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Analysis of posts to alt.html
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight & Toby Inkster)


Total posts considered: 694 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Feb 13 21:01:10 2005
Latest article: Sun Feb 20 20:01:03 2005
Original articles: 76, replies: 618
Total size of posts: 1,249,723 bytes (1,220K) (1.19M)
Average 99 articles per day, 0.17 MB per day, 1,800 bytes per article
Total headers: 620 KB bodies: 599 KB
Body text - quoted: 255 KB, original: 280 KB = 52.30%, sigs: 61 KB
Total number of posters: 150, average 8,331 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 107, average 11,679 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 35


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Top 10 posters by number of articles
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1: Barbara de Zoete .............................................. : 50
2: rf .................................................. .......... : 38
3: Jan Faerber .................................................. . : 34
4: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 26
5: Richard .................................................. ..... : 24
6: Karl Core .................................................. ... : 19
7: Steve Pugh .................................................. .. : 17
8: David Dorward ................................................. : 17
9: Kate .................................................. ........ : 17
10: Nico Schuyt .................................................. . : 17


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Top 10 posters by size (KBytes)
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1: Barbara de Zoete .............................................. : 107
2: rf .................................................. .......... : 70
3: Jan Faerber .................................................. . : 49
4: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 42
5: Kate .................................................. ........ : 38
6: Karl Core .................................................. ... : 35
7: Richard .................................................. ..... : 33
8: Steve Pugh .................................................. .. : 30
9: Nico Schuyt .................................................. . : 30
10: Els .................................................. ......... : 29


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Top 10 posters by original text (KBytes)
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1: Barbara de Zoete .............................................. : 25
2: rf .................................................. .......... : 20
3: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 16
4: Jan Faerber .................................................. . : 10
5: Kate .................................................. ........ : 10
6: Jukka K. Korpela .............................................. : 10
7: Richard .................................................. ..... : 7
8: Steve Pugh .................................................. .. : 6
9: Henry .................................................. ....... : 6
10: Karl Core .................................................. ... : 6


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Highest percentage of original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Andy Dingley .................................................. : 79.81%
2: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 76.90%
3: Thorben Grosser ............................................... : 76.55%
4: Don G .................................................. ....... : 75.38%
5: Patrick .................................................. ..... : 75.36%
6: Jukka K. Korpela .............................................. : 74.35%
7: J44xm .................................................. ....... : 67.77%
8: rf .................................................. .......... : 67.61%
9: Mark Parnell .................................................. : 65.30%
10: Fred .................................................. ........ : 60.29%


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Lowest percentage original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Duende .................................................. ...... : 17.98%
2: the idiot .................................................. ... : 20.94%
3: jake .................................................. ........ : 28.59%
4: pixelmeow .................................................. ... : 29.01%
5: Big Bill .................................................. .... : 29.98%
6: Mike Terry .................................................. .. : 32.17%
7: Oli Filth .................................................. ... : 33.41%
8: RobM .................................................. ........ : 34.62%
9: Els .................................................. ......... : 35.19%
10: Blinky the Shark .............................................. : 35.74%


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Top 20 threads by number of articles
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1: Can this be done?............................................. . : 50
2: New Window = No No ???......................................... : 47
3: Opinions.......................................... ............. : 42
4: ALT.HTML Statistics for 13/02/2005............................. : 29
5: Print CSS............................................... ....... : 20
6: get the file name of a set index............................... : 19
7: Another question if someone doesn't mind answering this for me. : 17
8: Teenage Web Designers Needed For Big Project................... : 16
9: cell background color.......................................... : 15
10: Marquee and validation........................................ . : 15
11: The Damn <form> Line Return Issue.............................. : 14
12: Headers within <PRE> is not standards-compliant; alternatives?. : 13
13: frames question for xpert...................................... : 13
14: This Article From Evolt Is Fantastic!.......................... : 12
15: <input> missing onscreen....................................... : 11
16: strange link behaviour......................................... : 10
17: Can you detect when a browser slide bar is moved?.............. : 10
18: Assigning a class to <table>................................... : 10
19: Accessing <title> through JavaScript........................... : 10
20: How to Get Rid of Commas....................................... : 10


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Top 20 threads by size (KBytes)
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1: Can this be done?............................................. . : 104
2: New Window = No No ???......................................... : 83
3: ALT.HTML Statistics for 13/02/2005............................. : 70
4: Opinions.......................................... ............. : 63
5: Another question if someone doesn't mind answering this for me. : 45
6: Print CSS............................................... ....... : 38
7: get the file name of a set index............................... : 31
8: Teenage Web Designers Needed For Big Project................... : 31
9: <input> missing onscreen....................................... : 25
10: frames question for xpert...................................... : 25
11: cell background color.......................................... : 24
12: Headers within <PRE> is not standards-compliant; alternatives?. : 22
13: Marquee and validation........................................ . : 21
14: strange link behaviour......................................... : 21
15: The Damn <form> Line Return Issue.............................. : 20
16: Assigning a class to <table>................................... : 19
17: This Article From Evolt Is Fantastic!.......................... : 18
18: Select value doesn`t work...................................... : 16
19: How to Get Rid of Commas....................................... : 16
20: CSS positioning : relative, fixed, absolute and liquid layouts. : 16


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Top 8 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html............................ : 13
2: alt.html.editors.webedit.......................... ............. : 13
3: alt.html.webedit.................................. ............. : 12
4: alt.html.writers.................................. ............. : 11
5: comp.lang.javascript.............................. ............. : 10
6: comp.lang.php..................................... ............. : 7
7: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets..................... : 6
8: macromedia.dreamweaver............................ ............. : 1


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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Outlook Express........................................... ..... : 48
2: Mozilla Thunderbird....................................... ..... : 24
3: Forte [Free] Agent............................................. : 15
4: G2................................................ ............. : 14
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 7
6: KNode............................................. ............. : 6
7: Google Groups............................................ ...... : 6
8: Xnews............................................. ............. : 5
9: Pan............................................... ............. : 4
10: MicroPlanet Gravity........................................... . : 4


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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 229 (33%)
2: Forte [Free] Agent........................................ : 63 ( 9%)
3: KNode............................................. ........ : 59 ( 9%)
4: Mozilla Thunderbird....................................... : 56 ( 8%)
5: Opera M2................................................ .. : 53 ( 8%)
6: Xnews............................................. ........ : 51 ( 7%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 49 ( 7%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 32 ( 5%)
9: G2................................................ ........ : 30 ( 4%)
10: MicroPlanet Gravity....................................... : 12 ( 2%)


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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 339
2: +0100............................................. ............. : 114
3: -0500.............................................. ............ : 87
4: -0800.............................................. ............ : 54
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 47
6: +1100............................................. ............. : 18
7: -0700.............................................. ............ : 10
8: +1300............................................. ............. : 10
9: +0200............................................. ............. : 9
10: +0800............................................. ............. : 3



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