Posting Statistics for talk for March-2005 01/03/2005 - 31/03/2005

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

There were 360 distinct threads
Numbers of threads of each length with links to Thread titles
There were 93 poster names (actually more, because some aliases of the same author have been combined)
Numbers of infrequent posters, most and least verbose posters

Number of threads in each length range.

Length	Number	Length	Number
1	72	10-19	63
2	21	20-29	38
3	32	30-39	9
4	17	40-49	7
5	26	50-59	2
6	17	60-69	4
7	17	70-79	1
8	15	80-89	2
9	13	90-99	2
		100+	2

Posters sorted … by posts made

Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines /post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
606	16,265	1,102,236	26.8	13.83%	(oTTo)	1	13.83%
504	7,846	913,784	15.6	11.50%	Ponder	2	25.33%
367	7,640	627,945	20.8	8.37%	ziL	3	33.70%
346	4,540	522,271	13.1	7.89%	Hyphen	4	41.59%
302	5,796	415,146	19.2	6.89%	Pingu	5	48.48%
236	6,882	458,683	29.2	5.38%	GbH	6	53.87%
231	6,409	411,457	27.7	5.27%	kat	7	59.14%
207	4,447	430,939	21.5	4.72%	Rix	8	63.86%
189	3,557	317,828	18.8	4.31%	Lethe	9	68.17%
166	3,010	271,010	18.1	3.79%	Beaker	10	71.96%
135	3,357	245,469	24.9	3.08%	Coats	11	75.04%
116	1,396	166,084	12.0	2.65%	Nig	12	77.69%
84	1,326	128,256	15.8	1.92%	Shell	13	79.60%
82	1,015	120,559	12.4	1.87%	BWGames	14	81.47%
77	1,928	129,498	25.0	1.76%	Caz	15	83.23%
72	1,975	130,359	27.4	1.64%	sc®umble	16	84.87%
68	1,120	100,779	16.5	1.55%	Goose	17	86.42%
58	1,479	91,439	25.5	1.32%	Blueprint	18	87.75%
50	1,122	82,654	22.4	1.14%	BaBeL FiSh	19	88.89%
50	988	75,466	19.8	1.14%	Mrs Ponder	19	90.03%
37	771	66,951	20.8	0.84%	Justin	21	90.87%
36	598	52,262	16.6	0.82%	Rabbit	22	91.70%
30	772	55,611	25.7	0.68%	ats@home	23	92.38%
29	514	53,911	17.7	0.66%	Fishter	24	93.04%
26	550	49,568	21.2	0.59%	Party people	25	93.63%
23	465	38,713	20.2	0.52%	justin	26	94.16%
23	286	34,480	12.4	0.52%	Lester	26	94.68%
21	409	36,306	19.5	0.48%	Ali	28	95.16%
17	403	34,091	23.7	0.39%	Pandamonium	29	95.55%
15	309	25,968	20.6	0.34%	Chris Lamb	30	95.89%
14	346	25,332	24.7	0.32%	Harvey Van Sickle	31	96.21%
11	145	14,573	13.2	0.25%	Matt Holland	32	96.46%
10	212	17,218	21.2	0.23%	ropepuddle	33	96.69%
10	146	12,010	14.6	0.23%	Gareth Slee	33	96.92%
8	184	11,668	23.0	0.18%	Rincewind	35	97.10%
7	168	11,254	24.0	0.16%	John	36	97.26%
7	107	9,000	15.3	0.16%	paddyjoe	36	97.42%
6	122	9,360	20.3	0.14%	hp5150	38	97.56%
6	154	9,491	25.7	0.14%	Zack Macracken	38	97.70%
6	73	7,505	12.2	0.14%	Morgan Pugh	38	97.83%
5	95	7,678	19.0	0.11%	Gingangooli	41	97.95%
5	79	7,650	15.8	0.11%	Gander	41	98.06%
5	117	9,455	23.4	0.11%	ats@jbex	41	98.17%
4	48	5,866	12.0	0.09%	Rob Nicholson	44	98.27%
4	79	6,056	19.8	0.09%	Chris Dugan	44	98.36%
4	337	10,288	84.3	0.09%	marts	44	98.45%
3	42	4,929	14.0	0.07%	John the R-T	47	98.52%
3	64	4,425	21.3	0.07%	Fred	47	98.59%
3	42	3,794	14.0	0.07%	Becks	47	98.65%
3	99	5,864	33.0	0.07%	News Reader	47	98.72%
3	23	3,898	7.7	0.07%	bwg	47	98.79%
2	29	3,002	14.5	0.05%	Tickettyßºº	52	98.84%
2	31	2,921	15.5	0.05%	Killer Bite	52	98.88%
2	12	1,944	6.0	0.05%	tHE gRIM rEAPER	52	98.93%
2	2	1,909	1.0	0.05%	Paul Helpfull	52	98.97%
2	8	2,171	4.0	0.05%	naa	52	99.02%
2	47	3,253	23.5	0.05%	Scribbler	52	99.06%
2	30	2,657	15.0	0.05%	I P Freely	52	99.11%
2	17	2,448	8.5	0.05%	neo1ite	52	99.16%
2	13	1,633	6.5	0.05%	Zoo	52	99.20%
2	53	3,164	26.5	0.05%	Chet	52	99.25%
2	44	3,200	22.0	0.05%	froggie	52	99.29%
1	9	1,035	9.0	0.02%	Pingu	63	99.32%
1	25	1,504	25.0	0.02%	BIG NIGE	63	99.34%
1	32	2,148	32.0	0.02%	Me	63	99.36%
1	10	1,192	10.0	0.02%	Paolo	63	99.38%
1	15	1,631	15.0	0.02%	Error2	63	99.41%
1	6	1,145	6.0	0.02%	Mawds	63	99.43%
1	15	1,400	15.0	0.02%	Chris H	63	99.45%
1	12	1,511	12.0	0.02%	James Gifford	63	99.48%
1	20	1,334	20.0	0.02%	Mark	63	99.50%
1	20	1,399	20.0	0.02%	Neo1ite	63	99.52%
1	36	2,420	36.0	0.02%	George Dodd	63	99.54%
1	20	1,638	20.0	0.02%	Emily	63	99.57%
1	25	1,610	25.0	0.02%	naJ	63	99.59%
1	11	1,549	11.0	0.02%	Semi Colon	63	99.61%
1	18	1,340	18.0	0.02%	Kev	63	99.63%
1	13	1,414	13.0	0.02%	David Garner	63	99.66%
1	17	1,412	17.0	0.02%	Mikk	63	99.68%
1	19	1,498	19.0	0.02%	Tiktok	63	99.70%
1	16	1,414	16.0	0.02%	Stephen Patterson	63	99.73%
1	11	1,409	11.0	0.02%	MrW	63	99.75%
1	10	732	10.0	0.02%	**XBOX_R_Cool	63	99.77%
1	8	1,172	8.0	0.02%	Hyracotherium	63	99.79%
1	3	952	3.0	0.02%	Antony	63	99.82%
1	44	3,229	44.0	0.02%	**soundweapon	63	99.84%
1	55	2,494	55.0	0.02%	Boing	63	99.86%
1	1	631	1.0	0.02%	bob@bob com	63	99.89%
1	11	1,481	11.0	0.02%	**khylew	63	99.91%
1	11	1,056	11.0	0.02%	Poppy	63	99.93%
1	26	1,733	26.0	0.02%	Dr Compynei	63	99.95%
1	16	1,703	16.0	0.02%	Grahame Cooper	63	99.98%
1	11	1,019	11.0	0.02%	Bram	63	100.00%

