Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)

From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman (bsd.SANSPAM_at_cto.homelinux.net)
Date: 04/18/05 

Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:27:47 +0530

Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 5 12.7 noi <noi@siam.com>
   2 4 15.6 Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>
   3 4 6.4 Wim Cossement <wcosseme@nomail.bcol.be>
   4 3 7.7 David Bouffard <davidbouffard@videotron.ca>
   5 3 5.7 rid*** <testing@neurochemicals.org>
   6 2 5.1 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld>
   7 2 4.8 Konstantinos Peletidis <kpeletidis@dsl.spammers.must>
   8 2 4.2 peter smith <pete@linuxbox.co.uk>
   9 2 3.0 Piotr Sobolewski <piotr_sobolewski@bezspamuprosze-o2>
  10 2 2.9 FB <fireflyblue@gmail.com>
     ----- ------
        29 68.0 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
 60 posters
 81 articles
  164.7 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  16.67% of the posters
  35.80% of the articles
  41.31% of the bytes

Averages:
   1.35 articles / poster
   2.03 kbytes / article
   2.74 kbytes / poster

39 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 50 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  65.00% of the posters
  61.73% of the articles
  56.56% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   12 23.5 Why is secure FTP via SSH2 going so sloooooow?
   11 19.3 Macs are a load of *** and so is OS2 and Linux, load of
    5 9.4 secure file delete on journaled file systems
    5 8.2 Encryption functions in the kernel
    4 9.3 fc3 gnome, why can't I use gedit 2.8.1 when I am not con
    4 9.1 Macs are a load of *** and so is OS2 and Linux, load of
    4 8.1 fooling version detection
    3 7.5 iptables logging
    3 6.7 Root passwd change not working
    3 5.4 WPA wireless and Linux-based RADIUS - 100% secure ?

81 articles on 28 subjects
 64 were followups (79.01%)
 22 were crossposts (27.16%)

164.7 kbytes total
 headers: 80.4kb 48.85%
 quoted text: 22.4kb 13.60%
 original text: 54.4kb 33.04%
 signatures: 3.1kb 1.88%

Averages:
   2.89 articles / subjetc
   2.03 kbytes / article
   5.88 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
 Monday 20 **
 Tuesday 8 *
 Wednesday 11 *
 Thursday 18 **
 Friday 16 **
 Saturday 6 *
 Sunday 2
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
   12 (14.81%) thunderbird 10 16.67%
   10 (12.35%) g2 9 15.00%
    9 (11.11%) slrn 8 13.33%
    7 ( 8.64%) knode 4 6.67%
    6 ( 7.41%) pan 6 10.00%
    6 ( 7.41%) mozilla 3 5.00%
    5 ( 6.17%) outlook 3 5.00%
    5 ( 6.17%) athlon 1 1.67%
    4 ( 4.94%) unknown 1 1.67%
    3 ( 3.70%) forte 3 5.00%

20 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!

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