I have provided this analysis in the past and as no-one complained I
thought I would do it again. This time my data goes back to March 22nd
1999. Treat the statistics with a tiny "pinch of salt" - especially the
stats around response/main documents and also the top subjects. The
process I use to group messages by topic are not foolproof and it relies
upon embedded information within messages which not all mail systems
support. I personally find the result interesting none-the-less.

Enjoy!

Analysis of all documents in the All Topics by date view of the MAPUG User
Group.

Requested Document Counts

Number Created
Main Documents 651 (23%)
Resp. Documents 2198 (77%)
Total 2849

Resp. to Main Ratio 3.38 to 1
Abandoned Threads 197 ( 30% of main documents have no responses.)
Author Count 409

Daily creation counts

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
Main 82 106 116 106 101 88 52
Resp 303 353 304 472 290 271 205
Tot 385 459 420 578 391 359 257

The top 25 document creators (all document types) in this database.

Total Docs User Name
116 Ric L Ecker
100 R. A. Greiner
83 Bill Arnett
74 cfrye
71 Chris Vedeler
57 Ralph P. Pass III
56 Paul Goelz
55 Chris Heapy
55 Wayne Watson
50 Evan Zucker
47 Bob Denny
45 BREWSTER,JON A (HP-Corvallis,ex1)
44 Ed Stewart-AstroDesigns
43 rlecker
37 Gene Horr
35 Heapy Chris CG
34 John W Downs
34 JohnLX200
33 Heath, Andrew
32 astro-peter
31 Dan Dickerson
29 Michael J. Cook
28 Andy Wallace
27 Frank Loch
23 B. S. Jones


The top 25 document creators (main documents only) in this database.

Total Docs User Name
19 astro-peter
17 Heath, Andrew
15 JohnLX200
14 Wayne Watson
14 cfrye
13 Chris Vedeler
10 Andrew Jackson
10 Evan Zucker
9 Michael J. Cook
9 BREWSTER,JON A (HP-Corvallis,ex1)
8 Blair MacDonald
8 Philip Freeman
8 Marc Castel
8 Jack Estes
7 BJohns7764
7 Paul Goelz
7 Vince Gardiner
7 LouCip
7 Gilles Grosgurin
6 MWeir10105
6 David S. Dixon
6 Alf Jacob Nilsen
6 REppler102
6 Tom Boucher
6 Eric Schandall


The top 25 document creators (response documents only) in this database.

Total Docs User Name
115 Ric L Ecker
97 R. A. Greiner
82 Bill Arnett
60 cfrye
58 Chris Vedeler
54 Chris Heapy
54 Ralph P. Pass III
49 Paul Goelz
45 Bob Denny
43 rlecker
41 Wayne Watson
40 Evan Zucker
39 Ed Stewart-AstroDesigns
36 BREWSTER,JON A (HP-Corvallis,ex1)
35 Gene Horr
34 John W Downs
31 Dan Dickerson
30 Heapy Chris CG
25 Andy Wallace
25 Frank Loch
20 Michael J. Cook
19 B. S. Jones
19 JohnLX200
18 Bjorn Heijligers
17 Mogens Winther


The top 25 subjects in terms of number of responses generated.

40 [M]: ST-7 vs 416XT CCD (The Ways)
30 [M]: RE: LX200 Purchase: Which dealer? (jon_brewster)
26 [M]: Getting/Making a pier for semi-permanent use. (Tom Boucher)
25 [M]: CCD camera selection (Joyce Mori)
24 [M]: eyepiece cleaning (Andy Wallace)
23 [M]: Software Recommendation, please... (Rob Ratterman)
21 [M]: Major Malfunction (Bjorn Heijligers)
21 [M]: Solar Filters (Doug Kranz)
21 [M]: Damaged LX-200 (James C Kernohan)
21 [M]: beginning CCD (JIM SCOTT)
20 [M]: LXD650 woes (Stephen M. Linscott)
19 [M]: operating the 416xt with a lap-top (wyn palmer)
19 [M]: LX200 collimation help needed (Depriving a village somewhere of
an idiot)
18 [M]: Keypad Problem! (Gilles Grosgurin)
18 [M]: Mirror-Flop; NGF-S ????? (astro-peter)
17 [M]: OT: Guidescopes (Heath, Andrew)
17 [M]: How do I use a 2" eyepiece with a 1.25" eyepiece holder (wyn
palmer)
17 [M]: Mirror-flop mod - further update posted (Chris Heapy)
16 [M]: streetlights (sc)
16 [M]: Mars appearance (Kip Peterson)
16 [M]: Pictor S/W (was Re: CCD camera selection) (Bob Freeze)
16 [M]: First impressions of TheSky for the Mac. (Chris Vedeler)
16 [M]: unsubscribe for the time being (Richard W. Mays)
15 [M]: C-Sat software (MWeir10105)
14 [M]: Is Meade a member of this list? (LouCip)

L I A M K E N N E D Y
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statistics - visit http://206.132.100.86:8080/mail/external/mapug.nsf

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