ALT.WWW.WEBMASTER Statistics for 28/11/2004

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Analysis of posts to alt.www.webmaster
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight & Toby Inkster)


Total posts considered: 2,576 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sun Nov 21 21:01:09 2004
Latest article: Sun Nov 28 20:01:06 2004
Original articles: 55, replies: 2,521
Total size of posts: 5,928,593 bytes (5,789K) (5.65M)
Average 368 articles per day, 0.81 MB per day, 2,301 bytes per article
Total headers: 2,320 KB bodies: 3,468 KB
Body text - quoted: 480 KB, original: 2,540 KB = 84.11%, sigs: 419 KB
Total number of posters: 133, average 44,575 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 83, average 71,428 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 38


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Top 10 posters by number of articles
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1: Viper ......................................................... : 336
2: Steve Sobol ................................................... : 331
3: Mark Ferguson ................................................. : 249
4: Titan ......................................................... : 185
5: Eric Jarvis ................................................... : 147
6: Duende ........................................................ : 117
7: kludge RemoveThis @panix.com (Scott Dorsey)................................ : 105
8: Bill Cole ..................................................... : 84
9: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 76
10: Charles Sweeney ............................................... : 72


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Top 10 posters by size (KBytes)
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1: Viper ......................................................... : 802
2: Steve Sobol ................................................... : 780
3: Mark Ferguson ................................................. : 607
4: Titan ......................................................... : 440
5: Eric Jarvis ................................................... : 345
6: Duende ........................................................ : 278
7: kludge RemoveThis @panix.com (Scott Dorsey)................................ : 248
8: Bill Cole ..................................................... : 207
9: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 150
10: Charles Sweeney ............................................... : 149


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Top 10 posters by original text (KBytes)
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1: Viper ......................................................... : 369
2: Steve Sobol ................................................... : 367
3: Mark Ferguson ................................................. : 296
4: Titan ......................................................... : 201
5: Eric Jarvis ................................................... : 156
6: Duende ........................................................ : 128
7: kludge RemoveThis @panix.com (Scott Dorsey)................................ : 118
8: Bill Cole ..................................................... : 101
9: Charles Sweeney ............................................... : 65
10: Toby Inkster .................................................. : 64


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Highest percentage of original text (> 5 posts)
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1: bonomi RemoveThis @host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi).................... : 94.78%
2: dp ............................................................ : 93.65%
3: NetworkElf .................................................... : 93.34%
4: vjs RemoveThis @calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver)..................... : 90.76%
5: Mark Ferguson ................................................. : 90.32%
6: Bill Cole ..................................................... : 89.27%
7: kludge RemoveThis @panix.com (Scott Dorsey)................................ : 88.81%
8: Charles Sweeney ............................................... : 88.79%
9: Stephen K. Gielda ............................................. : 88.31%
10: Viper ......................................................... : 88.14%


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Lowest percentage original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Jim Evans ..................................................... : 30.21%
2: SpaceGirl ..................................................... : 32.19%
3: Karim ......................................................... : 36.12%
4: Titan ......................................................... : 37.03%
5: Saint Firk .................................................... : 37.24%
6: Blinky the Shark .............................................. : 39.76%
7: Chris Hope .................................................... : 39.85%
8: rf ............................................................ : 41.93%
9: Tina - AffordableHOST, Inc. ................................... : 46.67%
10: Steven ........................................................ : 50.85%


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Top 20 threads by number of articles
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1: OT: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)............. : 1983
2: OT: Happy Thanksgiving America................................. : 50
3: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)................. : 48
4: Woohoo! New PC!................................................ : 41
5: Re: OT: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)......... : 39
6: Fearing earthquakes, which UK webhost should I use?............ : 24
7: any way to stop people saving picture files off website........ : 20
8: Minimal HTML................................................... : 20
9: Need a person from the UK to help out with som busniess........ : 17
10: Do spambots parse SSI's?....................................... : 16
11: Active X warning on Flash sites & optimization comments & alt i : 16
12: How do I host my fab website on my home XP HE PC without having : 16
13: dozens of posts to "cleaning up after a breakin"............... : 15
14: The Power of the Internet...................................... : 15
15: What makes these sites so popular?............................. : 14
16: No more horizontal scrolling................................... : 12
17: Is Downloading A Web Page's HTML Illegal?...................... : 11
18: Bit of a favour needed......................................... : 11
19: Any ISP in UK who will accept Direct Debit?.................... : 10
20: My Knoppix experience.......................................... : 10


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Top 20 threads by size (KBytes)
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1: OT: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)............. : 4761
2: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)................. : 113
3: Re: OT: cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)......... : 90
4: OT: Happy Thanksgiving America................................. : 65
5: Woohoo! New PC!................................................ : 58
6: Fearing earthquakes, which UK webhost should I use?............ : 40
7: Active X warning on Flash sites & optimization comments & alt i : 34
8: Minimal HTML................................................... : 33
9: any way to stop people saving picture files off website........ : 30
10: Do spambots parse SSI's?....................................... : 30
11: How do I host my fab website on my home XP HE PC without having : 27
12: Need a person from the UK to help out with som busniess........ : 26
13: What makes these sites so popular?............................. : 23
14: ALT.WWW.WEBMASTER Statistics for 21/11/2004.................... : 23
15: dozens of posts to "cleaning up after a breakin"............... : 22
16: Is Downloading A Web Page's HTML Illegal?...................... : 22
17: My Knoppix experience.......................................... : 21
18: Active X warning on Flash sites & optimization comments & alt.. : 20
19: The Power of the Internet...................................... : 20
20: AWW FAQ November 26, 2004...................................... : 19


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Top 8 cross-posted groups
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1: news.admin.net-abuse.email..................................... : 2073
2: alt.html....................................................... : 20
3: alt.websites................................................... : 3
4: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design..................... : 3
5: alt.apache.configuration....................................... : 2
6: alt.www.webmaster.ads.......................................... : 1
7: alt.computer.security.......................................... : 1
8: comp.os.linux.security......................................... : 1


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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: Outlook Express................................................ : 38
2: Mozilla........................................................ : 24
3: Forte [Free] Agent............................................. : 13
4: Google Groups.................................................. : 10
5: Xnews.......................................................... : 6
6: KNode.......................................................... : 5
7: Opera M2....................................................... : 4
8: slrn........................................................... : 4
9: unknown........................................................ : 3
10: MicroPlanet Gravity............................................ : 3


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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Mozilla................................................... : 351 (14%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 223 ( 9%)
3: Forte [Free] Agent........................................ : 210 ( 8%)
4: tin....................................................... : 130 ( 5%)
5: Xnews..................................................... : 113 ( 4%)
6: slrn...................................................... : 107 ( 4%)
7: unknown................................................... : 87 ( 3%)
8: Mozilla Thunderbird....................................... : 87 ( 3%)
9: MicroPlanet Gravity....................................... : 80 ( 3%)
10: Pan....................................................... : 52 ( 2%)


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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 2358
2: -0800.......................................................... : 77
3: -0500.......................................................... : 62
4: +0100.......................................................... : 25
5: -0600.......................................................... : 11
6: +1300.......................................................... : 11
7: +1100.......................................................... : 9
8: -0400.......................................................... : 8
9: +0200.......................................................... : 5
10: +1000.......................................................... : 4



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 > Analysis of posts to alt.www.webmaster
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 > (stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight & Toby Inkster)

This weeks stats are pretty much all skewed out of whack thanks to that "OT:
cleaning up after a breakin (Re: Suggestions?)" thread that went on an
attack with the email abuse group.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->