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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: 4,852 over 7 days
Earliest article: Tue Aug 11 14:41:04 2009
Latest article: Sun Aug 16 22:55:17 2009
Original articles: 233, replies: 4,619
Total size of posts: 15,628,693 bytes (15,262K) (14.90M)
Average 693 articles per day, 2.13 MB per day, 3,221 bytes per article
Total headers: 6,976 KB bodies: 8,286 KB
Body text - quoted: 4,865 KB, original: 3,039 KB = 38.45%, sigs: 363 KB
Total number of posters: 440, average 35,519 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 414, average 37,750 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 49

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 634
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 280
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 160
4: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 147
5: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 136
6: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 128
7: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 116
8: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 109
9: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 104
10: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 90
11: "HH&C" ........................ : 89
12: Larry Jaques ................... : 81
13: Richard the Dreaded Libertarian ...... : 77
14: "John R. Carroll" ...................... : 73
15: jon_banquer ........................... . : 64
16: rangerssuck ........................... . : 61
17: Wes ................................ ......... : 59
18: ............................................... : 55
19: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 52
20: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 47

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 1468
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 1072
3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 657
4: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 648
5: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 506
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 429
7: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 396
8: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 342
9: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 325
10: "HH&C" ........................ : 311
11: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 290
12: "John R. Carroll" ...................... : 249
13: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 239
14: Larry Jaques ................... : 232
15: rangerssuck ........................... . : 202
16: Aratzio ........................ ..... : 198
17: Richard the Dreaded Libertarian ...... : 171
18: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 170
19: Zombywoof ................................. : 170
20: Rochelle PADRO ....................... : 152

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: sittingduck ........................... . : 93.04%
2: dave ...................... ........ : 87.15%
3: "azotic" .................................. .... : 83.60%
4: "Richard W." ............................. .. : 82.64%
5: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 78.99%
6: UltimatePatriot ........... : 76.00%
7: " ...................... : 75.70%
8: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 73.71%
9: jon_banquer ........................... . : 71.76%
10: F. George McDuffee .......... : 71.72%
11: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 69.95%
12: Michael .......................... ..... : 69.85%
13: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 69.68%
14: steamer ............................... ..... : 69.35%
15: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 68.84%
16: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 67.11%
17: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 66.55%
18: Demon Buddha .............................. .. : 64.04%
19: robert bowman ............................ . : 63.23%
20: David Lesher .............................. .. : 63.09%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A7=F1=FChw=A4=A3f?= ....... : 9.94%
2: fargo116 .............................. .... : 10.08%
3: Dan ............................ ......... : 10.95%
4: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 12.43%
5: Poetic Justice ...................... : 12.59%
6: "HH&C" ........................ : 13.04%
7: "Martin H. Eastburn" .............. : 13.23%
8: RBnDFW ............................ ...... : 13.54%
9: Lookout ............................. ..... : 13.56%
10: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 13.61%
11: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 13.79%
12: "Pig Brick" ........................... . : 14.36%
13: ............................................. : 15.68%
14: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 15.69%
15: §ñühw¤£f ........................ .... : 16.16%
16: (Gray Ghost)................ : 16.19%
17: tankfixer .......................... ... : 16.63%
18: =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= Trueno@e86. : 17.06%
19: Strabo ........................... ...... : 18.35%
20: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 19.18%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: GOP could block clunkers cash.................................. : 427
2: Why are our Republican Congressmen such cowards?............... : 212
3: American Made Products That Should Be Better Than They Are..... : 125
4: Even the Left says Obama should resign......................... : 122
5: NJ Police state: update on pocket popper....................... : 118
6: Production Machining Vs. Prototype Machining................... : 107
7: Senior Death Warrants.......................................... : 93
8: Right-wing militias on the rise in US.......................... : 91
9: We suck. A RANT!............................................. .. : 87
10: Smart Car............................................... ....... : 83
11: Sodium Silicate - engine killer................................ : 81
12: the birther brigade........................................... . : 80
13: Spotting Different Sized Holes With One Tool Should Be Done.... : 74
14: OT:Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True than You Can Imagine... : 62
15: Move To The Swamp............................................. . : 59
16: OT: Political Humor............................................ : 59
17: Joe 788 Bankruptcy Auction..................................... : 57
18: rent-a-mobs.............................................. ...... : 57
19: What is it? Set 297............................................ : 55
20: Liability & responsibility of electrician?..................... : 55

