FYI: News Statistics 2011/10

[Alexander Bartolich]

Analysis of the spool of news.albasani.net.
Crossposts count in all groups.
Column "Lines" is the number of lines in body.
Column "Bytes" is the size of the post, including headers.

Group Posts Lines Bytes
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ch.admin 8 187 16128
ch.comm 1 10 1788
ch.comp 9 516 28992
ch.comp.networks 1 6 1011
ch.comp.os.linux 24 783 47230
ch.market.comp 4 48 4405
ch.rec 4 69 4839
ch.soc.law 23 866 67692
ch.soc.politics 139 3734 301761
ch.talk 875 24201 1823950
ch.talk.moderated 51 1269 125405
ch.test 12 37 12928
soc.culture.swiss 60 13325 595187
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1211 45051 3031316

Client Posts %
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G2 439 36.3
Microsoft Outlook Express 407 33.6
Mozilla 103 8.5
- 67 5.5
Forte Agent 54 4.5
KNode 44 3.6
40tude_Dialog 34 2.8
OpenXP 12 1.0
tin 9 0.7
NewsPortal 6 0.5
Opera Mail 6 0.5
Claws Mail 5 0.4
Sylpheed 5 0.4
Pan 4 0.3
MesNews 4 0.3
Xnews 3 0.2
slrn 3 0.2
MacSOUP 2 0.2
MT-NewsWatcher 2 0.2
Gnus 1 0.1
Archivator v3.8.11 1 0.1
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Path Posts %
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*.googlegroups.com 324 26.8
*.free.fr 210 17.3
individual.net 204 16.8
news.alt.net 151 12.5
news.albasani.net 106 8.8
feeder.eternal-september.org 58 4.8
aioe.org 54 4.5
x-privat.org 31 2.6
tioat.net 25 2.1
mail2news.mixmin.net 15 1.2
news.dfncis.de 7 0.6
news.hispeed.ch 7 0.6
*.highway.telekom.at 4 0.3
alphanet.ch 3 0.2
news.arcor.de 2 0.2
Habakuk 2 0.2
border6.newsrouter.astraweb.com 1 0.1
news1.mynetnews.org 1 0.1
open-news-network.org 1 0.1
border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com 1 0.1
cs.sirdir.ch 1 0.1
news.online.de 1 0.1
mail2news 1 0.1
news.inode.at 1 0.1
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