(posted late while I fix errors with an elderly python script when run
in my updated Mageia! - apologies, in case anyone follows these...)

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Analysis of posts to alt.os.linux.mageia by Robert Marshall
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)

Total posts considered: 88 over 33 days
Earliest article: Sat Oct 2 01:20:02 2021
Latest article: Wed Nov 3 12:00:07 2021
Original articles: 10, replies: 78
Total size of posts: 209,398 bytes (204K) (0.20M)
Average 2 articles per day, 0.01 MB per day, 2,379 bytes per article
Total headers: 89 KB bodies: 115 KB
Body text - quoted: 61 KB, original: 43 KB = 41.26%, sigs: 10 KB
Total number of posters: 18, average 11,633 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 20, average 10,469 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 6

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Top 18 posters by number of articles
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1: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 15
2: Jim <jim.beard@verizon.net>.................................... : 11
3: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 10
4: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 8
5: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 8
6: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 7
7: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 7
8: marchugo <no_body@none.com>.................................... : 4
9: Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 3
10: Herman Viaene <herman@invalid.invalid>......................... : 3
11: santo <nanci@auroville.org.in>................................. : 2
12: pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>................................ : 2
13: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 2
14: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 2
15: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 1
16: bilou <bilou@sfr.fr>........................................... : 1
17: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................... : 1
18: andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid>............................. : 1

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Top 18 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 36
2: Jim <jim.beard@verizon.net>.................................... : 35
3: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 28
4: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 16
5: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 16
6: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 15
7: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 13
8: Herman Viaene <herman@invalid.invalid>......................... : 8
9: marchugo <no_body@none.com>.................................... : 7
10: Daniel65 <daniel47@eternal-september.org>...................... : 5
11: TJ <TJ@noneofyour.business>.................................... : 4
12: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>............................... : 4
13: pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>................................ : 3
14: Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com>...................... : 2
15: santo <nanci@auroville.org.in>................................. : 2
16: Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid>............................... : 1
17: bilou <bilou@sfr.fr>........................................... : 1
18: andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid>............................. : 1

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Top 6 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be>................................. : 59.56%
2: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 53.89%
3: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 51.67%
4: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 45.51%
5: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 41.68%
6: Jim <jim.beard@verizon.net>.................................... : 32.36%

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Bottom 6 responders by original text (> 5 posts)
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1: Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com>........................ : 28.40%
2: Jim <jim.beard@verizon.net>.................................... : 32.36%
3: faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org>........................ : 41.68%
4: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>.......................... : 45.51%
5: Grimble <grimble@nomail.afraid.org>............................ : 51.67%
6: "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org>............... : 53.89%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_J=c3=b6rg_Schilling_has_passed_away?=.......... : 12
2: Boot process failure........................................... : 9
3: Can I stop LibreOffice from opening for particular File types?? : 8
4: =?iso-8859-1?B?SvZyZw==?= Schilling has passed away............ : 7
5: Where to install waterfox ?.................................... : 7
6: can't read android phone....................................... : 5
7: Boot process failure - next steps.............................. : 5
8: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed away................. : 5
9: analogue clock running behind.................................. : 5
10: Remove Orphaned pkges.......................................... : 4
11: [OT] Sanity problem............................................ : 4
12: Who Knew ?..................................................... : 4
13: Bluetooth keyboard............................................. : 3
14: 3 min pause and loads of "error" messages if use ethernet USBC. : 2
15: root password demand after boot................................ : 2
16: The Boot Repair Disk........................................... : 2
17: [OT] Religions (was: =?iso-8859-1?B?SvZyZw==?= Schilling has... : 1
18: FYI new zoom-5.8.3.145-1.x86_64.rpm............................ : 1
19: [OT] Religions (was: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed. : 1
20: klatexformula and startup...................................... : 1

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: =?UTF-8?Q?Re=3a_J=c3=b6rg_Schilling_has_passed_away?=.......... : 32
2: =?iso-8859-1?B?SvZyZw==?= Schilling has passed away............ : 24
3: Where to install waterfox ?.................................... : 17
4: Boot process failure........................................... : 17
5: Who Knew ?..................................................... : 15
6: Can I stop LibreOffice from opening for particular File types?? : 13
7: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed away................. : 12
8: can't read android phone....................................... : 11
9: Boot process failure - next steps.............................. : 10
10: analogue clock running behind.................................. : 8
11: Remove Orphaned pkges.......................................... : 6
12: [OT] Sanity problem............................................ : 6
13: 3 min pause and loads of "error" messages if use ethernet USBC. : 6
14: Bluetooth keyboard............................................. : 5
15: [OT] Religions (was: =?iso-8859-1?B?SvZyZw==?= Schilling has... : 4
16: root password demand after boot................................ : 3
17: The Boot Repair Disk........................................... : 3
18: [OT] Religions (was: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmc=?= Schilling has passed. : 2
19: klatexformula and startup...................................... : 1
20: FYI new zoom-5.8.3.145-1.x86_64.rpm............................ : 0

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Top 3 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.os.linux.android........................................... : 4
2: alt.os.linux.ubuntu............................................ : 4
3: alt.os.linux.mint.............................................. : 4