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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: 1,845 over 7 days
Earliest article: Fri Jul 24 14:44:43 2009
Latest article: Sun Jul 26 22:55:19 2009
Original articles: 76, replies: 1,769
Total size of posts: 5,467,157 bytes (5,339K) (5.21M)
Average 263 articles per day, 0.74 MB per day, 2,963 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,624 KB bodies: 2,714 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,681 KB, original: 919 KB = 35.35%, sigs: 106 KB
Total number of posters: 239, average 22,875 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 149, average 36,692 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 ............................... ....... : 296
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 111
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 57
4: rangerssuck ........................... . : 45
5: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 42
6: "HH&C" ........................ : 41
7: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 38
8: Richard the Dreaded Libertarian ...... : 33
9: UltimatePatriot ........... : 33
10: jon_banquer ........................... . : 31
11: Don Foreman ................... . : 30
12: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 28
13: pandora ................................ ..... : 28
14: krw ........................... ......... : 27
15: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 26
16: (Doug Miller).............................. : 26
17: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt ...... : 26
18: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 24
19: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 24
20: " ............................ : 23

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 699
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 424
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 211
4: "HH&C" ........................ : 172
5: rangerssuck ........................... . : 158
6: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 140
7: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 131
8: pandora ................................ ..... : 114
9: Don Foreman ................... . : 106
10: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 97
11: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 87
12: krw ........................... ......... : 87
13: "Proctologically Violated©®" ........ : 79
14: " ............................ : 75
15: Hawke ....................... ....... : 74
16: UltimatePatriot ........... : 74
17: Richard the Dreaded Libertarian ...... : 73
18: (Doug Miller).............................. : 72
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 68
20: jon_banquer ........................... . : 68

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 86.64%
2: Ecnerwal .... .... : 85.55%
3: F. George McDuffee .......... : 76.59%
4: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 76.00%
5: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 72.71%
6: Zymrgy ................................ ...... : 70.24%
7: ............................................... : 68.83%
8: jon_banquer ........................... . : 67.56%
9: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 65.13%
10: "William Wixon" ....................... : 62.21%
11: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 60.11%
12: StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt ...... : 60.03%
13: "Private" .............................. ... : 59.67%
14: Wes ................................ ......... : 57.91%
15: Christopher Tidy .................. : 57.07%
16: UltimatePatriot ........... : 55.87%
17: (Richard Cranium)........................... : 54.77%
18: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 52.56%
19: Kirk Gordon .............................. : 52.10%
20: "Bill Noble" ........................ .. : 51.89%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: " The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead" ....... : 8.41%
2: Jamie ....... : 10.12%
3: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 11.39%
4: "HH&C" ........................ : 12.13%
5: krw ........................... ......... : 12.51%
6: Archimedes' Lever ............. : 13.80%
7: pandora ................................ ..... : 14.99%
8: ............................................. : 15.21%
9: RBnDFW ............................ ...... : 17.88%
10: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 18.23%
11: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 18.30%
12: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 18.69%
13: Hawke ....................... ....... : 20.80%
14: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 20.93%
15: Strabo ........................... ...... : 21.22%
16: fred ............................... ........ : 22.15%
17: Deucalion ............................. ... : 24.01%
18: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 24.12%
19: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 24.31%
20: rangerssuck ........................... . : 24.91%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Liability & responsibility of electrician?..................... : 208
2: cap-and-trade............................................. ..... : 136
3: The road to hell.............................................. . : 74
4: NJ Police state: update on pocket popper....................... : 73
5: The coming days.............................................. .. : 58
6: HD $6 air/blow gun -- excellent................................ : 52
7: OT- NJ Police state............................................ : 52
8: TOTUS Slips and Mr. Obama Gives Us a Bushism................... : 50
9: Sarah Palin Global Warming Memorial............................ : 50
10: Ted Nugent............................................ ......... : 48
11: Wingers as toys.............................................. .. : 44
12: Finally A Quality Chinese Vise?................................ : 39
13: mount small to large shaft..................................... : 39
14: Versa Cart Modifications Underway.............................. : 39
15: Poll: U.S. image improves under Obama.......................... : 38
16: Joining copper sheet........................................... : 35
17: Clutch Master Cylinders........................................ : 30
18: Bearing Noise Bronze Oilite Growling Chatter Rattle............ : 24
19: Mach 3 Crashing PC............................................. : 24
20: Bullet trap + chronograph...................................... : 23

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Liability & responsibility of electrician?..................... : 625
2: cap-and-trade............................................. ..... : 458
3: The road to hell.............................................. . : 317
4: NJ Police state: update on pocket popper....................... : 262
5: OT- NJ Police state............................................ : 193
6: Wingers as toys.............................................. .. : 162
7: The coming days.............................................. .. : 160
8: Sarah Palin Global Warming Memorial............................ : 146
9: TOTUS Slips and Mr. Obama Gives Us a Bushism................... : 139
10: Poll: U.S. image improves under Obama.......................... : 129
11: HD $6 air/blow gun -- excellent................................ : 119
12: OT - SEC calls for Calif. IOUs treated as securities........... : 109
13: Ted Nugent............................................ ......... : 106
14: Finally A Quality Chinese Vise?................................ : 103
15: Clutch Master Cylinders........................................ : 99
16: Versa Cart Modifications Underway.............................. : 93
17: mount small to large shaft..................................... : 88
18: Joining copper sheet........................................... : 79
19: Exhaust manifold modification.................................. : 68
20: Bullet trap + chronograph...................................... : 66

