ewcbob wrote:

Yahoo has numerous moderated shortwave groups, with normal people
posting..
Bye


Well, let's take a look why this happened.


We have 435 postings by RHF, containing 213,000 links that would take
three lifetimes to read. Quality Quantity.

369 postings by Telamon, 99.8 percent of which contain insults directed
at RHF.

348 posting by the lunatic fringe, either spewing hatred towards Eduardo
or the world in general or advertising weekly mutual 'respect'
encounters with the gay community. (Uniform optional).

The remaining posters are statistically insignificant had no bearing on
ewcbob's departure. I hope you trouble makers are satisfied.

Thirty three percent of all postings by three people......


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..........: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:36:16 GMT
Stats Begin...............: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:49:46 GMT
Stats End.................: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:24:40 GMT
Days......................: 30
Total No. of Articles.....: 3471
Total No. of Characters...: 10641278
Total Volume..............: 10391
Messages Per Day..........: 115.7
Characters Per Day........: 354709.3
Average Daily Volume......: 346 kB
Total Posters This Week...: 305
Messages with Sigs........: 16.13%
Original Content Rating...: 31.89%

Top 25 Prolific Posters: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ============
1. Rhf............................................... : 435 14.5 12.5%
2. Telamon........................................... : 369 12.3 10.6%
3. dxAce............................................. : 348 11.6 10.0%
4. David Eduardo.....................................: 185 6.2 5.3%
5. m II..............................................: 159 5.3 4.6%
6. Radio Ron.........................................: 158 5.3 4.6%
7. Dave.............................................. : 116 3.9 3.3%
8. cuhulin........................................... : 114 3.8 3.3%
9. D Peter Maus......................................: 110 3.7 3.2%
10. Dave.............................................. : 88 2.9 2.5%
11. Tex............................................... : 61 2.0 1.8%
12. Billy Smith.......................................: 57 1.9 1.6%
13. Bart Bailey.......................................: 55 1.8 1.6%
14. Brenda Ann........................................: 41 1.4 1.2%
15. A Brown...........................................: 40 1.3 1.2%
16. Gallant17......................................... : 40 1.3 1.2%
17. Billy Burpelson...................................: 37 1.2 1.1%
18. Burr.............................................. : 34 1.1 1.0%
19. Cheley Bonstell88.................................: 30 1.0 0.9%
20. PocketRadio....................................... : 29 1.0 0.8%
21. gallant17......................................... : 28 0.9 0.8%
22. Radioguy.......................................... : 27 0.9 0.8%
23. Rfburns........................................... : 25 0.8 0.7%
24. Clifto............................................ : 22 0.7 0.6%
25. Harvey............................................ : 19 0.6 0.5%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Posters: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ========================
1. Telamon........................................... : 1591 53.1 15.3%
2. Rhf............................................... : 1496 49.9 14.4%
3. Radio Ron.........................................: 947 31.6 9.1%
4. dxAce............................................. : 902 30.1 8.7%
5. David Eduardo.....................................: 526 17.6 5.1%
6. m II..............................................: 340 11.3 3.3%
7. D Peter Maus......................................: 333 11.1 3.2%
8. Dave.............................................. : 219 7.3 2.1%
9. Dave.............................................. : 217 7.2 2.1%
10. Billy Smith.......................................: 207 6.9 2.0%
11. Tex............................................... : 185 6.2 1.8%
12. Gallant17......................................... : 150 5.0 1.4%
13. Bart Bailey.......................................: 132 4.4 1.3%
14. A Brown...........................................: 114 3.8 1.1%
15. cuhulin........................................... : 113 3.8 1.1%
16. Brenda Ann........................................: 97 3.2 0.9%
17. Billy Burpelson...................................: 94 3.1 0.9%
18. PocketRadio....................................... : 83 2.8 0.8%
19. Cheley Bonstell88.................................: 67 2.3 0.7%
20. Radioguy.......................................... : 66 2.2 0.6%
21. Burr.............................................. : 65 2.2 0.6%
22. Rfburns........................................... : 63 2.1 0.6%
23. Adam Albright.....................................: 61 2.0 0.6%
24. Joewo............................................. : 60 2.0 0.6%
25. A. Nony Muss......................................: 59 2.0 0.6%

