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

From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman (bsd.SANSPAM_at_cto.homelinux.net)
Date: 06/20/05 

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:21:23 +0530

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

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 9 24.4 Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>
   2 4 10.3 Christophe Vandeplas <christophe@vandeplas.com>
   3 4 6.7 Epicwinter <epicwinter@hotmail.com>
   4 3 14.6 Mouse <urimobile@optonline.net>
   5 3 5.7 Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de>
   6 2 4.5 Newsbox <dontspamme@thanks.invalid>
   7 2 4.3 Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca>
   8 2 3.8 Jem Berkes <jb@users.pc9.org>
   9 2 3.2 SK <tuxkumar@gmail.com>
  10 2 2.6 Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk>
     ----- ------
        33 80.1 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
 29 posters
 52 articles
  115.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
  34.48% of the posters
  63.46% of the articles
  69.49% of the bytes

Averages:
   1.79 articles / poster
   2.22 kbytes / article
   3.97 kbytes / poster

9 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 17 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  31.03% of the posters
  32.69% of the articles
  27.08% of the bytes

smallest post was 0.926 kbytes by Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk>
largest post was 8.808 kbytes by Newsbox <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid>*

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   15 29.0 possible hack thoughts please
   14 24.9 Is google.com down, or...
    7 22.6 72.14.207.104
    4 15.8 Possible to configure IPsec for loopback?
    3 6.3 Anti Virus Software runs on Linux Server and scan other
    2 4.8 Stats comp.os.linux.security (last 7 days)
    2 3.6 Suggestion for wireless router
    2 3.3 Output from chkrootkit
    1 2.0 Is port 37 safe to let out?
    1 1.7 Writing IpTables rules with the ROPE scripting language

52 articles on 11 subjects
 45 were followups (86.54%)
 4 were crossposts (7.69%)

115.2 kbytes total
 headers: 52.9kb 45.94%
 quoted text: 13.4kb 11.64%
 original text: 42.7kb 37.10%
 signatures: 3.1kb 2.70%

Averages:
   4.73 articles / subjetc
   2.22 kbytes / article
  10.47 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
 Monday 7 *
 Tuesday 20 **
 Wednesday 3
 Thursday 3
 Friday 13 *
 Saturday 5 *
 Sunday 1
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
   13 (25.00%) thunderbird 8 27.59%
    9 (17.31%) g2 5 17.24%
    9 (17.31%) unknown 1 3.45%
    3 ( 5.77%) slrn 3 10.34%
    3 ( 5.77%) knode 2 6.90%
    3 ( 5.77%) pan 2 6.90%
    3 ( 5.77%) tin 1 3.45%
    2 ( 3.85%) nn 1 3.45%
    2 ( 3.85%) xnews 1 3.45%
    1 ( 1.92%) 4.7 1 3.45%

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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