On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:51:40 GMT, m II wrote:

GroupSTAT: Advanced Newsgroup Statistics Program
Version 0.12.1 (using News::Scan)

Copyleft (C) 2000 H. Alex LaHurreau
Based on StatNews, Copyleft (C) 1998 Davide G. M. Salvetti

Newsgroup.................: rec.radio.shortwave
Stats Were Taken..........: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:30:31 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:36:57 GMT
Stats End.................: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:37:46 GMT
Days......................: 30
Total No. of Articles.....: 4459
Total No. of Characters...: 8985200
Total Volume..............: 8774
Messages Per Day..........: 148.6
Characters Per Day........: 299506.7
Average Daily Volume......: 292 kB
Total Posters This Week...: 442
Messages with Sigs........: 7.98%
Original Content Rating...: 53.68%

Top 40 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
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1. cuhulin........................................... : 686 22.9 15.4%
2. Rhf............................................... : 442 14.7 9.9%
3. dxAce............................................. : 409 13.6 9.2%
4. David............................................. : 358 11.9 8.0%
5. m II..............................................: 134 4.5 3.0%
6. Telamon........................................... : 110 3.7 2.5%
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End of stats for rec.radio.shortwave

I have killfiled the first three on this list and am seriously
considering the next three.
(signed) An interested reader about shortwave with very few comments
offered.

Warren