Top 25 Popular Threads: Posts / Posts per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ===========
1. Eduardo - fellow IBOC-shill diputes your claims ab: 283 9.4 8.2%
2. Big 89 Rewind.....................................: 238 7.9 6.9%
3. "Why the drop outs?...............................: 167 5.6 4.8%
4. Microsoft Taking Official Petitions to Keep XP Ali: 140 4.7 4.0%
5. Improve the Rec.Radio.Shortwave Newsgroup -by- Mak: 82 2.7 2.4%
6. Was wondering what you all thought about HD Radio.: 57 1.9 1.6%
7. Vanilla Ice + Britney Spears = Howard Stern.......: 52 1.7 1.5%
8. IBOC News : "Commercial Free" FM HD-Radio Is Now A: 44 1.5 1.3%
9. Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking.............: 43 1.4 1.2%
10. (OT) Obama Explains National Anthem Stance........: 41 1.4 1.2%
11. Barack Hussein Obama's fifty outrageous lies......: 39 1.3 1.1%
12. D'Oh ! - The Future of Windows XP -according-to- M: 37 1.2 1.1%
13. An Apology for Canada's Treatment of Animals......: 35 1.2 1.0%
14. Radio Prague QSL came today/OPENED!...............: 35 1.2 1.0%
15. Good Lord What Has Happened To Humanity?..........: 30 1.0 0.9%
16. Finally, I GOT my radio!!.........................: 27 0.9 0.8%
17. Best frequency for picking up Thunderstorm Lightni: 26 0.9 0.7%
18. Counterfeit circuit breakers......................: 25 0.8 0.7%
19. (OT) More Crappy WX...............................: 25 0.8 0.7%
20. Eduardo radio is off 5% year to date..............: 24 0.8 0.7%
21. New Icom Receiver.................................: 23 0.8 0.7%
22. Clinton Now Wants Vice Presidency.................: 22 0.7 0.6%
23. Mexico commits to HD Radio jammers on its Northern: 21 0.7 0.6%
24. US strike on al-Qaida kills children - AGAIN......: 21 0.7 0.6%
25. Anybody DXing now.................................: 20 0.7 0.6%

Top 25 Bandwidth-Slurping Threads: kBytes / kBytes per Day / Percent Share
================================================== ========================
1. "Why the drop outs?...............................: 937 31.2 9.0%
2. Eduardo - fellow IBOC-shill diputes your claims ab: 834 27.8 8.0%
3. Big 89 Rewind.....................................: 704 23.5 6.8%
4. Improve the Rec.Radio.Shortwave Newsgroup -by- Mak: 487 16.2 4.7%
5. Microsoft Taking Official Petitions to Keep XP Ali: 469 15.7 4.5%
6. Was wondering what you all thought about HD Radio.: 331 11.0 3.2%
7. D'Oh ! - The Future of Windows XP -according-to- M: 189 6.3 1.8%
8. IBOC News : "Commercial Free" FM HD-Radio Is Now A: 169 5.7 1.6%
9. Commercials on HD Radio...........................: 141 4.7 1.4%
10. Vanilla Ice + Britney Spears = Howard Stern.......: 130 4.3 1.3%
11. 50 Outrageous Lies by Barack Obama................: 119 4.0 1.2%
12. Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking.............: 103 3.4 1.0%
13. Barack Hussein Obama's fifty outrageous lies......: 99 3.3 1.0%
14. (OT) Obama Explains National Anthem Stance........: 90 3.0 0.9%
15. An Apology for Canada's Treatment of Animals......: 86 2.9 0.8%
16. Radio Prague QSL came today/OPENED!...............: 85 2.8 0.8%
17. Mexico commits to HD Radio jammers on its Northern: 74 2.5 0.7%
18. Finally, I GOT my radio!!.........................: 62 2.1 0.6%
19. Good Lord What Has Happened To Humanity?..........: 61 2.1 0.6%
20. New Icom Receiver.................................: 59 2.0 0.6%
21. For CNOTM/COTM Nomination Consideration you kn: 59 2.0 0.6%
22. (OT) Jim Mckay RIP................................: 57 1.9 0.6%
23. Eduardo radio is off 5% year to date..............: 56 1.9 0.5%
24. (OT) D-Day........................................: 53 1.8 0.5%
25. Eduardo - radio is having a banner month!.........: 51 1.7 0.5%

Top 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
================================================== =============
1. Bdenley........................................... ........: 100.0%
2. cuhulin........................................... ........: 100.0%
3. Francesco......................................... ........: 100.0%
4. gallant17......................................... ........: 99.8%
5. Dave.............................................. ........: 96.5%
6. Tex............................................... ........: 87.1%
7. m II................................................ ......: 81.9%
8. John Kasupski.......................................... ...: 77.6%
9. Loosesolder50..................................... ........: 75.5%
10. Mark-in-the-Dark..........................................: 71.3%

Bottom 10 Original Content Ratings: (Original Bytes) / (All Bytes)
================================================== ================
1. Radio Ron............................................... ..: 6.3%
2. Telamon........................................... ........: 8.7%
3. A. Nony Muss.............................................. : 9.0%
4. Frank............................................. ........: 9.9%
5. Unknown........................................... ........: 13.5%
6. Bill.............................................. ........: 14.8%
7. dxAce............................................. ........: 15.4%
8. Cheryl Isaak............................................. .: 15.4%
9. An Old Friend............................................ .: 15.8%
10. Dave.............................................. ........: 16.2%

Top 10 Crossposting Groups: Posts in Group
==========================================
1. rec.radio.shortwave............................... ...........: 3471
2. rec.radio.amateur.policy.......................... ...........: 254
3. microsoft.public.windows.vista.general............ ...........: 167
4. microsoft.public.windowsxp.general................ ...........: 165
5. alt.conspiracy.................................... ...........: 97
6. rec.music.makers.guitar.acoustic.................. ...........: 63
7. alt.guitar........................................ ...........: 59
8. rec.crafts.textiles.needlework.................... ...........: 46
9. alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ...........: 36
10. alt.politics.bush................................. ...........: 30

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