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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: 952 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Apr 20 14:42:24 2009
Latest article: Sun Apr 26 22:55:21 2009
Original articles: 69, replies: 883
Total size of posts: 2,460,095 bytes (2,402K) (2.35M)
Average 136 articles per day, 0.34 MB per day, 2,584 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,286 KB bodies: 1,115 KB
Body text - quoted: 597 KB, original: 454 KB = 43.17%, sigs: 61 KB
Total number of posters: 234, average 10,513 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 135, average 18,222 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 48

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 61
2: Wes ................................ ......... : 40
3: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 34
4: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 33
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 33
6: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 28
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 25
8: "Bob La Londe" .............................. : 16
9: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 16
10: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 16
11: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 14
12: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 13
13: Winston .......................... ..... : 13
14: "Tim" ............................. ....... : 12
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 11
16: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 11
17: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 11
18: David Lesher .............................. .. : 11
19: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 11
20: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 10

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 138
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 106
3: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 86
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 80
5: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 77
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 76
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 69
8: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 53
9: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 45
10: "Bob La Londe" .............................. : 44
11: E Z Peaces ............................ .. : 33
12: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 32
13: ............................................. : 29
14: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 27
15: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 27
16: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 26
17: Bruce In Bangkok ................... : 26
18: Winston .......................... ..... : 24
19: cavelamb .......................... .... : 24
20: stryped ........................... ..... : 24

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 92.37%
2: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 85.55%
3: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 79.28%
4: F. George McDuffee .......... : 77.47%
5: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 76.90%
6: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 72.57%
7: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 65.24%
8: Terry ............................ ....... : 62.88%
9: .............................................. : 61.88%
10: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 60.12%
11: Don Foreman ................... . : 58.96%
12: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 56.94%
13: David Lesher .............................. .. : 55.68%
14: "Bob La Londe" .............................. : 53.48%
15: Maxwell Lol .............................. . : 50.58%
16: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 49.39%
17: Winston .......................... ..... : 47.77%
18: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 47.73%
19: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 45.30%
20: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 45.15%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bob Larter ........................... .. : 7.36%
2: ............................................. : 11.80%
3: ................................. : 17.81%
4: "Nutz" ................................... ...... : 18.58%
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 22.76%
6: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 23.38%
7: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 23.83%
8: Cliff ............................... ....... : 24.00%
9: Bruce In Bangkok ................... : 24.76%
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 24.90%
11: kfvorwerk ............................. ... : 26.65%
12: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 27.30%
13: stryped ........................... ..... : 29.41%
14: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 30.00%
15: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 31.13%
16: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 31.32%
17: Ignoramus32638 ........... : 31.39%
18: ............................................... : 32.44%
19: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 32.57%
20: E Z Peaces ............................ .. : 33.10%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: truck electric leak............................................ : 58
2: Space Power............................................. ....... : 40
3: Top ten gorilla welds I've seen................................ : 34
4: OT: Pro-Lifers, Gun owners, VETS: Most Dangerous Domestic Terro : 28
5: hard drive woes.............................................. .. : 28
6: Chinese hackers steal code for Joint Strike Fighter and more... : 27
7: Red neck head check............................................ : 26
8: What is it? Set 281............................................ : 26
9: Interesting experience with cordless tool battery.............. : 26
10: gummer: MIA again............................................. . : 24
11: Moving an Air Compressor....................................... : 21
12: Forged Craigslist scam checks.................................. : 20
13: OT - understanding you Yanks................................... : 19
14: OT Have you noticed the MSM is attacking Craig's List?......... : 17
15: Is what the machine shop told me true?......................... : 17
16: What happens when idiot wingnut N.C. Senator disses Rhodes Scho : 16
17: Rear view mirror............................................ ... : 16
18: Sealant for NPT on hydraulic brake line?....................... : 16
19: GM retirees to get raped in bankruptcy......................... : 16
20: Unpotting a transformer....................................... . : 15

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: truck electric leak............................................ : 125
2: Space Power............................................. ....... : 107
3: hard drive woes.............................................. .. : 83
4: OT: Pro-Lifers, Gun owners, VETS: Most Dangerous Domestic Terro : 77
5: Top ten gorilla welds I've seen................................ : 74
6: Interesting experience with cordless tool battery.............. : 70
7: What is it? Set 279............................................ : 60
8: Red neck head check............................................ : 60
9: Chinese hackers steal code for Joint Strike Fighter and more... : 56
10: gummer: MIA again............................................. . : 55
11: Is what the machine shop told me true?......................... : 54
12: Statistics for week ending 20090420............................ : 51
13: Moving an Air Compressor....................................... : 49
14: What is it? Set 281............................................ : 48
15: Forged Craigslist scam checks.................................. : 46
16: What happens when idiot wingnut N.C. Senator disses Rhodes Scho : 45
17: OT - understanding you Yanks................................... : 42
18: Why did only one side of the breaker burn out?................. : 42
19: GM retirees to get raped in bankruptcy......................... : 42
20: Moving an Air Compressor - Aftermath........................... : 40

