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.