COLA Stats 21 May 2006

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This report covers 2162 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1

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Pos Poster Msgs Bytes Quoted 3. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 80 117328 54% 7. Ewik 'the Weasel' Funkenbusch 4 58 68351 51% 8. Tim 'Funkenbusch Wannabee' Smith 53 46701 29% 10. John Bailo - TROLL IDIOT 46 30209 41% 14. flatfish - TROLL THIEF LIAR RACIST 42 52159 45% Larry 'arsehole' Qualig 42 84428 56% 20. Michael - WINTROLL 34 100717 36% 24. billwg - WINTROLL LIAR LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 31 72438 68%

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Pos Subject Msgs Bytes 1. Sunday afternoon Linux advocacy ramble (longish) 115 242033 2. Rex Ballard: Angel of rest 72 114035 3. Why would ANYONE used MySQL? 55 95182 4. Certain prognostications 48 81928 5. You can use junk ... or you can be productive. 46 68 plus 1105 6. What happened to Walmart's Linux boxes??? 44 61030 8. Sun Commits to Open-Sourcing Java 36 36700 9. Gartner: ISO Approval of ODF is a blow to MS 34 36550 10. For Your Information. 32 48094 The Universe on Your Linux Desktop 32 50601 12. Architectural Windows Flaws 31 47906 13. The End of Unix? 27 46207 Ruby on Rails? 27 22462 15. SQL Server beats the hell out of MySQL 26 37547 16. News Architectural Windows Flaws 25 23536 What does DFS' anecdotal evidence say about him? 25 187522 18. My X server beats Vista in memory usage!!! 24 168 plus 173 19. Microsoft: Users May Have To Prove Legal Windows U 23 31062 Mews Open Source Helps Fight Bird Flu 23 18136 21. Linux Developments in India 21 57729 SuSE 10.1 - KDE 3.5.2 21 18904 23. Op-Ed 12 Reasons for Microsoft dissolution 20 21805 Why Linux is so important 20 41348 Comparisons of IE, Opera and Firefox on DOM (Javas 20 25837 26. It's the little things (one reason I prefer Linux 19 28891 27. Everything's back to normal now 18 16222 28. The Naked Truth About "Naked PCs" 17 21235 Rex Ballard; Reverse Troll ? 17 16166 30. Business Sinking? Get More Towels! Microsoft Res 16 19784

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Most Replied To Posters

Pos Poster Msgs 2. Ewik 'the Weasel' Funkenbusch 4 87 DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 87 5. billwg - WINTROLL LIAR LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 50 8. Tim 'Funkenbusch Wannabee' Smith 41 11. John Bailo - TROLL IDIOT 37 14. Larry 'arsehole' Qualig 36 flatfish - TROLL THIEF LIAR RACIST 31

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Pos Poster Msgs % John Bailo - TROLL IDIOT 11 24 DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 9 11 flatfish - TROLL THIEF LIAR RACIST 8 19 Larry 'arsehole' Qualig 8 19 22. 'ultranerd' Bob 6 33 Ewik 'the Weasel' Funkenbusch 4 5 9 Michael - WINTROLL 5 15

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Pos Newsreader Msgs 1. KNode 517 2. slrn 496 3. G2-0.2 309 4. Pan 260 5. Microsoft Outlook Express 146 6. Mozilla Thunderbird 65 7. 40tudeDialog 58 8. tin 40 9. Forte Agent 39 10. knews 30 11. Mozilla 24 12. Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows-20060308) 18 13. pan 0.96 (Afghanistan Banana stand.) 10 14. Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows-20051201) 9 15. Gnus 7 MR-2 Internet Cruiser 7 17. Xnews 6 Thoth-1.7.1 (Carbon-OS X) 6 MT-NewsWatcher-3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) 6 20. Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11-20060501) 4 Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh-20051201) 4 22. Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11-20060420) 3 Thunderbird 1.5 (X11-20060317) 3 24. MicroPlanet-Gravity-2.60.2060 2 Opera Mail(BETA2)-9.00 (MacIntel) 2 Microhard Lookout 2 27. MicroPlanet-Gravity-2.70.2061 1 ViewSplorf 1.0 (The grabbing hands grab all they can.) 1 Unison-1.6.2 1 Opera Mail(BETA2)-9.00 (Win32) 1

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1: Posts via mail to news gateways are dropped by this server and hence not included in the stats. Other attention seeking posters may not appear as well. 2: Troll feeder %'age is (troll feeding posts total posts) * 100 3: The poster 'quality' stats is based on: a) quoting: 100 - %'age quoted b) cross-posting: 100 - %'age cross-posted c) number of direct followups posters articles get d) troll feeding: 100 - 1.5 * %'age troll followups e) for the humour impaired the quotes around 'quality' are intended to convey they are not to be taken too seriously :-) f) for Erik: it is highly unlikely, although perhaps possible, for a troll to appear in the 'quality' stats 4: Erik Funkenbusch is a MS apologist, frequent liar and FUD spreader and seriously lacking in ethical values. He often tries to change the subject when his argument has been torn to shreds or, more likely, just runs away.