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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: 1,390 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon May 4 14:42:14 2009
Latest article: Sun May 10 22:55:21 2009
Original articles: 88, replies: 1,302
Total size of posts: 4,294,643 bytes (4,193K) (4.10M)
Average 198 articles per day, 0.59 MB per day, 3,089 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,968 KB bodies: 2,225 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,374 KB, original: 752 KB = 35.37%, sigs: 95 KB
Total number of posters: 258, average 16,645 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 165, average 26,028 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 46

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 112
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 74
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 71
4: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 53
5: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 37
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 36
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 30
8: ............................................. : 27
9: Bob Larter ........................... .. : 24
10: ........................................ : 24
11: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 23
12: cavelamb .......................... .... : 22
13: David Lesher .............................. .. : 21
14: §ñühw¤£f ........................... .... : 20
15: Winston .......................... ..... : 19
16: jon_banquer ........................... . : 18
17: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 16
18: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 16
19: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 16
20: F. George McDuffee .......... : 16

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 304
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 240
3: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 234
4: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 161
5: §ñühw¤£f ........................... .... : 152
6: Bob Larter ........................... .. : 146
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 111
8: ............................................. : 103
9: Larry Jaques ................... : 87
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 85
11: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 78
12: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 77
13: ........................................ : 74
14: Wes ................................ ......... : 69
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 57
16: pandora ................................ ..... : 52
17: David Lesher .............................. .. : 50
18: Winston .......................... ..... : 50
19: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= ....... : 48
20: "Richard W." ............................. .. : 48

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: jon_banquer ........................... . : 82.05%
2: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 79.64%
3: ............................................... : 77.84%
4: "azotic" .................................. .... : 75.51%
5: "Richard W." ............................. .. : 70.93%
6: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 69.54%
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 63.64%
8: (dan)........................................ : 62.60%
9: Winston .......................... ..... : 60.94%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 59.53%
11: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 59.05%
12: "Tim" ............................. ....... : 58.48%
13: spaco .............................. : 57.71%
14: Jon Elson ............................. : 56.96%
15: ........................................ : 53.87%
16: Don Foreman ................... . : 52.70%
17: David Lesher .............................. .. : 51.82%
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 51.81%
19: (Doug Miller).............................. : 49.48%
20: steamer ............................... ..... : 47.81%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bob Larter ........................... .. : 2.28%
2: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= ....... : 3.09%
3: pandora ................................ ..... : 3.13%
4: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 4.85%
5: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 6.70%
6: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 13.96%
7: Klaus Schadenfreude ............. : 15.45%
8: "David Moffitt" ............................ : 17.13%
9: §ñühw¤£f ........................... .... : 17.37%
10: ................................. : 18.05%
11: Deucalion ............................. ... : 18.15%
12: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 19.71%
13: ............................................. : 19.91%
14: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 20.21%
15: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 21.06%
16: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 22.11%
17: "Who i$ John Galt" "Men of the ......... : 22.90%
18: Ignoramus27971 ........... : 23.60%
19: D Murphy ........................... .... : 24.37%
20: "Paul Hovnanian P.E." ..................... : 24.47%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: See ya Friday night or Saturday...Off to LA.................... : 132
2: Ping Survivalists...................................... ........ : 87
3: Chrysler Today...GM Tomorrow?.................................. : 72
4: Space Power............................................. ....... : 68
5: worshipping false icons........................................ : 61
6: Auto industry sinking fast...others to come?................... : 46
7: What is the best aluminum for heat sink?....................... : 42
8: OT-Automobile alternator rotation direction.................... : 41
9: OT: Ping EE's: Connecting to The Grid.......................... : 33
10: Removal of stinky coolant...................................... : 29
11: quick poll - american cars..................................... : 26
12: aluminum cooking pots.......................................... : 25
13: What is it? Set 283............................................ : 24
14: OT - Capitalism in Crisis -- It's hard to run a safe banking sy : 20
15: A 1-year update............................................ .... : 20
16: The Sinking Ship.............................................. . : 19
17: What is this? In the dropbox................................... : 17
18: What is the steel in hydraulic pistons?........................ : 17
19: Lathes............................................ ............. : 16
20: 9/32 x 20 screw............................................. ... : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Ping Survivalists...................................... ........ : 541
2: See ya Friday night or Saturday...Off to LA.................... : 357
3: Chrysler Today...GM Tomorrow?.................................. : 299
4: worshipping false icons........................................ : 189
5: Space Power............................................. ....... : 188
6: What is the best aluminum for heat sink?....................... : 117
7: Auto industry sinking fast...others to come?................... : 105
8: OT - Capitalism in Crisis -- It's hard to run a safe banking sy : 102
9: OT-Automobile alternator rotation direction.................... : 102
10: OT: Ping EE's: Connecting to The Grid.......................... : 86
11: Removal of stinky coolant...................................... : 73
12: aluminum cooking pots.......................................... : 67
13: The Sinking Ship.............................................. . : 63
14: quick poll - american cars..................................... : 61
15: What is it? Set 283............................................ : 52
16: Hello TOOL, worshipping false icons........................ : 49
17: A 1-year update............................................ .... : 48
18: Michelle Obama wears $540 designer sneakers to food bank....... : 39
19: A Letter to the President...................................... : 38
20: Was:OT-Automobile alternator rotation direction Now; Would the. : 37

