Unfiltered COLA newsgroup statistics 28-08-2011

Analysis of posts to comp.os.linux.advocacy
(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 2,168 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Aug 21 22:00:02 2011
Latest article: Thu Aug 25 17:35:02 2011
Original articles: 222, replies: 1,946
Total size of posts: 6,360,372 bytes (6,211K) (6.07M)
Average 309 articles per day, 0.87 MB per day, 2,933 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,922 KB bodies: 3,288 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,726 KB, original: 1,238 KB = 41.78%, sigs: 317 KB
Total number of posters: 119, average 53,448 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 358, average 17,766 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 37

Top 20 posters by number of articles
1: Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> : 458
2: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>... : 216
3: Kari Laine <karitlaine@yahoo.com>.. : 107
4: Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com>.. : 106
5: Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com>.. : 97
6: Homer <usenet@slated.org>.. : 88
7: kingman <kangee88@olp.org>. : 81
8: 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>.. : 70
9: chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>. : 65
10: High Plains Thumper <hpt@invalid.invalid>.. : 62
11: TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com>... : 57
12: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>.. : 56
13: Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> : 37
14: JeffM <jeffm_@email.com>... : 36
15: "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> : 35
16: cc <scatnubbs@hotmail.com>. : 34
17: bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk>.. : 33
18: William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net>.. : 32
19: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid>.. : 31
20: Johan Lindquist <craters99@entermail.org>.. : 30

Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
1: Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> : 1375
2: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>... : 760
3: Kari Laine <karitlaine@yahoo.com>.. : 389
4: High Plains Thumper <hpt@invalid.invalid>.. : 342
5: Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com>.. : 279
6: Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com>.. : 248
7: 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>.. : 244
8: Homer <usenet@slated.org>.. : 224
9: kingman <kangee88@olp.org>. : 205
10: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid>.. : 137
11: chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>. : 131
12: cc <scatnubbs@hotmail.com>. : 128
13: Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@gmail.com> : 126
14: TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com>... : 114
15: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>.. : 113
16: "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> : 88
17: Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> : 88
18: JeffM <jeffm_@email.com>... : 75
19: William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net>.. : 68
20: bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk>.. : 60

Top 20 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
1: Rex Ballard <rex.ballard@gmail.com> : 97.21%
2: JeffM <jeffm_@email.com>... : 77.08%
3: RayLopez99 <raylopez88@gmail.com>.. : 74.94%
4: High Plains Thumper <hpt@invalid.invalid>.. : 74.93%
5: 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com>.. : 68.97%
6: "Steven Morganstein" <Steven_Morganstein@yahoo.com> : 68.28%
7: "Santori Kingsley" <Kingsley@yahoo.com> : 63.42%
8: "Mauricio Cajones" <Cajaoonees@yahoo.com>.. : 62.25%
9: "pork dumpling" <porkdumpling@yahoo.com>... : 59.41%
10: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>.. : 58.50%
11: Homer <usenet@slated.org>.. : 58.09%
12: "Mauricio Cajones" <Cajones@yahoo.com>. : 56.93%
13: "Mauricio Cajones" <Cajoonees@yahoo.com>... : 56.70%
14: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Clog_-_wog_(®)?= <clog_-_wog@anonimous : 55.91%
15: "pork dumpling" <pork_dumpling@yahoo.com>.. : 54.88%
16: John Downs <kdownsfamily49@yahoo.com>.. : 52.23%
17: "Sinister Shitlet" <midget@yahoo.com>.. : 48.50%
18: Sinister Midget <fardblossom@gmail.com> : 48.14%
19: chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>. : 46.31%
20: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>... : 46.15%

Bottom 20 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
1: Big Steel <bigoneaaaa@big1aaaaa.com>... : 18.44%
2: cc <scatnubbs@hotmail.com>. : 20.65%
3: William Poaster <wp@induh-vidual.net>.. : 22.73%
4: Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid>.. : 23.28%
5: Chris Ahlstrom <ahlstromc@xzoozy.com>.. : 23.67%
6: Hadron<hadronquark@gmail.com>.. : 25.81%
7: JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet>.. : 25.85%
8: kingman <kangee88@olp.org>. : 28.36%
9: Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> : 28.39%
10: Black Dragon <bd@nomail.invalid>... : 30.01%
11: Peter =?UTF-8?B?S8O2aGxtYW5u?= <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de>... : 30.12%
12: "A. van der Berigheid" <Arend_zal_Uitermate_Berig_zijn@invalid. : 30.25%
13: Marti Van Lin <ml2mst@dontevenbother.invalid>.. : 32.02%
14: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajhøj?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>... : 32.82%
15: TomB <tommy.bongaerts@gmail.com>... : 34.43%
16: Kari Laine <karitlaine@yahoo.com>.. : 35.44%
17: "Clogwog" <clogwog@anon.eu> : 35.50%
18: chris <chrisdhaag@googlemail.com>.. : 35.70%
19: Johan Lindquist <craters99@entermail.org>.. : 35.81%
20: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>... : 36.44%

