Total Poster Statistics for 2012 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.% 593 9345 1134104 15.8 22.63 Ponder 1 22.63 446 12461 875924 27.9 17.02 kat 2 39.66 357 6641 663269 18.6 13.63 Pam the goose 3 53.28 310 25660 1641536 82.8 11.83 Indy Jess John 4 65.11 183 7437 545956 40.6 6.98 Oliver 5 72.10 138 5218 401629 37.8 5.27 GbH 6 77.37 136 23426 1356905 172.3 5.19 wtwjgc (Joe) 7 82.56 108 6665 377657 61.7 4.12 Ali 8 86.68 95 2487 214619 26.2 3.63 Nig 9 90.31 70 4587 293357 65.5 2.67 Frogman 10 92.98 55 7333 418833 133.3 2.10 Gander 11 95.08 40 814 68146 20.4 1.53 Patrick 12 96.60 23 626 43786 27.2 0.88 Only 23 posts 13 97.48 15 494 33691 32.9 0.57 Only 15 posts 14 98.05 14 211 29955 15.1 0.53 Only 14 posts 15 98.59 12 240 21801 20.0 0.46 Only 12 posts 16 99.05 6 146 13840 24.3 0.23 Only 6 posts 17 99.27 3 231 14745 77.0 0.11 Only 3 posts 18 99.39 8 707 42014 88.4 0.31 Only 2 posts 19 99.69 8 282 22264 35.3 0.31 Only 1 posts 19 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 90 Ponder 1 25 kat 2 23 Nig 3 22 Indy Jess John 4 18 Pam the goose 5 14 Ali 6 8 Frogman 7 7 Oliver 8 6 Patrick 9 2 Gander 10 1 GbH 11 0 wtwjgc (Joe) 12

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

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 172.3 wtwjgc (Joe) 1 133.3 Gander 2 82.8 Indy Jess John 3 65.5 Frogman 4 61.7 Ali 5 40.6 Oliver 6 37.8 GbH 7 27.9 kat 8 26.2 Nig 9 20.4 Patrick 10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 15.8 Ponder 1 18.6 Pam the goose 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

1 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
55	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