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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: 1,263 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jun 22 00:55:05 2009
Latest article: Sun Jun 28 22:55:28 2009
Original articles: 89, replies: 1,174
Total size of posts: 3,671,723 bytes (3,585K) (3.50M)
Average 180 articles per day, 0.50 MB per day, 2,907 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,711 KB bodies: 1,874 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,085 KB, original: 660 KB = 37.82%, sigs: 122 KB
Total number of posters: 243, average 15,109 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 143, average 25,676 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 44

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 162
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 56
3: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 38
4: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 37
5: Larry Jaques ................... : 30
6: "HH&C" ........................ : 29
7: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 26
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 26
9: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 21
10: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 21
11: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 20
12: rangerssuck ........................... . : 20
13: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 19
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 17
15: " ............................ : 15
16: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 15
17: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 15
18: Grant Erwin ........................ . : 14
19: "Scott" ..................... ..... : 14
20: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 14

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 345
2: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 177
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 148
4: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 119
5: "HH&C" ........................ : 113
6: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 90
7: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 90
8: Larry Jaques ................... : 78
9: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 77
10: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 73
11: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 64
12: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 63
13: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 60
14: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 51
15: rangerssuck ........................... . : 48
16: " ............................ : 45
17: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 45
18: "\"The Honest One\"" ............... : 44
19: "Scott" ..................... ..... : 43
20: Wes ................................ ......... : 42

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 83.56%
2: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 78.65%
3: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 74.36%
4: "Scott" ..................... ..... : 74.35%
5: " ............................ : 70.07%
6: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 66.46%
7: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 64.45%
8: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 62.00%
9: N Morrison ........................... .. : 61.89%
10: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 61.61%
11: jon_banquer ........................... . : 58.62%
12: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 56.77%
13: "William Wixon" ....................... : 55.89%
14: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 55.02%
15: F. George McDuffee .......... : 54.91%
16: Pete Keillor ..................... .. : 53.20%
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 52.79%
18: CarlBoyd ......................... .... : 49.10%
19: "Paul Hovnanian P.E." ..................... : 47.24%
20: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 46.98%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "\"The Honest One\"" ............... : 9.22%
2: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 13.58%
3: "Stu Fields" ................................. .. : 15.81%
4: cavelamb .......................... .... : 15.86%
5: "HH&C" ........................ : 15.93%
6: stryped .............................. ..... : 18.30%
7: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 18.92%
8: "Snag" ........................... ...... : 19.35%
9: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19.71%
10: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 22.60%
11: Lime Light .................... : 23.13%
12: Ignoramus28618 ........... : 23.86%
13: ............................................. : 23.91%
14: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 24.09%
15: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 24.21%
16: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 24.82%
17: Gerald Miller ........................... . : 25.00%
18: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 26.39%
19: Cydrome Leader ....................... : 26.43%
20: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 27.64%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Repub business as usual........................................ : 127
2: Pencil question.......................................... ...... : 82
3: OT: This Ought to **** You Off................................. : 65
4: dumb question on compressor displacement cfm................... : 58
5: What is it? Set 290............................................ : 41
6: OT Above gorund swimming pools................................. : 37
7: OT - What to do with an old TV................................. : 33
8: OT-Cap and Trade Bill passes 219-212........................... : 30
9: The Wasteland Called Ebay...................................... : 28
10: Coolant vs. cutting oil/lube................................... : 28
11: OT: Counterfeit bill detection................................. : 27
12: Gear making (was Calling All Machinists)....................... : 26
13: OT - Judeo-Christian nation?".................................. : 25
14: Texas outlawed the Erlenmeyer flask!........................... : 24
15: OT: Strassel on the climate change climate change.............. : 24
16: Ping PV - Vitamin D............................................ : 23
17: gas engine electrical questions................................ : 22
18: OT Stereotypes of "liberals" vs "conservatives"................ : 19
19: OT: Pan deletes taglines....................................... : 19
20: small Foundry For Sale......................................... : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Repub business as usual........................................ : 427
2: Pencil question.......................................... ...... : 215
3: OT: This Ought to **** You Off................................. : 206
4: dumb question on compressor displacement cfm................... : 163
5: OT - Judeo-Christian nation?".................................. : 142
6: Coolant vs. cutting oil/lube................................... : 109
7: OT Above gorund swimming pools................................. : 95
8: What is it? Set 290............................................ : 81
9: OT Stereotypes of "liberals" vs "conservatives"................ : 76
10: OT - What to do with an old TV................................. : 73
11: OT: Counterfeit bill detection................................. : 73
12: OT-Cap and Trade Bill passes 219-212........................... : 72
13: gas engine electrical questions................................ : 71
14: OT: Strassel on the climate change climate change.............. : 69
15: The Wasteland Called Ebay...................................... : 69
16: Ping PV - Vitamin D............................................ : 68
17: Gear making (was Calling All Machinists)....................... : 61
18: Truing up chuck jaws........................................... : 59
19: This Ought to **** You Off..................................... : 59
20: Statistics for week ending 20090622............................ : 53

