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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: 1,184 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon May 25 14:40:42 2009
Latest article: Sun May 31 22:55:19 2009
Original articles: 93, replies: 1,091
Total size of posts: 3,385,005 bytes (3,305K) (3.23M)
Average 169 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 2,858 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,670 KB bodies: 1,634 KB
Body text - quoted: 893 KB, original: 676 KB = 43.09%, sigs: 60 KB
Total number of posters: 228, average 14,846 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 151, average 22,417 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 40

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 97
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 63
3: Larry Jaques ................... : 40
4: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 38
5: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 34
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 31
7: Wes ................................ ......... : 31
8: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 23
9: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 22
10: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 20
11: jon_banquer ........................... . : 19
12: Don Foreman ................... . : 19
13: Deucalion ............................. ... : 18
14: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 18
15: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 17
16: Winston .......................... ..... : 17
17: "vinny" .................................. ..... : 17
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 16
19: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 15
20: ................................. : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 234
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 218
3: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 135
4: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 133
5: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 119
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 107
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 76
8: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 66
9: Deucalion ............................. ... : 65
10: "vinny" .................................. ..... : 60
11: Wes ................................ ......... : 55
12: ................................. : 55
13: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 54
14: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 51
15: .............................................. : 50
16: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 44
17: Don Foreman ................... . : 42
18: jon_banquer ........................... . : 42
19: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 39
20: F. George McDuffee .......... : 39

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Leo Lichtman" .......................... : 97.33%
2: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 92.14%
3: jon_banquer ........................... . : 79.19%
4: BottleBob .......................... ... : 75.47%
5: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 73.27%
6: " ............................ : 73.25%
7: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 71.64%
8: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 68.32%
9: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 67.01%
10: ........................................ : 64.88%
11: F. George McDuffee .......... : 64.51%
12: "Michael Koblic" ........................ : 61.50%
13: David Lesher .............................. .. : 59.28%
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 57.37%
15: "vinny" .................................. ..... : 56.71%
16: ................................................. : 56.38%
17: "Bill Noble" ........................ .. : 53.73%
18: JR North ..................... .... : 53.49%
19: (Dennis van Dam)......................... : 52.02%
20: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 51.39%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: ................................. : 9.95%
2: ................................. : 11.22%
3: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 12.18%
4: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 13.78%
5: "Basil Karlo" ................... . : 14.50%
6: Deucalion ............................. ... : 15.34%
7: Dan ............................ ......... : 15.86%
8: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 16.28%
9: "Kurgan. presented by Gringioni." ..... : 19.19%
10: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 21.89%
11: RB ............................ .......... : 22.12%
12: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 22.22%
13: ............................................. : 22.36%
14: ............................................... : 22.63%
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 22.85%
16: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 24.27%
17: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 25.25%
18: Ignoramus30340 ........... : 25.64%
19: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 26.40%
20: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 26.56%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: possible replacement for manufacturing jobs.................... : 68
2: Things might be changing folks................................. : 63
3: Will of the People 1 win, 1 loss............................... : 56
4: Time To Out Some Of The Usual Liars That Fill These Newsgroups. : 41
5: repair inside threads.......................................... : 38
6: Tag teamin' kittens........................................... . : 30
7: See ya Saturday..maybe!.................................. ...... : 29
8: Step up transformer 240V to 480V 3 phase....................... : 29
9: National sales tax, wtf?....................................... : 28
10: The Case for Working With Your Hands........................... : 27
11: What is it? Set 286............................................ : 24
12: Ryobi belt sander repair....................................... : 24
13: OT - Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills.......... : 23
14: Working with hands............................................. : 22
15: Tempering bolts............................................. ... : 22
16: ****.............................................. ............. : 21
17: What is a small milling machine to look for?................... : 20
18: OT - Hey TMT, where's my change?............................... : 20
19: Titanium plated, solid oak drill presses....................... : 20
20: Making thin copper gaskets..................................... : 17

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: possible replacement for manufacturing jobs.................... : 237
2: Things might be changing folks................................. : 224
3: Will of the People 1 win, 1 loss............................... : 164
4: Time To Out Some Of The Usual Liars That Fill These Newsgroups. : 95
5: Tag teamin' kittens........................................... . : 94
6: See ya Saturday..maybe!.................................. ...... : 91
7: National sales tax, wtf?....................................... : 88
8: repair inside threads.......................................... : 85
9: Step up transformer 240V to 480V 3 phase....................... : 70
10: The Case for Working With Your Hands........................... : 67
11: Tempering bolts............................................. ... : 66
12: Darwinius masillae.......................................... ... : 64
13: Will General Motors leave Detroit - and what will happen to the : 64
14: Working with hands............................................. : 63
15: OT - Hey TMT, where's my change?............................... : 63
16: OT - Propane suppliers quietly reduce size of refills.......... : 61
17: ****.............................................. ............. : 54
18: What is a small milling machine to look for?................... : 51
19: Memorial Day and War Do Not Involve "God"...................... : 49
20: Ryobi belt sander repair....................................... : 46

