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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: 1,007 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon May 11 14:45:39 2009
Latest article: Sun May 17 22:55:18 2009
Original articles: 74, replies: 933
Total size of posts: 2,887,898 bytes (2,820K) (2.75M)
Average 143 articles per day, 0.39 MB per day, 2,867 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,361 KB bodies: 1,458 KB
Body text - quoted: 726 KB, original: 641 KB = 46.89%, sigs: 86 KB
Total number of posters: 241, average 11,982 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 126, average 22,919 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 39

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 105
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 77
3: Wes ................................ ......... : 27
4: (Doug Miller).............................. : 27
5: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 25
6: pmv ........................... ......... : 21
7: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 20
8: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 19
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 18
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 16
11: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 15
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 15
13: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 14
14: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 14
15: Larry Jaques ................... : 13
16: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 13
17: cavelamb .......................... .... : 12
18: F. George McDuffee .......... : 12
19: Winston .......................... ..... : 11
20: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 11

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 249
2: Cliff ............................... ....... : 237
3: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 97
4: (Doug Miller).............................. : 73
5: pmv ........................... ......... : 61
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 55
7: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 54
8: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 54
9: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 50
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 46
11: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 44
12: Bruce in Bangkok ........................ : 43
13: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 41
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 40
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 37
16: Larry Jaques ................... : 35
17: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 34
18: Don Foreman ................... . : 31
19: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 30
20: ............................................. : 29

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: The Hurdy Gurdy Man ............. : 85.49%
2: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 71.78%
3: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 71.31%
4: Ignoramus8051 ............. . : 63.21%
5: F. George McDuffee .......... : 61.94%
6: Wes ................................ ......... : 57.53%
7: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 56.82%
8: Todd Rich ................................. ... : 55.87%
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 53.28%
10: Don Foreman ................... . : 52.08%
11: "Scott" ..................... ..... : 51.25%
12: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 50.53%
13: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 50.50%
14: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 47.38%
15: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 44.27%
16: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 44.25%
17: Dikfer ................... : 42.91%
18: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 42.78%
19: " ............................ : 42.56%
20: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 40.67%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 13.54%
2: RB ............................ .......... : 14.11%
3: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 15.16%
4: Strabo ........................... ...... : 15.41%
5: ................................................. : 17.56%
6: Bob Larter ........................... .. : 17.80%
7: ............................................. : 18.43%
8: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 18.44%
9: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 18.84%
10: Bruce in Bangkok ........................ : 19.15%
11: miguel ............................... ...... : 20.47%
12: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 21.42%
13: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 21.47%
14: pmv ........................... ......... : 23.10%
15: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 26.68%
16: cavelamb .......................... .... : 27.23%
17: ................................. : 27.24%
18: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 27.51%
19: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 27.56%
20: Cliff ............................... ....... : 27.75%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Nope..its definately not over yet...Obama...................... : 176
2: Space Power............................................. ....... : 44
3: 7.5 HP Lathe on a 10 HP idler?................................. : 35
4: Dick Cheney simply knows....................................... : 31
5: A Letter to the President...................................... : 31
6: quick poll - american cars..................................... : 28
7: Sweat soldering ball valve..................................... : 27
8: What is it? Set 284............................................ : 26
9: Flushing Follies........................................... .... : 25
10: Chrysler Dealer Inventory Fire Sale?........................... : 23
11: Vibratory polishers......................................... ... : 22
12: Should I get a 3 jaw chuck or a 4 jaw chuck for my dividing hea : 21
13: How to extract set screw?...................................... : 21
14: The Basic Laws of Stupidity.................................... : 19
15: telescoping aluminum pole?..................................... : 18
16: OT: a sorry state of affairs................................... : 18
17: Decent 4.5" angle grinder...................................... : 17
18: Heavy duty C clamps............................................ : 16
19: OT - Capitalism in Crisis -- It's hard to run a safe banking sy : 16
20: Topless Photos of Miss California Surface on Web............... : 16

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Nope..its definately not over yet...Obama...................... : 508
2: Space Power............................................. ....... : 145
3: Dick Cheney simply knows....................................... : 102
4: 7.5 HP Lathe on a 10 HP idler?................................. : 98
5: Chrysler Dealer Inventory Fire Sale?........................... : 81
6: quick poll - american cars..................................... : 74
7: A Letter to the President...................................... : 73
8: Flushing Follies........................................... .... : 71
9: OT - Capitalism in Crisis -- It's hard to run a safe banking sy : 64
10: Vibratory polishers......................................... ... : 60
11: Sweat soldering ball valve..................................... : 57
12: OT: a sorry state of affairs................................... : 56
13: How to extract set screw?...................................... : 53
14: What is it? Set 284............................................ : 53
15: telescoping aluminum pole?..................................... : 47
16: Topless Photos of Miss California Surface on Web............... : 47
17: Should I get a 3 jaw chuck or a 4 jaw chuck for my dividing hea : 43
18: OT Pelosi is going down........................................ : 42
19: angle cutting small pipe....................................... : 40
20: The Basic Laws of Stupidity.................................... : 40

