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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: 1,336 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 5 22:53:13 2011
Latest article: Sun Dec 11 23:53:06 2011
Original articles: 104, replies: 1,232
Total size of posts: 13,377,372 bytes (13,063K) (12.76M)
Average 190 articles per day, 1.82 MB per day, 10,013 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,034 KB bodies: 11,029 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,140 KB, original: 9,665 KB = 89.45%, sigs: 219 KB
Total number of posters: 220, average 60,806 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 166, average 80,586 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 35

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Gunner Asch ............................ . : 90
2: George Plimpton ................................ : 88
3: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 65
4: Hawke .................... ....... : 64
5: "Steve B" ................................ ... : 47
6: Benny Fishhole ......................... : 44
7: " ............................ : 43
8: Ed Huntress ......................... . : 42
9: "Delma T. Ivey" ................. : 28
10: BeamMeUpScotty ... : 27
11: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 24
12: Larry Jaques ............. .. : 23
13: Josh ................................ ........ : 21
14: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 20
15: Peter Franks ................................. .. : 20
16: "DoN. Nichols" ...................... : 20
17: Winston .......................... ..... : 18
18: emoneyjoe ............................. ... : 16
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 15
20: "Jim Wilkins" .......................... . : 15

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 9006
2: George Plimpton ................................ : 338
3: Gunner Asch ............................ . : 295
4: Hawke .................... ....... : 241
5: "Stormin Mormon" ........... : 164
6: BeamMeUpScotty ... : 141
7: Ed Huntress ......................... . : 129
8: " ............................ : 125
9: Benny Fishhole ......................... : 123
10: "Steve B" ................................ ... : 114
11: "Ray Keller" LEFTARD TROLLS ARE DESPERATE.................... : 100
12: "Delma T. Ivey" ................. : 93
13: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 86
14: Peter Franks ................................. .. : 68
15: emoneyjoe ............................. ... : 68
16: Josh ................................ ........ : 64
17: Larry Jaques ............. .. : 59
18: "DoN. Nichols" ...................... : 52
19: "Michael A. Terrell" .............. : 51
20: RD Sandman ..................... : 42

