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

From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman (bsd.SANSPAM_at_cto.homelinux.net)
Date: 06/13/05

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

    Top 10 posters for the period:

    rank posts kbytes name <address>
       1 11 20.6 Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk>
       2 9 21.0 Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>
       3 5 7.6 Sade_bhat <sade_bhat@yahoo.com>
       4 5 6.9 lorenzodes <lorenzodes.removeme@iol.it>
       5 4 5.6 Spyro <errorcodeforum@gmail.com>
       6 3 7.6 Menno Duursma <pan@desktop.lan>
       7 2 10.1 Mouse <urimobile@optonline.net>
       8 2 4.7 Mikhail Zotov <muxaul@lenta.ru>
       9 2 3.1 Alexander Clouter <alex@digriz.junk-this.org.uk>
      10 2 2.7 Jeroen Geilman <jeroen@adaptr.nl>
         ----- ------
            45 89.9 Total for top 10

    Totals for the newsgroup:
     33 posters
     69 articles
      133.0 kbytes

    The top 10 accounted for:
      30.30% of the posters
      65.22% of the articles
      67.57% of the bytes

    Averages:
       2.09 articles / poster
       1.93 kbytes / article
       4.03 kbytes / poster

    12 people posted for the first time this period.
    They went on to post 31 articles altogether

    The new posters accounted for:
      36.36% of the posters
      44.93% of the articles
      37.49% of the bytes

    smallest post was 0.752 kbytes by C. P. <stoewing@bigfoot.com>
    largest post was 7.700 kbytes by Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk>*

    Top 10 subjects for the period:

    posts kbytes subject
       18 25.8 Output from chkrootkit
       12 20.6 How to recieve SMTP mail with iptables - sending works
        8 16.1 Is port 37 safe to let out?
        6 8.3 New Security Distro site
        5 8.9 e-mails as an images
        4 11.6 Zonealarm
        4 8.0 IPCHAINS or IPTABLES what do I have
        2 5.3 Possible to configure IPsec to use AES?
        2 4.8 Suggestion for wireless router
        2 2.8 xpost: blocked ports

    69 articles on 16 subjects
     59 were followups (85.51%)
     0 were crossposts (0.00%)

    133.0 kbytes total
     headers: 65.4kb 49.14%
     quoted text: 14.3kb 10.72%
     original text: 48.7kb 36.62%
     signatures: 1.1kb 0.83%

    Averages:
       4.31 articles / subjetc
       1.93 kbytes / article
       8.31 kbytes / subject

    Postings per weekday:

    Day posts
     Monday 11 *
     Tuesday 12 *
     Wednesday 12 *
     Thursday 1
     Friday 12 *
     Saturday 8 *
     Sunday 13 *
                     (*=10 posts)

    Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

    posts newsreader users
       14 (20.29%) thunderbird 7 21.21%
       14 (20.29%) knode 4 12.12%
       12 (17.39%) g2 4 12.12%
        9 (13.04%) unknown 1 3.03%
        6 ( 8.70%) pan 4 12.12%
        5 ( 7.25%) slrn 4 12.12%
        2 ( 2.90%) outlook 2 6.06%
        1 ( 1.45%) who 1 3.03%
        1 ( 1.45%) bigpond 1 3.03%
        1 ( 1.45%) knews 1 3.03%

    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; people who are not among the top posters also often have
    very important and interesting things to say, though they are not listed
    here by name.

    Have a lot ..., lots of fun!

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