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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: stats 2024-08
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On 9/1/2024 4:46 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vb2c11$1iqam$2@dont-email.me>,
> Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9/1/2024 8:22 AM, The Doctor wrote:
>>> Group : rec.arts.sf.written
>>> Statistics : from 8/1/2024 to 8/31/2024
>>>
>>> ***** Users with most messages *****
>>> num| Name            | Nb Msg | size      | or. | %
>>> ----|-----------------|--------|-----------|-----|------------------|
>>>    1 |                 |  1,037 | 3,206,918 |  95 |
>> 98.57% xxxxxxxxxx
>>>    2 | Robert Carnegie |      6 |    13,135 |   5 |  0.57%
>>>    3 | The Horny Goat  |      3 |     6,188 |   3 |  0.29%
>>>    4 | William Hyde    |      2 |     9,324 |   1 |  0.19%
>>>    5 | Scott Dorsey    |      2 |     2,365 |   1 |  0.19%
>>>    6 | John W Kennedy  |      1 |     2,434 |   1 |  0.10%
>>>    7 | Bobbie Sellers  |      1 |     3,722 |   0 |  0.10%
>>> ----|-----------------|--------|-----------|-----|------------------|
>>>
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ***** Summary results *****
>>> Total found messages : 1052 for 31 days
>>> New threads : 106
>>> Total replies : 946
>>> Total modified threads : 126
>>> Total size : 3244086 bytes (3,168.05 KB)
>>> Total lines : 48692 lines
>>> Total users : 7
>>> Average number of messages by user : 150.29
>>> Average size of messages by user : 463,440.86 bytes (452.58 KB))
>>> Average number of lines by user : 6,956.00
>>
>>
>> I think you should check your scripts.
>>
>> The top chart lists a total of 1037 messages, which is
>> plausible, but the 'top 7' users posted only 15.
>>
>> Are you sure this isn't the *bottom* 7 posters, instead
>> of the top?
>>
>> pt
>>
> 
> It looks like the "#1" entry is a catchall for some reason.
> I'm pretty sure I would be in there if that were broken out.

I'm saying its implausible that the 7 top posters, between them,
posted only 15 messages during August.

There's something wrong here.

pt