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 99.93%
2: "Ray Keller" LEFTARD TROLLS ARE DESPERATE.................... : 96.73%
3: Jon Anderson ....................... .. : 75.91%
4: "Jim Wilkins" .......................... . : 74.93%
5: William Bagwell ................. : 72.07%
6: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 65.45%
7: Jon Elson ............................. : 60.43%
8: "Bruce L. Bergman (munged human readable)" bruceNOSPAMbergman@ : 60.25%
9: " ............................ : 55.69%
10: rangerssuck ........................... . : 54.55%
11: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 54.01%
12: "Rob H." .......................... .... : 52.68%
13: BeamMeUpScotty ... : 49.98%
14: Winston_Smith ............................ . : 49.85%
15: "Steve B" ................................ ... : 46.83%
16: Larry Jaques ............. .. : 45.99%
17: rbowman .............................. ..... : 45.88%
18: "Bob La Londe" ................................. : 45.10%
19: Gunner Asch ............................ . : 44.65%
20: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 42.55%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: The Oracle ........... .. : 7.35%
2: Gray Guest ...................... .. : 8.48%
3: Ignoramus12217 ........... : 9.89%
4: Deucalion ............................. ... : 10.08%
5: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 12.34%
6: "PrecisionmachinisT" ....... : 14.87%
7: Ignoramus16340 ........... : 16.84%
8: Peter Franks ................................. .. : 18.25%
9: "Steve W." ............................. .. : 19.53%
10: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 19.74%
11: Max Boot ........................... .... : 20.56%
12: "SaPeIsMa" ............................ .. : 20.58%
13: Ignoramus12911 ........... : 20.93%
14: "David R. Birch" ............................ : 21.96%
15: RD Sandman ..................... : 21.96%
16: Ignoramus5603 ............. . : 22.11%
17: Bret Cahill ......................... . : 22.44%
18: "Delma T. Ivey" ................. : 22.48%
19: Benny Fishhole ......................... : 23.33%
20: Baron ........................... ....... : 23.55%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV.................. : 183
2: Markets plummet on Republican obstructionism................... : 59
3: Long, large bore.............................................. . : 50
4: What is it? Set 418............................................ : 35
5: OT: 'MythBusters' cannonball sails through neighborhood........ : 32
6: OWS - L.A. do-nothing flea-baggers done in by perfectly legal.. : 32
7: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut......................................... : 29
8: What size plasma cutter?....................................... : 27
9: Cutting iron with embedded gravel.............................. : 26
10: 412 days until Obama is out of office.......................... : 26
11: I beam weight............................................ ...... : 25
12: multiboot XP and W7............................................ : 23
13: First Amendment as vulnerable as Second........................ : 22
14: OH NOOO! Quincy failure........................................ : 21
15: making a cannon............................................ .... : 21
16: California conservative population grows....................... : 21
17: eBay dreamer........................................... ........ : 21
18: Hollyweird shootout: (Another) Deranged liberal gunman calmly t : 20
19: How to remove concrete residue from plastic.................... : 20
20: Alternative Battery LR44....................................... : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 4 of 6 - 111205_0005.jpg (1/2)... : 971
2: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 2 of 6 - 111205_0001.jpg (1/2)... : 971
3: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 6 of 6 - 111205_0008.jpg (1/2)... : 971
4: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 3 of 6 - 111205_0002.jpg (1/2)... : 971
5: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 1 of 6 - 111205_0000.jpg (1/2)... : 971
6: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 5 of 6 - 111205_0006.jpg (1/2)... : 971
7: Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV.................. : 750
8: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 4 of 6 - 111205_0005.jpg (2/2)... : 707
9: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 6 of 6 - 111205_0008.jpg (2/2)... : 604
10: testit - 1 attachment (1/2).................................... : 478
11: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 5 of 6 - 111205_0006.jpg (2/2)... : 472
12: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 2 of 6 - 111205_0001.jpg (2/2)... : 412
13: Kalamazoo saw 8x22 cut - File 1 of 6 - 111205_0000.jpg (2/2)... : 375
14: Markets plummet on Republican obstructionism................... : 283
15: testit - 1 attachment (2/2).................................... : 184
16: Long, large bore.............................................. . : 137
17: What size plasma cutter?....................................... : 83
18: 412 days until Obama is out of office.......................... : 79
19: Hollyweird shootout: (Another) Deranged liberal gunman calmly t : 77
20: OT: 'MythBusters' cannonball sails through neighborhood........ : 76

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 479
2: alt.california.................................... ............. : 337
3: alt.politics.obama................................ ............. : 230
4: alt.politics.usa.constitution..................... ............. : 207
5: talk.politics.guns................................ ............. : 141
6: alt.philosophy.................................... ............. : 59
7: alt.politics.republicans.......................... ............. : 42
8: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 40
9: sci.econ.......................................... ............. : 40
10: alt.politics...................................... ............. : 40

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 42
2: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 41
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 35
4: Unknown........................................... ............. : 25
5: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 16
6: rn................................................ ............. : 12
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 7
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 5
9: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416...................... : 5
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197.......................... : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 406 (30%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 274 (21%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 159 (12%)
4: Outlook Express........................................... : 99 ( 7%)
5: Xnews............................................. ........ : 84 ( 6%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 78 ( 6%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 51 ( 4%)
8: unknown........................................... ........ : 23 ( 2%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 22 ( 2%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197..................... : 19 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.............................................. ............ : 459
2: -0500.............................................. ............ : 329
3: -0600.............................................. ............ : 240
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 159
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 75
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 50
7: +0100............................................. ............. : 15
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 3
9: +0700............................................. ............. : 2
10: -0400.............................................. ............ : 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 6350 messages written between 2011-11-12 00:01:47 and
2011-12-11 23:47:29