… by threads started

Threads started	Author	Rank
34	Ponder	1
27	Pingu	2
20	(oTTo)	3
19	Hyphen	4
16	ziL	5
15	Nig	6
14	Rix	7
11	Blueprint	8
11	Mrs Ponder	8
10	sc®umble	10
9	BaBeL FiSh	11
8	justin	12
7	GbH	13
6	Shell	14
6	Lethe	14
6	Coats	14
6	Caz	14
5	Goose	18
5	Zack Macracken	18
4	Pandamonium	20
4	Justin	20
3	BWGames	22
2	naa	23
2	froggie	23
2	marts	23
2	Gingangooli	23
2	Chris Lamb	23
2	Gareth Slee	23
2	hp5150	23
2	John	23
2	News Reader	23
2	Party people	23
1	**XBOX_R_Cool	33
1	paddyjoe	33
1	Zoo	33
1	Dr Compynei	33
1	Mark	33
1	Beaker	33
1	Becks	33
1	Matt Holland	33
1	tHE gRIM rEAPER	33
1	Pingu	33
1	**soundweapon	33
1	Tickettyßºº	33
1	Paul Helpfull	33
1	Gander	33
1	bob@bob com	33
1	Rob Nicholson	33
1	MrW	33
1	ats@home	33
1	Scribbler	33
1	Rincewind	33
1	neo1ite	33
1	Ali	33
0	Stephen Patterson	55
0	Fred	55
0	kat	55
0	Poppy	55
0	Chris Dugan	55
0	Killer Bite	55
0	BIG NIGE	55
0	ats@jbex	55
0	Mikk	55
0	Rabbit	55
0	Error2	55
0	Mawds	55
0	bwg	55
0	Chris H	55
0	Lester	55
0	Me	55
0	Paolo	55
0	James Gifford	55
0	Grahame Cooper	55
0	Morgan Pugh	55
0	I P Freely	55
0	Semi Colon	55
0	Kev	55
0	ropepuddle	55
0	John the R-T	55
0	**khylew	55
0	Fishter	55
0	Chet	55
0	George Dodd	55
0	Hyracotherium	55
0	Antony	55
0	naJ	55
0	Boing	55
0	Neo1ite	55
0	Emily	55
0	Harvey Van Sickle	55
0	Tiktok	55
0	David Garner	55
0	Bram	55
0	1 thread each	55

** Note Poster names starting with ** are taken from the From: address as no name was provided

Number of posters having few posts.

Posts	number of posters
1	31
2	11
3	5
4	3
5	3
6	3
7	2
8	1
10+	34

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

lines/ post	Author	Rank
12.0	Nig	1
12.4	BWGames	2
12.4	Lester	3
13.1	Hyphen	4
15.6	Ponder	5
15.8	Shell	6
16.5	Goose	7
16.6	Rabbit	8
17.7	Fishter	9
18.1	Beaker	10

There were 4 crosspost targets

5 posts to uk.net.providers.ntl
2 posts to ntl.discussion.dial-up
1 posts to ntl.discussion.broadband.adsl ntl.discussion.broadband.cm ntl.discussion.cable-tv.digital ntl.discussion.dial-up ntl.discussion.home-networking
1 posts to alt.fan.cecil-adams