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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: 1,488 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Feb 16 14:42:17 2009
Latest article: Sun Feb 22 22:55:31 2009
Original articles: 74, replies: 1,414
Total size of posts: 4,684,670 bytes (4,574K) (4.47M)
Average 212 articles per day, 0.64 MB per day, 3,148 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,983 KB bodies: 2,591 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,578 KB, original: 811 KB = 33.96%, sigs: 194 KB
Total number of posters: 254, average 18,443 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 136, average 34,446 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 41

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 84
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 76
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 65
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 64
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 47
6: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 42
7: Cliff ............................... ....... : 38
8: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 36
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 32
10: Don Foreman ................... . : 32
11: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 30
12: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 30
13: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 28
14: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 24
15: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 23
16: " ............................ : 21
17: RangersSuck ........................... . : 21
18: RB ............................ .......... : 19
19: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 19
20: "Peter Hucker" ................................. : 19

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 288
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 276
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 258
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 175
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 168
6: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 123
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 115
8: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 113
9: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 104
10: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 101
11: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 94
12: Larry Jaques ................... : 94
13: "Peter Hucker" ................................. : 83
14: RangersSuck ........................... . : 81
15: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 76
16: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 74
17: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 73
18: Don Foreman ................... . : 68
19: Cliff ............................... ....... : 68
20: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 63

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 73.25%
2: F. George McDuffee .......... : 72.58%
3: ............................................... : 70.90%
4: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 69.64%
5: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 69.46%
6: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 68.76%
7: Karl Townsend ............... . : 64.71%
8: Jon Elson ............................. : 64.04%
9: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 62.49%
10: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 59.87%
11: BottleBob .......................... ... : 59.82%
12: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 58.61%
13: David Lesher .............................. .. : 53.69%
14: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 52.43%
15: Wes ................................ ......... : 51.91%
16: " ............................ : 51.80%
17: Mark Rand ......................... ... : 50.77%
18: "RAM³" ...................... ...... : 49.70%
19: cavelamb .......................... .... : 48.02%
20: Lew Hartswick ...................... . : 47.01%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ................................... : 5.81%
2: ............................................. : 8.24%
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 13.68%
4: Dead Kitten ................ . : 13.72%
5: ................................. : 14.16%
6: "Peter Hucker" ................................. : 16.28%
7: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 16.58%
8: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 19.30%
9: Winston .......................... ..... : 20.47%
10: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 20.52%
11: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 20.89%
12: RangersSuck ........................... . : 21.08%
13: RB ............................ .......... : 21.88%
14: "David R.Birch" ............................. : 22.05%
15: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 23.46%
16: rigger ................................... ...... : 23.60%
17: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 24.11%
18: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 24.63%
19: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 25.16%
20: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 25.22%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: The Bush Economy, 20FEB09...................................... : 88
2: Was W this stupid?........................................... .. : 84
3: Energy Rant: Competition *doubles* prices????.................. : 61
4: Global warming 'underestimated'................................ : 60
5: Press One For English.......................................... : 55
6: Story Buried by Liberal Media....SOME metal content............ : 43
7: Ebay is rigged............................................ ..... : 42
8: Ben & Jerry's........................................... ....... : 41
9: Democrat Proposes Law Requiring All Firearm Owners To Have $1,0 : 39
10: What is it? Set 272............................................ : 38
11: MIG welding with Implanted Cardiac Device...................... : 34
12: DC Voltage of three phase rectifier greater?................... : 32
13: Good economic news! + metalworking............................. : 31
14: Make round cutouts in screens.................................. : 31
15: OT life in New Orleans......................................... : 29
16: Republican Recession will be worst since 1930s................. : 27
17: Key/Lock Questions......................................... .... : 27
18: Al Go Oops, I make boo boo.................................. : 26
19: OT: some vets don't hear well, not the same as don't listen for : 26
20: Today's Homoerotic Fantasy by "Curly & "ah" aka "The Ambiguousl : 25

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Was W this stupid?........................................... .. : 366
2: The Bush Economy, 20FEB09...................................... : 335
3: Global warming 'underestimated'................................ : 200
4: Energy Rant: Competition *doubles* prices????.................. : 160
5: Story Buried by Liberal Media....SOME metal content............ : 158
6: Democrat Proposes Law Requiring All Firearm Owners To Have $1,0 : 152
7: OT - Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics -- The current president wants : 150
8: Press One For English.......................................... : 147
9: Good economic news! + metalworking............................. : 120
10: Ebay is rigged............................................ ..... : 114
11: Republican Recession will be worst since 1930s................. : 106
12: OT life in New Orleans......................................... : 104
13: Ben & Jerry's........................................... ....... : 100
14: Today's Homoerotic Fantasy by "Curly & "ah" aka "The Ambiguousl : 99
15: Democrat Proposes Law Requiring All Firearm Owners To Have .... : 89
16: Today's Homoerotic Fantasy by "Curly & "ah" aka "The........... : 86
17: DC Voltage of three phase rectifier greater?................... : 84
18: What is it? Set 272............................................ : 84
19: Making Lathe Bits Without the "Right" Tools.................... : 74
20: Gunner's Status............................................ .... : 74

