Monthly Poster Statistics for April 2014 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.

Author Gmailer represents otherwise unknown persons posting through Google Groups

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.% 270 5446 522254 20.2 9.00 8.36 Gareth 1 8.36 212 5043 394569 23.8 7.07 6.56 Flyiñg Ñuñ 2 14.92 204 3748 325945 18.4 6.80 6.32 Rabbit 3 21.24 180 3406 272524 18.9 6.00 5.57 Michaelangelo 4 26.81 178 2799 341389 15.7 5.93 5.51 Pam the goose 5 32.32 166 3200 262359 19.3 5.53 5.14 Tickettyߺº 6 37.46 155 2155 204877 13.9 5.17 4.80 MCC 7 42.26 141 2629 229299 18.6 4.70 4.37 Indy Jess John 8 46.63 133 1725 151888 13.0 4.43 4.12 Peter T 9 50.74 126 2338 256530 18.6 4.20 3.90 griffin 10 54.64 124 2655 221449 21.4 4.13 3.84 tane 11 58.48 122 2121 148168 17.4 4.07 3.78 Wally 12 62.26 115 1726 196569 15.0 3.83 3.56 Goromoff 13 65.82 93 1420 156206 15.3 3.10 2.88 Oliver 14 68.70 84 995 102031 11.8 2.80 2.60 biffo 15 71.30 78 1834 161393 23.5 2.60 2.41 r@y 16 73.72 74 1207 127771 16.3 2.47 2.29 Jeff Gaines 17 76.01 71 1029 107052 14.5 2.37 2.20 §ireßird 18 78.20 50 668 80182 13.4 1.67 1.55 frogman 19 79.75 46 1217 97350 26.5 1.53 1.42 The Brownie 20 81.18 45 901 74390 20.0 1.50 1.39 Bertie Doe 21 82.57 44 632 56812 14.4 1.47 1.36 Smokey 22 83.93 42 633 77614 15.1 1.40 1.30 Saxman 23 85.23 37 937 76899 25.3 1.23 1.15 Peter Hawkins 24 86.38 35 523 42447 14.9 1.17 1.08 Herbie 25 87.46 31 386 52478 12.5 1.03 0.96 Bunny Hare 26 88.42 31 332 37543 10.7 1.03 0.96 Bill P 26 89.38 30 426 50057 14.2 1.00 0.93 Splodge 28 90.31 27 554 49347 20.5 0.90 0.84 Gordon H 29 91.15 24 484 52574 20.2 0.80 0.74 Pete C 30 91.89 20 370 33659 18.5 0.67 0.62 Ali 31 92.51 18 515 51339 28.6 0.60 0.56 Lieutenant Scott 32 93.07 18 436 37986 24.2 0.60 0.56 Wrinklie One 32 93.62 17 266 24690 15.6 0.57 0.53 Anita 34 94.15 17 229 25243 13.5 0.57 0.53 mac 34 94.67 16 46 18010 2.9 0.53 0.50 uker 36 95.17 14 190 18798 13.6 0.47 0.43 AriesVal 37 95.60 14 258 27260 18.4 0.47 0.43 John Nice 37 96.04 12 246 19507 20.5 0.40 0.37 ned 39 96.41 12 483 32910 40.3 0.40 0.37 Spammer 39 96.78 11 156 19594 14.2 0.37 0.34 John #8 41 97.12 9 146 16312 16.2 0.30 0.28 Jim Scott 42 97.40 8 115 15329 14.4 0.27 0.25 Tahiri 43 97.65 8 117 10294 14.6 0.27 0.25 ~~Linda~~ 43 97.89 7 173 11246 24.7 0.23 0.22 charles 45 98.11 7 25 11363 3.6 0.23 0.22 Noreen 45 98.33 6 201 15411 33.5 0.20 0.19 Phian 47 98.51 6 122 11748 20.3 0.20 0.19 gmailer 47 98.70 5 121 12293 24.2 0.17 0.15 UnsteadyKen 49 98.85 5 59 9581 11.8 0.17 0.15 John the R-T 49 99.01 5 80 7648 16.0 0.17 0.15 Gander 49 99.16 4 144 11564 36.0 0.13 0.12 Who, me? 52 99.29 4 58 7539 14.5 0.13 0.12 Harold 52 99.41 3 46 4453 15.3 0.10 0.09 geoffhay 54 99.50 2 26 2966 13.0 0.07 0.06 Troy's Human 55 99.57 2 68 4853 34.0 0.07 0.06 JF 55 99.63 2 26 3749 13.0 0.07 0.06 **alwheel 55 99.69 2 67 4711 33.5 0.07 0.06 Edward J Milan 55 99.75 1 029 01841 29.0 0.03 0.03 zed 59 99.78 1 006 00947 6.0 0.03 0.03 $ir Vivor 59 99.81 1 012 01367 12.0 0.03 0.03 **JonH 59 99.85 1 002 02339 2.0 0.03 0.03 MJP 59 99.88 1 017 01515 17.0 0.03 0.03 Mr Pounder 59 99.91 1 026 02233 26.0 0.03 0.03 Steve Baker 59 99.94 1 013 01331 13.0 0.03 0.03 John 59 99.97 1 009 01555 9.0 0.03 0.03 JoeH 59 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 48 Goromoff 1 41 Wally 2 41 griffin 2 33 tane 4 26 Gareth 5 26 Peter T 5 16 Michaelangelo 7 15 MCC 8 12 Pam the goose 9 12 Jeff Gaines 9 9 Spammer 11 8 Tickettyߺº 12 8 Smokey 12 8 r@y 12 8 Flyiñg Ñuñ 12 5 ned 16 5 The Brownie 16 5 frogman 16 5 John #8 16 4 §ireßird 20 4 uker 20 4 Bunny Hare 20 4 Wrinklie One 20 3 Pete C 24 2 biffo 25 2 mac 25 2 Herbie 25 2 Gordon H 25 2 Peter Hawkins 25 2 Jim Scott 25 2 Saxman 25 2 John Nice 25 2 Splodge 25 2 Bill P 25 1 Noreen 35 1 Ali 35 1 Tahiri 35 1 ~~Linda~~ 35 1 John the R-T 35 1 $ir Vivor 35 1 Indy Jess John 35 1 Rabbit 35 1 Bertie Doe 35 0 charles 44 0 Troy's Human 44 0 Anita 44 0 UnsteadyKen 44 0 Phian 44 0 geoffhay 44 0 JF 44 0 gmailer 44 0 Oliver 44 0 **alwheel 44 0 Lieutenant Scott 44 0 Edward J Milan 44 0 zed 44 0 **JonH 44 0 MJP 44 0 Who, me? 44 0 Mr Pounder 44 0 AriesVal 44 0 Steve Baker 44 0 Harold 44 0 Gander 44 0 John 44 0 JoeH 44

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

Top 10 verbose posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 28.6 Lieutenant Scott 1 26.5 The Brownie 2 25.3 Peter Hawkins 3 24.2 Wrinklie One 4 23.8 Flyiñg Ñuñ 5 23.5 r@y 6 21.4 tane 7 20.5 Gordon H 8 20.2 Gareth 9 20.2 Pete C 10

Top 10 concise posters (over 14 posts) by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 2.9 uker 1 10.7 Bill P 2 11.8 biffo 3 12.5 Bunny Hare 4 13.0 Peter T 5 13.4 frogman 6 13.5 mac 7 13.9 MCC 8 14.2 Splodge 9 14.4 Smokey 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
3	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 preferred method for spammers and trolls