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 403
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 288
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 114
4: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 83
5: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 80
6: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 70
7: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 66
8: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 59
9: sci.environment................................... ............. : 42
10: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 38

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 58
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 51
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 31
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 20
5: rn................................................ ............. : 12
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)........................ : 7
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 6
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 6
9: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18005.......................... : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 259 (21%)
2: G2................................................ ........ : 219 (17%)
3: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 203 (16%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 172 (14%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 76 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 63 ( 5%)
7: slrn.............................................. ........ : 51 ( 4%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows............................. : 37 ( 3%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 30 ( 2%)
10: Pan............................................... ........ : 29 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 495
2: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 219
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 200
4: -0700.............................................. ............ : 197
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 97
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 12
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 9
8: -0800.............................................. ............ : 8
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 8
10: +0200............................................. ............. : 5

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

This report covers 5154 messages written between 2009-05-29 00:00:42 and
2009-06-28 22:41:42

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. Roscoe Crumb 3 94.43%
2. Doug Winterburn 13 91.28%
3. \"The Honest One\" 11 90.92%
4. pandora 3 88.71%
5. J. Clarke 21 87.40%
6. Basil Karlo 15 87.32%
7. LD 4 87.12%
8. Deucalion 49 86.22%
9. Strabo 3 85.95%
10. Basil Karlo 24 85.92%
11. Fredric L. Rice 5 85.91%
12. cavelamb 24 85.47%
13. HH&C 45 85.25%
14. 27 84.94%
15. Nicholas 8 84.20%

A total of 7580830 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
4605103, or 60.75%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 445 498818 71.9%
2. Ed Huntress 215 515081 63.3%
3. Too_Many_Tools 154 347593 76.4%
4. Wes 152 93000 44.3%
5. Larry Jaques 119 153311 58.0%
6. Michael A. Terrell 101 101456 65.9%
7. Gunner Asch 100 213897 69.2%
8. Curly Surmudgeon 88 192053 70.0%
9. Hawke 72 231160 73.2%
10. rangerssuck 71 122072 72.7%
11. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNoptonline 70 187693 53.4%
12. Jim Wilkins 69 53433 44.7%
13. Don Foreman 63 70495 61.0%
14. Ned Simmons 61 63276 50.4%
15. Winston 60 51050 53.9%

A total of 510 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 88089 / 4 = 22022
2. Hanuman 25165 / 4 = 6291
3. RogerN 113127 / 45 = 2513 33.3%
4. fargo116 5401 / 3 = 1800 48.3%
5. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 34972 / 22 = 1589 30.2%
6. SE¤�hwCuœf 6202 / 4 = 1550 31.0%
7. Andrew Erickson 4152 / 3 = 1384 8.8%
8. Tim Daneliuk 77708 / 57 = 1363 68.2%
9. phil scott 9436 / 7 = 1348 42.0%
10. DoN. Nichols 71350 / 54 = 1321 45.4%
11. cncmillgil 10411 / 8 = 1301 65.6%
12. John Grossbohlin 5059 / 4 = 1264 32.7%
sittingduck 10118 / 8 = 1264 17.7%
14. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNop 87470 / 70 = 1249 53.4%
15. Aratzio 6863 / 6 = 1143 58.9%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT Stereotypes of "liberals" vs "conservatives" 447 1161632
2. See ya Saturday..maybe! 242 489416
3. Repub business as usual 163 257904
4. Pencil question 82 109544
5. Things might be changing folks... 79 144812
Tuna fish 79 103317
7. A Bad Manufacturing Economy... 77 70956
8. cool as hell pictures, ship engines 71 92046
9. making large bug zapper for mosquitos 69 72781
10. OT: This Ought to **** You Off 62 109328
2-way GPS . . . ? 62 98293
12. dumb question on compressor displacement cfm 58 78473
13. Breathing air from a compressor 54 64678
14. Followup -- How do you test a DC servo motor 52 48312
15. OT - Hey TMT, where's my change? 50 136819

A total of 441 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1183
2. G2 902
3. Forte Agent 853
4. Forte Free Agent 496
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 418
6. slrn 205
7. Pan 145
8. Microsoft Windows Mail 118
9. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 115
10. Xnews 93
11. MT-NewsWatcher 83
12. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 65
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 56
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 55
15. Mozilla 42

A total of 39 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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