Re: stats 2024-08

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:55:08 -0400, Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
wrote in <vb7ihs$3e4jq$1@dont-email.me>:

On 9/1/2024 4:46 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <vb2c11$1iqam$2@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/1/2024 8:22 AM, The Doctor wrote:

Group : rec.arts.sf.written Statistics : from 8/1/2024 to 8/31/2024
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***** Users with most messages *****
num| Name            | Nb Msg | size      | or. | %
----|-----------------|--------|-----------|-----|------------------|
   1 |                 |  1,037 | 3,206,918 |  95 |

98.57% xxxxxxxxxx

   2 | Robert Carnegie |      6 |    13,135 |   5 |  0.57%
   3 | The Horny Goat  |      3 |     6,188 |   3 |  0.29% 4 |
   William Hyde    |      2 |     9,324 |   1 |  0.19%
   5 | Scott Dorsey    |      2 |     2,365 |   1 |  0.19%
   6 | John W Kennedy  |      1 |     2,434 |   1 |  0.10% 7 |
   Bobbie Sellers  |      1 |     3,722 |   0 |  0.10%
----|-----------------|--------|-----------|-----|------------------|
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***** Summary results *****
Total found messages : 1052 for 31 days New threads : 106 Total
replies : 946 Total modified threads : 126 Total size : 3244086 bytes
(3,168.05 KB)
Total lines : 48692 lines Total users : 7 Average number of messages
by user : 150.29 Average size of messages by user : 463,440.86 bytes
(452.58 KB)) Average number of lines by user : 6,956.00

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I think you should check your scripts.
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The top chart lists a total of 1037 messages, which is plausible, but
the 'top 7' users posted only 15.
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Are you sure this isn't the *bottom* 7 posters, instead of the top?
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pt
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It looks like the "#1" entry is a catchall for some reason. I'm pretty
sure I would be in there if that were broken out.

 
I'm saying its implausible that the 7 top posters, between them,
posted only 15 messages during August.
 
There's something wrong here.
 
pt

Salutations,

"The Doctor's" tallies have come under fire in
other 'froups, too.

I have a tally program I wrote that uses NNTP xover for
the counts.  (Source available upon request.)

For Aug 2024, it reports:

 167 Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
  97 Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
  71 D <nospam@example.net>
  68 Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com>
  56 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
  55 Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
  46 The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
  41 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
  39 ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
  38 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
  33 William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
  32 Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
  30 Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
  29 Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
  26 Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
  23 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
  21 "Michael F. Stemper" <michael.stemper@gmail.com>
  21 Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
  19 Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
  14 Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
  13 Don <g@crcomp.net>
  11 BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com>
  10 Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au>
   8 Don_from_AZ <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid>
   8 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
   7 quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
   7 "Jay E. Morris" <morrisj@epsilon3.comcon>
   7 "Gary R. Schmidt" <grschmidt@acm.org>
   7 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid>
   6 davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy)
   5 Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org>
   5 wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
   5 Lenona <lenona321@yahoo.com>
   4 David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
   4 Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com>
   3 BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
   3 Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
   3 Lee Gleason <lee.gleason@comcast.net>
   3 Kevrob <kjrobinson@mail.com>
   3 Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org>
   2 John W Kennedy <john.w.kennedy@gmail.com>
   2 Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu>
   2 Torbjorn Lindgren <tl@none.invalid>
   2 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
   2 Graham <zotzlists@gmail.com>
   1 Pluted Pup <plutedpup@outlook.com>
   1 vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
   1 Michael Benveniste <mhb@murkyether.com>
   1 Daniel Goldsmith <dgold@dgold.invalid>
   1 Michael Ikeda <mmikeda@erols.com>
   1 eichler2@comcast.net (Bice)
   1 WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com>
   1 G <g@nowhere.invalid>
   1 The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca>
   1 rkshullat@rosettacondot.com

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