Posting Statistics for talk for August-2005 01/08/2005 - 31/08/2005

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

There were 211 distinct threads
Numbers of threads of each length with links to Thread titles
There were 78 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	31	10-19	48
2	19	20-29	18
3	29	30-39	6
4	13	40-49	3
5	11	50-59	0
6	14	60-69	1
7	3	70-79	2
8	8	80-89	1
9	4	90-99	0
		100+	0

Posters sorted … by posts made

Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines /post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
305	5,928	421,775	19.4	14.12%	Pingu	1	14.12%
237	3,642	418,213	15.4	10.97%	Ponder	2	25.09%
185	2,283	271,450	12.3	8.56%	Hyphen	3	33.66%
182	4,412	307,689	24.2	8.43%	kat	4	42.08%
161	2,725	238,541	16.9	7.45%	Beaker	5	49.54%
132	3,733	255,417	28.3	6.11%	GbH	6	55.65%
128	2,992	231,840	23.4	5.93%	Coats	7	61.57%
109	2,044	172,632	18.8	5.05%	Goose	8	66.62%
92	2,250	170,071	24.5	4.26%	Lethe	9	70.88%
61	1,254	96,088	20.6	2.82%	Caz	10	73.70%
56	1,070	108,959	19.1	2.59%	Rix	11	76.30%
53	955	89,754	18.0	2.45%	Justin	12	78.75%
45	863	62,789	19.2	2.08%	sc®umble	13	80.83%
44	731	62,647	16.6	2.04%	Mrs Ponder	14	82.87%
28	387	41,049	13.8	1.30%	Shell	15	84.17%
28	507	42,411	18.1	1.30%	Rabbit	15	85.46%
27	563	49,038	20.9	1.25%	Pandamonium	17	86.71%
25	435	34,542	17.4	1.16%	Blueprint	18	87.87%
22	514	36,516	23.4	1.02%	ziL	19	88.89%
21	547	40,571	26.0	0.97%	Chris Lamb	20	89.86%
18	338	24,750	18.8	0.83%	Liddle Feesh	21	90.69%
15	306	24,908	20.4	0.69%	Poppy	22	91.39%
14	259	22,662	18.5	0.65%	Ali	23	92.04%
12	390	22,504	32.5	0.56%	Ferret	24	92.59%
12	185	16,050	15.4	0.56%	Gareth Slee	24	93.15%
11	235	18,772	21.4	0.51%	BaBeL FiSh	26	93.66%
10	86	12,861	8.6	0.46%	Nig	27	94.12%
10	254	17,961	25.4	0.46%	Bomber	27	94.58%
9	155	14,657	17.2	0.42%	Tickettyßºº	29	95.00%
8	158	15,505	19.8	0.37%	John the R-T	30	95.37%
7	139	11,799	19.9	0.32%	Harvey Van Sickle	31	95.69%
7	130	10,263	18.6	0.32%	Gander	31	96.02%
7	81	8,556	11.6	0.32%	Paddyjoe	31	96.34%
6	181	11,591	30.2	0.28%	Ats	34	96.62%
6	167	11,168	27.8	0.28%	Darth Darko	34	96.90%
5	94	7,756	18.8	0.23%	Cookie Monster	36	97.13%
4	47	4,627	11.8	0.19%	Stephen Patterson	37	97.31%
4	69	5,136	17.3	0.19%	Rincewind	37	97.50%
3	91	5,622	30.3	0.14%	Graeme	39	97.64%
3	170	6,090	56.7	0.14%	Zack Macracken	39	97.78%
2	83	6,014	41.5	0.09%	(oTTo)	41	97.87%
2	38	2,643	19.0	0.09%	Marlman	41	97.96%
2	30	2,811	15.0	0.09%	Brian Wakem	41	98.06%
2	62	4,043	31.0	0.09%	Pingu	41	98.15%
2	44	2,894	22.0	0.09%	Meggie	41	98.24%
2	34	3,175	17.0	0.09%	Mother Farquhar	41	98.33%
2	34	3,158	17.0	0.09%	Morgan	41	98.43%
2	46	4,298	23.0	0.09%	Gingangooli	41	98.52%
2	68	3,467	34.0	0.09%	marts	41	98.61%
2	21	2,686	10.5	0.09%	Dr Compynei	41	98.70%
1	11	908	11.0	0.05%	Sean Rima	51	98.75%
1	39	2,259	39.0	0.05%	Anna Daptor	51	98.80%
1	21	1,690	21.0	0.05%	Skipai Otter	51	98.84%
1	28	1,977	28.0	0.05%	Chris H	51	98.89%
1	18	1,382	18.0	0.05%	Paul Rooney	51	98.94%
1	11	1,281	11.0	0.05%	Colin Jones	51	98.98%
1	26	2,035	26.0	0.05%	Buzzbomb	51	99.03%
1	11	1,457	11.0	0.05%	Bioboffin	51	99.07%
1	8	1,840	8.0	0.05%	Joe Parsons	51	99.12%
1	15	1,657	15.0	0.05%	Tom Randy	51	99.17%
1	26	2,013	26.0	0.05%	Mark	51	99.21%
1	4	882	4.0	0.05%	Moggy	51	99.26%
1	19	1,554	19.0	0.05%	Chet	51	99.31%
1	83	3,129	83.0	0.05%	Nick	51	99.35%
1	13	1,478	13.0	0.05%	Mike Causer	51	99.40%
1	23	1,623	23.0	0.05%	Chris Dugan	51	99.44%
1	12	2,141	12.0	0.05%	Hywel Jenkins	51	99.49%
1	13	1,196	13.0	0.05%	Matt Holland	51	99.54%
1	21	2,130	21.0	0.05%	Mike Williams	51	99.58%
1	38	1,819	38.0	0.05%	Wallace	51	99.63%
1	5	1,009	5.0	0.05%	**dad	51	99.68%
1	12	1,506	12.0	0.05%	Joe Cole	51	99.72%
1	38	2,493	38.0	0.05%	patrickp	51	99.77%
1	18	1,568	18.0	0.05%	gonzo	51	99.81%
1	21	1,630	21.0	0.05%	Paul R	51	99.86%
1	9	1,081	9.0	0.05%	SidKnee	51	99.91%
1	17	1,779	17.0	0.05%	Keith (Southend)	51	99.95%
1	26	1,696	26.0	0.05%	Jimbo	51	100.00%

