Monthly Poster Statistics for November 2011 in ups.

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.

Trolls - sef-explanatory.

* 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.% 279 7066 588668 25.3 8.38 Flyiñg Ñuñ 1 8.38 278 6145 469156 22.1 8.35 Rabbit 2 16.74 241 4883 440127 20.3 7.24 Pam the goose 3 23.98 178 3916 346876 22.0 5.35 Gordon H 4 29.33 146 2268 253081 15.5 4.39 Peter T 5 33.71 143 2876 224382 20.1 4.30 Tickettyߺº 6 38.01 136 3965 316406 29.2 4.09 The Brownie 7 42.10 127 1767 162448 13.9 3.82 MCC 8 45.91 109 2271 241791 20.8 3.28 wtwjgc (Joe) 9 49.19 103 1799 155146 17.5 3.09 Michaelangelo 10 52.28 89 1721 151360 19.3 2.67 Goromoff 11 54.96 85 1196 127479 14.1 2.55 frogman 12 57.51 80 991 156797 12.4 2.40 griffin 13 59.92 73 1325 128758 18.2 2.19 §ireßird 14 62.11 72 2230 170300 31.0 2.16 Bob Henson 15 64.27 71 1254 118054 17.7 2.13 AriesVal 16 66.41 71 1648 143243 23.2 2.13 Splodge 16 68.54 70 998 114149 14.3 2.10 JoeH 18 70.64 67 1144 119288 17.1 2.01 Jeff Gaines 19 72.66 64 823 102484 12.9 1.92 Bunny Hare 20 74.58 63 1746 125606 27.7 1.89 Ali 21 76.47 50 1256 74737 25.1 1.50 Smokey 22 77.97 48 1119 111327 23.3 1.44 Peter Hawkins 23 79.42 42 1057 75974 25.2 1.26 Wally 24 80.68 37 833 73540 22.5 1.11 ~~Linda~~ 25 81.79 33 641 58844 19.4 0.99 Oliver 26 82.78 31 676 54900 21.8 0.93 r@y 27 83.71 30 418 47203 13.9 0.90 Troy's Human 28 84.62 30 1210 68231 40.3 0.90 Big Bazza 28 85.52 29 670 50980 23.1 0.87 ned 30 86.39 25 613 42666 24.5 0.75 charles 31 87.14 25 543 51615 21.7 0.75 Wrinklie One 31 87.89 23 315 32874 13.7 0.69 Bill P 33 88.58 20 368 32437 18.4 0.60 Foxy 34 89.18 19 364 25116 19.2 0.57 biffo 35 89.75 19 411 28768 21.6 0.57 Anita 35 90.32 19 340 28893 17.9 0.57 Gander 35 90.90 18 302 34492 16.8 0.54 John #8 38 91.44 18 297 33474 16.5 0.54 Pete C 38 91.98 14 240 30445 17.1 0.42 John the R-T 40 92.40 14 246 29576 17.6 0.42 Graham 40 92.82 14 259 20308 18.5 0.42 Mick the Merciless 40 93.24 13 331 32845 25.5 0.39 Dingo 43 93.63 12 280 26402 23.3 0.36 jackie green 44 93.99 12 359 28638 29.9 0.36 Peter Grange 44 94.35 12 165 20283 13.8 0.36 Saxman 44 94.71 11 158 19098 14.4 0.33 Bri 47 95.04 11 289 26220 26.3 0.33 Harold 47 95.37 11 204 22971 18.5 0.33 John Nice 47 95.70 10 255 22914 25.5 0.30 Robin T Cox 50 96.00 9 237 17509 26.3 0.27 Bram 51 96.27 9 129 13269 14.3 0.27 Parrotfish 51 96.54 9 167 19920 18.6 0.27 Ascii Art 51 96.81 7 141 14914 20.1 0.21 UnsteadyKen 54 97.03 7 308 21672 44.0 0.21 Phian 54 97.24 7 115 10890 16.4 0.21 Geoff Hayward 54 97.45 7 89 9578 12.7 0.21 Linedancer 54 97.66 6 177 16650 29.5 0.18 JF 58 97.84 6 114 10417 19.0 0.18 Bernard Peek 58 98.02 6 58 7839 9.7 0.18 uker 58 98.20 5 81 9131 16.2 0.15 Groove 61 98.35 4 39 6065 9.8 0.12 ~~seadancer~~ 62 98.47 4 97 9633 24.3 0.12 Faolan 62 98.59 4 120 10097 30.0 0.12 Bernadette 62 98.71 3 59 6474 19.7 0.09 Peter Parry 65 98.80 3 51 5766 17.0 0.09 Jim Scott 65 98.89 3 45 3822 15.0 0.09 Gilly 65 