Posting Statistics for talk for the calendar year 2005

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

There were 2639 distinct threads
Numbers of threads of each length with links to Thread titles
There were 296 poster names (actually more, because some aliases of the same author have been combined)
Numbers of infrequent posters, most and least verbose posters

See the Graph of posts per hour

Number of threads in each length range.
Length	Number	Length	Number
1	356	10-19	523
2	253	20-29	203
3	240	30-39	74
4	198	40-49	51
5	181	50-59	29
6	147	60-69	20
7	125	70-79	12
8	108	80-89	9
9	92	90-99	4
		100+	14

Summary of Monthly Totals
Month	Posts	Lines	Bytes
January	1966	41027	3253862
February	2602	50951	4319362
March	4383	90689	7461544
April	3537	75612	6336606
May	2530	52730	4374132
June	2493	51331	4265952
July	3448	81728	6372218
August	2160	42416	3507632
September	1633	34227	2656597
October	2000	41926	3350474
November	2259	45845	3812051
December	1385	28926	2325999
Totals	30396	637408	52036429

Posters sorted … by posts made
Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines /post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
3,318	52,474	6,064,630	15.8	10.92%	Ponder	1	10.92%
2,534	50,167	3,592,187	19.8	8.34%	Pingu	2	19.25%
2,311	60,111	4,069,656	26.0	7.60%	kat	3	26.86%
2,143	28,394	3,197,142	13.2	7.05%	Hyphen	4	33.91%
2,043	60,390	4,129,955	29.6	6.72%	GbH	5	40.63%
1,514	32,854	2,642,221	21.7	4.98%	ziL	6	45.61%
1,481	33,393	2,633,682	22.5	4.87%	Lethe	7	50.48%
1,390	33,322	2,521,522	24.0	4.57%	Coats	8	55.05%
1,320	22,868	2,017,413	17.3	4.34%	Beaker	9	59.40%
1,236	34,850	2,313,607	28.2	4.07%	(oTTo)	10	63.46%
1,219	26,933	2,518,710	22.1	4.01%	Rix	11	67.47%
874	17,267	1,680,405	19.8	2.88%	Justin	12	70.35%
763	16,674	1,244,516	21.9	2.51%	Caz	13	72.86%
717	8,063	1,018,050	11.2	2.36%	Nig	14	75.22%
608	11,294	974,373	18.6	2.00%	Pam the goose	15	77.22%
589	14,913	990,142	25.3	1.94%	sc®umble	16	79.16%
559	11,017	874,719	19.7	1.84%	Mrs Ponder	17	80.99%
553	9,689	874,162	17.5	1.82%	Shell	18	82.81%
396	8,954	594,280	22.6	1.30%	Blueprint	19	84.12%
322	6,984	535,286	21.7	1.06%	BaBeL FiSh	20	85.18%
309	6,258	561,712	20.3	1.02%	Ali	21	86.19%
309	6,000	443,305	19.4	1.02%	Gareth Slee	21	87.21%
298	7,147	525,934	24.0	0.98%	Ats	23	88.19%
287	5,181	438,755	18.1	0.94%	Rabbit	24	89.13%
284	10,448	621,393	36.8	0.93%	Ferret	25	90.07%
283	5,891	516,068	20.8	0.93%	Pandamonium	26	91.00%
