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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: 3,767 over 7 days
Earliest article: Tue Feb 10 14:41:39 2009
Latest article: Sun Feb 15 22:55:30 2009
Original articles: 242, replies: 3,525
Total size of posts: 11,722,311 bytes (11,447K) (11.18M)
Average 538 articles per day, 1.60 MB per day, 3,111 bytes per article
Total headers: 5,021 KB bodies: 6,426 KB
Body text - quoted: 3,726 KB, original: 2,004 KB = 34.98%, sigs: 678 KB
Total number of posters: 461, average 25,428 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 317, average 36,978 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: Cliff ............................... ....... : 244
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 241
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 193
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 137
5: Wes ................................ ......... : 108
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 73
7: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 66
8: ................................. : 66
9: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 62
10: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 58
11: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 57
12: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 56
13: ............................................. : 53
14: cavelamb .......................... .... : 51
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 46
16: Winston_Smith ............................ . : 46
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 45
18: Larry Jaques ................... : 38
19: "Bill Noble" ........................ .. : 38
20: ................................... : 37

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 800
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 698
3: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 594
4: Cliff ............................... ....... : 512
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 256
6: F. George McDuffee .......... : 255
7: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 250
8: ................................. : 240
9: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 217
10: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 198
11: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 185
12: Wes ................................ ......... : 179
13: ............................................. : 178
14: ........................................ : 173
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 144
16: Larry Jaques ................... : 139
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 137
18: Dan ............................ ......... : 135
19: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 133
20: Winston_Smith ............................ . : 121

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 85.76%
2: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 82.37%
3: Mark Main .............................. ... : 78.24%
4: ......................................... : 77.49%
5: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 75.58%
6: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 74.44%
7: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 73.76%
8: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 73.45%
9: Michael Gray ......................... .. : 72.38%
10: Jon Elson ............................. : 71.38%
11: David Lesher .............................. .. : 71.13%
12: Retief .......................... ...... : 71.02%
13: F. George McDuffee .......... : 69.63%
14: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 69.54%
15: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 69.21%
16: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 68.08%
17: lid.......................................... : 66.09%
18: "Bill Marrs" ......................... .. : 64.83%
19: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 63.44%
20: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 62.96%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: HK .......................... .......... : 7.70%
2: ................................................. : 9.11%
3: .............................................. : 9.83%
4: Dan ............................ ......... : 10.77%
5: "J. Clarke" .......................... . : 11.53%
6: mich ........................... ........ : 11.90%
7: Bob Brock .............................. : 12.53%
8: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 13.22%
9: Strabo ........................... ...... : 13.36%
10: "Northern Raider" ..................... : 13.68%
11: "Don Young" .............................. . : 13.77%
12: ................................. : 14.82%
13: ............................................... : 14.89%
14: Baron von Mind ...................... : 15.57%
15: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 16.40%
16: Jim Chandler ................................. .. : 16.76%
17: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 16.96%
18: .......................................... : 17.48%
19: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 17.52%
20: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 17.90%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Gunner's Status............................................ .... : 324
2: We're sure going to miss ol' GW................................ : 181
3: Stem Cell Research is a GO..................................... : 154
4: VFD as 3Ph shop supply......................................... : 84
5: Two-thirds of Republicans rejected Darwin's theory............. : 84
6: eBay prices tanked............................................ . : 81
7: OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro"............................ : 80
8: OT - United States of America is a GREAT Country............... : 75
9: We live in interesting times................................... : 73
10: Drawing in Linux............................................. .. : 71
11: Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray.............................. : 68
12: Old mechanical inverters?...................................... : 62
13: Workshops for RVs and Sailboats................................ : 61
14: Todd Palin in contempt in 'troopergate'........................ : 61
15: Dread anyone?........................................... ....... : 56
16: #OT# GM bankruptcy closer?..................................... : 55
17: Good economic news! + metalworking............................. : 55
18: Size of a tool (lathe!)........................................ : 53
19: OT - Bank Failures - Is yours still around?.................... : 52
20: Gas powered battery charger.................................... : 48

