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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: 1,728 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Jun 29 00:55:08 2009
Latest article: Sun Jul 5 22:56:10 2009
Original articles: 76, replies: 1,652
Total size of posts: 4,940,286 bytes (4,824K) (4.71M)
Average 246 articles per day, 0.67 MB per day, 2,858 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,351 KB bodies: 2,472 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,497 KB, original: 816 KB = 35.28%, sigs: 153 KB
Total number of posters: 286, average 17,273 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 142, average 34,790 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 ............................... ....... : 241
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 75
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 73
4: Wes ................................ ......... : 55
5: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 38
6: Larry Jaques ................... : 37
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 37
8: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 34
9: "Tim" ............................. ....... : 30
10: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 28
11: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 26
12: "David R.Birch" ............................. : 25
13: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 24
14: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 23
15: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt ...... : 23
16: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 22
17: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 22
18: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 21
19: jon_banquer ........................... . : 20
20: "HH&C" ........................ : 20

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 593
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 258
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 226
4: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 121
5: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 107
6: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 104
7: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 103
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 100
9: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 100
10: Larry Jaques ................... : 94
11: "HH&C" ........................ : 80
12: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 79
13: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 78
14: Joseph Gwinn .......................... .. : 75
15: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 74
16: cncmillgil .................................. .. : 70
17: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 67
18: "Tim" ............................. ....... : 66
19: rangerssuck ........................... . : 63
20: §ñühw¤£f ........................... .... : 62

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 85.98%
2: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 85.98%
3: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 83.99%
4: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 83.27%
5: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" .................... : 75.01%
6: notbob .............................. ...... : 73.73%
7: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 73.17%
8: Robert Roland ................................ . : 72.63%
9: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 72.06%
10: jon_banquer ........................... . : 71.76%
11: "Rob H." ................................ .... : 70.51%
12: ............................................... : 70.38%
13: "Scott" ..................... ..... : 66.10%
14: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 60.71%
15: jeff_wisnia .................. . : 60.46%
16: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 60.00%
17: Jon Elson ............................. : 57.21%
18: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 55.37%
19: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 53.36%
20: " ............................ : 52.29%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: What A. Fool ................................ .. : 8.83%
2: "HH&C" ........................ : 8.86%
3: "HH&C" .................. ...... : 11.87%
4: "\"The Honest One\"" ............... : 12.80%
5: Deucalion ............................. ... : 13.67%
6: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 14.16%
7: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 14.90%
8: Poetic Justice .................. : 15.96%
9: Stuart Wheaton ............................ : 16.25%
10: krw ........................... ......... : 16.27%
11: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 17.47%
12: "Steve R." ................................. .. : 18.33%
13: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 18.89%
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 21.81%
15: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 22.38%
16: Ignoramus1923 ............. . : 23.49%
17: Ignoramus20157 ........... : 24.94%
18: John Husvar ........................... . : 24.95%
19: Cliff ............................... ....... : 25.19%
20: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 25.22%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Liability & responsibility of electrician?..................... : 167
2: Franken won Minnesota......................................... . : 118
3: California 1850 vrs 2009....................................... : 93
4: money can make a difference.................................... : 93
5: DIY UAV -- RC Helicopter with .45 handgun attached............. : 87
6: Drill Sharpeners........................................ ....... : 76
7: Repub business as usual........................................ : 61
8: OT - guns at church - "open-carry service"..................... : 59
9: Another One Bites the Dust..................................... : 47
10: Costco/"Worksmith" 115 drill bit sets saga..................... : 41
11: Sarah Palin Resigns........................................... . : 41
12: OT recommend a child sized .22 rifle........................... : 32
13: Truing up chuck jaws........................................... : 31
14: Sustainability addin........................................... : 30
15: The Wasteland Called Ebay...................................... : 30
16: What is it? Set 291............................................ : 27
17: What I hate..A rant!........................................... : 26
18: $100 million........................................... ........ : 25
19: One day left in Dow Jones prediction contest................... : 20
20: Pneumatic or electric controls?................................ : 20

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Liability & responsibility of electrician?..................... : 425
2: Franken won Minnesota......................................... . : 360
3: DIY UAV -- RC Helicopter with .45 handgun attached............. : 250
4: California 1850 vrs 2009....................................... : 243
5: Drill Sharpeners........................................ ....... : 243
6: money can make a difference.................................... : 224
7: Repub business as usual........................................ : 187
8: Another One Bites the Dust..................................... : 162
9: OT - guns at church - "open-carry service"..................... : 142
10: Sustainability addin........................................... : 142
11: Truing up chuck jaws........................................... : 131
12: Sarah Palin Resigns........................................... . : 112
13: Costco/"Worksmith" 115 drill bit sets saga..................... : 105
14: $100 million........................................... ........ : 85
15: OT recommend a child sized .22 rifle........................... : 75
16: What I hate..A rant!........................................... : 74
17: The Wasteland Called Ebay...................................... : 66
18: OT: This Ought to **** You Off................................. : 61
19: Right-Wing Nutjob............................................ .. : 57
20: Hydraulics Q................................................. .. : 55

