Traffic in newsgroup soc.history.what-if
This analysis incorporates 1016 articles from
Tue Jul 20 05:00:47 2004 GMT to Wed Jul 28 22:55:40 2004 GMT.
Articles which are cross-posted to more than 2 groups are ignored
in this summary.
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times of posting
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most prolific and prolix authors
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longest and busiest threads
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All times are GMT.
- 00:00 -- 02:00 72 articles
- 02:00 -- 04:00 92 articles
- 04:00 -- 06:00 88 articles
- 06:00 -- 08:00 67 articles
- 08:00 -- 10:00 72 articles
- 10:00 -- 12:00 38 articles
- 12:00 -- 14:00 71 articles
- 14:00 -- 16:00 102 articles
- 16:00 -- 18:00 82 articles
- 18:00 -- 20:00 100 articles
- 20:00 -- 22:00 123 articles
- 22:00 -- 00:00 109 articles
Number of articles posted, by time zone
This gives a very approximate indication of the geographical
distribution of article authors. Note that information obtained in this way
is affected by, inter alia,
- configuration of client computers;
- type and design of user-agent software;
- daylight savings time.
Naturally, there is no latitude information in these data.
Number of articles posted, by day of week
- Sunday 100
- Monday 201
- Tuesday 164
- Wednesday 168
- Thursday 147
- Friday 115
- Saturday 121
- Coyu <coyu at aol dot com> 53 articles
- James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix dot com> 43 articles
- The Horny Goat <lcraver at home dot com> 43 articles
- Donnie <donnie at dinonino dot fsnet dot co dot uk> 31 articles
- rosignol <rosignol at nwlink dot com> 27 articles
- Phil Edwards <research at amroth dot zetnet dot co dot uk> 25 articles
- Robert J. Kolker <robert_kolker at hotmail dot com> 24 articles
- SwimLFS <Luke7351 at aol dot com> 22 articles
- Matt Giwer <jull43 at tampabay dot rr dot RoMeVE dot com> 21 articles
- Alan Lothian <alanlothian at mac dot com> 19 articles
- Ivan Hodes <sarcastic_jew at yahoo dot com> 19 articles
- Daniel Silevitch <dmsilev at midway dot uchicago dot edu> 18 articles
- pentaj2 at removeme dot scranton dot edu 18 articles
- Prestorjon <prestorjon at aol dot com> 16 articles
- Jussi Jalonen <jussi dot jalonen at faf dot mil dot fi> 16 articles
- aspqrz at pacific dot net dot au 16 articles
- Eric D . Berge <eric_berge at hotmail dot com dot invalid> 15 articles
- Kevin Robinson <kevrob at my-deja dot com> 15 articles
- Doug Hoff <shwi2 at dhoff5767 dot eiormail dot com> 14 articles
- Alexander Malinowski <olek_m at gazeta dot pl> 14 articles
Most prolific authors, by lines of text
Note that these values include quoted text, signatures and other appendages;
consequently, they provide only a very crude measure of the output of any given
author.
- SwimLFS <Luke7351 at aol dot com> 1715 lines
- James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix dot com> 1552 lines
- Alex <am05 at hotmail dot com> 1300 lines
- Coyu <coyu at aol dot com> 1296 lines
- Alan Lothian <alanlothian at mac dot com> 1222 lines
- Donnie <donnie at dinonino dot fsnet dot co dot uk> 1186 lines
- Jussi Jalonen <jussi dot jalonen at faf dot mil dot fi> 1124 lines
- Alexander Malinowski <olek_m at gazeta dot pl> 1119 lines
- david <flin at flin dot demon dot co dot uk> 1113 lines
- Kaiser Wilhelm III <username_not_found at yahoo dot com dot au> 994 lines
- The Horny Goat <lcraver at home dot com> 971 lines
- Faeelin <Emporerblair at hotmail dot com> 955 lines
- rosignol <rosignol at nwlink dot com> 941 lines
- Matt Giwer <jull43 at tampabay dot rr dot RoMeVE dot com> 815 lines
- Doug Hoff <shwi2 at dhoff5767 dot eiormail dot com> 786 lines
- Ivan Hodes <sarcastic_jew at yahoo dot com> 704 lines
- Rich Rostrom <rrostrom dot 21stcentury at rcn dot com> 700 lines
- Walter_Kaufmann <Walter_Kaufmann at hotmail dot com> 696 lines
- Phil Edwards <research at amroth dot zetnet dot co dot uk> 686 lines
- Chris Piantes <cpiantes at yahoo dot com> 632 lines
Most prolix authors
Prolixity is assumed to be measured by the ratio of lines of text to number of
articles posted.
- Austin Ross <feehyde at aol dot com> 397.00 lines/article
- Daniel MacGregor <dmaqgregor at hotmail dot com> 196.00 lines/article
- jet at scientist dot com 153.00 lines/article
- Walter_Kaufmann <Walter_Kaufmann at hotmail dot com> 139.20 lines/article
- Matt Giwer <matt at tampabay dot rr dot com> 135.50 lines/article
- david <flin at flin dot demon dot co dot uk> 123.67 lines/article
- Alex <am05 at hotmail dot com> 118.18 lines/article
- Kaiser Wilhelm III <username_not_found at yahoo dot com dot au> 99.40 lines/article
- Chris Piantes <cpiantes at yahoo dot com> 90.29 lines/article
- David Johnson <trolleyfan at earthlink dot net> 90.00 lines/article
- DaveKohlhoff <dkohlhoff at hotmail dot com> 89.50 lines/article
- Alex Filonov <afilonov at yahoo dot com> 85.00 lines/article
- Willy Liao <ranger999OBSCURED at hotmail dot com> 83.50 lines/article
- Alexander Malinowski <olek_m at gazeta dot pl> 79.93 lines/article
- Faeelin <Emporerblair at hotmail dot com> 79.58 lines/article
- SwimLFS <Luke7351 at aol dot com> 77.95 lines/article
- Chris Manteuffel <cmanteuf at ozmail dot cjb dot net> 70.75 lines/article
- Jay Chapman <newgemellus at earthlink dot net> 70.50 lines/article
- Jussi Jalonen <jussi dot jalonen at faf dot mil dot fi> 70.25 lines/article
- Jon Ivars <jivars at abo dot fi> 67.00 lines/article
Most prolific authors, by number of original articles
An "original" article is one with no References: header; that is, one which is
not a follow-up to any other article.