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 358
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 336
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 111
4: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 55
5: sci.environment................................... ............. : 44
6: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 42
7: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 40
8: alt.hvac.......................................... ............. : 40
9: alt.rec.crafts.metalworking....................... ............. : 30
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 24

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 66
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 45
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 30
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)........................ : 25
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 10
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 9
7: rn................................................ ............. : 9
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 5
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 236 (23%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 169 (17%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 153 (15%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 125 (12%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 79 ( 8%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 44 ( 4%)
7: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 34 ( 3%)
8: News Xpress 2.01.......................................... : 27 ( 3%)
9: tin............................................... ........ : 20 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 14 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 285
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 223
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 186
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 153
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 105
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 18
7: +0700............................................. ............. : 10
8: +1000............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 8
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 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 4992 messages written between 2009-04-18 00:07:40 and
2009-05-17 23:49:22

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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. \"The Honest One\" 4 91.67%
3. F Murtz 3 90.77%
4. 4 90.12%
5. Billy Bob Brubeck 4 89.98%
6. Aratzio 19 89.89%
7. MillerT 33 89.63%
8. Bob Larter 75 89.15%
9. Strabo 10 87.67%
10. RB 15 87.23%
11. Alric Knebel 9 87.22%
12. Deucalion 23 86.25%
13. Cydrome Leader 7 85.59%
14. 3 85.29%
15. Poetic Justice 5 84.95%

A total of 7198359 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4284472, or 59.52%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 388 370578 69.1%
2. Gunner Asch 249 416550 55.2%
3. Too_Many_Tools 212 498221 80.3%
4. Basil Karlo 164 304532 59.1%
5. Michael A. Terrell 132 164723 73.4%
6. Wes 129 107223 50.5%
7. Larry Jaques 97 144908 65.2%
8. Jim Wilkins 83 78012 44.9%
9. Bob Larter 75 206834 89.2%
10. What A. Fool 68 119166 62.9%
11. John R. Carroll 67 163578 51.1%
12. 60 128678 80.7%
cavelamb 60 48976 73.8%
14. SE¤�hwCuœf 59 241002 76.3%
DoN. Nichols 59 119653 39.7%

A total of 544 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 88131 / 4 = 22032
2. 18689 / 3 = 6229
3. Phil Kangas 15353 / 3 = 5117 10.6%
4. Scott S. Logan 7254 / 3 = 2418
5. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 99715 / 52 = 1917 29.5%
6. 6570 / 4 = 1642
7. sittingduck 11422 / 7 = 1631 9.0%
8. Jeff Mc 6021 / 4 = 1505 18.9%
9. vinny 5823 / 4 = 1455 44.1%
10. 4362 / 3 = 1454 62.6%
11. Andrew Erickson 6966 / 5 = 1393 14.3%
12. Wild_Bill 49625 / 36 = 1378 26.2%
13. 3878 / 3 = 1292
14. DoN. Nichols 72145 / 59 = 1222 39.7%
15. John R. Carroll jcarroll@ubu,machiningsolu 79912 / 67 = 1192 51.1%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Ping Survivalists 257 743822
2. Space Power 205 302903
3. Nope..its definately not over yet...Obama 174 239575
4. Chrysler Today...GM Tomorrow? 153 375910
5. See ya Friday night or Saturday...Off to LA 137 174996
6. Auto industry sinking fast...others to come? 103 153252
7. Forged Craigslist scam checks 96 87325
8. long term reliablity computer boards 73 126493
9. The Sinking Ship 69 114501
10. Memory Lane, slightly OT 67 108019
11. worshipping false icons 61 89605
12. Got a ticket today 59 74649
13. truck electric leak 58 52702
14. OT: Pro-Lifers, Gun owners, VETS: Most Dangerous Domestic 56 67357
15. quick poll - american cars 54 53669

A total of 511 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. G2 824
2. Microsoft Outlook Express 770
3. Forte Agent 749
4. Forte Free Agent 476
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 380
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 351
7. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 186
8. slrn 169
9. Mozilla 151
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 121
11. Xnews 71
12. MT-NewsWatcher 67
13. tin 41
14. Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 39
News Xpress 39

A total of 44 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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