COLA Stats 4 Dec 2005

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This report covers 2310 articles received by this system to newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy 1

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Posters

Pos Poster Msgs Bytes Quoted 4. tab - FLAPPING IDIOT 103 27574 7% 5. billwg - WINTROLL LIAR LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 82 117752 58% 6. Funkenbusch - MS APOLOGIST LIAR FUDMEISTER 70 868 plus 155 68 plus 1% 13. Larry Qualig - MS APOLOGIST 58 131245 65% 14. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 57 117371 67% 24. John Bailo 32 23243 31% 30. Dom - IDIOT 18 5467 3% 'ultranerd' Bob 18 15931 58% Snit - MACTROLL IDIOT 18 37713 62% 41. S.Heenan - IDIOT 12 4704 80% Flatfish Nyms - TROLL THIEF RACIST 10 38245 18%

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Pos Subject Msgs Bytes 1. A nice Unix feature: fifos 101 154129 2. OT Google posters 98 62566 3. Where's Linux? 73 96255 4. Has Microsoft Dropped the Open Standard Ball? 58 72874 5. Desktop slower in linux compared to windows 57 76034 6. Ubuntu Evaluation: First Steps 55 139492 7. Linux on the XBox 360 54 70354 8. Linux-OSS: the dollar store of the software world 46 61176 9. Google posters 44 52378 10. Ubuntu 43 48204 Kubuntu-Linux Finally is for me. 43 88027 12. Updating Linux in a Business 42 35031 13. BSD Licensed C++ compiler 41 71455 Why can't Microsoft just patch everything? 41 72757 Linux users can supplement their income... 41 39811 16. Let's all killfile DooFuS 39 35589 17. Mbuttachusetts Dumps Linux!!! 38 36528 18. Want to know what HELL IS? 37 24357 19. Another modern Linux masterpiece 35 37208 Four steps forward... zero steps back 35 68 plus 1128 21. Usenet is adding to global warming... 34 19738 22. Linux could have saved the life of a 19 year old g 33 43632 23. Linux Voting Machines? 32 42011 Why is my old computer faster than my new computer 32 68857 25. Firefox 31 40470 26. Moving the parents to Linux? 30 45360 27. Mbutt. buttault on Monoculture 27 65214 Novell's complaint 27 34206 Intel wants 100's of millions of Linux computers 27 32389 30. Command line VS GUI, redux 26 29971 31. Why So Many Sercurity and bug Updates For SuSE 10 25 87712 Linux causes fan burnouts? 25 168 plus 195 ActiveX in Linux browsers 25 35058 34. Bullpoo walks... 22 17907 Mbuttachusetts flips, sides with Microsoft 22 22047 36. OOo2 beats MSO2000 in critical test! 19 27418 OO.o 2.0 compile 19 27037 38. Who fixes this? GNOME CHESS 17 168 plus 108 39. Don't ask, don't tell... 15 43278 speedtouch 510 ,Ubuntu,Brazil. 15 8462 You can't make me go away! 15 7809 COLA? 15 6168 plus 1 43. I spy with my little eye, something beginning with 14 7719 44. OT Windows security and ease of use 13 23733 COLA Stats 27 Nov 2005 13 30889 Troll Budget Increase 13 6037 OSDL Must have surveyed COLA. 13 7760 New Camera :-) 13 9352 IBM adds its support to Sun's re. MA 13 14765 50. Linux for Missile defence programme 12 13947

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

Pos Poster Msgs 1. tab - FLAPPING IDIOT 134 2. Funkenbusch - MS APOLOGIST LIAR FUDMEISTER 110 6. billwg - WINTROLL LIAR LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 90 8. Larry Qualig - MS APOLOGIST 64 10. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 61 11. Flatfish Nyms - TROLL THIEF RACIST 57 18. John Bailo 35 Dom - IDIOT 33 29. 'ultranerd' Bob 16 Snit - MACTROLL IDIOT 13 S.Heenan - IDIOT 11

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Troll Feeders 2

Pos Poster Msgs % 12. tab - FLAPPING IDIOT 14 14 'ultranerd' Bob 8 44 Larry Qualig - MS APOLOGIST 7 12 27. billwg - WINTROLL LIAR LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 6 7 Funkenbusch - MS APOLOGIST LIAR FUDMEISTER 6 9 34. DooFuS - LIAR WINTROLL RACIST 5 9 38. John Bailo 3 9

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of 'Quality' Posters 3

Pos Poster Index Dom - IDIOT 40

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------------------------------------------------------------------------- Toplist of Newsreaders

Pos Newsreader Msgs 1. KNode 498 2. slrn 456 3. G2-0.2 348 4. Pan 232 5. Microsoft Outlook Express 181 6. Mozilla Thunderbird 94 7. 40tudeDialog 82 8. Mozilla 72 9. knews 67 10. Forte Agent 50 11. tin 45 12. Gnus 42 13. MT-NewsWatcher-3.4 (PPC Mac OS X) 24 14. Microsoft-Entourage-11.1.0.040913 18 15. MR-2 Internet Cruiser 16 16. Xnews 10 17. Hogwasher-4.2.2 8 18. trn 6 19. Microhard Lookout 5 20. Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Windows-20051006) 3 21. MacSOUP 2 Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows-20051025) 2 Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh-20051025) 2 24. MicroPlanet Gravity v2.50 1 Opera M2-8.51 (Linux, build 1462) 1 UseNeXT 3.58 1 Mailgate Web Server 1 nn-6.6.4 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 - %'age troll followups

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