Monthly Poster Statistics for All 2006 in talk.

Posters sorted … by posts made
Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines per post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
Posts	Lines	bytes	Lines per post	Percent posts	Author	Rank	Cum.%
1913	29843	3504984	15.6	13.31	Ponder	1	13.31
1831	44474	3249642	24.3	12.74	kat	2	26.05
1608	31414	2289860	19.5	11.19	Pingu	3	37.23
823	8036	1114955	9.8	5.73	Hyphen	4	42.96
808	22872	1561790	28.3	5.62	GbH	5	48.58
804	20181	1566255	25.1	5.59	Lethe	6	54.17
726	20031	1305265	27.6	5.05	Coats	7	59.22
542	5801	749970	10.7	3.77	Nig	8	63.00
499	9679	820612	19.4	3.47	Pam the goose	9	66.47
493	9216	767316	18.7	3.43	Caz	10	69.90
385	6027	534154	15.7	2.68	Beaker	11	72.58
371	8088	711235	21.8	2.58	Rix	12	75.16
360	9443	595980	26.2	2.50	sc®umble	13	77.66
297	6641	529493	22.4	2.07	ziL	14	79.73
295	6758	450659	22.9	2.05	Blueprint	15	81.78
258	4503	400390	17.5	1.79	Shell	16	83.57
235	3658	323903	15.6	1.63	Mrs Ponder	17	85.21
196	3972	345430	20.3	1.36	Ali	18	86.57
173	4698	353877	27.2	1.20	Chris Lamb	19	87.78
148	2567	208891	17.3	1.03	Gareth Slee	20	88.81
132	2592	227137	19.6	0.92	Pandamonium	21	89.72
127	2670	218921	21.0	0.88	inebriate	22	90.61
115	2912	218816	25.3	0.80	Justin	23	91.41
96	1290	136161	13.4	0.67	Stephen Patterson	24	92.08
96	2364	166337	24.6	0.67	Ats	24	92.74
84	2095	157287	24.9	0.58	Skipai Otter	26	93.33
46	1037	75163	22.5	0.32	HVS	27	93.65
46	751	65859	16.3	0.32	Paddyjoe	27	93.97
44	751	69882	17.1	0.31	Rabbit	29	94.27
43	842	62608	19.6	0.30	o00o	30	94.57
34	1218	72012	35.8	0.24	Steve T	31	94.81
32	650	52261	20.3	0.22	Gander	32	95.03
29	609	49957	21.0	0.20	The Sheep of Justice	33	95.23
28	560	43484	20.0	0.19	neo1ite	34	95.43
26	399	35698	15.3	0.18	Liddle Feeshy	35	95.61
26	396	35145	15.2	0.18	Dr Compynei	35	95.79
26	678	53815	26.1	0.18	Tony Davison	35	95.97
25	462	40137	18.5	0.17	Skellers	38	96.15
24	347	29479	14.5	0.17	Daffy	39	96.31
21	637	39250	30.3	0.15	Ferret	40	96.46
21	541	40474	25.8	0.15	Barbara	40	96.60
38	717	61785	18.9	0.26	Only 19 posts	42	96.87
36	588	52377	16.3	0.25	Only 18 posts	43	97.12
17	366	26091	21.5	0.12	Only 17 posts	44	97.24
32	724	52689	22.6	0.22	Only 16 posts	45	97.46
15	273	22703	18.2	0.10	Only 15 posts	46	97.57
14	2878	139141	205.6	0.10	Only 14 posts	47	97.66
39	792	59977	20.3	0.27	Only 13 posts	48	97.93
11	273	19131	24.8	0.08	Only 11 posts	49	98.01
10	154	12607	15.4	0.07	Only 10 posts	50	98.08
45	897	77495	19.9	0.31	Only 9 posts	51	98.39
24	556	42420	23.2	0.17	Only 8 posts	52	98.56
7	149	11211	21.3	0.05	Only 7 posts	53	98.61
36	748	63778	20.8	0.25	Only 6 posts	54	98.86
30	534	44358	17.8	0.21	Only 5 posts	55	99.07
28	604	46024	21.6	0.19	Only 4 posts	56	99.26
30	553	49593	18.4	0.21	Only 3 posts	57	99.47
22	285	26408	13.0	0.15	Only 2 posts	58	99.62
54	856	82126	15.9	0.38	Only 1 post	59	100.00

… by threads started
Threads	Author	Rank
Threads	Author	Rank
207	Ponder	1
205	Pingu	2
86	sc®umble	3
82	Blueprint	4
81	Nig	5
76	Rix	6
56	Coats	7
55	Mrs Ponder	8
33	kat	9
32	Caz	10
30	GbH	11
27	Gareth Slee	12
26	Pandamonium	13
25	Hyphen	14
23	Shell	15
19	Pam the goose	16
18	Skipai Otter	17
16	ziL	18
14	Lethe	19
14	inebriate	19
14	Ali	19
12	Ats	22
12	Paddyjoe	22
11	Skellers	24
10	Beaker	25
7	Stephen Patterson	26
7	Dr Compynei	26
6	o00o	28
6	neo1ite	28
6	Chris Lamb	28
5	The Sheep of Justice	31
4	Gander	32
3	Steve T	33
3	Justin	33
2	HVS	35
1	Liddle Feeshy	36
1	Rabbit	36
1	Daffy	36
0	Ferret	39
0	Barbara	39
0	Tony Davison	39

'Only n posts' totals all the posts from authors who only posted the specified number of post during the year.

Number of posters having few posts.
Posts	Posters
1	54
2	11
3	10
4	7
5	6
6	6
7	1
8	3
9	5
10+	55

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post
lines/post	Author	rank
35.8	Steve T	1
30.3	Ferret	2
28.3	GbH	3
27.6	Coats	4
27.2	Chris Lamb	5
26.2	sc®umble	6
26.1	Tony Davison	7
25.8	Barbara	8
25.3	Justin	9
25.1	Lethe	10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post
lines/post	Author	rank
9.8	Hyphen	1
10.7	Nig	2
13.4	Stephen Patterson	3
14.5	Daffy	4
15.2	Dr Compynei	5
15.3	Liddle Feeshy	6
15.6	Mrs Ponder	7
15.6	Ponder	8
15.7	Beaker	9
16.3	Paddyjoe	10

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

4 CrossPost Targets
posts	Groups
3	ntl.discussion.dial-up
3	ntl.discussion.broadband.stb uk.net.providers.ntl ntl.discussion.productsandservices.general
1	uk.people.silversurfers
1	ntl.talk

Crossposting (with follow-ups set) is the preferred method of making announcements relevant to more than one group.

Unfortunately it is also a prefered mothod for spammers and trolls

Monthly Poster Statistics for All 2006 in talk.

In total 158 authors made 14,374 posts containg 293,650 lines in 24,164,458 bytes to 1,373 threads