Posting Statistics for talk for April-2005 01/04/2005 - 30/04/2005

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

There were 288 distinct threads
Numbers of threads of each length with links to Thread titles
There were 80 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	41	10-19	48
2	31	20-29	20
3	22	30-39	13
4	23	40-49	8
5	16	50-59	2
6	21	60-69	0
7	17	70-79	1
8	7	80-89	1
9	13	90-99	0
		100+	4

Posters sorted … by posts made

Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines /post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
342	5,340	631,108	15.6	9.67%	Ponder	1	9.67%
336	7,324	631,005	21.8	9.50%	ziL	2	19.17%
327	8,597	597,231	26.3	9.25%	kat	3	28.41%
305	9,221	610,070	30.2	8.62%	(oTTo)	4	37.04%
274	4,362	488,392	15.9	7.75%	Justin	5	44.78%
214	5,414	431,253	25.3	6.05%	Coats	6	50.83%
202	2,524	298,076	12.5	5.71%	Hyphen	7	56.55%
184	3,798	278,354	20.6	5.20%	Pingu	8	61.75%
156	4,614	321,076	29.6	4.41%	GbH	9	66.16%
130	2,554	234,260	19.6	3.68%	Lethe	10	69.83%
126	2,205	188,081	17.5	3.56%	Beaker	11	73.40%
124	3,140	281,028	25.3	3.51%	Rix	12	76.90%
113	2,439	207,096	21.6	3.19%	Caz	13	80.10%
87	1,051	127,203	12.1	2.46%	Nig	14	82.56%
73	1,866	126,521	25.6	2.06%	sc®umble	15	84.62%
69	1,797	132,608	26.0	1.95%	BaBeL FiSh	16	86.57%
48	938	73,427	19.5	1.36%	Mrs Ponder	17	87.93%
40	649	64,560	16.2	1.13%	Goose	18	89.06%
40	1,086	64,638	27.1	1.13%	Blueprint	18	90.19%
29	383	44,171	13.2	0.82%	Fishter	20	91.01%
28	671	49,351	24.0	0.79%	ats@home	21	91.80%
26	627	41,024	24.1	0.74%	Gareth Slee	22	92.54%
26	517	48,232	19.9	0.74%	Pandamonium	22	93.27%
25	429	37,981	17.2	0.71%	Rabbit	24	93.98%
21	371	27,993	17.7	0.59%	Scribbler	25	94.57%
20	364	33,687	18.2	0.57%	Shell	26	95.14%
18	499	30,146	27.7	0.51%	Rincewind	27	95.65%
14	229	24,079	16.4	0.40%	Ali	28	96.04%
13	244	20,898	18.8	0.37%	Chris Lamb	29	96.41%
11	133	13,969	12.1	0.31%	BWGames	30	96.72%
8	111	10,616	13.9	0.23%	paddyjoe	31	96.95%
7	173	9,225	24.7	0.20%	Bram	32	97.14%
6	160	10,380	26.7	0.17%	Sean Rima	33	97.31%
6	109	9,987	18.2	0.17%	Chris Dugan	33	97.48%
6	86	9,936	14.3	0.17%	Andrea	33	97.65%
6	170	12,665	28.3	0.17%	ats@jbex	33	97.82%
5	84	7,175	16.8	0.14%	ropepuddle	37	97.96%
4	57	4,561	14.3	0.11%	marts	38	98.08%
4	65	4,758	16.3	0.11%	Zack Macracken	38	98.19%
4	145	9,174	36.3	0.11%	Harvey Van Sickle	38	98.30%
4	91	7,082	22.8	0.11%	Gingangooli	38	98.42%
4	46	5,161	11.5	0.11%	Matt Holland	38	98.53%
3	19	3,079	6.3	0.08%	Wonunglo	43	98.61%
3	104	7,450	34.7	0.08%	Hyracotherium	43	98.70%
3	39	3,392	13.0	0.08%	Pig-in-muck	43	98.78%
2	29	2,691	14.5	0.06%	Paul Helpfull	46	98.84%
2	28	2,828	14.0	0.06%	moggy	46	98.90%
2	44	3,232	22.0	0.06%	Gander	46	98.95%
2	18	2,805	9.0	0.06%	scannednewsreply@ntlworld com	46	99.01%
2	53	3,050	26.5	0.06%	Gaz	46	99.07%
2	37	3,462	18.5	0.06%	Buzzbomb	46	99.12%
2	33	2,746	16.5	0.06%	:: Dazza ::	46	99.18%
2	33	2,240	16.5	0.06%	Zoo	46	99.24%
1	15	1,289	15.0	0.03%	Dave L	54	99.26%
1	6	1,013	6.0	0.03%	Kinell	54	99.29%
1	11	1,253	11.0	0.03%	Killer Bite	54	99.32%
1	11	1,521	11.0	0.03%	Robert Moir	54	99.35%
1	11	1,053	11.0	0.03%	Max	54	99.38%
1	20	1,554	20.0	0.03%	Ch Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt	54	99.41%
1	26	2,175	26.0	0.03%	Mrs Rix	54	99.43%
1	14	1,215	14.0	0.03%	Justin Time	54	99.46%
1	14	1,611	14.0	0.03%	John Fryatt	54	99.49%
1	21	2,038	21.0	0.03%	gacrux	54	99.52%
1	16	1,520	16.0	0.03%	Huw Roberts	54	99.55%
1	20	1,734	20.0	0.03%	Memnoch	54	99.58%
1	15	1,271	15.0	0.03%	Odd Job John	54	99.60%
1	12	1,405	12.0	0.03%	PJ	54	99.63%
1	36	2,220	36.0	0.03%	Chet	54	99.66%
1	27	1,582	27.0	0.03%	Ziff	54	99.69%
1	10	1,069	10.0	0.03%	Antony	54	99.72%
1	14	1,068	14.0	0.03%	Reverend John The Baptist	54	99.75%
1	19	1,621	19.0	0.03%	Adrian	54	99.77%
1	18	1,764	18.0	0.03%	Sarah Connor	54	99.80%
1	15	1,165	15.0	0.03%	Sarah G	54	99.83%
1	32	1,945	32.0	0.03%	Mick McCarron	54	99.86%
1	16	1,447	16.0	0.03%	Dr Compynei	54	99.89%
1	11	1,275	11.0	0.03%	Morgan Pugh	54	99.92%
1	17	1,341	17.0	0.03%	Poppy	54	99.94%
1	12	1,163	12.0	0.03%	Jam R	54	99.97%
1	53	3,081	53.0	0.03%	MiniMe	54	100.00%

