From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <asvch4$uvhik$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 01 Dec 2002 07:50:22 GMT and ending at
07 Dec 2002 22:38:33 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:  147
Articles: 567 (233 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  63
Volume generated: 1370.4 kb
    - headers:    576.2 kb (9,935 lines)
    - bodies:     748.5 kb (20,347 lines)
    - original:   465.8 kb (13,444 lines)
    - signatures: 45.1 kb (1,036 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.622

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.9
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 63 posters
    s:      6.8 posts
Posts per thread: 9.0
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 20 threads
    s:      20.1 posts
Message size: 2474.9 bytes
    - header:     1040.7 bytes (17.5 lines)
    - body:       1351.9 bytes (35.9 lines)
    - original:   841.2 bytes (23.7 lines)
    - signature:  81.4 bytes (1.8 lines)

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

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

   52   187.4 ( 75.8/111.6/ 60.8)  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
   45   102.2 ( 48.6/ 40.6/ 23.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   17    47.0 ( 18.0/ 26.0/ 13.0)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   13    32.9 ( 11.8/ 19.0/ 14.3)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   13    33.4 ( 13.1/ 14.6/  5.8)  ···@avalanche.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
   13    23.5 ( 12.4/ 11.1/  6.5)  ····@vanderbilt.edu (sv0f)
   12    41.1 ( 14.1/ 26.7/ 26.1)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   12    18.9 ( 11.5/  7.2/  4.7)  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
   10    24.5 ( 10.2/ 14.3/  7.9)  "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
    9    20.6 (  7.4/  9.6/  2.8)  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>

These posters accounted for 34.6% of all articles.

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

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

 187.4 ( 75.8/111.6/ 60.8)     52  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
 102.2 ( 48.6/ 40.6/ 23.7)     45  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  47.0 ( 18.0/ 26.0/ 13.0)     17  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  41.1 ( 14.1/ 26.7/ 26.1)     12  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  33.4 ( 13.1/ 14.6/  5.8)     13  ···@avalanche.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
  32.9 ( 11.8/ 19.0/ 14.3)     13  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  29.6 (  5.5/ 24.1/ 17.9)      4  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
  27.7 (  9.6/ 18.1/ 17.6)      9  Charlton Wilbur <·······@mithril.chromatico.net>
  24.5 ( 10.2/ 14.3/  7.9)     10  "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
  23.8 ( 10.1/ 13.7/ 11.6)      8  "Rom" <······@frisurf.no>

These posters accounted for 40.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.979  ( 26.1 / 26.7)     12  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.971  ( 17.6 / 18.1)      9  Charlton Wilbur <·······@mithril.chromatico.net>
0.848  ( 11.6 / 13.7)      8  "Rom" <······@frisurf.no>
0.812  (  6.4 /  7.8)      5  "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·············@hotmail.com>
0.767  (  8.3 / 10.9)      8  Gabe Garza <·······@ix.netcom.com>
0.753  ( 14.3 / 19.0)     13  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.734  (  7.3 / 10.0)      7  Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no>
0.722  (  3.6 /  5.1)      5  ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
0.720  (  7.8 / 10.8)      7  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
0.672  (  3.3 /  4.9)      8  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>

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

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

0.519  (  2.2 /  4.3)      5  ······@alum.mit.edu (JP Massar)
0.517  (  5.0 /  9.7)      6  Bruce Hoult <·····@hoult.org>
0.500  (  4.4 /  8.9)      7  Ralph Becket <····@cs.mu.oz.au>
0.498  ( 13.0 / 26.0)     17  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.492  (  5.1 / 10.4)      9  Friedrich Dominicus <·····@q-software-solutions.com>
0.482  (  1.4 /  2.9)      7  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.418  (  5.3 / 12.6)      9  Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>
0.395  (  5.8 / 14.6)     13  ···@avalanche.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick)
0.386  (  2.7 /  7.1)      5  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
0.287  (  2.8 /  9.6)      9  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>

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

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

  117  Ruby style
  104  Re: Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
   30  Discussion of Richard Gabriel on Slashdot
   28  count symbols in a list
   22  Re: CL version of (Java) Pet Store?
   20  Poll: StudlyChallenge
   19  Double let
   18  Re: Keene on CLOS: very good recommendation
   16  Anaphoric macros and packages
   16  Better way to write this function?

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

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

 285.3 (130.5/142.5/ 81.2)    117  Ruby style
 276.8 (118.5/151.2/ 90.3)    104  Re: Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
  71.5 ( 21.6/ 48.1/ 30.6)     22  Re: CL version of (Java) Pet Store?
  61.5 ( 27.7/ 31.3/ 20.6)     30  Discussion of Richard Gabriel on Slashdot
  60.1 ( 23.9/ 32.4/ 20.6)     28  count symbols in a list
  44.1 ( 15.1/ 27.4/ 20.2)     16  Better way to write this function?
  42.2 ( 17.9/ 21.7/ 13.3)     20  Poll: StudlyChallenge
  40.8 ( 16.6/ 22.4/ 14.1)     18  Re: Keene on CLOS: very good recommendation
  33.3 ( 15.1/ 17.9/  9.8)     15  Not for the squeamish (corrected)
  32.9 ( 16.5/ 15.1/  7.0)     19  Double let

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

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

0.891  ( 10.7/  12.0)      7  condtion handling question
0.855  (  1.8/   2.1)      3  avoiding eval in macroexpansion
0.814  (  6.6/   8.1)      5  Using wxWindows for a GUI?
0.777  ( 10.8/  14.0)      9  Re: Prolog and relational databases
0.754  (  1.7/   2.3)      4  ~R in Russian
0.744  (  3.7/   4.9)      3  (APPLY function sequence)
0.734  ( 20.2/  27.4)     16  Better way to write this function?
0.733  ( 10.2/  14.0)     16  Anaphoric macros and packages
0.723  (  2.3/   3.2)      3  Lisp and GLUT: So Happy Together
0.717  (  1.1/   1.5)      4  Macintosh Common Lisp for OS X

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

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

0.597  ( 90.3 /151.2)    104  Re: Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
0.590  (  8.6 / 14.6)     11  Why learn Smalltalk, was Re: Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
0.570  ( 81.2 /142.5)    117  Ruby style
0.549  (  9.8 / 17.9)     15  Not for the squeamish (corrected)
0.542  (  1.6 /  3.0)      5  [OT] Re: Why Lisp is not popular. No GUI?
0.531  (  1.6 /  3.0)      4  Re: Prime number generator
0.502  (  1.1 /  2.2)      4  Winodws XP common lisp
0.466  (  7.0 / 15.1)     19  Double let
0.398  (  2.0 /  5.1)      3  Re: Wanted: Info on Pro*Kappa language (grammar, manual, examples)
0.389  (  6.0 / 15.3)     15  remove atoms from a list

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

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

      18  comp.lang.prolog
      18  comp.ai.shells
       4  comp.lang.scheme
       1  comp.apps.spreadsheets
       1  rec.arts.misc
       1  comp.databases
       1  comp.arch
       1  rec.arts.books
       1  alt.folklore.computers
       1  soc.history.science

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

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

      16  "Rom" <······@frisurf.no>
      14  Ralph Becket <····@cs.mu.oz.au>
       9  ······@engate.com
       2  wdbh <········@sonic.net>
       2  anon <·······@sonic.net>
       2  Kleuskes & Moos <·········@over.the.rainbow>
       2  Oleg <············@myrealbox.com>
       1  Raymond Toy <···@rtp.ericsson.se>
       1  Richard Fateman <·······@cs.berkeley.edu>
       0  ····@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)