From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <asd34h$phn5i$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 24 Nov 2002 07:16:37 GMT and ending at
30 Nov 2002 23:05:47 GMT.

Notes
=====

    - A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
      does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
    - All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
      considered to be the author's signature.
    - The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
      in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
    - Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
      to the total body volume.
    - Please send all comments to Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>

Totals
======

Posters:  130
Articles: 354 (127 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  66
Volume generated: 750.9 kb
    - headers:    318.4 kb (6,102 lines)
    - bodies:     408.9 kb (10,986 lines)
    - original:   252.2 kb (7,233 lines)
    - signatures: 23.3 kb (538 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.617

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 2.7
    median: 1.0 post
    mode:   1 post - 67 posters
    s:      7.9 posts
Posts per thread: 5.4
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 14 threads
    s:      7.7 posts
Message size: 2172.0 bytes
    - header:     920.9 bytes (17.2 lines)
    - body:       1182.7 bytes (31.0 lines)
    - original:   729.5 bytes (20.4 lines)
    - signature:  67.4 bytes (1.5 lines)

Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================

         (kb)   (kb)  (kb)  (kb)
Posts  Volume (  hdr/ body/ orig)  Address
-----  --------------------------  -------

   19    41.2 ( 13.5/ 27.6/ 17.2)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   18    29.1 ( 15.3/ 13.7/  9.1)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   14    35.5 ( 14.2/ 17.9/ 12.0)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   12    27.9 (  9.7/ 12.8/  5.7)  ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
   11    28.5 ( 15.0/ 13.4/  7.9)  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
   10    26.0 (  8.6/ 17.4/  8.6)  Justin Dubs <···········@zencode.org>
    9    20.2 (  9.7/  8.7/  4.1)  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
    8    17.9 (  6.4/ 11.4/  6.5)  Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>
    8    17.6 ( 10.4/  7.2/  3.9)  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
    8    14.6 (  7.2/  5.9/  2.9)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>

These posters accounted for 33.1% of all articles.

Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================

  (kb)   (kb)  (kb)  (kb)
Volume (  hdr/ body/ orig)  Posts  Address
--------------------------  -----  -------

  41.2 ( 13.5/ 27.6/ 17.2)     19  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
  35.5 ( 14.2/ 17.9/ 12.0)     14  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  29.1 ( 15.3/ 13.7/  9.1)     18  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  28.5 ( 15.0/ 13.4/  7.9)     11  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
  27.9 (  9.7/ 12.8/  5.7)     12  ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
  26.0 (  8.6/ 17.4/  8.6)     10  Justin Dubs <···········@zencode.org>
  20.2 (  9.7/  8.7/  4.1)      9  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
  18.2 (  6.8/ 11.2/  6.9)      6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  17.9 (  6.4/ 11.4/  6.5)      8  Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>
  17.6 ( 10.4/  7.2/  3.9)      8  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>

These posters accounted for 34.9% of the total volume.

Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================

         (kb)    (kb)
OCR      orig /  body  Posts  Address
-----  --------------  -----  -------

0.807  ( 10.0 / 12.3)      6  Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de>
0.734  (  6.8 /  9.3)      6  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.712  (  3.1 /  4.4)      6  "Charlie" <········@zoom.co.uk>
0.672  (  2.6 /  3.9)      6  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
0.669  ( 12.0 / 17.9)     14  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.664  (  9.1 / 13.7)     18  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.622  ( 17.2 / 27.6)     19  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
0.618  (  6.9 / 11.2)      6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.588  (  7.9 / 13.4)     11  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
0.567  (  6.5 / 11.4)      8  Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>

Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================

         (kb)    (kb)
OCR      orig /  body  Posts  Address
-----  --------------  -----  -------

0.514  (  1.1 /  2.1)      5  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.497  (  8.6 / 17.4)     10  Justin Dubs <···········@zencode.org>
0.497  (  2.9 /  5.9)      8  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.493  (  3.4 /  6.8)      5  Gabe Garza <·······@ix.netcom.com>
0.472  (  4.1 /  8.7)      9  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
0.453  (  2.5 /  5.6)      6  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
0.452  (  3.4 /  7.6)      6  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.442  (  3.5 /  7.9)      6  ·······@aerojockey.com (Carl Banks)
0.441  (  5.7 / 12.8)     12  ···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
0.398  (  3.0 /  7.4)      5  ··········@alum.mit.edu

Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================

Posts  Subject
-----  -------

   42  Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
   36  Re: Lisp OpenGL bindings?
   15  Re: defclass-eval-bases
   15  What happens to power (was: Difference between LISP and C++)
   11  Newbie array construction question
   11  Re: dynamic bindings and global declarations
   11  Portable MOP functionality?
   11  Arrays
    9  Prime number generator
    9  LISP error signaling. Newbie question.

Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================

  (kb)   (kb)  (kb)  (kb)
Volume (  hdr/ body/ orig)  Posts  Subject
--------------------------  -----  -------

 107.1 ( 40.8/ 62.6/ 38.8)     42  Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
  87.3 ( 31.9/ 52.5/ 28.0)     36  Re: Lisp OpenGL bindings?
  45.2 ( 25.0/ 19.8/  9.0)     15  What happens to power (was: Difference between LISP and C++)
  33.6 ( 13.7/ 19.0/  9.0)     15  Re: defclass-eval-bases
  29.6 ( 10.3/ 18.1/ 12.6)     11  Re: dynamic bindings and global declarations
  26.8 ( 10.5/ 15.7/ 11.1)     11  Portable MOP functionality?
  22.6 ( 11.8/ 10.2/  5.8)     11  Newbie array construction question
  20.2 (  7.0/ 11.7/  6.5)      9  LISP error signaling. Newbie question.
  18.5 (  4.2/ 13.9/ 11.1)      6  How are closures stored?
  17.5 (  8.7/  7.6/  4.1)     11  Arrays

Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
==============================================

         (kb)    (kb)
OCR      orig /  body  Posts  Subject
-----  --------------  -----  -------

0.799  ( 11.1/  13.9)      6  How are closures stored?
0.798  (  5.4/   6.8)      3  database feasibility
0.781  (  1.7/   2.2)      3  Allegro regexp with grouping syntax
0.769  (  2.7/   3.5)      4  macros, &REST and REMF
0.768  (  1.3/   1.6)      3  CL -> native .elf, w/o library dependency
0.768  (  4.5/   5.8)      3  .NET style events in Lisp
0.766  (  3.2/   4.2)      6  Hello - I wonder about this. Please help if you can.
0.758  (  1.7/   2.3)      3  Symbol Frequency
0.753  (  3.1/   4.1)      5  Cons Cells
0.721  (  4.4/   6.0)      5  Re: poll: CLOS use

Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
=================================================

         (kb)    (kb)
OCR      orig /  body  Posts  Subject
-----  --------------  -----  -------

0.529  (  3.0 /  5.7)      8  Saving runtime
0.514  (  1.0 /  2.0)      5  CLX manual
0.502  (  0.8 /  1.7)      4  scheme to lisp translator?
0.490  (  1.5 /  3.0)      4  Re: compile-time-too/not-compile-time
0.475  (  2.1 /  4.5)      6  Common Lisp and Array Slices.
0.474  (  9.0 / 19.0)     15  Re: defclass-eval-bases
0.453  (  4.0 /  8.9)      4  Help with Sec. 3.2.3.1.1
0.452  (  9.0 / 19.8)     15  What happens to power (was: Difference between LISP and C++)
0.440  (  2.0 /  4.6)      3  XSLT character escaping
0.420  (  3.4 /  8.2)      7  Re: Wanted: Info on Pro*Kappa language (grammar, manual, examples)

Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================

Articles  Newsgroup
--------  ---------

      17  comp.graphics.api.opengl
      15  sci.energy
       8  comp.lang.prolog
       8  comp.ai.shells
       1  comp.lang.misc
       1  comp.lang.lisp.franz
       1  comp.text.tex
       1  comp.lang.java.tech
       1  comp.lang.labview
       1  comp.lang.lisp.x

Top 10 Crossposters
===================

Articles  Address
--------  -------

       9  "ArSeNaL" <·······@dccnet.com>
       8  "Rom" <······@frisurf.no>
       5  Justin Dubs <···········@zencode.org>
       5  ··········@alum.mit.edu
       4  Ralph Becket <····@cs.mu.oz.au>
       3  ········@mail.mc.maricopa.edu
       2  Matthieu Villeneuve <········@matthieu-villeneuve.net>
       2  "Ian" <···@aiinc.ca>
       2  Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de>
       2  clive spenser <·····@lpa.co.uk>