Just playing with a stats program for a.m.c. Thought I'd post a report for R.C.M. Likely there are bugs in it since I've just started playing with this stuff.
For the computer literate types, I am running leafnode and Garry Knights perl script on a W2K box using Cygwin
Wes
============================================================================ Analysis of posts to rec.crafts.metalworking ============================================================================ (stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)
Total posts considered: 1,875 over 7 days Latest article: Mon Apr 30 09:56:54 2007 Original articles: 158, replies: 1,717 Total size of posts: 4,718,049 bytes (4,607K) (4.50M) Average 267 articles per day, 0.64 MB per day, 2,516 bytes per article Total headers: 2,158 KB bodies: 2,449 KB Body text - quoted: 1,327 KB, original: 926 KB = 41.11%, sigs: 187 KB Total number of posters: 366, average 12,890 bytes per poster Total number of threads: 231, average 20,424 bytes per thread Total number of User-Agents: 35
============================================================================ Top 20 posters by number of articles ============================================================================ 1: Gunner ................................. : 135 2: Don Foreman .................... : 77 3: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 75 4: snipped-for-privacy@lycos.com............................................... : 60 5: Dave Hinz ................................. : 56 6: snipped-for-privacy@milmac.com (Doug Miller).............................. : 43 7: snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 39 8: "Harold and Susan Vordos" ..................... : 34 9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 32
10: "Tom Gardner" ...................... : 31 11: JohnM ........................................ : 25 12: Trevor Jones ............................. : 24 13: "Proctologically Violated©®" 5 posts) ============================================================================ 1: Randy Replogle ..................... : 10.99% 2: John .................................. : 16.33% 3: " snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com" .................... : 17.82% 4: JohnM ........................................ : 20.16% 5: Ignoramus6663 .............. : 20.40% 6: cavelamb himself ...................... : 21.44% 7: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 22.69% 8: RoyJ .................................. : 24.23% 9: Andrew VK3BFA ....................... : 26.18% 10: Gerry ..................................... : 26.25% 11: Joseph Gwinn ............................ : 26.43% 12: Brent .................................. : 27.08% 13: john .................................. : 27.72% 14: clare at snyder.on.ca.......................................... : 28.42% 15: Rex ..................................... : 28.82% 16: Ignoramus3935 .............. : 28.97% 17: Jeff Wisnia ........................... : 29.26% 18: snipped-for-privacy@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols)............................ : 31.88% 19: "Steve W." ................................... : 32.32% 20: Trevor Jones ............................. : 32.34%============================================================================ Top 20 threads by no. of articles ============================================================================ 1: OT - Beef up background checks; leave college gun bans alone... : 117 2: The US doesn't need no stinking gun control, yeah right........ : 112 3: In-house visit by a "Rainbow vacuum" salesperson............... : 64 4: OT: ABC News: magazines equal ammunition....................... : 55 5: Vibrating grinder returns...................................... : 48 6: Need books suggestions......................................... : 43 7: OT: First CCW shoot in Ohio.................................... : 35 8: Fiery crash collapses Bay Area freeway......................... : 35 9: No one beyond a handful of seld deluded Republicans............ : 30
10: Hotwire foam saw wiring........................................ : 30 11: A little gizmo for inspecting cartridge cases.................. : 24 12: Making Your Own Wind Chime..................................... : 22 13: Converting Computer Power Supply to Variable Supply............ : 22 14: Cold saw vs. bandsaw........................................... : 21 15: E-bay add, is this one of those "to good to be true adds"?..... : 21 16: What is it? CLXVI.............................................. : 21 17: A.M. radio interference........................................ : 21 18: penetrating oil - a report..................................... : 20 19: my recent project.............................................. : 20 20: Separating rusted-together telescoped square tubes............. : 20============================================================================ Top 20 threads by size in KB ============================================================================ 1: OT - Beef up background checks; leave college gun bans alone... : 453 2: The US doesn't need no stinking gun control, yeah right........ : 373 3: OT: ABC News: magazines equal ammunition....................... : 188 4: In-house visit by a "Rainbow vacuum" salesperson............... : 163 5: Vibrating grinder returns...................................... : 156 6: No one beyond a handful of seld deluded Republicans............ : 106 7: Need books suggestions......................................... : 85 8: OT: First CCW shoot in Ohio.................................... : 83 9: Fiery crash collapses Bay Area freeway......................... : 79
10: Hotwire foam saw wiring........................................ : 70 11: Coolant while lathe turning.................................... : 69 12: A little gizmo for inspecting cartridge cases.................. : 61 13: A.M. radio interference........................................ : 54 14: Cold saw vs. bandsaw........................................... : 49 15: Converting Computer Power Supply to Variable Supply............ : 49 16: Making Your Own Wind Chime..................................... : 48 17: First CCW shoot in Ohio........................................ : 47 18: my recent project.............................................. : 46 19: Rhenium diboride............................................... : 46 20: Metal cutting bandsaw: Help please............................. : 45============================================================================ Top 10 cross-posted groups ============================================================================ 1: rec.crafts.metalworking........................................ : 1875 2: misc.consumers.house........................................... : 52 3: alt.home.repair................................................ : 52 4: misc.consumers.frugal-living................................... : 52 5: rec.woodworking................................................ : 41 6: rec.puzzles.................................................... : 40 7: misc.survivalism............................................... : 27 8: sci.chem....................................................... : 20 9: alt.machines.cnc............................................... : 12
10: sci.physics.................................................... : 11============================================================================ Top 10 User Agents by poster ============================================================================ 1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 101 2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 90 3: Forte Agent.................................................... : 42 4: Mozilla........................................................ : 33 5: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221)........................ : 26 6: rn............................................................. : 19 7: Unknown........................................................ : 8 8: MT-NewsWatcher................................................. : 8 9: Xnews.......................................................... : 7
10: Forte Free Agent............................................... : 6============================================================================ Top 10 User Agents by number of posts ============================================================================ 1: Forte Agent............................................... : 432 (23%) 2: Outlook Express........................................... : 389 (21%) 3: G2........................................................ : 284 (15%) 4: Mozilla................................................... : 214 (11%) 5: slrn...................................................... : 118 ( 6%) 6: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows............................. : 108 ( 6%) 7: News Xpress 2.01.......................................... : 46 ( 2%) 8: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 45 ( 2%) 9: Xnews..................................................... : 44 ( 2%)
10: MT-NewsWatcher............................................ : 42 ( 2%)============================================================================ Top 10 time zones ============================================================================ 1: UTC............................................................ : 646 2: -0700.......................................................... : 503 3: -0400.......................................................... : 337 4: -0500.......................................................... : 297 5: +0100.......................................................... : 27 6: +0200.......................................................... : 22 7: -0600.......................................................... : 11 8: +0800.......................................................... : 10 9: +1000.......................................................... : 8
10: +0200 (CEST)................................................... : 5============================================================================