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: GOP could block clunkers cash.................................. : 1599
2: Why are our Republican Congressmen such cowards?............... : 952
3: NJ Police state: update on pocket popper....................... : 445
4: Even the Left says Obama should resign......................... : 387
5: Right-wing militias on the rise in US.......................... : 359
6: We suck. A RANT!............................................. .. : 328
7: Senior Death Warrants.......................................... : 322
8: American Made Products That Should Be Better Than They Are..... : 311
9: Production Machining Vs. Prototype Machining................... : 271
10: OT:Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True than You Can Imagine... : 226
11: the birther brigade........................................... . : 223
12: Smart Car............................................... ....... : 209
13: Sodium Silicate - engine killer................................ : 201
14: The Me First, Screw Everyone Else Crowd... Well said!.......... : 198
15: Online gun dealers reap the profits while Americans die needles : 196
16: rent-a-mobs.............................................. ...... : 183
17: Spotting Different Sized Holes With One Tool Should Be Done.... : 177
18: cap-and-trade............................................. ..... : 176
19: OT - New American Graduates Finding Jobs in China.............. : 169
20: Major Meltdown.......................................... ....... : 169

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 2501
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 1902
3: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 1112
4: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 641
5: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 598
6: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 483
7: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 304
8: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 284
9: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 275
10: alt.cad........................................... ............. : 231

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 135
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 66
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 60
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 42
5: rn................................................ ............. : 22
6: Xnews............................................. ............. : 15
7: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 13
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 12
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 9
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 1045 (22%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 923 (19%)
3: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 698 (14%)
4: Outlook Express........................................... : 632 (13%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 349 ( 7%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 244 ( 5%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 226 ( 5%)
8: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 145 ( 3%)
9: slrn.............................................. ........ : 94 ( 2%)
10: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 87 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 1393
2: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 1045
3: -0700.............................................. ............ : 930
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 812
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 442
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 83
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 83
8: +0100............................................. ............. : 40
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 7
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 8448 messages written between 2009-07-17 00:15:22 and
2009-08-16 22:23:38

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. tak 4 93.19%
2. dbu'' 4 92.82%
3. The Ugly Republican Brand is Dead 9 91.42%
4. tv 3 90.72%
5. fargo116 10 90.33%
6. Ignoramus4634 3 88.99%
7. krw 40 87.96%
8. Poetic Justice 11 87.65%
9. Dan 45 87.51%
10. Roy Blankenship 3 87.25%
11. HH&C 150 87.21%
12. Lookout 24 86.56%
13. Nicholas 17 86.48%
14. pandora 41 86.34%
15. Dave B 9 85.54%

A total of 13465019 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
8217691, or 61.03%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 1167 1329769 8.3%
2. Gunner Asch 478 1009620 8.7%
3. Joe788 267 207866 52.1%
4. Ed Huntress 266 641845 64.4%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 199 483033 67.3%
6. Too_Many_Tools 160 398554 80.9%
7. HH&C 150 267927 87.2%
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian freedom_guy@examp 150 118350 63.5%
9. jon_banquer 138 86151 30.8%
10. Larry Jaques 129 210950 60.0%
11. RD (The Sandman) 128 409939 74.7%
12. Calif Bill 124 238093 73.5%
13. rangerssuck 123 232749 78.6%
14. Compact Adolescent 116 241072 84.1%
15. John R. Carroll 115 192404 60.0%

A total of 552 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 73018 / 4 = 18254 0.1%
2. Hu Flung Dung 39009 / 5 = 7801 15.3%
3. k rocks 9581 / 3 = 3193 33.8%
4. Richard W. 34994 / 11 = 3181 13.5%
5. candy 31167 / 10 = 3116
6. sittingduck 108612 / 36 = 3017 6.9%
7. Michael 36195 / 12 = 3016 30.2%
8. ?? ? 8273 / 3 = 2757
9. ?? ? 21025 / 8 = 2628 4.7%
10. Private 12953 / 5 = 2590 40.4%
11. 15662 / 8 = 1957 21.8%
12. John Scheldroup 30212 / 16 = 1888 44.5%
13. jor 4976 / 3 = 1658
14. Andrew 4550 / 3 = 1516 49.5%
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 63534 / 42 = 1512 22.3%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. GOP could block clunkers cash 427 919892
2. Liability & responsibility of electrician? 421 561308
3. cap-and-trade 335 594079
4. NJ Police state: update on pocket popper 226 516518
5. Why are our Republican Congressmen such cowards? 212 614456
6. the birther brigade 142 204789
7. Product Review for jb 140 158760
8. American Made Products That Should Be Better Than They Ar 125 118109
9. Even the Left says Obama should resign...... 122 207441
10. The coming days...... 117 142979
11. Production Machining Vs. Prototype Machining 107 95635
12. The road to hell...... 93 229259
Senior Death Warrants...... 93 196572
14. Right-wing militias on the rise in US 91 232355
15. We suck. A RANT! 87 178403

A total of 643 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. G2 1492
2. Forte Free Agent 1289
3. Microsoft Outlook Express 1233
4. Forte Agent 1153
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 690
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 582
7. Pan 480
8. Xnews 263
9. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 218
10. slrn 177
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 122
12. Mozilla 112
13. News Xpress 73
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 55
15. Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 52

A total of 41 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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