Monthly Poster Statistics for August 2011 in funto.

These statistics are based on posts supplied to me by Eternal September'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.% 14 204 24480 14.6 25.45 Ponder 1 25.45 11 246 16720 22.4 20.00 kat 2 45.45 8 133 12823 16.6 14.55 Pam the goose 3 60.00 4 48 6327 12.0 7.27 Indy Jess John 4 67.27 4 66 5668 16.5 7.27 Ali 4 74.55 3 49 5907 16.3 5.45 Nig 6 80.00 3 74 6181 24.7 5.45 GbH 6 85.45 3 53 4363 17.7 5.45 Andy 6 90.91 2 30 2866 15.0 3.64 Richard Colton 9 94.55 1 019 01707 19.0 1.82 Gander 10 96.36 1 015 02062 15.0 1.82 John the R-T[X] 10 98.18 1 016 01325 16.0 1.82 mick[X] 10 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 2 Ponder 1 1 Indy Jess John 2 1 Gander 2 1 Nig 2 1 Ali 2 0 kat 6 0 GbH 6 0 Pam the goose 6 0 John the R-T[X] 6 0 Andy 6 0 Richard Colton 6 0 mick[X] 6

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

Top 10 verbose posters (over 0 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 24.7 GbH 1 22.4 kat 2 19.0 Gander 3 17.7 Andy 4 16.6 Pam the goose 5 16.5 Ali 6 16.3 Nig 7 16.0 mick[X] 8 15.0 John the R-T[X] 9 15.0 Richard Colton 9

Top 10 concise posters (over 0 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 12.0 Indy Jess John 1 14.6 Ponder 2

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

2 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
2	free.virginmedia.discussion.general
1	uk.people.silversurfers

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