Posting Statistics for ntl.talk for 22/03/2003 - 31/12/2004

These statistics are based on posts supplied to me by ntl's servers.
Some posts may have been missed.

There were 6917 distinct threads
Numbers of threads of each length with links to Thread titles
There were 438 poster names (actually more, because some aliases of the same author have been combined)
Christmas 2004 Aliases have not, in general, been specially treated, though some have been caught by existing rules.
Numbers of infrequent posters, most and least verbose posters

Number of threads in each length range.

The links are to tables of Threads By Length for the period March to date

Thread length	Number of threads	Thread length	Number of threads
1	919	10-19	1313
2	764	20-29	488
3	647	30-39	237
4	554	40-49	157
5	416	50-59	76
6	355	60-69	34
7	330	70-79	32
8	291	80-89	24
9	208	90-99	15
		100+	57

Posters sorted … by posts made

Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines /post	Percent posts	Author	Rank
10,467	271,148	19,230,589	25.9	12.37%	kat	1
9,780	163,147	19,308,729	16.7	11.56%	Ponder	2
9,216	165,359	16,309,366	17.9	10.89%	Daisy	3
3,794	67,171	5,508,702	17.7	4.48%	Pingu	4
3,718	83,517	8,322,142	22.5	4.39%	Rix	5
3,273	79,353	6,357,372	24.2	3.87%	Lethe	6
3,163	79,482	5,856,791	25.1	3.74%	Coats	7
3,120	98,979	6,840,025	31.7	3.69%	GbH	8
2,874	91,526	6,290,213	31.8	3.40%	(oTTo)	9
2,722	51,654	4,741,667	19.0	3.22%	Beaker	10
2,721	35,802	4,187,446	13.2	3.22%	Nig	11
2,390	53,328	4,549,580	22.3	2.82%	Liz ziL	12
1,847	40,700	3,644,285	22.0	2.18%	Pandamonium	13
1,591	24,506	2,896,644	15.4	1.88%	Fishter	14
1,438	40,811	2,601,057	28.4	1.70%	sc®umble	15
1,366	25,862	2,241,077	18.9	1.61%	Shell	16
1,324	20,499	1,911,500	15.5	1.56%	Mrs Ponder	17
1,270	39,040	2,555,697	30.7	1.50%	Ferret	18
1,082	22,739	1,878,584	21.0	1.28%	ziL	19
1,035	29,539	2,021,922	28.5	1.22%	Allen	20
831	17,611	1,408,200	21.2	0.98%	BWGames	21
728	15,547	1,264,781	21.4	0.86%	shell	22
725	17,363	1,263,348	23.9	0.86%	Rabbit	23
723	14,080	1,135,580	19.5	0.85%	:: Dazza ::	24
696	13,513	1,156,715	19.4	0.82%	Goose	25
661	13,529	1,252,220	20.5	0.78%	Ali	26
610	22,928	1,298,185	37.6	0.72%	Liddle Feesh	27
601	21,479	1,324,748	35.7	0.71%	Blueprint	28
601	12,329	998,532	20.5	0.71%	Jude	28
546	9,679	845,325	17.7	0.65%	Bomber	30
529	11,940	923,289	22.6	0.63%	Patrick	31
526	9,941	790,426	18.9	0.62%	Pingu	32
416	14,753	1,008,893	35.5	0.49%	Sean Rima	33
408	7,755	661,593	19.0	0.48%	Pam	34
