page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (03/01/88)
I did some stats on six weeks of comp.sys.amiga traffic. This info is already out of date by the time you read this (as I will have gotten more articles) but thought I'd throw it out anyway. There really aren't any surprises here. Articles posted: 2307 (almost 55 messages per day) Number of authors: 675 (approx) The top 10 posters accounted for about 19% of total articles posted. The top 20 posters accounted for about 29% of total articles posted. Top twenty article posters, by article count: 70 dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) 65 peter@nuchat.UUCP & peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) 57 cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) 45 papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) 43 haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel) 38 daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) 35 page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) 34 spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) 33 richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) 31 FATQW@USU.BITNET (Bryan Ford) 25 bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu & bryce@eris.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt) 25 ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) 24 blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) 24 chanst@atrium.UUCP (Steve T Chan) 23 john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) 22 schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) 21 Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com 20 ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy) 19 cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz) 19 harald@ccicpg.UUCP & harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) Articles from cbmvax: 129 (about 5.6% of total) Authors from cbmvax: 16 Article posters & count from cbmvax: 38 daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) 22 schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) 12 steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) 10 andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) 9 carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS) 8 grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) 8 gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA) 6 daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) 3 sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA) 3 lauren@cbmvax.UUCP (Lauren Brown CATS) 3 campbell@cbmvax.UUCP (John Campbell SW) 2 hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis) 2 eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton) 1 rains@cbmvax.UUCP (Nancy Rains) 1 joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara) 1 bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) So what does this mean? That 20-25 people make up about one-third of the articles in the newsgroup, and that Commodore generates a good amount as well (average articles per poster in comp.sys.amiga is almost 3, while at Commodore it is over 12, if you define "average" as the mean.) And no need to post articles just to get your count up. This won't be a regular thing. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page "I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes." -- from 'Blade Runner'
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (03/02/88)
>Top twenty article posters, by article count: > 70 dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Whoops, Matt does it again. Only last week he was on the top of the disk usage chart, and already holds a record for CPU usage from his ray tracing (class) project last year. I'm just glad I'm not *paying* for it all or I'd be one broke joe! Speaking of article posters, I think we are uniquely lucky that so many people from CA[TS] are active in this group. Unlike the atari and (to a lesser degree) mac groups, our CA'ers are here mainly in a personal capacity, on personal time, for fun. And, since everybody else is here for those very reasons, it would be only appropriate for me to congratulate everyone! Gotta run... need to avoid failing some classes, though considering some of the technical discussions going on in this particular group, I daresay I could probably learn everything I need to know from here... on any subject!? -Matt