Top 20 threads by no. of articles
1: KDE Distros Poll... : 104
2: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from th : 91
3: Gary Stewart killed in earthquake.. : 61
4: Euro ban for Samsung Galaxy phone.. : 45
5: Increased Trolling in COLA. : 44
6: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from th : 42
7: Wintrolls are garbage.. : 42
8: Jobs steps down : 36
9: Exploiting People's Illness to Defend Sociopathic Behaviour : 35
10: Snit Destroys The Cult Of Linux : 35
11: No one wins/Everyone wins.. : 33
12: You *can't* patent a rectangle? : 33
13: New GNU GIMP Has a 'Photoshop Mode' : 33
14: Apple Wins Samsung Phone Ban In Dutch Court : 33
15: Steve Jobs: control freak, so Linux not suitable... : 31
16: Google motorola purchase gives it 170,000 patents.. : 30
17: Linux Wins, Steve Jobs Flees... : 29
18: Samsung gets boost from Dutch court : 27
19: Vista 7 Fails, GNU/Linux Gains. : 27
20: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from... : 26

Top 20 threads by size in KB
1: KDE Distros Poll... : 355
2: Gary Stewart killed in earthquake.. : 337
3: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from th : 285
4: Increased Trolling in COLA. : 171
5: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from th : 133
6: Euro ban for Samsung Galaxy phone.. : 128
7: Wintrolls are garbage.. : 124
8: Techrights Watch: GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share... : 112
9: Exploiting People's Illness to Defend Sociopathic Behaviour : 107
10: More closed-source apps that were pulled within minutes from... : 99
11: Jobs steps down : 94
12: Whooooooop! Whooooooop! Whooooooop! She's sinking!! : 93
13: No one wins/Everyone wins.. : 92
14: Google motorola purchase gives it 170,000 patents.. : 88
15: Is Linus now Anti-Choice?.. : 88
16: Steve Jobs: control freak, so Linux not suitable... : 87
17: You *can't* patent a rectangle? : 86
18: Attention SNIT. : 86
19: Apple Wins Samsung Phone Ban In Dutch Court : 85
20: Samsung's Android profits rise. : 84

Top 10 cross-posted groups
1: comp.os.linux.advocacy. : 2168
2: comp.sys.mac.advocacy.. : 54
3: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp... : 19
4: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt. : 12
5: comp.ai.philosophy. : 4
6: alt.memetics... : 4
7: alt.folklore.computers. : 4
8: comp.os.linux.setup : 3
9: rec.motorcycles : 2
10: alt.comp.anti-virus : 1

Top 10 User Agents by poster
1: Microsoft Outlook Express.. : 15
2: Mozilla : 14
3: G2/1.0. : 13
4: KNode.. : 9
5: Xnews.. : 8
6: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4.. : 8
7: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197.. : 7
8: rn. : 7
9: Forte Agent : 6
10: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.84 : 6

Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
1: Microsoft Entourage... : 458 (21%)
2: KNode. : 371 (17%)
3: slrn.. : 316 (15%)
4: Mozilla... : 169 ( 8%)
5: 40tude_Dialog. : 132 ( 6%)
6: Pan... : 125 ( 6%)
7: G2 : 119 ( 5%)
8: Outlook Express... : 119 ( 5%)
9: GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20. : 106 ( 5%)
10: Forte Agent... : 69 ( 3%)

Top 10 time zones
1: -0700.. : 471
2: +0100.. : 460
3: -0400.. : 402
4: +0200.. : 273
5: UTC : 171
6: -0700 (PDT) : 119
7: -0500.. : 111
8: +0300.. : 108
9: -0600.. : 39
10: +1000.. : 6


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