Usenet traffic analysis ------ ------- -------- Newsgroup: alt.fan.douglas-adams Date (local): Thu Nov 2 20:20:36 2000 Date (GMT): Thu Nov 2 20:20:36 2000 There are 5311 archived messages from alt.fan.douglas-adams, dated from 1 Jul to 30 Sep 2000 Poster Analysis ------ -------- There are 220 posters in alt.fan.douglas-adams. Number Percent Poster ------ ------- ------ 388 7.31 iain (afda@imb.clara.net) 353 6.65 Caleb Huitt (cjhuitt1@earthlink.net) 349 6.57 Nikitta Riber (nikitta@mail.tele.dk) 283 5.33 Orion (orion@tribble.dyndns.ANTISPAM.org) 272 5.12 Laura Shadbolt (laura@shadboltc.fsnet.co.uk) 240 4.52 Arcum Dagsson (Arcum_Dagsson@hushmail.c.o.m) 191 3.60 Thaths (thaths@aunet.org) 158 2.97 Jim Evans (jevans@physics.uottawa.ca) 143 2.69 Jacob (jskaaning@vip.cybercity.dk) 141 2.65 Sarah Lucas (greenrock8@aol.comadwndobe) 136 2.56 Megan S Branning (msbst41+@pitt.edu) 136 2.56 Wikkit (latebird@usa.net) 131 2.47 pieceoftheuniverse (pieceoftheuniverse@yahoo.com) 127 2.39 Lloyd Gilbert (lwg@%dont_spam_me%.iname.com) 118 2.22 fohat a.k.a. Roy (compugeeke@nospamyahoo.com) 108 2.03 hollis (hollis@enterprise-plc.com) 87 1.64 Aquarion (aquarion@aquarionics.com) 81 1.53 Other (cbc@dcwi.com) 77 1.45 LA Rayner (larayner@home.com) 77 1.45 Kasatka (skaanaREMOVECAPS@earthlink.net) 76 1.43 Jan van den Broek (goosnargh@xs4all.nl) 75 1.41 Till Westermayer (till@tillwe.de) 73 1.37 Amro Bank (amro@tuig.nl) 66 1.24 Kielinen (kristenk@bu.edu) 62 1.17 Pseudonum (mikejones@ntlworld.thirst.com) 57 1.07 Rasher (rasher_13@hotmail.com) 55 1.04 Bbz (nospam.bourdrez@casema.net) 54 1.02 Kenny Hutchings (kenny_hutchings@email.com) 54 1.02 Teh [tie:poe] (teh@Apexmail.com) 46 0.87 christoph manz (zem_zeta@usa.net) [190 posters with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Subject Analysis ------- -------- 453 unique subjects: Number Percent Subject ------ ------- ------- 290 5.46 Silly Questions 200 3.77 a test 189 3.56 silly salmon question? 166 3.13 Happy Birthday, Aaron H.! 134 2.52 I'm back (Yes, I was away) 118 2.22 Time to play - "what's your favorite..." 107 2.01 Greetings! 105 1.98 Fwd: I'm back from the festival 93 1.75 Help me! There aren't enough hours in teh day 84 1.58 "oops" 82 1.54 New: Froup Poll about Love and Sex... 77 1.45 "Lessons in Guttering" or "What I did on my holiday" 76 1.43 ~afda update 72 1.36 What I Plan To Do 69 1.30 hello 65 1.22 Start saving up! 59 1.11 Haikus! 58 1.09 Current mind status: part one 58 1.09 Illustrated Guide and 42 Puzzle 55 1.04 *** Disaster Area *** 55 1.04 Questions 52 0.98 ARTICLE IDEA: Computer Software Boxes 51 0.96 realised that I've had the same 50 0.94 a new thread - pggb 49 0.92 Text Based Game HHGTTG 49 0.92 My cast for the film (REVISED AND REPOSTED) 48 0.90 thought for teh day and Quick Poll [tm] 47 0.88 Howard Stern as Zaphod? 46 0.87 Help Me With Essay 46 0.87 book recommendations 45 0.85 Something that bugs me about the radio series 45 0.85 alt.fan.afda 44 0.83 Whats your favorite DNA book? 43 0.81 h2g2 on DVD available? 43 0.81 Allow me to pour lighter fluid on myself... I have some questions... [418 subjects with fewer than 42 posts each snipped] Cross-posting: numeric analysis ------------------------------- Max number of newsgroups/article: 10 Average number of newsgroups/article: 1.07 Group Article Count Count Percent ------ ------- ------- 1 5096 96.01 2 149 2.81 3 39 0.73 4 6 0.11 5 4 0.08 6 1 0.02 7 6 0.11 8 1 0.02 9 0 0.00 10 6 0.11 Cross-posting: cross-posted newsgroup analysis ---------------------------------------------- Newsgroups crossposted from alt.fan.douglas-adams, by frequency of posting, of 5311 articles: Number Percent Newsgroup ------ ------- --------- 85 1.60 alt.galactic-guide 53 1.00 alt.fan.afda [50 newsgroups with fewer than 42 posts each snipped]