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 376
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 246
3: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 59
4: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 47
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 32
6: rec.puzzles....................................... ............. : 24
7: talk.politics..................................... ............. : 23
8: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 22
9: alt.survival...................................... ............. : 21
10: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 17

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 66
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 46
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 27
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)........................ : 17
5: rn................................................ ............. : 10
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 8
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 6
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 4
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 255 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 253 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 218 (18%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 110 ( 9%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 86 ( 7%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 47 ( 4%)
7: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 44 ( 4%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 38 ( 3%)
9: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000..................... : 29 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 13 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 349
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 295
3: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 218
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 190
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 89
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 13
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 11
8: +1000............................................. ............. : 8
9: -0800.............................................. ............ : 3
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 5553 messages written between 2009-05-01 00:08:21 and
2009-05-31 22:10:56

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. pandora 7 96.97%
2. MillerT 4 93.40%
3. Aratzio 11 92.90%
4. 4 90.12%
5. Bob Larter 59 88.92%
6. 9 88.47%
7. Strabo 9 86.09%
8. Cydrome Leader 14 85.92%
9. Tim Miller 3 85.90%
10. Klaus Schadenfreude 12 85.70%
11. 3 85.29%
12. 3 85.13%
13. Don Ocean 4 84.73%
14. 84 84.72%
15. Frank 6 83.99%

A total of 8297757 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4663843, or 56.21%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 498 527039 71.1%
2. Gunner Asch 380 723735 49.3%
3. Too_Many_Tools 161 380210 79.7%
4. Basil Karlo 134 208933 80.4%
5. Wes 128 99963 50.0%
6. Larry Jaques 117 165504 65.5%
7. Michael A. Terrell 103 132333 74.9%
8. John R. Carroll 101 244731 51.6%
9. 84 124243 84.7%
10. Winston 78 64840 49.2%
11. Don Foreman 77 88119 49.0%
12. Jim Wilkins 72 77172 49.5%
13. Karl Townsend 66 35783 42.4%
14. Curly Surmudgeon 63 158528 75.1%
Hawke 63 122722 58.0%

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 88137 / 4 = 22034
2. 18689 / 3 = 6229
3. Brian R 23402 / 4 = 5850 6.1%
4. www.iofferkicks.com fashiongood0001@gmail. 43556 / 8 = 5444
5. 10971 / 3 = 3657
6. Phil Kangas 16148 / 5 = 3229 17.1%
7. Stuart Fields 11522 / 5 = 2304 24.4%
8. Sharon Scharf 6632 / 3 = 2210 0.5%
9. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso117415 / 60 = 1956 30.6%
10. 09sneakers 5355 / 3 = 1785
11. 5185 / 3 = 1728
12. 17210 / 10 = 1721 46.1%
13. BottleBob 22112 / 13 = 1700 17.5%
14. 10669 / 7 = 1524 58.1%
15. sittingduck 11671 / 8 = 1458 9.0%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Nope..its definately not over yet...Obama 220 301207
2. Ping Survivalists 152 542379
3. Chrysler Today...GM Tomorrow? 140 344547
4. See ya Friday night or Saturday...Off to LA 137 174996
5. Darwinius masillae 128 209917
6. Space Power 115 169357
7. possible replacement for manufacturing jobs 107 189991
8. Auto industry sinking fast...others to come? 106 158159
9. OT Pelosi is going down 95 153545
10. A Letter to the President.... 88 137801
11. The Case for Working With Your Hands 74 77317
12. quick poll - american cars 71 72820
13. Things might be changing folks... 63 123031
14. worshipping false icons 61 89605
15. Got a ticket today 59 74649

A total of 552 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 959
2. G2 951
3. Forte Agent 820
4. Forte Free Agent 579
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 443
6. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 436
7. slrn 192
8. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 152
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 151
10. Mozilla 131
11. Pan 84
12. MT-NewsWatcher 76
Xnews 76
14. News Xpress 45
15. tin 41

A total of 40 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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