Statistics for comp.cad.solidworks, 08 Dec 2008

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Summary of articles over a 7 day period.

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============================================================================ Analysis of posts to comp.cad.solidworks ============================================================================ (stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)

Total posts considered: 72 over 7 days Earliest article: Sun Nov 30 23:10:20 2008 Latest article: Sun Dec 7 11:40:30 2008 Original articles: 19, replies: 53 Total size of posts: 142,814 bytes (139K) (0.14M) Average 10 articles per day, 0.02 MB per day, 1,983 bytes per article Total headers: 76 KB bodies: 62 KB Body text - quoted: 9 KB, original: 53 KB = 85.39%, sigs: 0 KB Total number of posters: 30, average 4,760 bytes per poster Total number of threads: 26, average 5,492 bytes per thread Total number of User-Agents: 27

============================================================================ Top 15 posters by number of articles ============================================================================ 1: "Jon Slaughter" .................... : 9 2: "neil" .................................. : 7 3: That70sTick ........................... : 6 4: Cliff ...................................... : 6 5: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com............................................... : 5 6: Engineer ........................... : 4 7: "Wayne Tiffany" ............ : 3 8: Ronni ........................................... : 3 9: bob zee .................................... : 2

10: thestew ................................ : 2 11: sanjeev ................................. : 2 12: gk .............................................. : 2 13: zxys ........................................... : 2 14: Edward T Eaton ............................... : 2 15: tnik .................................... : 2

============================================================================ Top 15 posters by article size in Kbytes ============================================================================ 1: ccsstats ................................ : 21 2: "Jon Slaughter" .................... : 14 3: "neil" .................................. : 13 4: That70sTick ........................... : 9 5: Cliff ...................................... : 8 6: Engineer ........................... : 7 7: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com............................................... : 7 8: Ronni ........................................... : 6 9: Edward T Eaton ............................... : 4

10: "Wayne Tiffany" ............ : 4 11: bob zee .................................... : 3 12: sanjeev ................................. : 3 13: zxys ........................................... : 3 14: jon_banquer ............................ : 2 15: tnik .................................... : 2

============================================================================ Top 15 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================ 1: "Jon Slaughter" .................... : 85.36% 2: That70sTick ........................... : 79.83% 3: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com............................................... : 68.65% 4: Cliff ...................................... : 51.66%

============================================================================ Bottom 15 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================ 1: Cliff ...................................... : 51.66% 2: snipped-for-privacy@aol.com............................................... : 68.65% 3: That70sTick ........................... : 79.83% 4: "Jon Slaughter" .................... : 85.36%

============================================================================ Top 15 threads by no. of articles ============================================================================ 1: Matt sells out?................................................ : 12 2: Create planes by equation/table................................ : 10 3: Dimension color................................................ : 5 4: 3DConnexion Driver causing 2x load time........................ : 5 5: fryrender SWAP................................................. : 4 6: Debugging & reloading Addins................................... : 4 7: Inspection Dimensions.......................................... : 3 8: Evenly distribute feature(or point) across line(or path)....... : 3 9: lofted bends heeelp!!!!........................................ : 3

10: Extruded Cut SW2008............................................ : 3 11: 64-bit......................................................... : 2 12: Macro/Add-in documentation..................................... : 2 13: Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly It ... : 2 14: The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX..................... : 2 15: Setting up standards........................................... : 1

============================================================================ Top 15 threads by size in KB ============================================================================ 1: Statistics for comp.cad.solidworks, 01 Dec 2008................ : 21 2: Matt sells out?................................................ : 17 3: Create planes by equation/table................................ : 16 4: 3DConnexion Driver causing 2x load time........................ : 9 5: fryrender SWAP................................................. : 7 6: Dimension color................................................ : 6 7: Debugging & reloading Addins................................... : 6 8: Evenly distribute feature(or point) across line(or path)....... : 5 9: Extruded Cut SW2008............................................ : 5

