FYI: News Statistics 2011/11

[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 4 144 10990
ch.comm 2 37 3776
ch.comp 52 1284 102998
ch.comp.os.linux 7 162 12911
ch.comp.os.ms-windows 2 49 3609
ch.market.comp 2 21 2008
ch.rec 12 219 18698
ch.soc.law 4 295 16759
ch.soc.politics 62 1703 136248
ch.talk 673 20666 1615506
ch.talk.moderated 22 837 59995
ch.test 4 50 6257
soc.culture.swiss 86 7856 448510
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932 33323 2438265

Client Posts %
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Microsoft Outlook Express 383 41.1
G2 319 34.2
Mozilla 79 8.5
Forte Agent 54 5.8
tin 19 2.0
KNode 17 1.8
Xnews 14 1.5
MesNews 11 1.2
MacSOUP 10 1.1
- 10 1.1
Forte Free Agent 4 0.4
slrn 4 0.4
NewsPortal 3 0.3
Geminisoft Pimmy 1 0.1
Claws Mail 1 0.1
Microsoft Windows Live Mail 1 0.1
40tude_Dialog 1 0.1
MT-NewsWatcher 1 0.1
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Path Posts %
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*.free.fr 368 39.5
*.googlegroups.com 313 33.6
news.albasani.net 70 7.5
aioe.org 59 6.3
individual.net 37 4.0
feeder.eternal-september.org 33 3.5
news.hispeed.ch 13 1.4
lacave.net 10 1.1
tioat.net 6 0.6
news.cv.net 5 0.5
open-news-network.org 4 0.4
news.alt.net 3 0.3
mail2news.mixmin.net 3 0.3
news.arcor.de 1 0.1
news.tiscalinet.ch 1 0.1
tjb 1 0.1
border5.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com 1 0.1
news.dizum.com 1 0.1
news.westnet.com.au 1 0.1
mail2news 1 0.1
news.tornevall.net 1 0.1
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