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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mageia by Robert Marshall ============================================================================
(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 234 over 30 days
Earliest article: Wed Apr 1 00:40:02 2020
Latest article: Tue Apr 28 03:20:02 2020
Original articles: 10, replies: 224
Total size of posts: 653,833 bytes (638K) (0.62M)
Average 7 articles per day, 0.02 MB per day, 2,794 bytes per article
Total headers: 251 KB bodies: 386 KB
Body text - quoted: 209 KB, original: 148 KB = 41.44%, sigs: 26 KB
Total number of posters: 24, average 27,243 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 16, average 40,864 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 8

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Top 20 posters by number of articles ============================================================================
1: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 44
2: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 40
3: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 37
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 21
5: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 18
6: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 13
7: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 10
8: "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com>.............................. : 9
9: Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 9 10: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 7 11: Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR>............................ : 4 12: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 4 13: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>.................................. : 4 14: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>........................ : 2 15: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>.............................. : 2 16: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................... : 2 17: alt.os.linux.mageia Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>.............. : 1 18: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>................... : 1 19: Herman <herman@invalid.invalid>................................ : 1 20: Werner Brinkmann <denada@gmx.es>............................... : 1

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes ============================================================================
1: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 110
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 104
3: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 81
4: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 70
5: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 55
6: "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com>.............................. : 38
7: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 27
8: Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR>............................ : 24
9: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>.................................. : 22 10: Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 21 11: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 18 12: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 14 13: alt.os.linux.mageia Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>.............. : 13 14: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 12 15: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>........................ : 5 16: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>................... : 3 17: Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz>................................. : 3 18: Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com>.................................. : 2 19: John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>.............................. : 2 20: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................... : 2

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Top 9 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================
1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 65.06%
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 53.60%
3: "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com>.............................. : 50.81%
4: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 44.17%
5: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 39.39%
6: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 39.30%
7: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 38.59%
8: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 32.76%
9: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 25.54%

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Bottom 9 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================
1: Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 24.57%
2: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 25.54%
3: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 32.76%
4: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 38.59%
5: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 39.30%
6: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 39.39%
7: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 44.17%
8: "Vincent Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com>.............................. : 50.81%
9: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 53.60%

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Top 16 threads by no. of articles ============================================================================
1: popup ads appearing on my system............................... : 43
2: Desk Manager dead.............................................. : 37
3: plasma shell [SOLVED].......................................... : 33
4: [OT] The impact of CoronaVirus................................. : 31
5: Check your mirror status....................................... : 22
6: plasma shell................................................... : 22
7: systemctl and clamd............................................ : 17
8: How long until next version??.................................. : 9
9: Ping Faeychild Re: [OT] The impact of CoronaVirus.............. : 7 10: /dev/sde: open failed: No medium found......................... : 4 11: A bash battle.................................................. : 4 12: coronavirus COVID-19........................................... : 1 13: Statistics for March for alt.os.linux.mageia................... : 1 14: iPhone SUPER 80% discounts..................................... : 1 15: Check your mirror status [SOLUTION]............................ : 1 16: [SOLVED] Problem with viewing YouTube videos................... : 1

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Top 16 threads by size in KB ============================================================================
1: popup ads appearing on my system............................... : 150
2: Desk Manager dead.............................................. : 128
3: plasma shell [SOLVED].......................................... : 79
4: [OT] The impact of CoronaVirus................................. : 78
5: systemctl and clamd............................................ : 58
6: plasma shell................................................... : 36
7: Check your mirror status....................................... : 35
8: How long until next version??.................................. : 21
9: Statistics for March for alt.os.linux.mageia................... : 13 10: Ping Faeychild Re: [OT] The impact of CoronaVirus.............. : 12 11: A bash battle.................................................. : 8 12: /dev/sde: open failed: No medium found......................... : 7 13: Check your mirror status [SOLUTION]............................ : 4 14: [SOLVED] Problem with viewing YouTube videos................... : 2 15: iPhone SUPER 80% discounts..................................... : 0 16: coronavirus COVID-19........................................... : 0

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Top 1 cross-posted groups ============================================================================
1: alt.os.linux................................................... : 37

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Top 8 User Agents by poster ============================================================================
1: Mozilla........................................................ : 10
2: slrn........................................................... : 4
3: Unknown........................................................ : 3
4: Gnus........................................................... : 2
5: Pan............................................................ : 2
6: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).......... : 1
7: Opera Mail..................................................... : 1
8: GoldED+........................................................ : 1

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Top 8 User Agents by number of posts ============================================================================
1: Mozilla................................................... : 86 (37%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 83 (35%)
3: Opera Mail................................................ : 21 ( 9%)
4: Pan....................................................... : 19 ( 8%)
5: Claws Mail 3.17.5 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)..... : 10 ( 4%)
6: GoldED+................................................... : 9 ( 4%)
7: unknown................................................... : 3 ( 1%)
8: Gnus...................................................... : 3 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones ============================================================================
1: UTC............................................................ : 59
2: -0500.......................................................... : 46
3: +1000.......................................................... : 43
4: -0400.......................................................... : 34
5: +0200.......................................................... : 22
6: +1100.......................................................... : 13
7: +0100.......................................................... : 11
8: -0700.......................................................... : 6

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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mageia by Robert Marshall ============================================================================
(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 162 over 30 days
Earliest article: Thu Apr 1 00:20:03 2021
Latest article: Wed Apr 28 23:00:02 2021
Original articles: 15, replies: 147
Total size of posts: 355,619 bytes (347K) (0.34M)
Average 5 articles per day, 0.01 MB per day, 2,195 bytes per article
Total headers: 156 KB bodies: 191 KB
Body text - quoted: 83 KB, original: 91 KB = 52.20%, sigs: 15 KB
Total number of posters: 25, average 14,224 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 20, average 17,780 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 9