10: The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX..................... : 5 11: Inspection Dimensions.......................................... : 4 12: lofted bends heeelp!!!!........................................ : 3 13: 64-bit......................................................... : 3 14: Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly It ... : 3 15: Macro/Add-in documentation..................................... : 2

============================================================================ Top 3 cross-posted groups ============================================================================ 1: alt.machines.cnc............................................... : 8 2: alt.cad........................................................ : 3 3: alt.usenet.kooks............................................... : 1

============================================================================ Top 15 User Agents by poster ============================================================================ 1: G2............................................................. : 14 2: Outlook Express................................................ : 7 3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows.................................. : 3 4: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 1 5: Forte Agent.................................................... : 1 6: Forte Free Agent............................................... : 1 7: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606.......................... : 1 8: Unknown........................................................ : 1 9: slrn........................................................... : 1

10: Gnus........................................................... : 0 11: News Rover..................................................... : 0 12: MacSOUP........................................................ : 0 13: Pan............................................................ : 0 14: WebTV.......................................................... : 0 15: Foorum......................................................... : 0

============================================================================ Top 9 User Agents by number of posts ============================================================================ 1: G2........................................................ : 29 (40%) 2: Outlook Express........................................... : 23 (32%) 3: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 6 ( 8%) 4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows............................. : 5 ( 7%) 5: Forte Agent............................................... : 5 ( 7%) 6: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000..................... : 1 ( 1%) 7: unknown................................................... : 1 ( 1%) 8: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 1 ( 1%) 9: slrn...................................................... : 1 ( 1%)

============================================================================ Top 10 time zones ============================================================================ 1: -0800 (PST).................................................... : 29 2: -0600.......................................................... : 14 3: -0500.......................................................... : 9 4: -0800.......................................................... : 8 5: +1300.......................................................... : 7 6: UTC............................................................ : 3 7: -0700.......................................................... : 1 8: +0100.......................................................... : 1

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Summary of articles over a 30 day period.

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Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics =================================================

(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson

This report covers 435 messages written between 11/07/08 05:42:54 and 12/07/08

20:49:59

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blacklist of quoters (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Msgs Ratio 1. John R. Carroll 3 87.12% 2. Charlie Gary 4 79.16% 3. ah 8 74.81% 4. j 3 74.25% 5. barn snipped-for-privacy@excite.com 7 68.93% 6. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 4 66.96% 7. Krister_L 8 63.29% 8. Engineer 6 59.94% 9. Cliff 109 59.22% 10. Joe788 8 57.50% 11. TOP 3 56.92% 12. tnik 8 54.20% 13. thestew 4 51.01% 14. Black Dragon 9 48.46% 15. Wayne Tiffany 3 47.67% 16. Bo 8 39.24% 17. snipped-for-privacy@priorclave.co.uk 3 38.64% 18. snipped-for-privacy@aol.com 11 33.01% 19. Flynt 6 30.44% 20. post 3 23.65%

A total of 336962 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which 118883, or

35.28%, were quotes.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted 1. Cliff 109 74107 59.2% 2. jon_banquer 65 38339 19.6% 3. That70sTick 15 3171 13.3% 4. snipped-for-privacy@aol.com 11 7686 33.0% 5. Black Dragon 9 12078 48.5% 6. neil 9 11727 N/A 7. Jon Slaughter 9 3673 14.6% 8. Joe788 8 8120 57.5% 9. Bo 8 6929 39.2% 10. Krister_L 8 5908 63.3% 11. ah 8 4025 74.8% 12. tnik 8 3548 54.2% 13. barn snipped-for-privacy@excite.com 7 2147 68.9% 14. Engineer 6 3847 59.9% 15. Flynt 6 2316 30.4% 16. Ronni 5 3870 N/A 17. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 5 1873 6.7% 18. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 4 4957 67.0% 19. Charlie Gary 4 4127 79.2% 20. thestew 4 1392 51.0%