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 846
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 582
3: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 238
4: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 219
5: alt.engineering.electrical........................ ............. : 218
6: alt.rec.crafts.metalworking....................... ............. : 209
7: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 128
8: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 102
9: alt.global-warming........................................... .. : 94
10: sci.environment................................... ............. : 93

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 55
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 43
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 42
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 22
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 9
6: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
8: rn................................................ ............. : 7
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 6
10: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 392 (21%)
2: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 318 (17%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 305 (17%)
4: G2................................................ ........ : 262 (14%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 133 ( 7%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 116 ( 6%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 112 ( 6%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 28 ( 2%)
9: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 28 ( 2%)
10: slrn.............................................. ........ : 28 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 634
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 455
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 273
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 262
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 170
6: -0800.............................................. ............ : 24
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 15
8: -0600.............................................. ............ : 5
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 3
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 2

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

This report covers 7695 messages written between 2009-06-27 00:29:50 and
2009-07-26 23:03:54

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. What A. Fool 15 92.09%
2. The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead 9 91.42%
3. Bama Brian 4 90.38%
4. \"The Honest One\" 25 90.28%
5. Scout 3 88.63%
6. HH&C 126 88.10%
7. pandora 46 87.64%
8. Phillip Mytank 10 87.52%
9. krw 78 87.47%
10. Pig Brick 108 87.07%
11. Poetic Justice 16 86.12%
12. RD (The Sandman) 13 85.98%
13. \"The Great One\" 3 85.47%
14. raamman 5 85.36%
15. Nicholas 14 84.42%

A total of 11361557 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
7116900, or 62.64%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 1026 1184535 36.0%
2. Gunner Asch 312 621260 57.4%
3. Ed Huntress 237 546045 67.2%
4. Michael A. Terrell 201 282426 73.4%
5. Too_Many_Tools 182 386760 73.5%
6. Curly Surmudgeon 157 384989 59.5%
7. Larry Jaques 152 206005 60.6%
8. Doug Miller 138 154107 62.2%
9. Buerste 137 193144 73.7%
10. HH&C 126 247443 88.1%
11. Wes 111 70752 49.2%
12. Pig Brick 108 230884 87.1%
13. rangerssuck 106 200226 73.1%
14. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNoptonline 101 227575 46.8%
15. StickThatInYourPipeAndSmokeIt Zarathustra@thusspo 97 87024 60.2%

A total of 538 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 88194 / 4 = 22048
2. 63052 / 3 = 21017
3. Richard W. 44291 / 13 = 3407 15.6%
4. Private 13183 / 6 = 2197 42.1%
5. DoN. Nichols 131400 / 82 = 1602 46.4%
6. cncmillgil 44840 / 29 = 1546 59.1%
7. Andrew Erickson 4334 / 3 = 1444 5.7%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 32094 / 23 = 1395 34.7%
9. 16209 / 12 = 1350 46.4%
10. John Grossbohlin 5059 / 4 = 1264 32.7%
11. Wild_Bill 23846 / 19 = 1255 36.9%
12. Bruce L. Bergman bruceNOSPAMbergman@gmail. 53376 / 43 = 1241 39.9%
13. phil scott 35333 / 29 = 1218 53.0%
14. Christopher Tidy 14525 / 12 = 1210 43.1%
15. Proctologically ViolatedCoRg UNfitcat@UNop120990 / 101 = 1197 46.8%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Liability & responsibility of electrician? 822 1115756
2. The coming days...... 490 709325
3. Product Review for jb 186 209083
4. cap-and-trade 168 315161
5. Franken won Minnesota 166 339869
6. OT - SEC calls for Calif. IOUs treated as securities 163 574429
7. Repub business as usual 134 207690
8. DIY UAV -- RC Helicopter with .45 handgun attached 108 177653
9. money can make a difference 107 118999
10. California 1850 vrs 2009 95 120394
11. OT- NJ Police state 94 207990
12. Drill Sharpeners 86 138888
13. OT Bedroom safe 82 101330
14. OT - guns at church - "open-carry service" 77 78285
15. The road to hell...... 74 204209

A total of 488 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1530
2. Forte Agent 1137
3. Forte Free Agent 1091
4. G2 1073
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 577
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 411
7. Pan 299
8. slrn 256
9. Mozilla 146
10. News Xpress 138
11. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 133
12. Microsoft Windows Mail 109
13. Xnews 104
14. MT-NewsWatcher 92
15. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 44

A total of 43 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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