MHA Stats 2-8 Nov 2003

[D. C. Sessions]

This report covers 1088 messages written between 2003-11-02 00:05:17 and 2003-11-08 23:47:08

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Blacklist of quoters (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. B-Ob1 <[email protected]> 18 90.16%
2. Anth <[email protected]> 131 82.19%
3. ardeedee <[email protected]> 10 79.00%
4. Say not the Struggle nought Availeth <[email protected]> 9 77.06%
5. Rich Andrews <[email protected]> 6 75.85%
6. Joel M. Eichen D.D.S. <[email protected]> 4 74.71%
7. Markasurusi usProbertasaurusius <markprobert19@lumbercarte 5 74.02%
8. Marko Proberto <[email protected]> 10 70.09%
9. WB <[email protected]> 29 68.91%
10. Markasurusias Probertasaurusias <markprobert21@lumbercarte 14 67.85%
11. Happy Dog <[email protected]> 15 67.04%
12. yansimon52 <[email protected]> 11 65.15%
13. Ilsa9 <[email protected]> 33 63.16%
14. dickinson <[email protected]> 43 61.33%
15. Mark <[email protected]> 13 58.62%

A total of 1830719 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which 874184, or 47.75%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Anth <[email protected]> 131 223143 82.2%
2. Ric <,@.> 86 193523 47.6%
3. David Wright <[email protected]> 75 120627 57.7%
4. Jan <[email protected]> 71 214606 53.9%
5. Rich Shewmaker <[email protected]> 62 71698 55.2%
6. dickinson <[email protected]> 43 36569 61.3%
7. D. C. Sessions <[email protected]> 34 27230 51.8%
8. Ilsa9 <[email protected]> 33 24598 63.2%
9. WB <[email protected]> 29 17015 68.9%
10. Carole <[email protected]> 28 96877 24.0%
11. Ilena <[email protected]> 19 23551 9.7%
12. B-Ob1 <[email protected]> 18 48754 90.2%
Peter Bowditch <[email protected]> 18 28944 56.1%
14. Dave <[email protected]> 16 42114 10.7%
Mark Thorson <[email protected]> 16 26963 14.3%

A total of 156 people were identified.

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Toplist of original content per message (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Orig. / Msgs = PrMsg Quoted
1. Todd Gastaldo <[email protected]> 79367 / 8 = 9920 1.6%
2. Andrew Lange <[email protected]> 13186 / 5 = 2637 24.2%
3. Carole <[email protected]> 73652 / 28 = 2630 24.0%
4. Dave <[email protected]> 37605 / 16 = 2350 10.7%
5. Richard Friedel <[email protected] 6471 / 3 = 2157 33.4%
6. john <[email protected]> 26535 / 14 = 1895 11.4%
7. Mark Thorson <[email protected]> 23101 / 16 = 1443 14.3%
8. Jan <[email protected]> 98874 / 71 = 1392 53.9%
9. Ric <,@.> 101357 / 86 = 1178 47.6%
10. Ilena <[email protected]> 21274 / 19 = 1119 9.7%
11. doe <[email protected]> 4380 / 4 = 1095 1.4%
12. Eric Bohlman <[email protected]> 7484 / 7 = 1069 22.9%
13. [email protected] 13477 / 15 = 898 17.4%
14. Happy Oyster <[email protected]> 8529 / 10 = 852 28.4%
15. Joel M. Eichen D.D.S. <[email protected] 3324 / 4 = 831 74.7%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. The importance of continuing mass polio vaccination (Was 274 466545
2. Urine is healthy 47 30559
3. I think that I figured it out..... 38 103236
4. Rosenthal's Humiliating Upset Over Barrett & Grell 37 49234
What amazes me. 37 48654
6. Investigation: Autism and Informed Inoculation 35 53993
7. Zzz Scientific review of American Medicine 31 36005
8. Treating Autism 23 42077
9. Who put the "quack" in Quackbusters.... 22 47055
Quackpot Barrett THRASHED in Illinois High Court... 22 25429
11. Natural remedies crackdown in Oz 20 51106
Walmart & martial law 20 29551
13. Excessive mucous in body-how to get rid of it? 18 33771
14. Sorry again 16 25745
15. God, I am having fun. 13 10141

A total of 177 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 428
2. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 107
3. trn 4.0-test76 75
4. Forte Agent 50
5. KNode 34
6. Mozilla 26
7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 17
8. Xnews 14
9. Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 Englis 7
10. MT-NewsWatcher 3
Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PL 3
12. News Xpress 2
13. MicroPlanet Gravity 1
slrn 1

A total of 14 different programs (not counting different versions) were identified.

--
| "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a |
| completely unintentional side effect. " -- Linus Torvalds |
+--------------- D. C. Sessions <[email protected]> ----------+

 

[Rich Shewmaker]

"D. C. Sessions" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Toplist of programs
>
> Place Program Msgs
> 1. Microsoft Outlook Express 428
> 2. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 107
> 3. trn 4.0-test76 75
> 4. Forte Agent 50
> 5. KNode 34
> 6. Mozilla 26
> 7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 17
> 8. Xnews 14
> 9. Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 Englis 7
> 10. MT-NewsWatcher 3
> Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PL 3
> 12. News Xpress 2
> 13. MicroPlanet Gravity 1
> slrn 1
>
> A total of 14 different programs (not counting different versions) were identified.
>

It would be interesting to know how many of those programs support HTML. At one time, it was a cardinal sin to post to usenet in HTML, but now that there are so few users communicating at a teleprinter station, it may be time to lift that ban, and get the advantages of a broader typecase.

It would be nice, for example to be able to underline and italicize, particularly when referring to books and journals.

The downside, of course, is that some people believe that just because Word comes with 150 fonts, they have to use all of them. Their posts would look like ransom notes.

Just a thought,

--Rich

 

[David Wright]

In article <[email protected]>,
Rich Shewmaker <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
>
>"D. C. Sessions" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Toplist of programs
>>
>> Place Program Msgs
>> 1. Microsoft Outlook Express 428
>> 2. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 107
>> 3. trn 4.0-test76 75
>> 4. Forte Agent 50
>> 5. KNode 34
>> 6. Mozilla 26
>> 7. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 17
>> 8. Xnews 14
>> 9. Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 Englis 7
>> 10. MT-NewsWatcher 3
>> Virtual Access by Atlantic Coast PL 3
>> 12. News Xpress 2
>> 13. MicroPlanet Gravity 1
>> slrn 1
>>
>> A total of 14 different programs (not counting different versions)
>were identified.
>>
>
>It would be interesting to know how many of those programs support HTML.

trn does not. It can ignore html and just print the text, but I'm
still in favor of not using HTML. For one thing, it makes all the
messages longer, and those of us on dialups don't appreciate that.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)