Usenet traffic analysis ------ ------- -------- Newsgroup: alt.fan.douglas-adams Date (local): Thu Aug 31 16:57:02 2000 Date (GMT): Thu Aug 31 15:57:02 2000 There are 5902 archived messages from alt.fan.douglas-adams, dated from 1 Jan to 31 Mar 2000 Poster Analysis ------ -------- There are 240 posters in alt.fan.douglas-adams. Number Percent Poster ------ ------- ------ 393 6.66 Orion (ah42@ma.ultranet.com) 353 5.98 iain (afda@imb.clara.net) 332 5.63 Ben (latebird@usa.net) 297 5.03 Screwtape (st@ferd2.thristian.org) 290 4.91 Jim Evans (jevans@physics.uottawa.ca) 284 4.81 Kielinen (kristenk@bu.edu) 217 3.68 castle-brooks (cbc@dcwi.com) 210 3.56 Arcum Dagsson (Arcum_Dagsson@hushmail.c.o.m) 197 3.34 Kasatka (skaanaREMOVECAPS@earthlink.net) 189 3.20 Megan S Branning (msbst41+@pitt.edu) 183 3.10 Hollis (ch@hollis.enterprise-plc.com) 151 2.56 Laura Shadbolt (Laura.Shadbolt@tesco.net) 150 2.54 lessie (lessie@ad****valvas.be) 138 2.34 Matt Messerman (messerma@rohan.sdsu.edu) 119 2.02 DrnknMnky (DrnknMnky@hotmail.deletethispart.com) 118 2.00 Till Westermayer (Till_Westermayer@fr.maus.de) 117 1.98 LA Rayner (vladalanthalasa@hotmail.com) 105 1.78 Nikitta Riber (nikittaR@mail.tele.dk) 105 1.78 Metheglen (metheglen@meths.net) 98 1.66 Arthur Dent (nospam.bourdrez@casema.net) 88 1.49 Ewan Dunbar (dunbare@golden.net) 85 1.44 Lloyd Gilbert (lwg@%dont_spam_me%.iname.com) 85 1.44 Rebeka Thomas (beka_thomas@p8-term2-indy.netdirect.net) 77 1.30 Teh [tie:poe] (teh@Apexmail.com) 74 1.25 RST (beka_thomas@p4-term4-indy.netdirect.net) 74 1.25 Oscar Basdof (basdof@one.net.au) 71 1.20 Jan van den Broek (murmeltier@xs4all.nl) 66 1.12 Howard Gardner (hgardner@hgardner.com) 63 1.07 Cerine Marguerite Hill (hillcm@aur.alcatel.com) 60 1.02 P. Shaughnessy (pshaughn@mediaone.net) 53 0.90 Joseph Ornelas (nexthttp@geocities.com) 51 0.86 Nick Piesco (bohemian@futuresouth.com) 43 0.73 Jacob (jskaaning@teliamail.dk) 42 0.71 Kenny Hutchings (kenny_hutchings@email.com) [206 posters with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Subject Analysis ------- -------- 442 unique subjects: Number Percent Subject ------ ------- ------- 308 5.22 Magrathean Designer Planets 165 2.80 poll: what other f/groups do you post 139 2.36 Something I'd like to share with y'all... 134 2.27 The Spoon 123 2.08 So, I'd like to ask what everyone doesn't want me to ask. 119 2.02 newsswerver woes 116 1.97 AFDA Birthdays 107 1.81 Plausible Deniability 106 1.80 Throwing in my 2 towels worth 89 1.51 Happy DNA b-day 89 1.51 ha! 84 1.42 fabulous! 83 1.41 Just a thought... 74 1.25 Pick my nick! 73 1.24 i'm alive, trllyn 72 1.22 Lefties Unite!!! 72 1.22 Valentine's Day 72 1.22 [OFT] The short message thread 71 1.20 Stats up, up, up 65 1.10 What do I do about this? 65 1.10 [afda-news] Unsubscribed from afda 64 1.08 Name my Degu's 64 1.08 should I change my nick? 60 1.02 The cassette tape at the end of the universe 58 0.98 Maintaining the equality of &afda 58 0.98 book 56 0.95 Poopoo! :P 56 0.95 points, points, points 54 0.91 The Webpage 53 0.90 Sicklyness 53 0.90 Hi again 52 0.88 Question 51 0.86 My s'mores! :( 51 0.86 42 messages 50 0.85 O Zone 48 0.81 Happy 2000!! 47 0.80 This just in!!! 47 0.80 i thought i was seeing things 46 0.78 Hi Meg! 42 0.71 please ROT13 for me was Re: ...,,..IF AOL WAS A CAR..,.,. [402 subjects with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Cross-posting: numeric analysis ------------------------------- Max number of newsgroups/article: 10 Average number of newsgroups/article: 1.05 Group Article Count Count Percent ------ ------- ------- 1 5717 96.87 2 139 2.36 3 34 0.58 4 0 0.00 5 2 0.03 6 0 0.00 7 0 0.00 8 4 0.07 9 1 0.02 10 5 0.08 Cross-posting: cross-posted newsgroup analysis ---------------------------------------------- Newsgroups crossposted from alt.fan.douglas-adams, by frequency of posting, of 5902 articles: Number Percent Newsgroup ------ ------- --------- 75 1.27 alt.fan.karl-malden.nose 61 1.03 rec.humor.oracle.d [49 newsgroups with fewer than 42 posts each snipped]