u.r.c stats for 2003

Steve McGinty <[email hidden]> wrote:
: saw the equivelant on r.b.r and thought of you guys

: netscan.research.microsoft.comReportCard.aspOpen ↗
: ate=2003

: interesting and scary in similiar degrees...

Indeed. Interesting. I'm only 23rd in the list of posters though. Bah!

Arthur

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Arthur Clune said:

Steve McGinty <[email hidden]> wrote:
: saw the equivelant on r.b.r and thought of you guys

: netscan.research.microsoft.comReportCard.aspOpen ↗
: date=2003

: interesting and scary in similiar degrees...

Indeed. Interesting. I'm only 23rd in the list of posters though. Bah!

For a more recent snapshot, this is what's currently in my news spool:

Analysis of posting to uk.rec.cycling

Holding 3151 messages received between 2003-12-15 22:35 at 22074 and 2004-01-07 11:05 at 25223

Top 25 posters: 000001 242 "Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> 000002 167 "Tony
Raven" <[email hidden]> 000003 141 [email hidden]
(dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) 000004 127 Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> 000005 90
"MSeries" <[email hidden]> 000006 87 "Peter B" <[email hidden]> 000007 75 Peter
Clinch <[email hidden]> 000008 69 [email hidden] (MartinM) 000008= 69 James Hodson
<[email hidden]> 000010 63 Zog The Undeniable <[email hidden]> 000011 55 "Pete
Biggs" <[email hidden]> 000012 54 "\(T'other\) Dave" <no-
[email hidden]> 000012= 54 "[Not Responding]" <[email hidden]> 000014 53 Richard
Bates <[email hidden]> 000015 51 David Hansen
<[email hidden]> 000016 46 "Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> 000017 42
"vernon.levy" <[email hidden]> 000018 41 [email hidden] (Dave Kahn) 000018= 41
"Ambrose Nankivell" <[email hidden]> 000020 35 Dave Kahn
<[email hidden]> 000021 29 "Andrew Sweetman" <[email hidden]> 000022 28
"Tony W" <[email hidden]> 000022= 28 Helen Deborah Vecht <[email hidden]> 000024
27 "W K" <[email hidden]> 000025 26 "AndyP" <[email hidden]>

Top 25 threads: 000001 268 A Cycle Helmet saved this lady's life. 000002 113 One for the cyclist out
there 000003 90 Cycle Un-friendly Councils 000004 78 OT Some ammo for those arguing against the use
of 4 x 4 vehicles 000005 72 It's Official: 4x4's are lethal for ped's and cyclists. 000006 67 Tories
and speed cameras 000007 56 OT Speeders Turn To Thuggery 000008 55 "speeding cyclists on towpath"
000009 50 Winter Riding 000010 37 Hypercracker redux 000011 35 Plans For Next Year 000012 33 It's
official, I am a Lycra Lout. 000013 32 Repairing a SON 000014 31 Oh not again! 000014= 31 A Big
Truck Company Cares About Cyclists 000016 30 Bloody cyclists- 000016= 30 Bike lane slated as only
five use it at rush hour 000018 29 Silly Hat 000019 28 The twelve days of Christmas (again) 000019=
28 Speaking of red light jumping...... 000019= 28 Bicycle Dynamo (sorry a little OT) 000019= 28
Around Britain 000023 27 Motor cycle helmets 000024 26 Trams 000024= 26 Private members bill on
cycle helmet compulsion.

Top 25 newsreaders: 000001 692 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 000002 305 Forte Agent
1.93/32.576 English (American) 000003 199 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 000004 186
Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 000005 127 Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common
Lisp) 000006 115 Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 000006= 115 Forte Free Agent 1.92/32.572
000008 77 Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 000009 75 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-
US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020920 Netscape/7.0 000010 70 Forte Free Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
000011 69 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 000012 68
cyclingforums.com 000013 52 Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 000014 45 Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
000015 42 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) 000016 28
ZIMACS 000017 22 Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 000018 21 MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 000019 20
Mozilla 4.77C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; U; PPC) 000019= 20 MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50
000021 19 Xnews/5.04.25 000021= 19 slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) 000021= 19 knews 1.0b.1 000024 18 Microsoft
Outlook Express 5.50.4927.1200 000024= 18 Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

saw the equivelant on r.b.r and thought of you guys

netscan.research.microsoft.comReportCard.aspOpen ↗
ate=2003

interesting and scary in similiar degrees...

Regards! Stephen

Surely those stats in the author tracker can't be right?

