Monthly Poster Statistics for September 2008 in funto.

These statistics are based on posts supplied to me by ntl's servers.
Some posts may have been missed.

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% = percentage 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.% 54 1171 96130 21.7 19.15 Pingu 1 19.15 34 885 55532 26.0 12.06 kat 2 31.21 31 439 52980 14.2 10.99 Ponder 3 42.20 29 766 67396 26.4 10.28 GbH 4 52.48 27 481 43591 17.8 9.57 Pam the goose 5 62.06 21 500 42479 23.8 7.45 Rix 6 69.50 17 245 34084 14.4 6.03 Nig 7 75.53 11 245 15994 22.3 3.90 Coats 8 79.43 10 317 21258 31.7 3.55 jackie green 9 82.98 6 75 7658 12.5 2.13 Patter 10 85.11 6 98 11551 16.3 2.13 Annie Brion 10 87.23 6 99 8104 16.5 2.13 FieryFeenix 10 89.36 5 174 10320 34.8 1.77 Richard Colton 13 91.13 5 35 6351 7.0 1.77 Hyphen 13 92.91 3 46 3645 15.3 1.06 Ali 15 93.97 2 27 2092 13.5 0.71 Oliver 16 94.68 2 34 2851 17.0 0.71 Ats 16 95.39 2 39 3262 19.5 0.71 Mrs Ponder 16 96.10 2 33 3328 16.5 0.71 Andy 16 96.81 1 019 01368 19.0 0.35 Sheila 20 97.16 1 043 02767 43.0 0.35 Pandamonium 20 97.52 1 017 01534 17.0 0.35 Gander 20 97.87 1 017 01349 17.0 0.35 Shell 20 98.23 1 011 01013 11.0 0.35 Alex Potter 20 98.58 1 009 01244 9.0 0.35 Minky 20 98.94 1 018 01157 18.0 0.35 CarlaCardi 20 99.29 1 028 02228 28.0 0.35 sc®umble 20 99.65 1 039 01865 39.0 0.35 Big Tone 20 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 5 Ponder 1 3 Nig 2 2 kat 3 2 GbH 3 2 Pingu 3 2 Coats 3 2 Rix 3 1 Oliver 8 1 Ats 8 1 Minky 8 1 Patter 8 1 Annie Brion 8 1 Ali 8 1 Pam the goose 8 0 Sheila 15 0 Pandamonium 15 0 Gander 15 0 Shell 15 0 Alex Potter 15 0 jackie green 15 0 Richard Colton 15 0 CarlaCardi 15 0 Hyphen 15 0 sc®umble 15 0 Mrs Ponder 15 0 Big Tone 15 0 Andy 15 0 FieryFeenix 15

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

Top 10 verbose posters (over 0 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 43.0 Pandamonium 1 39.0 Big Tone 2 34.8 Richard Colton 3 31.7 jackie green 4 28.0 sc®umble 5 26.4 GbH 6 26.0 kat 7 23.8 Rix 8 22.3 Coats 9 21.7 Pingu 10

Top 10 concise posters (over 0 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 7.0 Hyphen 1 9.0 Minky 2 11.0 Alex Potter 3 12.5 Patter 4 13.5 Oliver 5 14.2 Ponder 6 14.4 Nig 7 15.3 Ali 8 16.3 Annie Brion 9 16.5 FieryFeenix 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

Low lines/post may be because the posters have nothing to say, have dense text, or because they over snip

1 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
1	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