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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: 4,101 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Aug 23 18:16:18 2009
Latest article: Sun Aug 23 22:56:22 2009
Original articles: 204, replies: 3,897
Total size of posts: 12,425,052 bytes (12,133K) (11.85M)
Average 585 articles per day, 1.69 MB per day, 3,029 bytes per article
Total headers: 6,051 KB bodies: 6,082 KB
Body text - quoted: 3,781 KB, original: 1,958 KB = 34.12%, sigs: 325 KB
Total number of posters: 293, average 42,406 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 224, average 55,468 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 46

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 660
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 344
3: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 120
4: Larry Jaques ................... : 100
5: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 94
6: "HH&C" ........................ : 91
7: Lookout ............................. ..... : 88
8: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 83
9: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 68
10: Wes ................................ ......... : 68
11: rangerssuck ........................... . : 67
12: =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= Trueno@e86. : 65
13: RBnDFW ............................ ...... : 59
14: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 56
15: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 55
16: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 55
17: "John R. Carroll" ...................... : 53
18: Zombywoof ................................. : 46
19: "SteveB" ............................. .... : 45
20: §ñühw¤£f ........................ .... : 39

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 1595
2: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 1304
3: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 396
4: "HH&C" ........................ : 369
5: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 338
6: Lookout ............................. ..... : 312
7: Larry Jaques ................... : 296
8: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 288
9: rangerssuck ........................... . : 239
10: =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?= Trueno@e86. : 204
11: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 190
12: pyotr filipivich ........................ : 161
13: Zombywoof ................................. : 161
14: "John R. Carroll" ...................... : 159
15: cncmillgil .................................. .. : 159
16: RBnDFW ............................ ...... : 150
17: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 149
18: sittingduck ........................... . : 143
19: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 142
20: Joe788 .............................. ...... : 141

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: sittingduck ........................... . : 92.82%
2: steamer ............................... ..... : 88.03%
3: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 86.03%
4: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 82.16%
5: " ...................... : 81.94%
6: Tim Shoppa .......................... : 81.23%
7: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 76.36%
8: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 76.20%
9: (Gray Ghost)................ : 73.82%
10: Cynthia McGraw ...................... : 73.76%
11: "William Wixon" ....................... : 72.71%
12: "Richard W." ............................. .. : 72.62%
13: Joe788 ............................ ...... : 70.35%
14: (Edward A. Falk).......................... : 70.32%
15: spaco .............................. : 69.90%
16: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 67.32%
17: F. George McDuffee .......... : 64.48%
18: (mattathayde).................. : 63.99%
19: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 63.79%
20: "RogerN" ............................... .... : 63.42%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Bama Brian ......................... .. : 7.03%
2: pandora ................................ ..... : 9.34%
3: tv .......................... .......... : 9.58%
4: tankfixer .......................... ... : 11.42%
5: "HH&C" ........................ : 11.61%
6: Lookout ............................. ..... : 11.95%
7: Jessica Wabbit ................................ : 13.38%
8: "RD (The Sandman)" ........... : 14.49%
9: ............................................. : 14.62%
10: Jim Stewart ............................ . : 14.80%
11: "Calif Bill" .................... .. : 15.60%
12: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 15.82%
13: kfvorwerk ............................. ... : 16.73%
14: Ignoramus1057 ............. . : 16.77%
15: rangerssuck ........................... . : 16.88%
16: Zombywoof ................................. : 17.24%
17: Dan ............................ ......... : 18.48%
18: cavelamb .......................... .... : 18.56%
19: RBnDFW ............................ ...... : 18.98%
20: "Compact Adolescent" ...................... : 19.98%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT:Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True than You Can Imagine... : 208
2: The Me First, Screw Everyone Else Crowd... Well said!.......... : 205
3: Even the Left says Obama should resign......................... : 170
4: Right-wing militias on the rise in US.......................... : 164
5: Palin stands by 'death panel' claim............................ : 145
6: OT - Rude protests are American tradition...................... : 143
7: What is it? Set 298............................................ : 104
8: Good Lawn Mowers............................................ ... : 76
9: Lockerbie Bomber released on Obama's watch..................... : 75
10: The Death Of Stand-Alone CAM................................... : 75
11: Dump your CAM & get Cimatron................................... : 71
12: OT: Political Humor............................................ : 69
13: HB 1388 passed? Is this true?.................................. : 69
14: Mounting electrical box to lally column?....................... : 66
15: Moving Shop.............................................. ...... : 64
16: ONE SECOND AFTER............................................. .. : 63
17: Bushco Fakes Terror............................................ : 62
18: Small Florida Town "gets it" (guns)............................ : 60
19: Move To The Swamp............................................. . : 56
20: What a great role model for the world.......................... : 56

