Monthly Poster Statistics for August 2013 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; PpD= average Posts per Day; % = percentage of total posts due to this author; cum% = cumulative percentage of total posts due to all authors above and including this author*

Posters sorted … by posts made Posts Lines bytes Lpp* PpD* % * Author Rank Cum.% Posts Lines bytes Lpp* PpD* % * Author Rank Cum.% 282 4831 532090 17.1 9.10 9.80 Pam the goose 1 9.80 280 6183 467833 22.1 9.03 9.73 Rabbit 2 19.52 222 4900 397373 22.1 7.16 7.71 Flyiñg Ñuñ 3 27.23 174 3348 282189 19.2 5.61 6.04 Indy Jess John 4 33.28 155 2242 203163 14.5 5.00 5.38 MCC 5 38.66 131 2811 210852 21.5 4.23 4.55 Michaelangelo 6 43.21 115 1924 226274 16.7 3.71 3.99 griffin 7 47.20 101 1677 186101 16.6 3.26 3.51 wtwjgc (Joe) 8 50.71 97 1318 151979 13.6 3.13 3.37 frogman 9 54.08 90 1186 146121 13.2 2.90 3.13 Goromoff 10 57.21 87 1793 157218 20.6 2.81 3.02 Bertie Doe 11 60.23 85 1752 141171 20.6 2.74 2.95 Wally 12 63.18 84 1985 157749 23.6 2.71 2.92 Gareth 13 66.10 70 1578 133034 22.5 2.26 2.43 Gordon H 14 68.53 63 1224 110136 19.4 2.03 2.19 AriesVal 15 70.72 61 926 91173 15.2 1.97 2.12 Bill P 16 72.84 51 824 82877 16.2 1.65 1.77 §ireßird 17 74.61 51 845 86237 16.6 1.65 1.77 Oliver 17 76.38 47 525 56242 11.2 1.52 1.63 biffo 19 78.01 41 548 58010 13.4 1.32 1.42 Peter T 20 79.44 38 445 62274 11.7 1.23 1.32 Bunny Hare 21 80.76 37 510 78153 13.8 1.19 1.29 John the R-T 22 82.04 33 755 63418 22.9 1.06 1.15 Ali 23 83.19 30 604 47934 20.1 0.97 1.04 Tickettyߺº 24 84.23 30 701 60818 23.4 0.97 1.04 r@y 24 85.27 28 580 39509 20.7 0.90 0.97 **invalid 26 86.25 28 810 62134 28.9 0.90 0.97 The Brownie 26 87.22 28 462 50932 16.5 0.90 0.97 Saxman 26 88.19 27 524 51689 19.4 0.87 0.94 Peter Hawkins 29 89.13 25 633 47554 25.3 0.81 0.87 ~~Linda~~ 30 90.00 21 434 47620 20.7 0.68 0.73 UnsteadyKen 31 90.73 20 604 39028 30.2 0.65 0.69 charles 32 91.42 18 256 29458 14.2 0.58 0.63 mac 33 92.05 18 398 29079 22.1 0.58 0.63 ned 33 92.67 18 307 32360 17.1 0.58 0.63 Splodge 33 93.30 17 449 29843 26.4 0.55 0.59 kat 36 93.89 16 266 28004 16.6 0.52 0.56 Jeff Gaines 37 94.44 15 344 26272 22.9 0.48 0.52 Anita 38 94.96 11 173 15242 15.7 0.35 0.38 Jerry Atric 39 95.35 10 265 22793 26.5 0.32 0.35 Herbie 40 95.69 10 223 22227 22.3 0.32 0.35 Pete C 40 96.04 8 124 14095 15.5 0.26 0.28 Bri 42 96.32 7 110 11544 15.7 0.23 0.24 geoffhay 43 96.56 7 36 9396 5.1 0.23 0.24 uker 43 96.80 7 170 9644 24.3 0.23 0.24 Smokey 43 97.05 6 98 8850 16.3 0.19 0.21 Bram 46 97.26 6 108 10020 18.0 0.19 0.21 Troy's Human 46 97.46 6 124 13579 20.7 0.19 0.21 Dingo 46 97.67 6 136 13344 22.7 0.19 0.21 John Nice 46 97.88 6 128 9286 21.3 0.19 0.21 Gander 46 98.09 6 95 9411 15.8 0.19 0.21 JoeH 46 98.30 4 94 8790 23.5 0.13 0.14 Phian 52 98.44 4 96 7390 24.0 0.13 0.14 Parrotfish 52 98.58 3 99 8326 