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

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. 3 96.09%
2. Lonnie Mack 14 94.62%
3. Jerry Scheff 23 93.37%
4. Vandar 4 93.35%
5. Ignoramus12217 7 90.22%
6. Ignoramus19887 3 89.51%
7. Nancy2 5 89.15%
8. Bareback Insane Obungler 4 88.76%
9. Sid9 sid9@ bellsouth.net 9 87.53%
10. George 3 86.45%
11. Ignoramus12504 17 85.29%
12. Just Me 6 85.20%
13. Nicholas 7 85.14%
14. Jack Rabbit 16 84.98%
15. Martin Riddle 3 84.23%

A total of 20265344 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
7164399, or 35.35%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 511 1003997 10.6%
2. Hawke 232 594516 63.7%
3. "('m`ú.', Craig Chilton ',.ú'''m) http://www.Trav 198 483313 22.1%
4. Too_Many_Tools 189 415716 83.6%
5. RD Sandman 186 656532 15.6%
6. Michael A. Terrell 171 133334 67.4%
7. Ed Huntress 167 423971 62.7%
8. best in show 161 44731 36.3%
9. Scout 157 394474 81.7%
10. Benny Fishhole 153 257337 83.4%
11. Gray Guest 150 479483 84.0%
12. pyotr filipivich 147 222563 62.3%
13. 135 142037 47.7%
14. Steve B 131 149225 52.6%
15. George Plimpton 125 208501 70.2%

A total of 520 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. Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspri8353344 / 120 =
69611 2.5%
2. Statistics 88103 / 4 = 22025
3. Leroy N. Soetoro 185725 / 33 = 5628
4. Ray Keller LEFTARD TROLLS ARE DESPERATE 297194 / 56 = 5307 5.2%
5. More Liberal Queer Perversion death-penalt 16265 / 4 = 4066
6. "('m`ú.', Craig Chilton ',.ú'''m) http:// 20109 / 5 = 4021 32.8%
7. guru datta 11977 / 3 = 3992
8. RogerN 129578 / 46 = 2816 12.2%
9. JohnJohnsn 109517 / 39 = 2808 47.6%
10. John Doe 59995 / 22 = 2727 21.9%
11. Stormin Mormon cayoung61**spamblock##@hotm226917 / 94 = 2414 8.8%
12. "('m`ú.', Craig Chilton ',.ú'''m) http://w376310 / 198 = 1900 22.1%
13. stryped 5588 / 3 = 1862 12.1%
14. Carl Ijames 9263 / 5 = 1852 23.4%
15. Glen Walpert 5469 / 3 = 1823 24.0%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. Right target, lousy shot: Mexican arrested in White House 618 1774401
2. if you say homosexuality is okay with you - you're a stin 209 488566
3. Markets plummet on Republican obstructionism 202 610857
4. Busted! Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found on SUV 183 412807
5. if you say homosexuality is okay with you - you're a stin 134 42345
6. Generators, run on nat. gas.... 122 162773
7. God help us all....a Democrat voter at his best.... 119 211732
8. Dowsing 113 121387
9. Repaired Harbor Freight digital caliper 109 177259
10. Well..I closed down another machine shop in So. Cal... 97 209285
11. Here we go again: PVC PIPE FOR AIR SUPPLY LINES 93 104339
12. Is this compressor worth anything? 78 76895
13. Can a skid steer be used to level a gravel road 69 93816
14. OT: Fax machines on broadband problem? 58 78043
15. House prices dive, Jim's money doubles in value! was 51 93744

A total of 653 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Mozilla 1263
2. Forte Agent 1025
3. G2 763
4. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 562
5. Xnews 518
6. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 497
7. Microsoft Outlook Express 444
8. slrn 255
9. Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 Englis 153
10. Microsoft Windows Mail 124
11. Pan 67
12. MT-NewsWatcher 61
13. Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 58
14. None 33
15. Forte Free Agent 32

A total of 35 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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