Usenet traffic analysis ------ ------- -------- Newsgroup: alt.fan.douglas-adams Date (local): Thu Aug 31 16:57:16 2000 Date (GMT): Thu Aug 31 15:57:16 2000 There are 5633 archived messages from alt.fan.douglas-adams, dated from 1 Apr to 30 Jun 2000 Poster Analysis ------ -------- There are 283 posters in alt.fan.douglas-adams. Number Percent Poster ------ ------- ------ 298 5.29 Arcum Dagsson (Arcum_Dagsson@hushmail.c.o.m) 277 4.92 Ben (latebird@usa.net) 266 4.72 El Choco Diablo (jevans@physics.uottawa.ca) 266 4.72 Megan S Branning (msbst41+@pitt.edu) 249 4.42 iain (afda@imb.clara.net) 246 4.37 Nikitta Riber (nikitta@mail.tele.dk) 223 3.96 Laura Shadbolt (Laura.Shadbolt@tesco.net) 205 3.64 Orion (Orion@tribble.selfhost.com) 202 3.59 Screwtape (st@ferd2.thristian.org) 185 3.28 Other (cbc@dcwi.com) 176 3.12 Lloyd Gilbert (lwg@%dont_spam_me%.iname.com) 166 2.95 Thaths (Thaths@spam.filter.aunet.org) 130 2.31 c.h. (hollis@enterprise-plc.com) 126 2.24 Roy Stark (fohat@ex-pressnet.com) 115 2.04 webrunner (webrunner@nsdotsympatico.ca) 112 1.99 LA Rayner (larayner_chroma@qlo.com) 111 1.97 Teh [tie:poe] (teh@Apexmail.com) 103 1.83 Till Westermayer (till@tillwe.de) 101 1.79 Bbz (nospam.bourdrez@casema.net) 100 1.78 Kasatka (skaanaREMOVECAPS@earthlink.net) 94 1.67 Aquarion (aquarion@aquarionics.com) 91 1.62 Jon (jon.blunn@cableinet.co.uk) 85 1.51 Kielinen (kristenk@bu.edu) 83 1.47 Jacob (jskaaning@vip.cybercity.dk) 82 1.46 Roy (compugeeke@yahoo.com) 73 1.30 Deegola (Deegola_member@webusenet.com) 68 1.21 Roel van der Meulen (roelvdmeulen@yahoo.com) 61 1.08 Jan van den Broek (murmeltier@xs4all.nl) 54 0.96 Paul Andinach (pandinac@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) 50 0.89 fruomfffan@xoommail.com (fruomffan@crosswinds.net) 49 0.87 Dr Jekyll (chris@pologne.fnord) 49 0.87 Paul Desmond Tybislawski (pteybiesla@gil.com.au) 43 0.76 Amro Bank (amro@tuig.net) [250 posters with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Subject Analysis ------- -------- 499 unique subjects: Number Percent Subject ------ ------- ------- 329 5.84 Obligatory afda poll 249 4.42 LSPN and a new favourite soup;) 221 3.92 PGG Quote of the Day (12/4) 208 3.69 Character you hate the most 152 2.70 Throwing in my 2 towels worth 116 2.06 Paul or Paula? 89 1.58 One Foot Out Of The Grave 89 1.58 Does anyone hate Mostly Harmless like I do? 85 1.51 My birthday! 79 1.40 Baby Birds! 78 1.38 Is There Anybody Out There? 75 1.33 I AM BACK! 74 1.31 Arts in Society 74 1.31 HHG Purity Test 61 1.08 How old was DNA when we wrote HG2G? 60 1.07 Magrathean Designer Planets 59 1.05 The utterly pointless poll, which you must fill out - or else!!! 58 1.03 Like Floor 42, only more pathetic... 56 0.99 Bens' Wheneverhefeelslikeit News and Movie Similarity Report 55 0.98 Okay... 54 0.96 let's think of some books...... 54 0.96 hhgg purity test 53 0.94 Yawn 51 0.91 TicTacs! 50 0.89 OT 2001 trivia, Re: [C&C] Spammer wants complaint withdrawn 50 0.89 Hitch Hikers 49 0.87 Froup Poll about Love and Sex... 46 0.82 Text Based Game HHGTTG 45 0.80 [C&C] Spammer wants complaint withdrawn 45 0.80 Mwhahahaha! I AM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 44 0.78 To an ancient froupie 43 0.76 what is base 13? 43 0.76 Blonde Blonde Blonde!! 43 0.76 DNA in the news [465 subjects with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Cross-posting: numeric analysis ------------------------------- Max number of newsgroups/article: 10 Average number of newsgroups/article: 1.09 Group Article Count Count Percent ------ ------- ------- 1 5303 94.14 2 219 3.89 3 84 1.49 4 15 0.27 5 3 0.05 6 1 0.02 7 5 0.09 8 1 0.02 9 0 0.00 10 2 0.04 Cross-posting: cross-posted newsgroup analysis ---------------------------------------------- Newsgroups crossposted from alt.fan.douglas-adams, by frequency of posting, of 5633 articles: Number Percent Newsgroup ------ ------- --------- 131 2.33 alt.galactic-guide 76 1.35 alt.writing 73 1.30 news.admin.net-abuse.email [56 newsgroups with fewer than 42 posts each snipped]