On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:05:30 -0600, Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> In the last 3 months, Roy Schestowitz has posted (out of 8,930 total):
>
> * 1,270 articles containing the word "Vista".
> * 3,470 posts with the word Microsoft.
> * 2,410 posts with the word Windows.
> * 434 posts with MS
> * 405 posts with Gates (308 posts with "Bill Gates")
> * 297 posts with Ballmer (4 with Balmer)
> * 507 posts with XP
>
> (and that's not counting the ones that don't contain a reference in the
> title or summary, but are still about Microsoft or their products)
>
> Now, obviously many of those are overlap (but not all) for isntance:
>
> Windows -Microsoft -Vista = 508
> Microsoft -Windows -Vista = 1070
> Vista -Microsoft -Windows = 102
>
> I haven't been able to figure out a google query that can show how many
> posts don't contain the word "linux" because using -linux matches the
> newsgroup header and removes everything. However, the "insubject" operator
> shows how many subjects contain the word "linux"
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/search?lr=&safe=off&num=10&q=insubject%3Alinux+author%3ASchestowitz&as_drrb=q&as_qdr=m3
>
> * 2180 subjects contain the word "linux"
> * 1820 subjects contain the word "linux" and "[News]"
> * 624 subjects containing -insubject:linux ("red hat" OR ubuntu OR debian
> OR distribution OR mepis OR kubuntu OR xgl OR compiz OR beryl OR Mandriva
> OR kde OR gnome) author:Schestowitz
>
> However, with around 40% of the content relating to Windows, and around 25%
> containing the word "linux" or a common distro or component, it looks
> pretty pathetic.
Maybe so, but your bothering to count all this just to make an attack Roy
isn't exactly stellar behaviour, is it? I'd like to see all the yap about
Windows/Vista/MS cut down a good deal, but you won't get anywhere by
posting stupid stuff like this.
--
Kier
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