just me wrote:


You may want to explain a bit more what the stats are as there are a number
of folks reading mk who do not read am and may have no idea what is being
discussed in this thread.

-Aula



Fair enough Once a week I collate all the a.m postings (just the
subject/poster info) and publish them. It looks like this (hope no one
minds the reposting to another group) (snipped for brevity):

Newsgroup 'alt.mothers' - Weekly Stats 05-Oct-03
Generated by Sarah





Total Posts this period: 929
Total Bytes this period: 834948

------------------------START SECTION 'POSTERS'-----------------------

Number of posts by Person (72 people posted during this period)

TT = This Time
LT = Last Time
AML = Average Message Lines
QP = Average Message Quoted Percent
PGM = Percentage of Group in Messages
PGB = Percentage of Group in Bytes

TT LT Person # AML QP PGM PGB
--- --- ------ ---- --- ----- ----- -----
1 2 Nan............................... 103 22 39.9% 11.1% 8.4%
2 12 SarahH............................ 80 41 50.9% 8.6% 15.8%
3 4 Ilse Witch........................ 57 22 30.3% 6.1% 4.3%
snip
Averages ( 32 36.3%)
------------------------END SECTION 'POSTERS'------------------------

--------------------START SECTION 'BANDWIDTH HOGS!'-------------------

Person Hog Factor
------ --- ------
SarahH........................ 12577
just me....................... 3301
Froggy........................ 3258

snip
--------------------END SECTION 'BANDWIDTH HOGS!'--------------------


-----------------------START SECTION 'SUBJECTS'-----------------------

Number of posts by Subject (122 subjects during this period)

TT LT Subject # PGM PGB
--- --- ------- --- ------ ------
1 --- To the group............................. 48 5.17% 3.72%
2 --- Homeschooling reaction ................ 46 4.95% 6.43%
3 --- And you didn't even miss me?!!........... 33 3.55% 3.89%
snip
------------------------END SECTION 'SUBJECTS'------------------------

---------------------START SECTION 'POSTS BY DAY'---------------------

28-Sep( 23)|#####
29-Sep( 124)|##############################
30-Sep( 180)|############################################
01-Oct( 181)|#############################################
02-Oct( 126)|###############################
03-Oct( 170)|##########################################
04-Oct( 68)|################
05-Oct( 55)|#############
06-Oct( 2)|

Average Posts per Day = 103

(Breakdown by message creation date, not the date it was received)

----------------------END SECTION 'POSTS BY DAY'----------------------

----------------------START SECTION 'NEWSREADERS'---------------------

What news reading software is being used?

Software Posts
-------------------------------------------------- -----
Microsoft Outlook Express......................... 356 (38.32%)
Forte Agent....................................... 256 (27.56%)
Mozilla........................................... 158 (17.01%)
snip

----------------------END SECTION 'NEWSREADERS'----------------------

--------------------START SECTION 'ORGANISATIONS'--------------------

What Organisations are being posted from?

Organisation Posts
-------------------------------------------------- -----
RoadRunner - Central Florida...................... 55 (5.92%)
AOL http://www.aol.com............................ 53 (5.71%)
Ihug Limited...................................... 50 (5.38%)
snip
----------------------END SECTION 'ORGANISATIONS'---------------------

----------------------START SECTION 'NEWSGROUPS'----------------------

What Newsgroups are being cross-posted to?

alt.support.shyness.....................10 (23.26%)
alt.silly.little.newsgroup..............10 (23.26%)
soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm.............5 (11.63%)
snip
-----------------------END SECTION 'NEWSGROUPS'-----------------------




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