A total of 105 people were identified.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of original content per message (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Orig. / Msgs = PrMsg Quoted 1. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 9941 / 3 = 3313 14.2% 2. neil 11727 / 9 = 1303 N/A 3. bob zee 2920 / 3 = 973 23.3% 4. snipped-for-privacy@priorclave.co.uk 2445 / 3 = 815 38.6% 5. Ronni 3870 / 5 = 774 N/A 6. Black Dragon 6225 / 9 = 691 48.5% 7. Bo 4210 / 8 = 526 39.2% 8. jon_banquer 30823 / 65 = 474 19.6% 9. snipped-for-privacy@aol.com 5149 / 11 = 468 33.0% 10. j 1353 / 3 = 451 74.3% 11. post 1327 / 3 = 442 23.6% 12. Joe788 3451 / 8 = 431 57.5% 13. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 1638 / 4 = 409 67.0% 14. snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com 1748 / 5 = 349 6.7% 15. Jon Slaughter 3135 / 9 = 348 14.6% 16. TOP 921 / 3 = 307 56.9% 17. Cliff 30219 / 109 = 277 59.2% 18. Krister_L 2169 / 8 = 271 63.3% 19. Flynt 1611 / 6 = 268 30.4% 20. Engineer 1541 / 6 = 256 59.9%

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes 1. Now That The Election Is Over... 55 45245 2. The Pickens Plan 32 23208 3. The Jon Banquer Blog Will Cover Siemens NX 21 16872 4. Unresolved Machining And CADCAM Issues 21 13062 5. Intellectual Property question 17 19995 6. New Chick CNC Vise 14 6911 7. What's Coming In Mastercam X4? 14 3751 8. Zero mass part? 13 6057 9. Roadrunner 12 8704 10. Matt sells out? 12 8197 11. Aren't you glad Solidworks ... 12 3606 12. AMC Prizes of the Month? 11 10120 13. Create planes by equation/table 10 3977 14. Mastercam Should Allow You To Do The Following But Sadly 8 12894 15. swx is SO SLOW 8 11891 16. circular duplication of sketch entities 8 2571 17. installing 2009 on vista 64 bit? 6 7937 18. Diservice pack SP05 6 5410 19. Help with solidworks needed 6 3593 20. Gibbscam 2009 6 2762

A total of 89 subjects were identified.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs 1. G2 213 2. Forte Free Agent 109 3. Microsoft Outlook Express 46 4. Forte Agent 16 5. Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 11 6. slrn 9 7. Mariozilla 8 8. Microsoft Windows Mail 7 9. Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 6 10. Xnews 2 11. Mozilla 2 12. NewsLeecher 1 13. Pan 1 14. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 1

A total of 14 different programs (not counting different versions) were identified.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postings per weekday

Day Msgs Monday 67 ******************************************* Tuesday 42 *************************** Wednesday 51 ********************************* Thursday 41 ************************** Friday 56 ************************************ Saturday 92 ************************************************************ Sunday 86 ********************************************************

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Postings per hour

Hour Msgs

0000-0059 11 *************** 0100-0159 5 ******* 0200-0259 9 ************ 0300-0359 13 ****************** 0400-0459 7 ********** 0500-0559 16 ********************** 0600-0659 26 ************************************* 0700-0759 42 ************************************************************ 0800-0859 33 *********************************************** 0900-0959 19 *************************** 1000-1059 18 ************************* 1100-1159 24 ********************************** 1200-1259 16 ********************** 1300-1359 24 ********************************** 1400-1459 20 **************************** 1500-1559 21 ****************************** 1600-1659 26 ************************************* 1700-1759 15 ********************* 1800-1859 16 ********************** 1900-1959 22 ******************************* 2000-2059 22 ******************************* 2100-2159 10 ************** 2200-2259 15 ********************* 2300-2359 5 *******

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