… by threads started

Threads started	Author	Rank
27	Justin	1
26	Ponder	2
13	Pingu	3
12	ziL	4
12	sc®umble	4
11	Blueprint	6
11	Mrs Ponder	6
11	Hyphen	6
10	Pandamonium	9
9	BaBeL FiSh	10
8	Rix	11
7	(oTTo)	12
6	Nig	13
5	Gareth Slee	14
5	GbH	14
5	Rincewind	14
4	Caz	17
4	Coats	17
3	marts	19
3	Zack Macracken	19
3	paddyjoe	19
2	Wonunglo	22
2	kat	22
2	Hyracotherium	22
2	Beaker	22
2	Scribbler	22
2	Matt Holland	22
2	Fishter	22
1	Pig-in-muck	29
1	Andrea	29
1	Sarah G	29
1	Odd Job John	29
1	Sean Rima	29
1	gacrux	29
1	Gingangooli	29
1	Max	29
1	BWGames	29
1	Paul Helpfull	29
1	Gander	29
1	ropepuddle	29
1	Poppy	29
1	Goose	29
1	ats@home	29
1	Chris Lamb	29
1	Ch Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt	29
1	Shell	29
1	Ali	29
1	Ziff	29
1	Zoo	29
1	Bram	29
1	Jam R	29
0	Gaz	52
0	scannednewsreply@ntlworld com	52
0	Dave L	52
0	Mrs Rix	52
0	John Fryatt	52
0	Rabbit	52
0	Reverend John The Baptist	52
0	Robert Moir	52
0	Lethe	52
0	Mick McCarron	52
0	moggy	52
0	Justin Time	52
0	Memnoch	52
0	Buzzbomb	52
0	Adrian	52
0	PJ	52
0	Chet	52
0	Sarah Connor	52
0	Antony	52
0	:: Dazza ::	52
0	Morgan Pugh	52
0	Huw Roberts	52
0	Kinell	52
0	Harvey Van Sickle	52
0	Dr Compynei	52
0	Chris Dugan	52
0	Killer Bite	52
0	ats@jbex	52
0	MiniMe	52
0	1 thread each	52

** 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	27
2	8
3	3
4	5
5	1
6	4
7	1
8	1
10+	30

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

lines/ post	Author	Rank
30.2	(oTTo)	1
29.6	GbH	2
27.7	Rincewind	3
27.1	Blueprint	4
26.3	kat	5
26.0	BaBeL FiSh	6
25.6	sc®umble	7
25.3	Rix	8
25.3	Coats	9
24.1	Gareth Slee	10

High lines/post may be because the posters have something to say, or because they don't snip

There were 3 crosspost targets

9 posts to ntl.discussion.security
5 posts to ntl.discussion.broadband.cm ntl.discussion.home-networking ntl.discussion.security
4 posts to ntl.discussion.home-networking