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From: tjporter@gronk.porter.net (Terry Porter)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: alt.ascii-art posting statistics for the last 30 days
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:24:43 +1100
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On 24 Dec 2001 16:43:32 +0100, Neil Franklin in article
 <6u7krcipy3.fsf@chonsp.franklin.ch> dashed off:
>tjporter@gronk.porter.net (Terry Porter) writes:
>
>> Hi All, I don't know if anyone does stats for this group, but here
>> is a one off for the last 30 days.
>
>Up to now no one here does. Nice to see it happen.

Think of it as a Christmas present to this excellent group of
artists from a non artist :)

>
>
>> Newsgroup................: /var/spool/news/alt/ascii-art
>> Time stamp...............: Mon 24 Dec 2001 (GMT) 04:08
>> Start....................: Sat 24 Nov 2001 (GMT) 00:20
>> End......................: Sun 23 Dec 2001 (GMT) 23:45
>> Days.....................: 30
>> Messages.................: 1583
>> Characters...............: 2533000
>> Average message length...: 1600.1
>> Messages per day.........: 52.8
>> Characters per day.......: 84433
>> Quoting ratio............: 21.3% (lines) 25.2% (chars)
>
>Nice overview. What software generates this?

The ananlysis package is called "Statnews" but you need a local
news spool to run it on. I use Linux and "Leafnode" which
provides a news server on my PC, with a spool.

Another good news analysis pakage is "Turqstat".

>Using Slackware 7.0 with kernel 2.2.13


>
>I have registration 109625, in with 4 machines.

Cool :)


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