404	7,207	616,890	17.8	0.48%	Babel Fish	35
381	8,221	615,601	21.6	0.45%	Pig-in-muck	36
248	6,633	446,407	26.7	0.29%	Caz	37
235	4,405	356,858	18.7	0.28%	Paddyjoe	38
229	4,079	330,789	17.8	0.27%	Khyle	39
229	5,107	398,320	22.3	0.27%	Poppy	39
228	3,904	342,276	17.1	0.27%	Daffy	41
227	5,605	402,116	24.7	0.27%	Gander	42
225	4,107	421,854	18.3	0.27%	Eddie Conboy	43
199	4,785	348,097	24.0	0.24%	Harvey Van Sickle	44
192	3,263	255,646	17.0	0.23%	Gareth Slee	45
189	5,037	350,509	26.7	0.22%	Polomint	46
164	4,650	301,185	28.4	0.19%	Flingel Bunt	47
153	3,502	267,836	22.9	0.18%	Mi-ziL-Toe	48
151	4,511	306,706	29.9	0.18%	Dubster	49
145	2,748	254,182	19.0	0.17%	Pluto nium	50
130	2,264	214,214	17.4	0.15%	Tinsel-ly Hyphen	51
127	2,467	173,896	19.4	0.15%	Panto Pingu	52
119	2,625	214,479	22.1	0.14%	JacobH	53
118	1,371	143,500	11.6	0.14%	Zack Macracken	54
116	2,776	213,475	23.9	0.14%	Skipai Da Otter	55
113	2,938	226,022	26.0	0.13%	Hyracotherium	56
111	2,090	205,666	18.8	0.13%	Corncrake	57
97	1,786	158,660	18.4	0.11%	Gabriel Lethe	58
96	2,132	151,257	22.2	0.11%	Matt Bull	59
93	1,438	126,318	15.5	0.11%	Plum Duff	60
93	1,235	134,132	13.3	0.11%	froggie	60
84	1,618	115,876	19.3	0.10%	Scribbler	62
81	1,877	129,727	23.2	0.10%	Caz Crimble	63
68	2,489	161,964	36.6	0.08%	Ats @ w**k	64
67	2,085	132,377	31.1	0.08%	JocobH	65
60	1,761	113,689	29.4	0.07%	Santas GR(oTTo)	66
59	1,097	89,780	18.6	0.07%	Sparkly Shell	67
55	1,062	82,005	19.3	0.06%	Da Porcine One	68
54	726	68,391	13.4	0.06%	paddyjoe	69
53	1,280	87,271	24.2	0.06%	· ¸¸ ·´¯` Matt ´¯`· ¸¸ ·	70
50	1,216	95,365	24.3	0.06%	Bram	71
50	1,291	86,222	25.8	0.06%	Jud	71
49	922	74,950	18.8	0.06%	Babel Fish <º)))><	73
48	952	70,163	19.8	0.06%	Gareth Sleighbells	74
45	970	81,695	21.6	0.05%	Mark Gillespie	75
44	755	69,699	17.2	0.05%	Hyphen	76
43	1,135	83,545	26.4	0.05%	Thumper	77
42	974	76,727	23.2	0.05%	Tickettyßºº	78
42	772	76,270	18.4	0.05%	John the R-T	78
40	966	60,524	24.1	0.05%	/\/\orpheus	80
40	635	61,760	15.9	0.05%	K	80
38	791	53,819	20.8	0.04%	piggy	82
36	1,181	62,868	32.8	0.04%	Polomint {uk}	83
34	683	53,066	20.1	0.04%	smee	84
32	582	45,715	18.2	0.04%	Morgan Pugh	85
32	816	57,950	25.5	0.04%	ats@home	85
29	1,018	64,529	35.1	0.03%	Ahtuin	87
29	767	56,365	26.4	0.03%	gothyangel	87
29	978	63,499	33.7	0.03%	David Garner	87
28	619	43,824	22.1	0.03%	Matt Holland	90
28	707	49,040	25.3	0.03%	gothy angel	90
25	570	42,972	22.8	0.03%	Dougal	92
23	537	39,414	23.3	0.03%	Th Rt Hon Charles Farquaharson Esq	93