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Simon Brooke said:

Top 25 posters: 000001 242 "Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> 000002 167 "Tony
Raven" <[email hidden]>

Guy, we must get out more

Tony

Tony Raven said:

Simon Brooke said:

Top 25 posters: 000001 242 "Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> 000002 167 "Tony
Raven" <[email hidden]>

Guy, we must get out more

Tony

Feh. I barely made the top 40. Though I have used more than one address in the last 12 months.

Simon

Tony Raven said:

Simon Brooke said:

Top 25 posters: 000001 242 "Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> 000002 167
"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]>

Guy, we must get out more

I know your game. You just want him out the way so you have time to zip up your jersey and flash a
smile as you coast over the line with your arms aloft.

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Dave...

Dave Kahn said:

I know your game. You just want him out the way so you have time to zip up your jersey and flash a
smile as you coast over the line with your arms aloft.

Rasentasen...

Mutley

"Tony Raven" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Guy, we must get out more

Good plan. I think I've got a bike somewhere...

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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:35:06 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]>
wrote:

🙂 )For a more recent snapshot, this is what's currently in my news spool: ) )Analysis of posting to
:uk.rec.cycling ) )Top 25 newsreaders:

That was interesting - and unusual !
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(pmailkeey) said:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:35:06 GMT, Simon Brooke <[email hidden]> wrote:

🙂 )For a more recent snapshot, this is what's currently in my news spool: ) )Analysis of posting
:to uk.rec.cycling ) )Top 25 newsreaders:

That was interesting - and unusual !

Oh, if you liked it, here's the trick:

#!/bin/bash

#########################################################################
# #
# newsanalyse #
# #
# Rough analysis of news posts in the spool for a given group. #
# #
# Author : Simon Brooke # Created : January 1995 # Copyleft : Use it if you like it #
# #
#########################################################################

news=/var/spool/news tmp=/tmp

if [ "$1" = "" ] then echo "Usage: $0 <newsgroup> [n]" >&2 exit 1 else group=`echo $1 | sed
's?\.?/?g'`

if [ -d $news/$group ] then if [ "$2" = "" ] then a=10 else a=$2 fi

cd $news/$group

echo "Analysis of posting to $1" echo

n=`ls -l $news/$group | wc -l` latest=`ls -lt $news/$group |\ tail +2 |\ head -1 |\
awk '{print $6 " " $7 " at " $8}'` earliest=`ls -lt $news/$group |\ tail -1 |\ awk
'{print $6 " " $7 " at " $8}'`

echo "Holding $n messages received between $earliest and $latest" echo echo "Top
$a posters:"

grep '^From:' * |\ sed 's/^[0-9]*:From://' |\ sort |\ uniq -c |\ sort -nr |\ awk
'BEGIN { score = 1000000; place = 0; eplace = 0} \ { if ( $1 == score) \ { \ place
++; \ printf( "%6.6d= %s\n", eplace, $0); \ } \ else \ { \ score = $1; \ place ++; \
eplace = place; \ printf( "%6.6d %s\n", place, $0); \ } \ }' |\ head -$a

echo echo "Top $a threads:"

grep '^Subject:' * |\ sed 's/^[0-9]*:Subject://' |\ sed 's/Re: //' |\ sort |\ uniq
-c |\ sort -nr |\ awk 'BEGIN { score = 1000000; place = 0; eplace = 0} \ { if ( $1
== score) \ { \ place ++; \ printf( "%6.6d= %s\n", eplace, $0); \ } \ else \ { \
score = $1; \ place ++; \ eplace = place; \ printf( "%6.6d %s\n", place, $0); \ } \
}' |\ head -$a

echo echo "Top $a newsreaders:"

echo "" > $tmp/newsreaders$$

for header in X-Newsreader User-Agent X-Mailer do grep "^$header:" * |\ sed "s/^[0-
9]*:$header://" >> $tmp/newsreaders$$ done sort $tmp/newsreaders$$ |\ uniq -c |\
sort -nr |\ awk 'BEGIN { score = 1000000; place = 0; eplace = 0} \ { if ( $1 ==
score) \ { \ place ++; \ printf( "%6.6d= %s\n", eplace, $0); \ } \ else \ { \
score = $1; \ place ++; \ eplace = place; \ printf( "%6.6d %s\n", place, $0); \ }
\ }' |\ head -$a

rm $tmp/newsreaders$$

else echo "$0: Unknown newsgroup: $1" >&2 exit 1 fi fi

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at the keyboard of Simon Brooke said:

Oh, if you liked it, here's the trick:

That's naughty, purveying the idea that *X is an arcane art ... Doubly so escaping your lineends so
whitespace becomes significant ...

Quoted message said:

# Created : January 1995 #

OK, there was more excuse for using arcane arts at that end of 1995 than there was by the end of the
same year.

(I've written things far more complex using sh, but these days find it easier using Perl or Python).

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