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 159
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 142
3: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 69
4: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 45
5: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 41
6: sci.environment................................... ............. : 40
7: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 40
8: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 40
9: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 32
10: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 30

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 55
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 45
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 34
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)........................ : 18
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 11
6: rn................................................ ............. : 8
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 7
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 210 (22%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 191 (20%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 157 (16%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 80 ( 8%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 67 ( 7%)
6: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 61 ( 6%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 22 ( 2%)
8: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 21 ( 2%)
9: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 18 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000..................... : 16 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 290
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 216
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 174
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 157
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 61
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 17
7: +0700............................................. ............. : 12
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 8
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 7
10: +1000............................................. ............. : 6

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

This report covers 7312 messages written between 2009-03-27 00:01:58 and
2009-04-26 22:23:54

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. 3 95.28%
2. James 3 93.32%
3. Scout 10 92.48%
4. David Moffitt 23 92.29%
5. marcodbeast 18 92.04%
6. Jeff Mc 8 91.26%
7. Dan 15 90.21%
8. Lamont Cranston 6 89.38%
9. 6 88.47%
10. erik litchy 4 88.26%
11. Basil Karlo 59 88.21%
12. Deucalion 193 88.09%
13. 5 87.82%
14. Gerry 4 87.68%
15. Another Sunny Day 3 86.75%

A total of 10438389 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6260156, or 59.97%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 642 649518 3.1%
2. Gunner Asch 556 874135 3.4%
3. Curly Surmudgeon 208 388741 73.2%
4. Wes 199 133975 49.0%
5. Deucalion 193 331503 88.1%
6. Too_Many_Tools 155 292865 82.3%
7. Tim #__#@__.- 154 120628 61.5%
8. Bob Larter 140 191933 75.8%
9. Larry Jaques 136 190635 59.5%
10. Michael A. Terrell 132 126153 68.6%
11. Jim Wilkins 122 101823 44.5%
12. Buerste 112 133480 77.5%
13. Ed Huntress 101 265725 66.4%
14. Calif Bill 99 166807 80.1%
15. 95 143141 84.0%

A total of 616 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 87955 / 4 = 21988 0.2%
2. www.dudes-mall.com 22587 / 3 = 7529
3. Anonymous 18746 / 3 = 6248 10.7%
4. sittingduck 25508 / 5 = 5101 2.0%
5. 8346 / 3 = 2782
6. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
7. 8239 / 4 = 2059
8. 6570 / 4 = 1642
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso100998 / 62 = 1629 22.5%
10. John R. Carroll jcarroll@ubu,machiningsolu107881 / 67 = 1610 46.6%
11. kc7cc 13749 / 9 = 1527 31.1%
12. RogerN 37073 / 25 = 1482 33.2%
13. fgfdgfdggfdg 11834 / 8 = 1479
14. Andrew Erickson 5914 / 4 = 1478 5.5%
15. DoN. Nichols 114107 / 80 = 1426 43.6%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Im back 469 654228
2. I was right...again 365 642220
3. Space Power 235 370149
4. Is Gummer Arse related to this guy? 185 327193
5. Wingers lose in Texas 176 241254
6. On Universal Health Care 144 221055
7. Repugs to "6go nuclear"9 118 180490
8. Palin on the outs 109 124566
9. OT - Should passing a drug test be a requirement for gun 102 115059
10. Ping Gummer 101 116744
11. Forged Craigslist scam checks 96 87325
12. Electrical schematics on Linux? 81 86939
13. [Way OT] New Visa credit card scam 76 68148
14. Two Wheels 73 66679
15. OT - Your Chinese banker is putting you on a budget 72 131608

A total of 605 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1372
2. Forte Agent 1116
3. G2 940
4. Forte Free Agent 746
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 652
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 561
7. slrn 257
8. Mozilla 254
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 156
10. Xnews 122
11. Microsoft-Entourage 87
12. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 82
13. MT-NewsWatcher 69
14. Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 46
15. tin 41

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

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