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: The Me First, Screw Everyone Else Crowd... Well said!.......... : 805
2: OT:Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True than You Can Imagine... : 692
3: Even the Left says Obama should resign......................... : 610
4: Right-wing militias on the rise in US.......................... : 579
5: Palin stands by 'death panel' claim............................ : 546
6: OT - Rude protests are American tradition...................... : 447
7: Dump your CAM & get Cimatron................................... : 274
8: What is it? Set 298............................................ : 204
9: What a great role model for the world.......................... : 204
10: Moving Shop.............................................. ...... : 195
11: OT: Political Humor............................................ : 192
12: We suck. A RANT!............................................. .. : 191
13: Lockerbie Bomber released on Obama's watch..................... : 188
14: GOP could block clunkers cash.................................. : 188
15: Good Lawn Mowers............................................ ... : 185
16: HB 1388 passed? Is this true?.................................. : 183
17: ONE SECOND AFTER............................................. .. : 181
18: 545 vs 300,000,000....................................... ...... : 177
19: Mounting electrical box to lally column?....................... : 174
20: Small Florida Town "gets it" (guns)............................ : 169

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 2104
2: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 1604
3: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 983
4: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh.......................................... : 774
5: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 680
6: comp.cad.solidworks............................... ............. : 391
7: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 211
8: alt.autos.toyota.................................. ............. : 197
9: alt.cad........................................... ............. : 191
10: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 165

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 77
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 57
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 38
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 24
5: rn................................................ ............. : 13
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 11
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 8
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 7
10: Pan............................................... ............. : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 936 (23%)
2: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 689 (17%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 673 (16%)
4: Outlook Express........................................... : 478 (12%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 221 ( 5%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 168 ( 4%)
7: Xnews............................................. ........ : 158 ( 4%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 128 ( 3%)
9: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 120 ( 3%)
10: slrn.............................................. ........ : 75 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0400.............................................. ............ : 1275
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 916
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 773
4: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 673
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 280
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 69
7: -0800.............................................. ............ : 69
8: +0930............................................. ............. : 18
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 18
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 4

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

This report covers 10024 messages written between 2009-07-24 00:13:37 and
2009-08-23 22:49:19

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. tak 8 93.19%
2. dbu'' 8 92.82%
3. Jamie t 4 91.34%
4. tv 8 90.69%
5. pandora 28 90.45%
6. Ignoramus4634 3 88.99%
7. Poetic Justice 11 87.65%
8. HH&C 198 87.55%
9. Lookout 112 87.50%
10. Roy Blankenship 3 87.25%
11. dan 53 87.21%
12. Martin H. Eastburn 26 86.57%
13. tankfixer 34 85.68%
14. XR650L_Dave 6 85.62%
15. Ignoramus3972 4 85.51%

A total of 15698752 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
9630400, or 61.35%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Cliff 1499 1714046 23.6%
2. Gunner Asch 587 1205320 18.1%
3. Joe788 405 290877 46.9%
4. Compact Adolescent 216 426355 81.5%
5. RD (The Sandman) 211 589268 2.3%
6. HH&C 198 361708 87.6%
7. Ed Huntress 190 475830 65.1%
Curly Surmudgeon 190 450478 69.6%
9. Larry Jaques 179 287650 61.0%
10. Too_Many_Tools 164 405274 81.0%
11. Calif Bill 153 331015 78.3%
12. Richard the Dreaded Libertarian freedom_guy@examp 143 109201 63.8%
13. rangerssuck 137 270786 81.4%
14. John R. Carroll 133 194370 64.7%
15. Wes 119 76555 52.5%

A total of 558 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 95075 / 5 = 19015 0.1%
2. Hu Flung Dung 39009 / 5 = 7801 15.3%
3. sittingduck 213551 / 63 = 3389 6.0%
4. k rocks 9581 / 3 = 3193 33.8%
5. Michael 36195 / 12 = 3016 30.2%
6. candy 50640 / 17 = 2978
7. ?? ? 52025 / 18 = 2890 5.1%
8. ?? ? 8273 / 3 = 2757
9. Richard W. 39102 / 15 = 2606 22.1%
10. berid 10208 / 4 = 2552
11. Private 7289 / 3 = 2429 33.4%
12. 15662 / 8 = 1957 21.8%
13. John Scheldroup 29908 / 16 = 1869 47.0%
14. jor 4976 / 3 = 1658
15. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso 91195 / 58 = 1572 24.4%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. GOP could block clunkers cash 468 1034232
2. Even the Left says Obama should resign...... 290 540130
3. Right-wing militias on the rise in US 255 564684
OT:Obama's Post Office Gaffe: More True than You Can Imag 255 449837
5. The Me First, Screw Everyone Else Crowd... Well said! 251 566650
6. NJ Police state: update on pocket popper 218 508570
7. Why are our Republican Congressmen such cowards? 212 614456
8. cap-and-trade 201 321075
9. Palin stands by 'death panel' claim 153 322656
10. OT - Rude protests are American tradition 143 197568
11. the birther brigade 142 204789
12. We suck. A RANT! 129 263848
13. American Made Products That Should Be Better Than They Ar 125 118109
14. Dump your CAM & get Cimatron 120 236912
15. Move To The Swamp 115 122647

A total of 660 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. G2 1881
2. Forte Free Agent 1617
3. Forte Agent 1299
4. Microsoft Outlook Express 1250
5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 762
6. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 672
7. Pan 520
8. Xnews 401
9. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 294
10. slrn 200
11. Microsoft Windows Mail 195
12. Mozilla 115
13. News Xpress 78
14. Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 67
15. aseriesoftubes 63

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

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