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Analysis of posts to alt.html
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)
Total posts considered: 761 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Apr 18 22:01:02 2004
Latest article: Sun Apr 25 21:01:03 2004
Original articles: 81, replies: 680
Total size of posts: 1,638,672 bytes (1,600K) (1.56M)
Average 108 articles per day, 0.22 MB per day, 2,153 bytes per article
Total headers: 714 KB bodies: 886 KB
Body text - quoted: 536 KB, original: 301 KB = 36.00%, sigs: 44 KB
Total number of posters: 206, average 7,954 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 133, average 12,320 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34
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Top 10 posters by number of articles
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1: brucie <****@bruciesusenetshit.info>..................... ...... : 66
2: Mark Parnell <>.............. .. : 41
3: Whitecrest <>................ .. : 38
4: Toby A Inkster <>............. : 26
5: Big Bill <>........................... .... : 24
6: Hywel <>........................ ....... : 24
7: Steve Pugh <>.................................. .. : 23
8: Charles Banas <>................................... . : 18
9: Brian <>............... ....... : 14
10: "Karl Groves" <>....................... . : 13
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Top 10 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: brucie <****@bruciesusenetshit.info>..................... ...... : 103
2: Mark Parnell <>.............. .. : 66
3: Whitecrest <>................ .. : 56
4: Big Bill <>........................... .... : 52
5: Steve Pugh <>.................................. .. : 51
6: Toby A Inkster <>............. : 37
7: Hywel <>........................ ....... : 36
8: Charles Banas <>................................... . : 35
9: Brian <>............... ....... : 29
10: "Kevin" <>...................... ..... : 25
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Top 10 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: The Doormouse <>............................. . : 85.02%
2: mscir <>................ ....... : 83.29%
3: "Barry Pearson" <>.............. : 75.24%
4: Chris Beall <>......................... . : 71.04%
5: spaghetti <>............................ ... : 70.89%
6: Neal <>............................. ........ : 68.72%
7: Mark Parnell <>.............. .. : 68.24%
8: "Joshua Beall" <>........ : 67.16%
9: "Alan J. Flavell" <>....................... : 65.81%
10: "Woolly Mittens" <>....................... : 64.71%
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Bottom 10 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: "Nik Coughin" <nrkn!no-spam!@woosh.co.nz>...................... : 19.24%
2: "Dennis M. Hammes" <>...................... : 20.15%
3: Hywel <>........................ ....... : 25.34%
4: "Dr. Flonkenstein" <gregoriy_raspoutine_NOSPAM_@hotmail.com>... : 28.81%
5: Big Bill <>........................... .... : 29.83%
6: Duende <>............................... ...... : 32.44%
7: Stan McCann <>............................... . : 35.62%
8: "SpaceGirl" <>.................... . : 40.45%
9: "mark | r" <>............................. .. : 41.55%
10: "Mitja" <>................................... ..... : 43.10%
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Top 10 threads by no. of articles
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1: Does anyone pay attention to standards?........................ : 73
2: font-sized divs and hidden images.............................. : 51
3: very very sad: most browsers are broken

..................... : 37
4: Target options........................................... ...... : 32
5: Bristol, UK, Harbourside website, Comments please ?............ : 27
6: How to teach coworkers DIV & CSS?.............................. : 26
7: Um, bad form?............................................. ..... : 21
8: Centering a table............................................. . : 17
9: Ctrl usage............................................. ........ : 15
10: Top 10 things I hate about XHTML............................... : 14
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Top 10 threads by size in KB
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1: Does anyone pay attention to standards?........................ : 133
2: very very sad: most browsers are broken

..................... : 95
3: font-sized divs and hidden images.............................. : 87
4: Target options........................................... ...... : 56
5: Bristol, UK, Harbourside website, Comments please ?............ : 54
6: How to teach coworkers DIV & CSS?.............................. : 48
7: Um, bad form?............................................. ..... : 38
8: Centering a table............................................. . : 32
9: What's the point of this "input" return tag? (please)?......... : 30
10: Top 10 things I hate about XHTML............................... : 29
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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.infosystems.
www.authoring.html............................ : 104
2: comp.sys.mac.apps................................. ............. : 35
3: uk.net.web.authoring.............................. ............. : 28
4: alt.html.critique................................. ............. : 28
5: alt.
www.webmaster.............................................. : 28
6: rec.arts.poems.................................... ............. : 25
7: alt.config........................................ ............. : 22
8: it.test........................................... ............. : 15
9: atl.test.......................................... ............. : 15
10: oh.news........................................... ............. : 15
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Outlook Express........................................... ..... : 74
2: Unknown........................................... ............. : 32
3: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 26
4: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 12
5: Xnews............................................. ............. : 11
6: MT-NewsWatcher....................................... .......... : 7
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 6
8: MicroPlanet Gravity........................................... . : 6
9:
www.Forum4designers.com gateway................................ : 4
10: 40tude_Dialog..................................... ............. : 3
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 186 (24%)
2: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 92 (12%)
3: MicroPlanet Gravity....................................... : 75 (10%)
4: Brucies Direct Neural Uplink Thingy. 4.3.1................ : 66 ( 9%)
5: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 65 ( 9%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 53 ( 7%)
7: 40tude_Dialog..................................... ........ : 48 ( 6%)
8: Xnews............................................. ........ : 33 ( 4%)
9: unknown........................................... ........ : 25 ( 3%)
10:
http://groups.google.com.................................. : 25 ( 3%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: +0100............................................. ............. : 191
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 175
3: -0400.............................................. ............ : 122
4: +1000............................................. ............. : 112
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 54
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 41
7: -0600.............................................. ............ : 27
8: -0500.............................................. ............ : 22
9: +1200............................................. ............. : 12
10: +0300............................................. ............. : 3
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