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Top 20 posters by number of articles ============================================================================
1: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 43
2: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 21
3: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 18
4: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 13
5: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 10
6: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 7
7: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 6
8: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 6
9: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 6 10: Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>............................. : 4 11: pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>................................ : 4 12: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>................................... : 4 13: Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 3 14: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 3 15: Abandoned_Trolley <someone@microsoft.com>...................... : 2 16: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com>....................... : 2 17: Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local>.......... : 2 18: Wes Newell <wesnewell46@gmail.com>............................. : 1 19: grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 1 20: Herman Viaene <herman@invalid.invalid>......................... : 1

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes ============================================================================
1: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 75
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 42
3: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 40
4: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 27
5: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 19
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 18
7: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 16
8: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>................................... : 14
9: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 12 10: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 11 11: alt.os.linux.mageia Stats <usenet@capuchin.co.uk>.............. : 10 12: pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>................................ : 9 13: Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com>............................. : 7 14: Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 7 15: Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local>.......... : 6 16: Abandoned_Trolley <someone@microsoft.com>...................... : 5 17: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 4 18: "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com>....................... : 4 19: grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 2 20: Henry Crun <mike@rechtman.com>................................. : 1

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Top 8 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================
1: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 67.34%
2: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 61.90%
3: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 55.77%
4: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 47.85%
5: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 46.20%
6: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 43.74%
7: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 38.66%
8: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 33.41%

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Bottom 8 responders by original text (> 5 posts) ============================================================================
1: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 24.85%
2: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 33.41%
3: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 38.66%
4: Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net>.............................. : 43.74%
5: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 46.20%
6: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 47.85%
7: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 55.77%
8: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 61.90%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles ============================================================================
1: Wi-Fi bandwidth................................................ : 28
2: boot failure after update...................................... : 26
3: Will Mageia 8 upgrade an MBR Mageia 7 system................... : 24
4: back to brother and mGA8....................................... : 19
5: MGA8 Dolphin location bar...................................... : 11
6: UEFI Secure boot............................................... : 10
7: installing Brother printer..................................... : 9
8: GRUB2 menu list................................................ : 6
9: icon spacing in MGA 8.......................................... : 5 10: app menu difference across platforms........................... : 5 11: Will Mageia 8 upgrade an MBR Mageia 7 system -- UGRADED........ : 4 12: Mageia switching to Debian format.............................. : 4 13: [SOLVED]Re: Root password for MySQL............................ : 3 14: Root password for MySQL........................................ : 2 15: Statistics for March for alt.os.linux.mageia................... : 1 16: FYI: Yet another zoom rpm release.............................. : 1 17: FYI: New zoom released......................................... : 1 18: How trolls do post tT Wi-Fi bandwidth.......................... : 1 19: [SOLVED] Re: Intermittent USB socket connections............... : 1 20: fullmarks for root access from user............................ : 1

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Top 20 threads by size in KB ============================================================================
1: Wi-Fi bandwidth................................................ : 66
2: Will Mageia 8 upgrade an MBR Mageia 7 system................... : 65
3: boot failure after update...................................... : 51
4: back to brother and mGA8....................................... : 35
5: installing Brother printer..................................... : 18
6: MGA8 Dolphin location bar...................................... : 18
7: GRUB2 menu list................................................ : 16
8: UEFI Secure boot............................................... : 15
9: Statistics for March for alt.os.linux.mageia................... : 10 10: Will Mageia 8 upgrade an MBR Mageia 7 system -- UGRADED........ : 8 11: app menu difference across platforms........................... : 7 12: icon spacing in MGA 8.......................................... : 7 13: Mageia switching to Debian format.............................. : 6 14: [SOLVED]Re: Root password for MySQL............................ : 5 15: How trolls do post tT Wi-Fi bandwidth.......................... : 3 16: Root password for MySQL........................................ : 3 17: [SOLVED] Re: Intermittent USB socket connections............... : 2 18: fullmarks for root access from user............................ : 1 19: FYI: Yet another zoom rpm release.............................. : 1 20: FYI: New zoom released......................................... : 0

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Top 2 cross-posted groups ============================================================================
1: alt.os.linux.ubuntu............................................ : 27
2: alt.os.linux.mint.............................................. : 27

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Top 9 User Agents by poster ============================================================================
1: Mozilla........................................................ : 14
2: slrn........................................................... : 3
3: Pan............................................................ : 2
4: Sylpheed....................................................... : 1
5: Unknown........................................................ : 1
6: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu).......... : 1
7: Gnus........................................................... : 1
8: Opera Mail..................................................... : 1
9: Ratcatcher..................................................... : 1

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Top 9 User Agents by number of posts ============================================================================
1: Mozilla................................................... : 89 (55%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 29 (18%)
3: Opera Mail................................................ : 18 (11%)
4: Pan....................................................... : 7 ( 4%)
5: Claws Mail 3.17.8 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)..... : 6 ( 4%)
6: Gnus...................................................... : 4 ( 2%)
7: Ratcatcher................................................ : 4 ( 2%)
8: Sylpheed.................................................. : 4 ( 2%)
9: unknown................................................... : 1 ( 1%)

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Top 10 time zones ============================================================================
1: +1000.......................................................... : 54
2: -0400.......................................................... : 41
3: -0500.......................................................... : 22
4: UTC............................................................ : 15
5: +0100.......................................................... : 12
6: -0700.......................................................... : 8
7: +0200.......................................................... : 7
8: +1100.......................................................... : 2
9: +0300.......................................................... : 1

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