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

From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman (bsd.SANSPAM_at_cto.homelinux.net)
Date: 05/30/05


Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 07:24:21 +0530

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 11 27.5 Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
   2 9 31.1 test <test@example.com>
   3 9 23.5 Menno Duursma <pan@desktop.lan>
   4 9 17.6 Mikhail Zotov <muxaul@lenta.ru>
   5 5 11.5 Tony Lawrence <foo@pcunix.com>
   6 4 8.6 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de>
   7 4 5.3 SimonV <Simon.vanherweghe@gmail.com>
   8 4 4.1 Gordon <gordonbp1@yahoo.co.uk.invalid>
   9 3 11.2 Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld>
  10 3 3.8 RO|_F <snortflip.5.rolf30@spamgourmet.com>
     ----- ------
        61 144.2 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
 42 posters
 97 articles
  225.0 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  23.81% of the posters
  62.89% of the articles
  64.10% of the bytes

Averages:
   2.31 articles / poster
   2.32 kbytes / article
   5.36 kbytes / poster

19 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 28 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  45.24% of the posters
  28.87% of the articles
  23.12% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   20 62.4 Reset root password
   13 24.4 ssh: access with passwords for group A, with keys only f
   11 35.5 Zonealarm
   10 16.6 Chown as regular user?
    6 9.5 fragmentation?
    5 7.7 Suggestion for wireless router
    5 5.7 New "Ransom" virus!
    4 6.0 Newbie tutor sites?
    3 8.0 ssh: access with passwords for group A, with keys only f
    3 5.9 root trying to ssh but being denied

97 articles on 20 subjects
 86 were followups (88.66%)
 0 were crossposts (0.00%)

225.0 kbytes total
 headers: 104.0kb 46.19%
 quoted text: 32.5kb 14.46%
 original text: 78.2kb 34.76%
 signatures: 4.7kb 2.09%

Averages:
   4.85 articles / subjetc
   2.32 kbytes / article
  11.25 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
 Monday 32 ***
 Tuesday 28 ***
 Wednesday 11 *
 Thursday 15 **
 Friday 4
 Saturday 2
 Sunday 5 *
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
   17 (17.53%) thunderbird 9 21.43%
   17 (17.53%) g2 6 14.29%
   16 (16.49%) tin 3 7.14%
   15 (15.46%) pan 7 16.67%
   10 (10.31%) slrn 6 14.29%
   10 (10.31%) knode 2 4.76%
    4 ( 4.12%) outlook 2 4.76%
    2 ( 2.06%) unknown 1 2.38%
    1 ( 1.03%) mozilla 1 2.38%
    1 ( 1.03%) road 1 2.38%

14 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a grain of salt, quantity might not always
denote any quality; on Usenet a poster is better known by the content he
and, or she posts.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!



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