Total Poster Statistics for 2007 in talk.

Posters sorted … by posts made Posts Lines bytes Lines /post Percent posts Author Rank Cum.% Posts Lines bytes Lines /post Percent posts Author Rank Cum.% 454 12443 890792 27.4 17.90 kat 1 17.90 414 7049 768351 17.0 16.32 Ponder 2 34.23 200 3786 344704 18.9 7.89 Pam the goose 3 42.11 187 3756 277789 20.1 7.37 Pingu 4 49.49 169 4379 348094 25.9 6.66 Lethe 5 56.15 111 3231 214483 29.1 4.38 GbH 6 60.53 95 3095 222180 32.6 3.75 Skipai Otter 7 64.27 78 1182 109505 15.2 3.08 Beaker 8 67.35 78 888 104144 11.4 3.08 Hyphen 8 70.43 77 1308 144781 17.0 3.04 John the R-T 10 73.46 72 2253 142967 31.3 2.84 Coats 11 76.30 64 1312 113140 20.5 2.52 Ali 12 78.82 61 1784 101083 29.2 2.41 sc®umble 13 81.23 56 1235 101646 22.1 2.21 Caz 14 83.44 46 998 76777 21.7 1.81 HVS 15 85.25 35 693 53975 19.8 1.38 Mrs Ponder 16 86.63 34 635 49503 18.7 1.34 Blueprint 17 87.97 32 837 68299 26.2 1.26 Rix 18 89.24 29 771 56273 26.6 1.14 Carl Waring 19 90.38 22 581 40899 26.4 0.87 Ats 20 91.25 20 451 35701 22.6 0.79 Shell 21 92.03 16 484 37044 30.3 0.63 Only 16 posts 22 92.67 13 230 19633 17.7 0.51 Only 13 posts 23 93.18 12 174 16136 14.5 0.47 Only 12 posts 24 93.65 11 359 28509 32.6 0.43 Only 11 posts 25 94.09 10 121 13453 12.1 0.39 Only 10 posts 26 94.48 18 523 37800 29.1 0.71 Only 9 posts 27 95.19 21 309 31874 14.7 0.83 Only 7 posts 28 96.02 24 492 37940 20.5 0.95 Only 6 posts 29 96.96 25 675 50304 27.0 0.99 Only 5 posts 30 97.95 4 139 9012 34.8 0.16 Only 4 posts 31 98.11 15 285 22909 19.0 0.59 Only 3 posts 32 98.70 14 233 18843 16.6 0.55 Only 2 posts 33 99.25 19 522 44588 27.5 0.75 Only 1 posts 34 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 23 Ponder 1 22 Pingu 2 10 Blueprint 3 10 sc®umble 3 9 Pam the goose 5 8 Mrs Ponder 6 6 HVS 7 6 Rix 7 5 GbH 9 5 kat 9 4 Ats 11 4 Ali 11 4 Coats 11 3 Skipai Otter 14 1 Beaker 15 1 Lethe 15 1 John the R-T 15 1 Hyphen 15 1 Caz 15 0 Carl Waring 20 0 Shell 20

'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 19 2 7 3 5 4 1 5 5 6 4 7 3 8 0 9 2 10+ 26

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 32.6 Skipai Otter 1 31.3 Coats 2 29.2 sc®umble 3 29.1 GbH 4 27.4 kat 5 26.6 Carl Waring 6 26.4 Ats 7 26.2 Rix 8 25.9 Lethe 9 22.6 Shell 10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 11.4 Hyphen 1 15.2 Beaker 2 17.0 John the R-T 3 17.0 Ponder 4 18.7 Blueprint 5 18.9 Pam the goose 6 19.8 Mrs Ponder 7 20.1 Pingu 8 20.5 Ali 9 21.7 HVS 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

3 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
3	ntl.test
2	ntl.discussion.broadband.cm
2	alt.fan.landrover

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