Total Poster Statistics for 2016 in ups.

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.% 2886 48740 3923137 16.9 12.85 Pumpkin 1 12.85 2153 49073 4170046 22.8 9.58 Flyiñg Ñuñ 2 22.43 1511 25338 2205489 16.8 6.73 Michaelangelo 3 29.16 1428 29712 2468285 20.8 6.36 Rabbit 4 35.51 1133 21625 2131153 19.1 5.04 Indy Jess John 5 40.55 1006 24627 1906464 24.5 4.48 Gordon H 6 45.03 922 16481 1496315 17.9 4.10 Bertie Doe 7 49.14 837 11835 986929 14.1 3.73 Peter T 8 52.86 731 11624 1262225 15.9 3.25 Jeff Gaines 9 56.12 726 16343 1522184 22.5 3.23 Who, Me? 10 59.35 702 10096 1160221 14.4 3.12 Pam the goose 11 62.47 641 11701 937450 18.3 2.85 Tickettyߺº 12 65.33 622 12381 985972 19.9 2.77 AriesVal 13 68.09 568 6616 891670 11.6 2.53 Bunny Hare 14 70.62 551 6545 660069 11.9 2.45 MCC 15 73.07 421 7904 538807 18.8 1.87 Herbie 16 74.95 348 5264 510187 15.1 1.55 Bill P 17 76.50 332 5043 422664 15.2 1.48 Jenny Cass 18 77.98 307 3745 446971 12.2 1.37 frogman 19 79.34 282 5796 441883 20.6 1.26 Peter Hawkins 20 80.60 281 5386 597627 19.2 1.25 Pete C 21 81.85 275 4649 502490 16.9 1.22 Oliver 22 83.07 274 5523 448979 20.2 1.22 r@y 23 84.29 251 4718 429030 18.8 1.12 griffin 24 85.41 198 4340 271011 21.9 0.88 Wally 25 86.29 183 2310 295010 12.6 0.81 Splodge 26 87.10 169 3943 312396 23.3 0.75 Ali 27 87.86 165 2839 263001 17.2 0.73 Zephirum 28 88.59 164 3347 292281 20.4 0.73 ned 29 89.32 163 1923 275994 11.8 0.73 tane 30 90.05 155 3851 275196 24.8 0.69 charles 31 90.74 148 3169 314605 21.4 0.66 John Nice 32 91.40 126 2068 166267 16.4 0.56 Smokey 33 91.96 118 1986 193030 16.8 0.53 mac 34 92.48 111 2681 217530 24.2 0.49 Boggy 35 92.98 110 1248 167807 11.3 0.49 Alec 36 93.47 85 2408 159106 28.3 0.38 James Wilkinson 37 93.84 85 1925 156071 22.6 0.38 kat 37 94.22 70 1807 136842 25.8 0.31 Mr Pounder 39 94.53 64 1531 126113 23.9 0.28 Wrinklie One 40 94.82 59 1108 94325 18.8 0.26 Anita 41 95.08 52 413 61515 7.9 0.23 uker 42 95.31 47 1148 106324 24.4 0.21 Andy 43 95.52 47 674 60942 14.3 0.21 biffo 43 95.73 45 769 77620 17.1 0.20 Patrick 45 95.93 41 931 80926 22.7 0.18 Gareth 46 96.11 41 1113 82213 27.1 0.18 Old Codger 46 96.30 38 981 77197 25.8 0.17 bert 48 96.47 35 829 55870 23.7 0.16 Bram 49 96.62 34 1116 74537 32.8 0.15 gmailer 50 96.77 34 781 61048 23.0 0.15 Flying_Rat 50 96.92 33 852 67453 25.8 0.15 Bernard Peek 52 97.07 33 672 68118 20.4 0.15 PP 52 97.22 32 987 64837 30.8 0.14 Zed 54 97.36 31 543 49544 17.5 0.14 JoeH 55 97.50 30 415 44427 13.8 0.13 Bri 56 97.63 30 516 53625 17.2 0.13 Jim_S 56 97.77 56 984 98625 17.6 0.25 Only 28 posts 58 98.01 24 555 44515 23.1 0.11 Only 24 posts 59 98.12 22 162 69279 7.4 0.10 Only 22 posts 60 98.22 21 1646 60085 78.4 0.09 Only 21 posts 61 98.31 40 688 70506 17.2 0.18 Only 20 posts 62 98.49 18 405 38019 22.5 0.08 Only 18 posts 63 98.57 17 288 32570 16.9 0.08 Only 17 posts 64 98.65 15 32 23643 2.1 0.07 Only 15 posts 65 98.71 42 670 76210 16.0 0.19 Only 14 posts 66 98.90 26 643 57235 24.7 0.12 Only 13 posts 67 99.02 55 987 95578 17.9 0.24 Only 11 posts 68 99.26 10 134 16119 13.4 0.04 Only 10 posts 69 99.31 18 434 35594 24.1 0.08 Only 9 posts 70 99.39 24 542 45174 22.6 0.11 Only 8 posts 71 99.49 7 137 11487 19.6 0.03 Only 7 posts 72 99.52 6 213 14629 35.5 0.03 Only 6 posts 73 99.55 15 340 30882 22.7 0.07 Only 5 posts 74 99.62 12 198 19760 16.5 0.05 Only 4 posts 75 99.67 15 266 30393 17.7 0.07 Only 3 posts 76 99.74 22 523 43857 23.8 0.10 Only 2 posts 77 99.84 37 707 66427 19.1 0.16 Only 1 posts 78 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 458 Pumpkin 1 182 Peter T 2 166 Jeff Gaines 3 133 Michaelangelo 4 98 Flyiñg Ñuñ 5 81 Pam the goose 6 76 griffin 7 68 r@y 8 67 Bertie Doe 9 64 Gordon H 10 63 Bunny Hare 11 62 Wally 12 60 MCC 13 46 Herbie 14 46 AriesVal 14 44 Tickettyߺº 16 42 Indy Jess John 17 36 tane 18 35 Jenny Cass 19 34 Splodge 20 34 Bill P 20 28 Pete C 22 22 John Nice 23 20 Who, Me? 24 19 Smokey 25 18 ned 26 18 Wrinklie One 26 18 uker 26 17 frogman 29 16 biffo 30 15 Peter Hawkins 31 15 Ali 31 15 Alec 31 10 gmailer 34 10 Jim_S 34 9 Zed 36 6 Boggy 37 5 mac 38 5 Rabbit 38 4 Andy 40 4 Anita 40 4 Patrick 40 3 Bram 43 3 Gareth 43 3 Old Codger 43 2 Oliver 46 2 Flying_Rat 46 1 Bernard Peek 48 1 Bri 48 1 kat 48 1 bert 48 1 Mr Pounder 48 0 charles 53 0 James Wilkinson 53 0 Zephirum 53 0 PP 53 0 JoeH 53

'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 37 2 11 3 5 4 3 5 3 6 1 7 1 8 3 9 2 10+ 78

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 32.8 gmailer 1 30.8 Zed 2 28.3 James Wilkinson 3 27.1 Old Codger 4 25.8 Bernard Peek 5 25.8 bert 6 25.8 Mr Pounder 7 24.8 charles 8 24.5 Gordon H 9 24.4 Andy 10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 7.9 uker 1 11.3 Alec 2 11.6 Bunny Hare 3 11.8 tane 4 11.9 MCC 5 12.2 frogman 6 12.6 Splodge 7 13.8 Bri 8 14.1 Peter T 9 14.3 biffo 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

3 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
64	uk.d-i-y alt.usage.english
16	free.uk.ntl.talk.outcasts
1	alt.usage.english

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