'm stumped............................ : 189
19: OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro"............................ : 180
20: Update on welding with implanted defibrillator................. : 175

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 2223
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 1242
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 377
4: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 311
5: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 302
6: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 253
7: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 219
8: misc.consumers.frugal-living................................... : 196
9: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 191
10: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 184

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 182
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 107
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 77
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 47
5: rn................................................ ............. : 35
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 24
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 18
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 15
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 14
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 12

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 1480 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 1455 (22%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 1044 (15%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 515 ( 8%)
5: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 465 ( 7%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 290 ( 4%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 243 ( 4%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 199 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 186 ( 3%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 109 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 1919
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 1281
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 1258
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 1044
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 861
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 249
7: +1100............................................. ............. : 34
8: +0700............................................. ............. : 31
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 29
10: -0400.............................................. ............ : 28

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

This report covers 7301 messages written between 2009-01-02 00:32:54 and
2009-02-01 23:56:18

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 11 97.59%
2. BAR 3 94.40%
3. Who is John Galt "Men of The 6 92.06%
4. marcodbeast 5 91.83%
5. Wayne 4 91.41%
6. 3 90.95%
7. Observer 3 90.59%
8. Any one ?O75z!/9²s@WqP0SZXAs0NO2&D}CA³1_G.#`} 4 90.48%
9. Myal 15 88.96%
10. Archie Leach 4 87.29%
11. phil scott 13 87.09%
12. Beowulf Farukstein 10 86.53%
13. hk 16 86.31%
14. 14 86.20%
15. 85 86.15%

A total of 11486652 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6862149, or 59.74%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Ed Huntress 401 887644 14.5%
2. Too_Many_Tools 399 1069057 25.9%
3. Cliff 288 255674 61.8%
4. Gunner Asch 283 503489 60.8%
5. Wes 265 173619 48.5%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 214 520490 69.7%
7. Larry Jaques 162 267167 57.8%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 132 312647 24.3%
9. John R. Carroll 124 214793 59.5%
10. Don Foreman 122 151665 58.2%
11. DoN. Nichols 99 245796 44.1%
12. Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com 97 54939 28.3%
13. Libby Loo 92 189796 83.7%
Buerste 92 153729 74.6%
15. Wild_Bill 90 171520 46.4%

A total of 620 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 95114 / 6 = 15852
2. obnzo 26224 / 3 = 8741 6.1%
3. www.iofferkicks.com 38724 / 12 = 3227
4. 12887 / 5 = 2577
5. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
6. RLM 8580 / 4 = 2145 43.2%
7. Bay Area Holdout 10522 / 5 = 2104 7.3%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso236812 / 132 = 1794 24.3%
9. Ignoramus2885 10344 / 6 = 1724 9.1%
10. 22181 / 14 = 1584 28.6%
11. 15771 / 10 = 1577
12. willray 6139 / 4 = 1534 35.2%
13. Ignoramus11135 4544 / 3 = 1514 32.8%
14. TwoGuns 9707 / 7 = 1386 35.6%
DoN. Nichols 137280 / 99 = 1386 44.1%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Gunner's Status 279 414948
2. OT - Survivalism Retail Style 258 581773
3. Manufacturing Shrinks as Orders Hit 60-Year Low 234 424265
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. OT: The Coronation 106 147308
8. Antarctica not immune to warming 102 142535
9. President takes on Rush Limbaugh in new media war 94 195267
10. OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives.... 91 237166
11. OT: Laptop hard drive - I'm stumped 79 87223
12. What kind of car do American companies need to make? 78 98945
13. Small engine rebuild update. 76 162639
Keeping home life-support up when power goes out 76 111420
15. Funny Cartoons - Bush good riddance 71 58616

A total of 606 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1566
2. Forte Agent 1283
3. G2 1113
4. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 596
5. Forte Free Agent 481
6. slrn 313
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 308
8. Pan 264
9. Xnews 208
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 183
11. Mozilla 150
12. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 110
13. MT-NewsWatcher 78
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 72
15. pan 0.119 63

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

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