… by threads started

Threads started	Author	Rank
34	Pingu	1
29	Ponder	2
12	Mrs Ponder	3
11	Hyphen	4
9	sc®umble	5
8	Coats	6
7	Blueprint	7
5	Pandamonium	8
5	Goose	8
5	Beaker	8
5	Poppy	8
5	Rix	8
4	BaBeL FiSh	13
4	Caz	13
4	Lethe	13
4	kat	13
4	Shell	13
4	Justin	13
3	Paddyjoe	19
3	Gareth Slee	19
2	(oTTo)	21
2	GbH	21
2	Zack Macracken	21
2	Rabbit	21
1	Rincewind	25
1	Ali	25
1	Stephen Patterson	25
1	Darth Darko	25
1	Ferret	25
1	Chet	25
1	Nick	25
1	Liddle Feesh	25
1	ziL	25
1	**dad	25
1	Dr Compynei	25
1	Bomber	25
1	Sean Rima	25
1	marts	25
1	Gingangooli	25
1	Cookie Monster	25
1	Pingu	25
1	Tickettyßºº	25
1	Graeme	25
1	SidKnee	25
1	Moggy	25
1	Mother Farquhar	25
1	Chris Lamb	25
1	Wallace	25
1	Marlman	25
0	Bioboffin	50
0	Meggie	50
0	Ats	50
0	Tom Randy	50
0	Nig	50
0	Mark	50
0	Brian Wakem	50
0	Mike Causer	50
0	Hywel Jenkins	50
0	Mike Williams	50
0	Buzzbomb	50
0	Matt Holland	50
0	Gander	50
0	Chris H	50
0	Chris Dugan	50
0	Joe Cole	50
0	Morgan	50
0	Paul Rooney	50
0	patrickp	50
0	John the R-T	50
0	Harvey Van Sickle	50
0	Anna Daptor	50
0	Skipai Otter	50
0	Colin Jones	50
0	gonzo	50
0	Paul R	50
0	Joe Parsons	50
0	Keith (Southend)	50
0	Jimbo	50

** 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	28
2	10
3	2
4	2
5	1
6	2
7	3
8	1
9	1
10+	28

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

lines/ post	Author	Rank
28.3	GbH	1
26.0	Chris Lamb	2
24.5	Lethe	3
24.2	kat	4
23.4	Coats	5
23.4	ziL	6
20.9	Pandamonium	7
20.6	Caz	8
20.4	Poppy	9
19.4	Pingu	10

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

There were 3 crosspost targets

12 posts to 24hoursupport.helpdesk ntl.discussion.broadband.cm
12 posts to alt.satellite.gps sci.astro.amateur sci.space.history sci.space.shuttle uk.rec.caravanning uk.rec.gps uk.sci.astronomy uk.sci.weather
1 posts to uk.misc

In total 78 authors made 2,160 posts containg 42,416 lines in 3,507,632 bytes to 211 threads

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