22	554	39,296	25.2	0.03%	Guy Harrison	94
22	563	39,202	25.6	0.03%	encoderX	94
21	339	31,661	16.1	0.02%	BaBeL FiSh <')))><	96
21	574	42,637	27.3	0.02%	mrlipring	96
21	595	39,432	28.3	0.02%	ß Ø ® G	96
21	601	37,742	28.6	0.02%	Rincewind	96
20	451	32,762	22.6	0.02%	frank	100
20	393	33,153	19.6	0.02%	Johnny B'Good	100
20	471	33,445	23.6	0.02%	John Young	100
19	423	36,676	22.3	0.02%	Morg	103
19	572	43,493	30.1	0.02%	Tony	103
19	691	55,058	36.4	0.02%	JethroUK©	103
19	521	30,531	27.4	0.02%	Eric C	103
18	358	33,259	19.9	0.02%	Ali Baba	107
18	763	48,305	42.4	0.02%	**a	107
17	393	28,198	23.1	0.02%	Firky	109
17	555	34,797	32.6	0.02%	Chris Dugan	109
17	726	38,976	42.7	0.02%	Max	109
17	364	31,508	21.4	0.02%	Festive Rix	109
17	437	25,684	25.7	0.02%	Honest John	109
17	356	29,811	20.9	0.02%	Gabrielle Lethe	109
17	318	24,693	18.7	0.02%	Mark Tumilty	109
17	486	32,896	28.6	0.02%	©¿©¬	109
16	293	23,014	18.3	0.02%	april	117
15	438	28,838	29.2	0.02%	Bauble Fish <º)))><	118
15	347	24,865	23.1	0.02%	Ace	118
15	348	23,692	23.2	0.02%	Alan Walker	118
14	398	25,969	28.4	0.02%	fuzzy	121
14	232	20,529	16.6	0.02%	Frank Carr	121
14	206	16,897	14.7	0.02%	minky	121
14	242	21,428	17.3	0.02%	Bah Humbug	121
14	285	23,094	20.4	0.02%	©2003 Mark G	121
13	280	22,619	21.5	0.02%	Palm Tree Groover	126
13	290	21,313	22.3	0.02%	M3G4	126
13	291	24,035	22.4	0.02%	Gavin Gillespie	126
12	299	18,412	24.9	0.01%	MikeR	129
12	281	18,466	23.4	0.01%	Polomint (uk)	129
11	273	22,668	24.8	0.01%	Zapp Brannigan	131
11	237	21,089	21.5	0.01%	Calico Bess Kidd	131
11	349	22,002	31.7	0.01%	Ats@w**k	131
11	193	16,536	17.5	0.01%	After Eight Mint	131
11	167	15,322	15.2	0.01%	Steev	131
11	200	16,376	18.2	0.01%	BaBeL FiSh	131
10	191	17,775	19.1	0.01%	Colin Reddish	137
10	292	22,305	29.2	0.01%	Skipai Otter	137
10	233	16,962	23.3	0.01%	Felix	137
10	166	12,952	16.6	0.01%	Toby Jug	137
10	141	14,052	14.1	0.01%	Noodle Groover	137
10	156	12,694	15.6	0.01%	Ditoa	137
10	339	19,382	33.9	0.01%	Gingangooli	137
10	191	16,507	19.1	0.01%	Pendragon ©¿©¬	137
10	785	45,194	78.5	0.01%	Stephen	137
10	216	15,200	21.6	0.01%	Julie	137
45	957	71,289	21.3	0.05%	Only 9 posts	147
48	1,109	84,351	23.1	0.06%	Only 8 posts	152
77	1,621	121,185	21.1	0.09%	Only 7 posts	158
42	749	67,502	17.8	0.05%	Only 6 posts	169
85	2,102	148,318	24.7	0.10%	Only 5 posts	176
56	1,213	93,550	21.7	0.07%	Only 4 posts	193
75	1,908	128,683	25.4	0.09%	Only 3 posts	207
120	2,481	198,782	20.7	0.14%	Only 2 posts	232
147	3,226	255,891	21.9	0.17%	Only 1 post!	292