- Walter_Kaufmann <Walter_Kaufmann at hotmail dot com> 4 articles
- Bruce Munro <bm2617 at eve dot albany dot edu> 4 articles
- David Tenner <dtenner at ameritech dot net> 3 articles
- Coyu <coyu at aol dot com> 3 articles
- Jay Chapman <newgemellus at earthlink dot net> 3 articles
- John0714 <john0714 at aol dot comnojunk> 3 articles
- James Nicoll <jdnicoll at panix dot com> 3 articles
- Matt Giwer <matt at tampabay dot rr dot com> 2 articles
- Randy McDonald <r_f_mcdonald_80 at hotmail dot com> 2 articles
- Rotwang <rotwang2000 at yahoo dot com> 2 articles
- fasquardon <kalen at another dot com> 2 articles
- 'Ole Curmudgeon <Ole at home dot ca> 2 articles
- Chris Piantes <cpiantes at yahoo dot com> 2 articles
- Austin Ross <feehyde at aol dot com> 1 articles
- Donnie <donnie at dinonino dot fsnet dot co dot uk> 1 articles
- David Walker <dowalke2 at ncsu dot edu> 1 articles
- alfred montestruc <amontestruc01 at yahoo dot com> 1 articles
- Bigbadjohn597 <bigbadjohn597 at aol dot com> 1 articles
- Faeelin <Emporerblair at hotmail dot com> 1 articles
- Dan Childers <dchilders at cablespeed dot com> 1 articles
Threads are assessed on the basis of Subject: line, rather than using the
References: header; therefore, an article with subject "Foo (was: Bar)"
will be counted towards the subthread.
- The War on Ball Gags (was Re: WI Seed: the American corporate anthem redux!) 83 articles
- No regrets 40 articles
- No one likes John Kerry 32 articles
- July 20 31 articles
- OT: "I'd shout: Hooray!" 30 articles
- Anglo-American Wars 29 articles
- Pre-Falklands Fire Sale 25 articles
- All that Bravery Could Do (Pt. 2) 24 articles
- Long-term effects of no-science world 23 articles
- WI American Foreign Legion. 22 articles
- On Stranger Tides 21 articles
- What if Hitler won WWII - continued (Part 1 - Jan 1937 - Dec 1942) 19 articles
- Linebacker III, B-52s in Vietnam, 1975 19 articles
- Polish-Swedish Question 19 articles
- The Glen Canyon Dam fails in 1983 18 articles
- WI Moon Landings by Other Nations? 18 articles
- Is it time for a soc.history.what-if.moderated? 17 articles
- [Culture] Flare, the Movie 15 articles
- The Prince of Peace 45: Drag Nach Osten 14 articles
- When Bush wins should liberals apologize? 14 articles
Longest threads, by lines of text
- The War on Ball Gags (was Re: WI Seed: the American corporate anthem redux!) 2490 lines
- Polish-Swedish Question 2090 lines
- The Prince of Peace 45: Drag Nach Osten 1922 lines
- Anglo-American Wars 1545 lines
- Pre-Falklands Fire Sale 1239 lines
- July 20 1230 lines
- Long-term effects of no-science world 1129 lines
- No regrets 1117 lines
- All that Bravery Could Do (Pt. 2) 1111 lines
- No one likes John Kerry 1036 lines
- WI American Foreign Legion. 1003 lines
- Napoleon IN Louisiana? (Continued British America POD) 949 lines
- On Stranger Tides 790 lines
- WI Moon Landings by Other Nations? 692 lines
- Linebacker III, B-52s in Vietnam, 1975 689 lines
- What if Hitler won WWII - continued (Part 1 - Jan 1937 - Dec 1942) 657 lines
- Saving Spain 649 lines
- All that Bravery Could Do (Pt. 3) 566 lines
- OT: "I'd shout: Hooray!" 545 lines
- The Glen Canyon Dam fails in 1983 542 lines
Busiest threads, by number of authors contributing
- OT: "I'd shout: Hooray!" 29 authors
- The War on Ball Gags (was Re: WI Seed: the American corporate anthem redux!) 22 authors
- No regrets 19 authors
- Anglo-American Wars 14 authors
- WI Moon Landings by Other Nations? 13 authors
- The Glen Canyon Dam fails in 1983 12 authors
- Long-term effects of no-science world 12 authors
- Is it time for a soc.history.what-if.moderated? 12 authors
- Pre-Falklands Fire Sale 11 authors
- Politics WI: Democrates had backbone 10 authors
- All that Bravery Could Do (Pt. 2) 10 authors
- On Stranger Tides 10 authors
- July 20 10 authors
- Linebacker III, B-52s in Vietnam, 1975 9 authors
- WI American Foreign Legion. 9 authors
- No one likes John Kerry 8 authors
- Another Harry Turtledove Genocide 8 authors
- Hitler and Horsies 8 authors
- Okay, SMITHSONIAN, Match THIS!!!!! 8 authors
- Krakatoa erupts in 1983 8 authors
This analysis is a compilation of publically-accessible information and I
claim no copyright in it. It was generated by
ngmlstat,
by Chris Lightfoot.