33.0 0.10 0.10 Peter Parry 54 98.68 3 54 4651 18.0 0.10 0.10 JF 54 98.78 3 22 3919 7.3 0.10 0.10 Geordie 54 98.89 3 40 5011 13.3 0.10 0.10 Peter Percival 54 98.99 3 52 5317 17.3 0.10 0.10 Lieutenant Scott 54 99.10 3 97 6728 32.3 0.10 0.10 Bernard Peek 54 99.20 3 34 3477 11.3 0.10 0.10 zed 54 99.31 3 40 5673 13.3 0.10 0.10 Harold 54 99.41 2 70 5369 35.0 0.06 0.07 **owinwu77 62 99.48 2 65 4931 32.5 0.06 0.07 §håz 62 99.55 2 39 4754 19.5 0.06 0.07 Bernadette 62 99.62 1 026 02100 26.0 0.03 0.03 Solo 65 99.65 1 012 01599 12.0 0.03 0.03 Spammer 65 99.69 1 018 02075 18.0 0.03 0.03 Tahiri 65 99.72 1 021 02115 21.0 0.03 0.03 Enid 65 99.76 1 018 01733 18.0 0.03 0.03 Edward J Milan 65 99.79 1 009 01533 9.0 0.03 0.03 Jim Scott 65 99.83 1 020 01675 20.0 0.03 0.03 Mr Pounder 65 99.86 1 024 01726 24.0 0.03 0.03 **alanwilliams1 65 99.90 1 009 01869 9.0 0.03 0.03 marieh 65 99.93 1 007 01423 7.0 0.03 0.03 Andrew Walsh 65 99.97 1 007 01450 7.0 0.03 0.03 fred 65 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 48 Goromoff 1 40 griffin 2 18 Pam the goose 3 17 MCC 4 16 Wally 5 15 Flyiñg Ñuñ 6 13 wtwjgc (Joe) 7 12 Michaelangelo 8 7 §ireßird 9 7 r@y 9 6 Peter T 11 6 frogman 11 6 Bill P 11 5 Tickettyߺº 14 5 Gordon H 14 5 Splodge 14 4 Gareth 17 4 AriesVal 17 3 biffo 19 3 JF 19 3 Saxman 19 3 Rabbit 19 2 John the R-T 23 2 zed 23 2 Bunny Hare 23 2 Indy Jess John 23 2 Jerry Atric 23 2 Pete C 23 1 Troy's Human 29 1 Phian 29 1 mac 29 1 Dingo 29 1 Ali 29 1 **invalid 29 1 Peter Percival 29 1 Oliver 29 1 ned 29 1 Spammer 29 1 ~~Linda~~ 29 1 Peter Hawkins 29 1 Jeff Gaines 29 1 uker 29 1 Smokey 29 1 Jim Scott 29 1 The Brownie 29 1 marieh 29 1 kat 29 1 Parrotfish 29 1 Bertie Doe 29 0 Bram 50 0 Peter Parry 50 0 Anita 50 0 charles 50 0 UnsteadyKen 50 0 **owinwu77 50 0 geoffhay 50 0 Geordie 50 0 Herbie 50 0 Solo 50 0 Lieutenant Scott 50 0 §håz 50 0 Tahiri 50 0 Enid 50 0 Bernard Peek 50 0 Edward J Milan 50 0 Bri 50 0 Mr Pounder 50 0 **alanwilliams1 50 0 Andrew Walsh 50 0 Harold 50 0 John Nice 50 0 Gander 50 0 fred 50 0 Bernadette 50 0 JoeH 50

Number of posters having few posts. Posts Posters 1 11 2 3 3 8 4 2 5 0 6 6 7 3 8 1 9 0 10+ 41

Top 10 verbose posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 30.2 charles 1 28.9 The Brownie 2 26.4 kat 3 25.3 ~~Linda~~ 4 23.6 Gareth 5 23.4 r@y 6 22.9 Anita 7 22.9 Ali 8 22.5 Gordon H 9 22.1 ned 10

Top 10 concise posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 11.2 biffo 1 11.7 Bunny Hare 2 13.2 Goromoff 3 13.4 Peter T 4 13.6 frogman 5 13.8 John the R-T 6 14.2 mac 7 14.5 MCC 8 15.2 Bill P 9 16.2 §ireßird 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
2	alt.happy.valley

Crossposting (with follow-ups set) is the preferred method of making announcements relevant to more than one group.

Unfortunately it is also a preferred method for spammers and trolls