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 675
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 564
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 242
4: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 185
5: alt.engineering.electrical........................ ............. : 150
6: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 149
7: alt.rec.crafts.metalworking....................... ............. : 143
8: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 120
9: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 88
10: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 74

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 59
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 58
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 37
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 32
5: rn................................................ ............. : 15
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 12
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 10
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 6
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 350 (20%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 328 (19%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 257 (15%)
4: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 256 (15%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 135 ( 8%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 82 ( 5%)
7: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 80 ( 5%)
8: Pan............................................... ........ : 32 ( 2%)
9: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... ..... : 31 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 28 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 598
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 363
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 311
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 257
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 134
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 21
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 16
8: -0800.............................................. ............ : 8
9: +0200............................................. ............. : 7
10: +1000............................................. ............. : 7

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

This report covers 5587 messages written between 2009-06-06 00:16:36 and
2009-07-05 22:32:54

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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. Phillip Mytank 6 92.24%
3. Doug Winterburn 11 91.47%
4. What A. Fool 13 91.34%
5. \"The Honest One\" 22 89.32%
6. pandora 3 88.71%
7. J. Clarke 20 87.69%
8. HH&C 70 87.36%
9. Fredric L. Rice 5 87.33%
10. Basil Karlo 14 87.31%
11. Pig Brick 24 85.91%
12. cavelamb 19 85.45%
13. Poetic Justice 11 84.93%
14. Deucalion 41 84.69%
15. Nicholas 8 84.20%

A total of 8162453 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
5027363, or 61.59%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 577 678496 7.3%
2. Ed Huntress 176 436115 62.6%
3. Gunner Asch 175 352611 62.6%
4. Wes 173 104679 46.1%
5. Too_Many_Tools 171 323931 77.5%
6. Larry Jaques 135 172732 57.4%
7. Michael A. Terrell 113 118125 68.1%
8. Hawke 96 277813 71.8%
9. Curly Surmudgeon 79 160784 66.7%
10. DoN. Nichols 75 222962 47.7%
11. HH&C 70 135209 87.4%
Don Foreman 70 76455 63.5%
13. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNoptonline 69 179069 52.2%
14. rangerssuck 68 121743 75.7%
15. Buerste 67 70946 67.9%

A total of 535 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 88120 / 4 = 22030
2. Hanuman 25165 / 4 = 6291
3. RogerN 105799 / 33 = 3206 23.6%
4. Kirk Gordon 9345 / 3 = 3115 27.7%
5. fargo116 5401 / 3 = 1800 48.3%
6. Phil Kangas 5123 / 3 = 1707 16.5%
7. cncmillgil 34165 / 21 = 1626 56.3%
8. phil scott 17876 / 11 = 1625 41.5%
9. DoN. Nichols 116709 / 75 = 1556 47.7%
10. N_Cook 5984 / 4 = 1496 7.5%
11. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 28171 / 19 = 1482 43.0%
12. Tim Daneliuk 77708 / 57 = 1363 68.2%
13. Andrew Erickson 3918 / 3 = 1306 7.0%
14. krp 6384 / 5 = 1276 42.6%
15. John Grossbohlin 5059 / 4 = 1264 32.7%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT Stereotypes of "liberals" vs "conservatives" 401 1079889
2. Repub business as usual 224 350608
3. Liability & responsibility of electrician? 164 189316
4. See ya Saturday..maybe! 153 329082
5. Franken won Minnesota 118 180772
6. money can make a difference 111 123901
7. California 1850 vrs 2009 94 119045
8. DIY UAV -- RC Helicopter with .45 handgun attached 87 127913
9. Pencil question 84 111485
10. Tuna fish 79 103317
11. OT - guns at church - "open-carry service" 77 78285
A Bad Manufacturing Economy... 77 70956
13. Drill Sharpeners 76 131389
14. OT: This Ought to **** You Off 73 153885
15. cool as hell pictures, ship engines 71 92046

A total of 434 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1227
2. G2 901
3. Forte Agent 872
4. Forte Free Agent 626
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 328
6. slrn 235
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 225
8. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 202
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 118
10. Pan 117
11. MT-NewsWatcher 101
12. Xnews 97
13. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 62
14. Mozilla 59
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 52

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

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