Balwinder S Dheeman
5/2/2005 12:37:00 AM
Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
2 26 67.5 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
3 22 50.3 Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
4 21 49.9 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
5 20 42.4 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
6 19 37.5 Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@gmail.com>
7 17 48.9 vikkous <google@inforadical.net>
8 17 34.0 Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com>
9 16 31.8 nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
10 14 36.5 Fu Limin <fu.limin.tao@gmail.com>
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205 471.9 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
275 posters
973 articles
2176.6 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
3.64% of the posters
21.07% of the articles
21.68% of the bytes
Averages:
3.54 articles / poster
2.24 kbytes / article
7.91 kbytes / poster
148 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 306 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
53.82% of the posters
31.45% of the articles
31.91% of the bytes
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
44 118.8 Comments Are More Important Than Code
41 117.0 Ruby and IDE
28 52.7 [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer 182-15 for Windows
26 50.7 Folding editor for ruby code browsing
23 42.7 [ANN] Arachno Ruby IDE 0.5.5 for Linux
22 44.0 ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released!
20 40.0 Emacs vs. VI vs. IDE
18 43.7 Announcing Reg 0.4.0
16 61.8 tk_optionMenu bug in 1.8.2
16 42.1 Re ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released
973 articles on 198 subjects
818 were followups (84.07%)
29 were crossposts (2.98%)
2176.6 kbytes total
headers: 1046.9kb 48.10%
quoted text: 317.5kb 14.59%
original text: 711.4kb 32.69%
signatures: 36.6kb 1.68%
Averages:
4.91 articles / subjetc
2.24 kbytes / article
10.99 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 153 ***************
Tuesday 141 **************
Wednesday 185 *******************
Thursday 183 ******************
Friday 177 ******************
Saturday 75 ********
Sunday 59 ******
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
670 (68.86%) ruby-talk 181 65.82%
104 (10.69%) g2 38 13.82%
46 ( 4.73%) thunderbird 16 5.82%
36 ( 3.70%) outlook 11 4.00%
25 ( 2.57%) noaa 1 0.36%
20 ( 2.06%) knode 7 2.55%
16 ( 1.64%) mozilla 7 2.55%
11 ( 1.13%) gg 2 0.73%
11 ( 1.13%) tin 1 0.36%
9 ( 0.92%) pan 5 1.82%
20 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).
DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.
Have a lot ..., lots of fun!