253	6,176	476,821	24.4	0.83%	Chris Lamb	27	91.83%
228	3,579	340,799	15.7	0.75%	BWGames	28	92.58%
150	3,166	217,923	21.1	0.49%	Pingu	29	93.07%
105	3,005	180,959	28.6	0.35%	Rincewind	30	93.42%
96	1,726	148,439	18.0	0.32%	Bomber	31	93.74%
91	1,410	153,460	15.5	0.30%	Fishter	32	94.04%
83	2,129	154,907	25.7	0.27%	Harvey Van Sickle	33	94.31%
82	1,301	113,422	15.9	0.27%	Paddyjoe	34	94.58%
76	1,359	103,570	17.9	0.25%	Scribbler	35	94.83%
76	1,313	111,356	17.3	0.25%	Liddle Feesh	35	95.08%
70	989	92,103	14.1	0.23%	Dr Compynei	37	95.31%
70	1,323	111,407	18.9	0.23%	Skipai Otter	37	95.54%
61	928	82,754	15.2	0.20%	Stephen Patterson	39	95.74%
54	1,160	89,877	21.5	0.18%	Poppy	40	95.92%
50	1,002	77,875	20.0	0.16%	Chris Dugan	41	96.08%
47	1,008	74,496	21.4	0.15%	Gander	42	96.24%
47	1,181	89,193	25.1	0.15%	Gingangooli	42	96.39%
46	718	62,291	15.6	0.15%	paddyjoe	44	96.54%
45	1,152	83,885	25.6	0.15%	Sean Rima	45	96.69%
40	663	57,486	16.6	0.13%	Darth Darko	46	96.82%
35	626	63,497	17.9	0.12%	John the R-T	47	96.94%
34	598	58,566	17.6	0.11%	Liddle Feeshy	48	97.05%
29	690	46,994	23.8	0.10%	Mikk	49	97.14%
29	669	39,547	23.1	0.10%	marts	49	97.24%
26	550	49,568	21.2	0.09%	Party people	51	97.33%
25	334	38,350	13.4	0.08%	Lester	52	97.41%
25	335	32,869	13.4	0.08%	Morgan Pugh	52	97.49%
24	540	33,509	22.5	0.08%	Zack Macracken	54	97.57%
23	465	38,713	20.2	0.08%	justin	55	97.64%
22	426	38,570	19.4	0.07%	Tickettyßºº	56	97.72%
21	273	27,307	13.0	0.07%	Matt Holland	57	97.79%
20	614	43,375	30.7	0.07%	Fred	58	97.85%
19	505	38,460	26.6	0.06%	Killer Bite	59	97.91%
18	257	23,263	14.3	0.06%	neo1ite	60	97.97%
18	331	28,374	18.4	0.06%	ropepuddle	60	98.03%
16	391	22,913	24.4	0.05%	Bram	62	98.09%
14	354	23,791	25.3	0.05%	Neo1ite	63	98.13%
14	134	19,163	9.6	0.05%	Mad John Bonney	63	98.18%
12	292	19,592	24.3	0.04%	cjf	65	98.22%
12	177	15,619	14.8	0.04%	:: Dazza ::	65	98.26%
11	287	19,623	26.1	0.04%	Jimbo	67	98.29%
10	151	15,010	15.1	0.03%	Queen Bess	68	98.33%
10	202	14,138	20.2	0.03%	Gigabyte	68	98.36%
36	900	70,859	25.0	0.12%	Only 9 posts	70	98.48%
32	574	49,510	17.9	0.11%	Only 8 posts	74	98.58%
35	658	54,760	18.8	0.12%	Only 7 posts	78	98.70%
54	1,311	96,366	24.3	0.18%	Only 6 posts	83	98.87%
35	559	49,321	16.0	0.12%	Only 5 posts	92	98.99%
36	1,041	71,038	28.9	0.12%	Only 4 posts	99	99.11%
69	1,524	117,813	22.1	0.23%	Only 3 posts	108	99.34%
72	1,338	113,412	18.6	0.24%	Only 2 posts	131	99.57%
130	3,478	245,691	26.8	0.43%	Only 1 post!	167	100.00%

