For 21 October through 30 November, 1995:


About the messages*:
  4047 total posts (AGM type psots, Crossposts, Spam)
        3537 AGM type psots
         497 Crossposts
          13 Spam (not Crossposted)
          34 Not classified

Average length of all posts
(including crossposts):                     34 lines
Average length of AGM psot 
(not including FAQs or 
 the Word Wrap exercise):                   30 lines   
Average length of Original AGM psot
(no followups, no FAQ):                     24 lines

Crossposts reached a high of 18 percent of total posts 
during the week before the Quebec vote and the week 
after. 30 October had the most crossposts of 36 percent.

75 percent of all AGM posts are followups (either 
include text from a previous post or have RE: in the 
subject line). 61 percent of all AGM psots include a 
.sig. Average sig length is 5 lines.


About the people**:
  427 different people posted to AGM during this time.
        224 crossposters and spammers
        203 Agm type posters

Posting patterns for Crossposters and spammers:
 only one message:   163
 1 day, >1 message:   22
 2 days:              29
 3 days:               9
 4-5 days:             6
 6-10 days:            4
 20-29 days:           1
 30-39 days:           1
One crossposter submitted over 100 messages to AGM

Posting patterns for AGMers:
 only one message: 47
 only one day:     51
 average 1 / week: 10  
 average 2 / week: 14
 average 3 / week: 10
 average 4 / week:  3
 average 5 / week:  3
 average 6 / week:  1
 average 1 / day:  21
 average 2 / day:   6
 average 3 / day:   2
 average 4 / day:   1
 average 7 / day:   2
  
28 people contributed 40 or more messages during this 
41 day period: 15 women
               13 men
6 of these contributed more than 100 messages: 
                3 women
                3 men
Of these 6, 5 consistently used a sig

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Notes:
* Please remember that these figures come from the posts 
that I received and do not reflect the total posts 
*submitted* to AGM.

* AGM type psots include those by people who have not 
      continued to psot to AGM, but whose messages were in 
      the AGM spirit.
  Crossposts include those posted by AGMers.
  Spam does not include any crossposted messages. These 
      are mostly commercial messages.
  Message not classified include flames not crossposted, 
      informational messages not usually considered spam 
      (commercial).

** Posting patterns are about people. If the person posted 
   a message in the AGM spirit, then that person is 
   considered an AGMer. Crossposters are those (non-AGM) 
   people who posted or replied to the massively crossposted 
   threads. These people never participated in AGM threads. 


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