… by threads started

Threads started	Author	Rank
608	Ponder	1
572	Daisy	2
481	Mrs Ponder	3
332	sc®umble	4
329	Pandamonium	5
284	Pingu	6
260	Rix	7
200	Coats	8
177	:: Dazza ::	9
174	Nig	10
162	Shell	11
127	Blueprint	12
108	kat	13
101	Zack Macracken	14
99	shell	15
99	(oTTo)	15
97	Allen	17
92	Jude	18
92	Pingu	18
86	Liz ziL	20
85	GbH	21
84	BWGames	22
75	Gareth Slee	23
72	Babel Fish	24
61	Bomber	25
58	Poppy	26
55	Fishter	27
54	ziL	28
52	Beaker	29
40	Liddle Feesh	30
34	froggie	31
32	Skipai Da Otter	32
32	Lethe	32
32	Goose	32
32	Dubster	32
30	Ferret	36
30	Paddyjoe	36
29	Sean Rima	38
28	Polomint	39
28	Patrick	39
25	Pig-in-muck	41
24	/\/\orpheus	42
23	Eddie Conboy	43
20	Ali	44
18	Rabbit	45
16	Scribbler	46
16	Max	46
15	Babel Fish <º)))><	48
15	David Garner	48
14	Caz	50
13	Panto Pingu	51
13	· ¸¸ ·´¯` Matt ´¯`· ¸¸ ·	51
13	Jud	51
12	Gander	54
12	Pam	54
12	smee	54
12	Tinsel-ly Hyphen	54
12	Matt Bull	54
11	Khyle	59
11	Harvey Van Sickle	59
10	paddyjoe	61
10	Sparkly Shell	61
9	Morgan Pugh	63
9	piggy	63
9	Honest John	63
9	Gareth Sleighbells	63
8	Mark Gillespie	67
8	ß Ø ® G	67
8	Tickettyßºº	67
8	Thumper	67
7	Simon	71
7	Pluto nium	71
7	Palm Tree Groover	71
7	Da Porcine One	71
6	Mi-ziL-Toe	75
6	Caz Crimble	75
6	David	75
5	Noodle Groover	78
5	Hyphen	78
5	Matt Holland	78
5	Hyracotherium	78
5	== Gen-x ==	78
5	Morg	78
5	Festive Rix	78
4	caz	85
4	Darth Darko	85
4	John Young	85
4	Dougal	85
4	Daffy	85
4	Babel Fish <')))><	85
4	BaBeL FiSh <')))><	85
4	Eric C	85
4	Flingel Bunt	85
4	Rincewind	85
4	Bauble Fish <º)))><	85
3	BaBeL FiSh	96
3	Skipai Otter	96
3	Polomint {uk}	96
3	Th Rt Hon Charles Farquaharson Esq	96
3	Frank Carr	96
3	Ahtuin	96
3	Ats @ w**k	96
3	M3G4	96
3	©¿©¬	96
3	Ditoa	96
3	encoderX	96
3	april	96
3	Polomint (uk)	96
2	Andy Turner	109
2	Smee	109
2	=?iso-8859-15?Q?=A92003_Mark_G?=	109
2	briowl123	109
2	Santas GR(oTTo)	109
2	Indrid Cold	109
2	Danny Tuppeny	109
2	John Adey	109
2	After Eight Mint	109
2	Gingangooli	109
2	Zapp Brannigan	109
2	Gordy	109
2	minky	109
2	frank	109
2	Gabriel Lethe	109
2	©2003 Mark G	109
2	Kingsley Matthews	109
2	Gaz	109
2	oOOo	109
2	robert watson	109
2	Johnny B'Good	109
2	Julie	109
2	Ace	109
2	Khyle Westmoreland	109
2	gothyangel	109
2	ntl: AUP Team - Oliver	109
2	Toby Jug	109
2	JacobH	109
2	Frank	109
2	stumpy	109
2	Plum Duff	109
2	Gummo	109
2	MikeR	109
2	Polomint (yuk)	109
2	16Xe Agg Card	109
2	Wess Greenleaf	109
2	Jane Jones	109
2	Protean Guard	109
2	Stephen	109
2	Cataractonium	109
2	Bah Humbug	109
2	paulzz	109
120	1 thread each	109

** Note Poster names starting with ** are taken from the From: address as no name was provided
Only n posts are totals for all posters posting just n posts each.
Individual names are available in the monthly lists

Number of posters having few posts.

Posts	number of posters
1	147
2	60
3	25
4	14
5	17
6	7
7	11
8	6
9	5
10+	147

Bottom 10 posters (with 15 or more posts) by average lines per post

lines/ post	Author	Rank
11.6	Zack Macracken	1
13.2	Nig	2
13.3	froggie	3
13.4	paddyjoe	4
15.4	Fishter	5
15.5	Plum Duff	6
15.5	Mrs Ponder	7
15.9	K	8
16.1	BaBeL FiSh <')))><	9
16.7	Ponder	10

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