Total Poster Statistics for 2018 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.% 901 22678 1891474 25.2 11.81 Flyiñg Ñuñ 1 11.81 614 11078 1188275 18.0 8.05 Indy Jess John 2 19.85 538 10431 834515 19.4 7.05 Tickettyߺº 3 26.90 532 7546 923325 14.2 6.97 Pam the goose 4 33.87 490 5841 545135 11.9 6.42 Peter T 5 40.30 463 11219 1011575 24.2 6.07 Rabbit 6 46.36 456 7813 775399 17.1 5.98 Jeff Gaines 7 52.34 420 5695 829420 13.6 5.50 Bunny Hare 8 57.84 203 6383 473668 31.4 2.66 Bob Henson 9 60.50 200 3073 369145 15.4 2.62 griffin 10 63.12 196 2738 364139 14.0 2.57 Harry Bloomfield 11 65.69 157 2407 228174 15.3 2.06 Bill P 12 67.75 152 2709 295707 17.8 1.99 Peter Percival 13 69.74 151 2951 284202 19.5 1.98 Oliver 14 71.72 151 3491 272830 23.1 1.98 Ray 14 73.70 140 4848 348724 34.6 1.83 Old Codger 16 75.53 137 2795 238367 20.4 1.80 Bertie Doe 17 77.33 121 1862 144937 15.4 1.59 Herbie 18 78.91 118 2729 243608 23.1 1.55 ned 19 80.46 107 2056 171359 19.2 1.40 AriesVal 20 81.86 103 2618 234608 25.4 1.35 Who Me 21 83.21 98 1647 134245 16.8 1.28 Smokey 22 84.50 76 1747 129068 23.0 1.00 Peter Hawkins 23 85.49 75 1597 154335 21.3 0.98 Who, Me? 24 86.48 68 1938 153715 28.5 0.89 Boggy 25 87.37 59 674 114874 11.4 0.77 tane 26 88.14 53 1458 140610 27.5 0.69 charles 27 88.84 53 927 133480 17.5 0.69 John the R-T 27 89.53 52 1249 87342 24.0 0.68 Zed 29 90.21 51 1079 112682 21.2 0.67 Pete C 30 90.88 50 1158 91944 23.2 0.66 Ali 31 91.53 49 631 73429 12.9 0.64 frogman 32 92.18 39 517 61089 13.3 0.51 Bri 33 92.69 32 436 47256 13.6 0.42 mac 34 93.11 31 621 68668 20.0 0.41 Webrex 35 93.51 30 415 54025 13.8 0.39 John #8 36 93.91 30 570 53872 19.0 0.39 John Nice 36 94.30 29 652 56760 22.5 0.38 Only 29 posts 38 94.68 27 431 44875 16.0 0.35 Only 27 posts 39 95.03 52 552 76893 10.6 0.68 Only 26 posts 40 95.71 23 1916 100572 83.3 0.30 Only 23 posts 41 96.02 42 962 100708 22.9 0.55 Only 21 posts 42 96.57 20 199 38957 9.9 0.26 Only 20 posts 43 96.83 19 457 43193 24.1 0.25 Only 19 posts 44 97.08 32 534 54522 16.7 0.42 Only 16 posts 45 97.50 30 700 66437 23.3 0.39 Only 15 posts 46 97.89 28 630 56438 22.5 0.37 Only 14 posts 47 98.26 12 444 33451 37.0 0.16 Only 12 posts 48 98.41 11 229 25072 20.8 0.14 Only 11 posts 49 98.56 10 258 20593 25.8 0.13 Only 10 posts 50 98.69 14 283 25927 20.2 0.18 Only 7 posts 51 98.87 30 676 55235 22.5 0.39 Only 6 posts 52 99.27 5 870 33068 174.0 0.07 Only 5 posts 53 99.33 12 209 21640 17.4 0.16 Only 4 posts 54 99.49 21 536 47402 25.5 0.28 Only 3 posts 55 99.76 6 170 13036 28.3 0.08 Only 2 posts 56 99.84 12 171 18312 14.3 0.16 Only 1 posts 57 100.00

… by threads started Threads Author Rank Threads Author Rank 210 Peter T 1 115 Jeff Gaines 2 79 Indy Jess John 3 64 Tickettyߺº 4 64 griffin 4 51 Pam the goose 6 48 Ray 7 43 Flyiñg Ñuñ 8 40 Bunny Hare 9 32 Peter Percival 10 20 Zed 11 18 Herbie 12 17 Harry Bloomfield 13 15 Bill P 14 13 ned 15 11 John #8 16 10 tane 17 9 Smokey 18 9 Bertie Doe 18 7 Old Codger 20 6 Ali 21 5 Webrex 22 5 John Nice 22 5 Bob Henson 22 5 Pete C 22 4 AriesVal 26 3 mac 27 3 Oliver 27 3 Who, Me? 27 3 Bri 27 3 frogman 27 2 John the R-T 32 2 Peter Hawkins 32 2 Rabbit 32 2 Who Me 32 0 charles 36 0 Boggy 36

'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 12 2 3 3 7 4 3 5 1 6 5 7 2 8 0 9 0 10+ 55

10 most verbose posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 34.6 Old Codger 1 31.4 Bob Henson 2 28.5 Boggy 3 27.5 charles 4 25.4 Who Me 5 25.2 Flyiñg Ñuñ 6 24.2 Rabbit 7 24.0 Zed 8 23.2 Ali 9 23.1 ned 10

Top 10 concise posters by average lines per post lines/post Author rank 11.4 tane 1 11.9 Peter T 2 12.9 frogman 3 13.3 Bri 4 13.6 Bunny Hare 5 13.6 mac 6 13.8 John #8 7 14.0 Harry Bloomfield 8 14.2 Pam the goose 9 15.3 Bill P 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

8 CrossPost Targets

posts	Groups
28	alt.happy.valley
5	uk.local.southwest
5	rec.pyrotechnics rec.collecting.paper-money misc.handicap
4	alt.drugs.2cb alt.drugs.uk-shroommap alt.drugs.hard.harryworld alt.drugs.pot.cultivation.no-spooks
2	alt.drugs.pot.cultivation.no-spooks rec.pyrotechnics alt.drugs.trip-reports alt.drugs.leri
1	uk.misc
1	alt.drugs.pot.cultivation.no-spooks rec.pyrotechnics alt.drugs.antihistamines
1	uk.media.radio.bbc-r4

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