Total Poster Statistics for 2008 in funto.

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.% 773 12044 1436892 15.6 14.82 Ponder 1 14.82 712 17033 1290809 23.9 13.65 kat 2 28.47 608 11993 1034806 19.7 11.66 Pingu 3 40.13 364 6952 633195 19.1 6.98 Pam the goose 4 47.11 352 9497 829993 27.0 6.75 GbH 5 53.85 338 4190 633628 12.4 6.48 Nig 6 60.33 212 1362 289607 6.4 4.06 Hyphen 7 64.40 165 4093 273701 24.8 3.16 Coats 8 67.56 147 3406 455227 23.2 2.82 wtwjgc (Joe) 9 70.38 138 2430 220789 17.6 2.65 FieryFeenix 10 73.03 103 2755 188270 26.7 1.97 Oliver 11 75.00 97 1786 176105 18.4 1.86 Pandamonium 12 76.86 96 2008 161684 20.9 1.84 sc®umble 13 78.70 85 1723 139338 20.3 1.63 DaveG 14 80.33 74 1364 122422 18.4 1.42 Ali 15 81.75 55 1063 122480 19.3 1.05 Annie R J Brion 16 82.80 53 1038 109997 19.6 1.02 Annie Brion 17 83.82 51 1185 98154 23.2 0.98 Chris Lamb 18 84.80 49 1234 94493 25.2 0.94 jackie green 19 85.74 44 923 83230 21.0 0.84 Rix 20 86.58 43 955 86817 22.2 0.82 Andy 21 87.40 36 617 60476 17.1 0.69 Alex Potter 22 88.09 35 611 57447 17.5 0.67 Mary/Marty 23 88.77 33 750 52205 22.7 0.63 Shell 24 89.40 33 536 75075 16.2 0.63 John the R-T 24 90.03 31 933 56176 30.1 0.59 Pete S 26 90.62 28 289 54743 10.3 0.54 Daisy the Cow 27 91.16 26 376 46686 14.5 0.50 Beaker 28 91.66 26 414 44837 15.9 0.50 Patter 28 92.16 25 833 50494 33.3 0.48 Richard Colton 30 92.64 24 586 51065 24.4 0.46 Grymma 31 93.10 20 261 26229 13.1 0.38 Mrs Ponder 32 93.48 19 446 32978 23.5 0.36 Only 19 posts 33 93.85 18 414 31273 23.0 0.35 Only 18 posts 34 94.19 17 419 32864 24.6 0.33 Only 17 posts 35 94.52 16 345 27841 21.6 0.31 Only 16 posts 36 94.82 30 621 65830 20.7 0.58 Only 15 posts 37 95.40 28 588 50935 21.0 0.54 Only 14 posts 38 95.94 13 348 26952 26.8 0.25 Only 13 posts 39 96.18 24 492 41470 20.5 0.46 Only 12 posts 40 96.64 55 1023 97920 18.6 1.05 Only 11 posts 41 97.70 18 373 36579 20.7 0.35 Only 9 posts 42 98.04 14 175 23926 12.5 0.27 Only 7 posts 43 98.31 6 253 15713 42.2 0.12 Only 6 posts 44 98.43 25 746 52484 29.8 0.48 Only 5 posts 45 98.91 12 232 24314 19.3 0.23 Only 4 posts 46 99.14 9 331 20785 36.8 0.17 Only 3 posts 47 99.31 20 349 31857 17.4 0.38 Only 2 posts 48 99.69 16 247 25157 15.4 0.31 Only 1 posts 49 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 51 Ponder 1 45 Nig 2 40 Pingu 3 28 Coats 4 21 kat 5 15 sc®umble 6 14 Pam the goose 7 12 Ali 8 12 Pandamonium 8 10 GbH 10 9 FieryFeenix 11 8 Pete S 12 8 Rix 12 7 Oliver 14 7 Hyphen 14 6 Mary/Marty 16 6 DaveG 16 6 Mrs Ponder 16 5 Daisy the Cow 19 5 Annie Brion 19 5 Annie R J Brion 19 4 Chris Lamb 22 2 Shell 23 2 Patter 23 2 John the R-T 23 2 Alex Potter 23 2 Andy 23 1 jackie green 28 0 Beaker 29 0 Grymma 29 0 wtwjgc (Joe) 29 0 Richard Colton 29

'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 16 2 10 3 3 4 3 5 5 6 1 7 2 8 0 9 2 10+ 48

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 33.3 Richard Colton 1 30.1 Pete S 2 27.0 GbH 3 26.7 Oliver 4 25.2 jackie green 5 24.8 Coats 6 24.4 Grymma 7 23.9 kat 8 23.2 Chris Lamb 9 23.2 wtwjgc (Joe) 10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 6.4 Hyphen 1 10.3 Daisy the Cow 2 12.4 Nig 3 13.1 Mrs Ponder 4 14.5 Beaker 5 15.6 Ponder 6 15.9 Patter 7 16.2 John the R-T 8 17.1 Alex Potter 9 17.5 Mary/Marty 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
16	free.uk.internet.isp.blueyonder.poor-service

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