… by threads started
Threads started	Author	Rank
349	Ponder	1
254	Pingu	2
138	Hyphen	3
123	Rix	4
114	Mrs Ponder	5
103	Blueprint	6
101	sc®umble	7
83	Gareth Slee	8
76	Coats	9
74	Nig	10
66	Pandamonium	11
63	BaBeL FiSh	12
62	ziL	13
55	Justin	14
54	Caz	15
48	Shell	16
47	(oTTo)	17
46	GbH	18
33	Lethe	19
26	Pingu	20
26	kat	20
24	Beaker	22
23	Poppy	23
23	Chris Lamb	23
22	Ats	25
21	Darth Darko	26
21	BWGames	26
20	Pam the goose	28
19	Zack Macracken	29
18	Skipai Otter	30
17	marts	31
14	Rabbit	32
14	Ali	32
13	Rincewind	34
13	Bomber	34
13	Scribbler	34
12	Paddyjoe	37
10	Gingangooli	38
10	Dr Compynei	38
8	justin	40
8	paddyjoe	40
7	neo1ite	42
6	Stephen Patterson	43
5	Tickettyßºº	44
5	Matt Holland	44
5	Morgan Pugh	44
5	Gander	44
4	Sean Rima	48
4	:: Dazza ::	48
4	froggie	48
3	Fishter	51
3	Ferret	51
3	Neo1ite	51
3	Fastshooter@home	51
3	Max	51
3	Kazzy	51
3	Nick	51
2	Chris Dugan	58
2	Paul Helpfull	58
2	hp5150	58
2	Marlman	58
2	Zoo	58
2	Gigabyte	58
2	Mad John Bonney	58
2	Dead Evil	58
2	Barbara	58
2	Party people	58
2	Mother Farquhar	58
2	naa	58
2	John	58
2	Wonunglo	58
2	News Reader	58
2	Jackie	58
2	Hyracotherium	58
2	Liddle Feesh	58
2	Bram	58

** 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	130
2	36
3	23
4	9
5	7
6	9
7	5
8	4
9	4
10+	70

10 most verbose posters (with 15 or more posts) by average lines per post
lines/ post	Author	Rank
36.8	Ferret	1
30.7	Fred	2
29.6	GbH	3
28.6	Rincewind	4
28.2	(oTTo)	5
26.6	Killer Bite	6
26.0	kat	7
25.7	Harvey Van Sickle	8
25.6	Sean Rima	9
25.3	sc®umble	10

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

Top 10 concise posters (with 15 or more posts) by average lines per post
lines/ post	Author	Rank
11.2	Nig	1
13.0	Matt Holland	2
13.2	Hyphen	3
13.4	Lester	4
13.4	Morgan Pugh	5
14.1	Dr Compynei	6
14.3	neo1ite	7
15.2	Stephen Patterson	8
15.5	Fishter	9
15.6	paddyjoe	10

There were 15 crosspost targets

50 posts to talk.religion.misc alt.radio.talk.dr-laura talk.politics.european-union alt.atheism
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
9 posts to ntl.discussion.security
5 posts to ntl.discussion.broadband.cm ntl.discussion.home-networking ntl.discussion.security
5 posts to uk.net.providers.ntl
4 posts to ntl.discussion.dial-up
4 posts to ntl.discussion.home-networking
2 posts to uk.people.silversurfers
1 posts to ntl.discussion.linux ntl.discussion.webspace
1 posts to alt.pub.cafe-bob uk.people.silversurfers
1 posts to uk.misc
1 posts to alt.fan.cecil-adams
1 posts to ntl.talk
1 posts to ntl.discussion.broadband.adsl ntl.discussion.broadband.cm ntl.discussion.cable-tv.digital ntl.discussion.dial-up ntl.discussion.home-networking

In total 296 authors made 30,396 posts containg 637,408 lines in 52,036,429 bytes to 2,639 threads

Page updated at Sat Jan 7 23:25:08 2006

Posting Statistics for talk for the calendar year 2005

See the Graph of posts per hour

Number of threads in each length range.

Summary of Monthly Totals

Posters sorted … by posts made

… by threads started

Number of posters having few posts.

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

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

There were 15 crosspost targets

In total 296 authors made 30,396 posts containg 637,408 lines in 52,036,429 bytes to 2,639 threads