Monthly Poster Statistics for March 2007 in talk.

* 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.% 63 2013 132222 32.0 19.09 kat 1 19.09 46 1084 81222 23.6 13.94 Pam the goose 2 33.03 40 1249 87680 31.2 12.12 Rix 3 45.15 39 727 76606 18.6 11.82 Ponder 4 56.97 22 645 45291 29.3 6.67 Lethe 5 63.64 20 402 40104 20.1 6.06 John the R-T 6 69.70 15 384 26375 25.6 4.55 Ali 7 74.24 14 243 18648 17.4 4.24 Beaker 8 78.48 8 113 12067 14.1 2.42 Hyphen 9 80.91 7 121 8809 17.3 2.12 Gareth Slee 10 83.03 7 231 13095 33.0 2.12 GbH 10 85.15 5 87 6963 17.4 1.52 Gander 12 86.67 5 81 6261 16.2 1.52 Pingu 12 88.18 4 68 6225 17.0 1.21 Pandamonium 14 89.39 4 85 6644 21.3 1.21 Carl Waring 14 90.61 3 71 6008 23.7 0.91 Shell 16 91.52 3 83 5536 27.7 0.91 Skipai Otter 16 92.42 3 24 3200 8.0 0.91 Mrs Ponder 16 93.33 3 95 6473 31.7 0.91 Simon Reed 16 94.24 2 34 2871 17.0 0.61 Lenie 20 94.85 2 43 3190 21.5 0.61 sc®umble 20 95.45 2 66 4141 33.0 0.61 HVS 20 96.06 2 54 3932 27.0 0.61 Coats 20 96.67 2 43 3608 21.5 0.61 Blueprint 20 97.27 2 28 2538 14.0 0.61 mikef 20 97.88 2 29 2967 14.5 0.61 FieryFeenix 20 98.48 1 22 1636 22.0 0.30 Stephen Andrews 27 98.79 1 6 894 6.0 0.30 psychman 27 99.09 1 12 1465 12.0 0.30 Zack 27 99.39 1 41 2376 41.0 0.30 Pig-in-Muck 27 99.70 1 11 1104 11.0 0.30 Virgin Media 27 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 2 Gareth Slee 1 2 Gander 1 2 Ali 1 2 Pam the goose 1 2 Mrs Ponder 1 2 Rix 1 1 Pandamonium 7 1 psychman 7 1 Zack 7 1 Lenie 7 1 Skipai Otter 7 1 Pingu 7 1 Hyphen 7 1 Ponder 7 1 Virgin Media 7 1 mikef 7 1 Simon Reed 7 0 Stephen Andrews 18 0 kat 18 0 Shell 18 0 sc®umble 18 0 Pig-in-Muck 18 0 Beaker 18 0 Lethe 18 0 GbH 18 0 HVS 18 0 Carl Waring 18 0 John the R-T 18 0 Coats 18 0 Blueprint 18 0 FieryFeenix 18

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

Top 10 verbose posters (over 1 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 33.0 GbH 1 33.0 HVS 1 32.0 kat 3 31.7 Simon Reed 4 31.2 Rix 5 29.3 Lethe 6 27.7 Skipai Otter 7 27.0 Coats 8 25.6 Ali 9 23.7 Shell 10

Top 10 concise posters (over 1 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 8.0 Mrs Ponder 1 14.0 mikef 2 14.1 Hyphen 3 14.5 FieryFeenix 4 16.2 Pingu 5 17.0 Lenie 6 17.0 Pandamonium 6 17.3 Gareth Slee 8 17.4 Beaker 9 17.4 Gander 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
2	free.uk.ntl.talk.outcasts

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