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 285
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 282
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 93
4: alt.politics.libertarian.......................... ............. : 71
5: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 71
6: sci.environment................................... ............. : 61
7: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 61
8: demon.local....................................... ............. : 59
9: alt.politics.usa.constitution..................... ............. : 56
10: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 52

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 64
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 56
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 35
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 22
5: rn................................................ ............. : 12
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 11
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
8: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 6
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 4
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 386 (26%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 316 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 245 (16%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 97 ( 7%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 92 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 77 ( 5%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 40 ( 3%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 39 ( 3%)
9: Xnews............................................. ........ : 26 ( 2%)
10: Opera Mail.............................................. .. : 19 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 422
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 278
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 277
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 245
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 182
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 58
7: +0700............................................. ............. : 14
8: +0900............................................. ............. : 5
9: +0200............................................. ............. : 3
10: +0100............................................. ............. : 3

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

This report covers 7084 messages written between 2009-01-23 00:17:40 and
2009-02-22 23:39:29

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Mr. Fusspot 3 94.58%
2. David G. Nagel 3 91.61%
3. 5 91.03%
4. Observer 3 90.59%
5. HK 16 89.54%
6. jimz 4 89.15%
7. mich 14 88.60%
8. Who is John Galt "Men of The 5 88.14%
9. Who i$ John Galt "Men of The 3 87.90%
10. 11 87.15%
11. Lloyd 6 87.10%
12. Grumpy 4 86.80%
13. Ralph Henrichs 3 86.66%
14. Cat_in_awe 3 86.40%
15. Dead Kitten 8 86.37%

A total of 11790051 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
7136014, or 60.53%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 404 394862 66.4%
2. Ed Huntress 386 903770 15.7%
3. Gunner Asch 348 626873 60.7%
4. Wes 235 140790 45.6%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 219 601312 0.6%
6. Too_Many_Tools 213 623376 1.8%
7. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 138 346252 25.9%
8. DoN. Nichols 118 306888 41.5%
9. Larry Jaques 112 209402 67.2%
John R. Carroll 112 170266 62.1%
11. SteveB 109 180798 74.3%
12. Jim Wilkins 100 94882 39.3%
13. Buerste 97 194487 80.3%
14. Don Foreman 96 126219 61.3%
15. cavelamb 88 94557 62.0%

A total of 612 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 88229 / 5 = 17645
2. obnzo 26224 / 3 = 8741 6.1%
3. 27927 / 7 = 3989
4. fjksfjkfj 10005 / 3 = 3335
5. www.iofferkicks.com iofferkicks0001@gmail. 38724 / 12 = 3227
6. Matt Stawicki 12495 / 5 = 2499 42.0%
7. Scott S. Logan 9902 / 5 = 1980 9.4%
8. Ignoramus13596 9777 / 5 = 1955 22.9%
9. Citizen Jimserac 14911 / 8 = 1863 63.5%
10. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso256514 / 138 = 1858 25.9%
11. Retief 22663 / 13 = 1743 38.3%
12. Ignoramus2885 10344 / 6 = 1724 9.1%
13. Ignoramus20263 10054 / 6 = 1675 30.4%
14. DoN. Nichols 179614 / 118 = 1522 41.5%
15. Ignoramus11135 4544 / 3 = 1514 32.8%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Gunner's Status 464 811128
2. We're sure going to miss ol' GW 181 282953
3. Stem Cell Research is a GO 154 351235
4. OT - The GOP gets its "Happy Negro" 109 161325
5. President takes on Rush Limbaugh in new media war 95 195730
6. The Bush Economy, 20FEB09 87 209984
7. Good economic news! + metalworking 86 198956
8. VFD as 3Ph shop supply 85 122675
9. Was W this stupid? 84 251928
Two-thirds of Republicans rejected Darwin's theory 84 173238
11. eBay prices tanked 81 132120
12. OT: Laptop hard drive - I'm stumped 80 87911
13. Global warming 'underestimated' 77 142167
14. OT - United States of America is a GREAT Country 75 149434
Guantanamo Case Files in Disarray 75 86143

A total of 569 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1642
2. Forte Agent 1086
3. G2 1021
4. Forte Free Agent 606
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 538
6. slrn 399
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 380
8. Pan 255
9. Xnews 156
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 131
11. Mozilla 122
12. MT-NewsWatcher 112
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 94
14. tin 64
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 47

A total of 43 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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