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Gunner's Status............................................ .... : 1049
2: Stem Cell Research is a GO..................................... : 576
3: We're sure going to miss ol' GW................................ : 563
4: Two-thirds of Republicans rejected Darwin's theory............. : 291
5: OT - United States of America is a GREAT Country............... : 278
6: OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro"............................ : 248
7: eBay prices tanked............................................ . : 245
8: VFD as 3Ph shop supply......................................... : 245
9: Drawing in Linux............................................. .. : 230
10: We live in interesting times................................... : 227
11: OT - Bank Failures - Is yours still around?.................... : 206
12: #OT# GM bankruptcy closer?..................................... : 200
13: Good economic news! + metalworking............................. : 192
14: Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray.............................. : 186
15: Size of a tool (lathe!)........................................ : 185
16: Old mechanical inverters?...................................... : 180
17: Todd Palin in contempt in 'troopergate'........................ : 175
18: Private Banking Made Simple - because patsy wasted American ... : 173
19: Dread anyone?........................................... ....... : 166
20: Workshops for RVs and Sailboats................................ : 159

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 1293
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 1078
3: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 302
4: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 285
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 283
6: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 237
7: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 208
8: alt.aol.tricks.................................... ............. : 176
9: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 164
10: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 154

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 140
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 85
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 64
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 31
5: rn................................................ ............. : 23
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 11
7: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 11
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 10
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 9
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 9

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 788 (21%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 781 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 541 (14%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 353 ( 9%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 239 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 222 ( 6%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 154 ( 4%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 117 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 86 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 70 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 1018
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 764
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 739
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 541
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 536
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 129
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 12
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 9
9: -0400.............................................. ............ : 8
10: +1100............................................. ............. : 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 7305 messages written between 2009-01-16 00:18:52 and
2009-02-15 23:17:02

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 7 98.10%
2. BAR 3 94.40%
3. Beowulf Farukstein 8 94.06%
4. Who is John Galt "Men of The 6 92.06%
5. marcodbeast 5 91.83%
6. David G. Nagel 3 91.61%
7. Bruce In Bangkok 3 91.13%
8. Observer 3 90.59%
9. 7 89.44%
10. wws 3 89.14%
11. hk 23 88.87%
12. mich 13 88.43%
13. Myal 14 87.65%
14. Mark F 8 87.30%
15. Grumpy 5 86.99%

A total of 11745296 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
7035819, or 59.90%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 452 428214 66.3%
2. Ed Huntress 383 898012 15.3%
3. Gunner Asch 330 586609 59.3%
4. Too_Many_Tools 240 679881 0.8%
5. Wes 235 140948 45.7%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 217 559674 71.8%
7. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 122 293354 24.3%
8. John R. Carroll 116 183609 61.0%
9. DoN. Nichols 111 288426 43.9%
10. Larry Jaques 110 210694 65.2%
11. Don Foreman 105 133116 58.6%
12. Libby Loo 103 244718 85.5%
13. 99 166969 85.9%
14. SteveB 98 127120 68.1%
15. Buerste 88 168383 79.9%

A total of 635 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 73092 / 5 = 14618
2. obnzo 26224 / 3 = 8741 6.1%
3. 27927 / 7 = 3989
4. fjksfjkfj 10005 / 3 = 3335
5. www.iofferkicks.com 38724 / 12 = 3227
6. Scott S. Logan 9902 / 5 = 1980 9.4%
7. Ignoramus13596 9777 / 5 = 1955 22.9%
8. Citizen Jimserac 14911 / 8 = 1863 63.5%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso222053 / 122 = 1820 24.3%
10. Ignoramus2885 10344 / 6 = 1724 9.1%
11. 15771 / 10 = 1577
12. Ignoramus11135 4544 / 3 = 1514 32.8%
13. 4428 / 3 = 1476
14. Retief 23574 / 16 = 1473 38.7%
15. DoN. Nichols 161824 / 111 = 1457 43.9%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Gunner's Status 444 766927
2. We're sure going to miss ol' GW 181 282953
3. Stem Cell Research is a GO 154 351235
4. OT - Don't eat the peanut butter 133 177063
5. "I Hope Obama Fails" 112 206215
6. OT - United States of America is a GREAT Country 111 180446
7. OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro" 109 161325
8. Antarctica not immune to warming 102 142535
9. President takes on Rush Limbaugh in new media war 95 195730
10. OT - What the public really thinks of conservatives.... 91 237166
11. Two-thirds of Republicans rejected Darwin's theory 84 173238
VFD as 3Ph shop supply 84 120775
13. eBay prices tanked 81 132120
14. OT: Laptop hard drive - I'm stumped 80 87911
15. Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray 75 86143

A total of 618 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1620
2. Forte Agent 1137
3. G2 1040
4. Forte Free Agent 637
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 599
6. slrn 388
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 362
8. Pan 256
9. Xnews 196
10. Mozilla 137
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 129
12. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 119
13. MT-NewsWatcher 112
14. tin 69
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 50

A total of 46 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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