funto Poster Statistics for September 2007

Author spammers represents all the spammers posting to the group. [X] indicates posters who only contributed to cross-posted threads, almost certainly regulars in the one of other groups x-posted to.

* Lpp = Lines per post; % = percentage of total posts due to this author; cum% = percantage of total posts due to all authors above and including this author*

Posters sorted … by posts made
Posts	Lines	bytes	Lpp*	% *	Author	Rank	Cum.%
Posts	Lines	bytes	Lpp*	% *	Author	Rank	Cum.%
95	2006	136319	21.1	15.65	Pingu	1	15.65
85	1359	108646	16.0	14.00	Ponder	2	29.65
70	1676	101884	23.9	11.53	kat	3	41.19
32	655	48128	20.5	5.27	Ali	4	46.46
29	330	39807	11.4	4.78	Hyphen	5	51.24
29	551	40086	19.0	4.78	Pam the goose	5	56.01
27	822	55958	30.4	4.45	GbH	7	60.46
23	506	56518	22.0	3.79	wtwjgc (Joe)	8	64.25
20	239	20742	11.9	3.29	Nig	9	67.55
20	266	34431	13.3	3.29	DukeOfRude	9	70.84
19	541	21871	28.5	3.13	DaveG	11	73.97
18	663	46499	36.8	2.97	Chris Lamb	12	76.94
17	347	25634	20.4	2.80	sc®umble	13	79.74
12	202	16425	16.8	1.98	Andy	14	81.71
11	223	12045	20.3	1.81	Inthedrivingseat	15	83.53
11	318	16984	28.9	1.81	Shell	15	85.34
9	129	11388	14.3	1.48	Pandamonium	17	86.82
9	135	16466	15.0	1.48	soup	17	88.30
9	252	11842	28.0	1.48	HVS	17	89.79
8	119	12572	14.9	1.32	Patter	20	91.10
8	194	8000	24.3	1.32	Blueprint	20	92.42
7	161	8024	23.0	1.15	John Briggs	22	93.57
4	86	11488	21.5	0.66	Pluto..nium	23	94.23
4	120	5179	30.0	0.66	Pete S	23	94.89
4	112	7250	28.0	0.66	Coats	23	95.55
3	44	4558	14.7	0.49	Beaker	26	96.05
3	51	7057	17.0	0.49	dennis@home	26	96.54
2	39	2000	19.5	0.33	Gareth Slee	28	96.87
2	45	2000	22.5	0.33	SteveH	28	97.20
2	13	2188	6.5	0.33	gruffydd	28	97.53
2	29	2453	14.5	0.33	Gander	28	97.86
2	27	2000	13.5	0.33	Alex Potter	28	98.19
1		18	0.0	0.16	Lethe	33	98.35
1		26	0.0	0.16	Skipai Otter	33	98.52
1		38	0.0	0.16	Urang	33	98.68
1		27	0.0	0.16	Jimbo	33	98.85
1		16	0.0	0.16	Caz	33	99.01
1		19	0.0	0.16	Richard Colton	33	99.18
1		26	0.0	0.16	Bruce Stewart	33	99.34
1		13	0.0	0.16	John the R-T	33	99.51
1		15	0.0	0.16	Jono	33	99.67
1		17	0.0	0.16	MiniMeToo	33	99.84
1		19	0.0	0.16	Nitro®	33	100.00

… by threads started
Threads	Author	Rank
Threads	Author	Rank
10	Pingu	1
6	Ponder	2
5	sc®umble	3
4	Nig	4
4	kat	4
2	Inthedrivingseat	6
2	Blueprint	6
1	Ali	8
1	DukeOfRude	8
1	Shell	8
1	Chris Lamb	8
1	wtwjgc (Joe)	8
1	DaveG	8
1	Hyphen	8
1	Coats	8
0	Pluto..nium	16
0	Pandamonium	16
0	Gareth Slee	16
0	Pete S	16
0	SteveH	16
0	Beaker	16
0	John Briggs	16
	Lethe	16
0	gruffydd	16
	Skipai Otter	16
	Urang	16
0	dennis@home	16
0	soup	16
	Jimbo	16
0	Gander	16
	Caz	16
0	GbH	16
0	Alex Potter	16
	Richard Colton	16
0	HVS	16
	Bruce Stewart	16
0	Patter	16
	John the R-T	16
	Jono	16
0	Pam the goose	16
	MiniMeToo	16
	Nitro®	16
0	Andy	16

Number of posters having few posts.
Posts	Posters
1	11
2	5
3	2
4	3
5	0
6	0
7	1
8	2
9	3
10+	16

Top 10 verbose posters (over 7 posts) by average lines per post
lines/post	Author	rank
36.8	Chris Lamb	1
30.4	GbH	2
28.9	Shell	3
28.5	DaveG	4
28.0	HVS	5
24.3	Blueprint	6
23.9	kat	7
22.0	wtwjgc (Joe)	8
21.1	Pingu	9
20.5	Ali	10

Top 10 concise posters (over 7 posts) by average lines per post
lines/post	Author	rank
11.4	Hyphen	1
11.9	Nig	2
13.3	DukeOfRude	3
14.3	Pandamonium	4
14.9	Patter	5
15.0	soup	6
16.0	Ponder	7
16.8	Andy	8
19.0	Pam the goose	9
20.3	Inthedrivingseat	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

1 CrossPost Targets
posts	Groups
1	2007:09:01:01:09:32

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 September 2007 in funto.

In total 43 authors made 607 posts containg 12,494 lines in 911,724 bytes to 47 threads