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 489
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 422
3: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 156
4: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 131
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 119
6: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 94
7: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 88
8: sci.environment................................... ............. : 64
9: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 64
10: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 37

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 69
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 42
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)........................ : 19
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 11
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 9
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 8
9: rn................................................ ............. : 8
10: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 342 (25%)
2: G2................................................ ........ : 244 (18%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 180 (13%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 133 (10%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 93 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 90 ( 6%)
7: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 57 ( 4%)
8: unknown........................................... ........ : 41 ( 3%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 38 ( 3%)
10: nn................................................ ........ : 21 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 386
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 316
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 263
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 244
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 103
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 29
7: +1000............................................. ............. : 26
8: -0800.............................................. ............ : 9
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 7
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 4

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

This report covers 5683 messages written between 2009-04-11 00:25:19 and
2009-05-10 23:50:15

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. pandora 11 96.75%
2. marcodbeast 18 92.04%
3. \"The Honest One\" 4 91.67%
4. 4 90.12%
5. Billy Bob Brubeck 4 89.98%
6. Grumpy 4 89.03%
7. Aratzio 22 88.63%
8. Deucalion 69 88.03%
9. hal 5 87.96%
10. T.Alan Kraus 5 86.27%
11. MillerT 61 85.74%
12. David J. Hughes 6 85.57%
13. 70 85.47%
14. RB 7 85.28%
15. Bob Larter 139 85.06%

A total of 8359433 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5103726, or 61.05%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 483 450132 66.7%
2. Gunner Asch 257 459173 52.9%
3. Too_Many_Tools 231 518817 81.4%
4. Basil Karlo 170 329754 62.3%
5. Michael A. Terrell 157 200703 72.4%
6. Bob Larter 139 295181 85.1%
7. Wes 131 104878 51.9%
8. Curly Surmudgeon 116 229110 77.8%
9. Larry Jaques 114 166511 64.8%
10. SE¤�hwCuœf 97 306238 72.8%
11. Jim Wilkins 71 57902 45.6%
12. What A. Fool 70 137808 63.1%
70 101426 85.5%
14. John R. Carroll 69 216623 43.7%
Deucalion 69 121944 88.0%

A total of 547 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 88099 / 4 = 22024
2. Phil Kangas 16370 / 4 = 4092 12.6%
3. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso100022 / 48 = 2083 26.5%
4. John R. Carroll jcarroll@ubu,machiningsolu122056 / 69 = 1768 43.7%
5. 6570 / 4 = 1642
6. sittingduck 7855 / 5 = 1571 7.9%
7. Wild_Bill 35788 / 23 = 1556 28.2%
8. Andrew Erickson 6048 / 4 = 1512 4.2%
9. 4362 / 3 = 1454 62.6%
10. DoN. Nichols 80302 / 61 = 1316 42.0%
11. Bruce L. Bergman bruceNOSPAMbergman@gmail. 38627 / 34 = 1136 37.3%
12. Richard W. 23264 / 22 = 1057 38.9%
13. Alexander Thesoso alexander_thesoso@hotmai 3149 / 3 = 1049 8.0%
14. 5144 / 5 = 1028 25.6%
Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNop 19538 / 19 = 1028 50.1%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Space Power 308 465009
2. Ping Survivalists 267 757320
3. Chrysler Today...GM Tomorrow? 151 363211
4. I was right...again 148 307103
5. See ya Friday night or Saturday...Off to LA 132 168101
6. Repugs to "6go nuclear"9 118 180490
7. Im back 104 113923
8. Forged Craigslist scam checks 96 87325
9. Auto industry sinking fast...others to come? 93 145664
10. Is Gummer Arse related to this guy? 89 145262
11. Ping Gummer 79 95215
12. long term reliablity computer boards 70 123401
13. The Sinking Ship 69 114501
14. Memory Lane, slightly OT 67 108019
15. worshipping false icons 61 89605

A total of 552 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 889
2. G2 853
3. Forte Agent 834
4. Forte Free Agent 566
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 438
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 364
7. Mozilla 243
8. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 196
9. slrn 182
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 117
11. Xnews 81
12. MT-NewsWatcher 73
13. Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 70
14. Microsoft-Entourage 63
15. Gnus 42

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

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