98.98 3 78 5970 26.0 0.09 Steve Baker 65 99.07 2 76 6776 38.0 0.06 CJB 69 99.13 2 52 5590 26.0 0.06 §håz 69 99.19 2 39 3080 19.5 0.06 Herbie 69 99.25 2 41 3464 20.5 0.06 Jeff 69 99.31 2 43 4510 21.5 0.06 Webrex 69 99.37 2 30 3734 15.0 0.06 Dafydd 69 99.43 2 60 3889 30.0 0.06 Mo 69 99.49 2 65 4621 32.5 0.06 Andy Hewitt[X] 69 99.55 1 013 01903 13.0 0.03 Gil J 77 99.58 1 019 01890 19.0 0.03 Jochem Huhmann[X] 77 99.61 1 011 01781 11.0 0.03 Tahi 77 99.64 1 015 01992 15.0 0.03 Silvyu 77 99.67 1 021 03277 21.0 0.03 Gareth 77 99.70 1 024 01841 24.0 0.03 Sara[X] 77 99.73 1 015 01538 15.0 0.03 Toyboy 77 99.76 1 010 01158 10.0 0.03 Peter Ceresole[X] 77 99.79 1 017 01548 17.0 0.03 Patrick 77 99.82 1 014 01639 14.0 0.03 Pd[X] 77 99.85 1 024 01911 24.0 0.03 Mr Pounder 77 99.88 1 010 01381 10.0 0.03 Bucko 77 99.91 1 023 01971 23.0 0.03 Rowland McDonnell[X] 77 99.94 1 021 01767 21.0 0.03 alan holmes 77 99.97 1 029 01809 29.0 0.03 Cliff Home 77 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 47 Goromoff 1 24 Pam the goose 2 22 griffin 3 22 Flyiñg Ñuñ 3 17 Splodge 5 16 The Brownie 6 11 Wally 7 11 MCC 7 11 Peter T 7 10 frogman 10 9 Jeff Gaines 11 8 §ireßird 12 8 Tickettyߺº 12 8 Gordon H 12 7 Peter Hawkins 15 6 AriesVal 16 6 Big Bazza 16 5 Michaelangelo 18 4 Troy's Human 19 4 wtwjgc (Joe) 19 4 Smokey 19 4 r@y 19 4 John #8 19 4 John Nice 19 4 Gander 19 4 Bob Henson 19 4 Pete C 19 4 Foxy 19 3 JF 29 3 Parrotfish 29 3 Rabbit 29 3 Wrinklie One 29 2 Oliver 33 2 ned 33 2 jackie green 33 2 uker 33 2 Webrex 33 2 Bri 33 2 Dafydd 33 2 Bill P 33 1 Anita 41 1 CJB 41 1 Phian 41 1 Dingo 41 1 Silvyu 41 1 Ali 41 1 ~~Linda~~ 41 1 Robin T Cox 41 1 John the R-T 41 1 Jim Scott 41 1 Saxman 41 1 Harold 41 1 Mo 41 1 Linedancer 41 1 Mick the Merciless 41 1 JoeH 41 0 Gil J 57 0 Bram 57 0 Groove 57 0 biffo 57 0 Peter Parry 57 0 Jochem Huhmann[X] 57 0 charles 57 0 UnsteadyKen 57 0 Tahi 57 0 Gareth 57 0 ~~seadancer~~ 57 0 §håz 57 0 Herbie 57 0 Jeff 57 0 Sara[X] 57 0 Toyboy 57 0 Graham 57 0 Bernard Peek 57 0 Peter Ceresole[X] 57 0 Bunny Hare 57 0 Peter Grange 57 0 Patrick 57 0 Gilly 57 0 Faolan 57 0 Pd[X] 57 0 Mr Pounder 57 0 Steve Baker 57 0 Geoff Hayward 57 0 Bucko 57 0 Rowland McDonnell[X] 57 0 Ascii Art 57 0 Andy Hewitt[X] 57 0 alan holmes 57 0 Cliff Home 57 0 Bernadette 57

Number of posters having few posts. Posts Posters 1 15 2 8 3 4 4 3 5 1 6 3 7 4 8 0 9 3 10+ 50

Top 10 verbose posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 40.3 Big Bazza 1 31.0 Bob Henson 2 29.2 The Brownie 3 27.7 Ali 4 25.3 Flyiñg Ñuñ 5 25.2 Wally 6 25.1 Smokey 7 24.5 charles 8 23.3 Peter Hawkins 9 23.2 Splodge 10

Top 10 concise posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 12.4 griffin 1 12.9 Bunny Hare 2 13.7 Bill P 3 13.9 MCC 4 13.9 Troy's Human 5 14.1 frogman 6 14.3 JoeH 7 15.5 Peter T 8 16.5 Pete C 9 16.8 John #8 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
9	uk.comp.sys.mac

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