From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <arr5vf$k09lt$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 17 Nov 2002 07:06:39 GMT and ending at
23 Nov 2002 21:09:20 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:  132
Articles: 481 (209 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  60
Volume generated: 1041.2 kb
    - headers:    456.6 kb (8,342 lines)
    - bodies:     520.3 kb (13,933 lines)
    - original:   312.4 kb (9,129 lines)
    - signatures: 63.8 kb (1,434 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.600

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.6
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 60 posters
    s:      5.3 posts
Posts per thread: 8.0
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 15 threads
    s:      12.0 posts
Message size: 2216.6 bytes
    - header:     972.0 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1107.6 bytes (29.0 lines)
    - original:   665.0 bytes (19.0 lines)
    - signature:  135.9 bytes (3.0 lines)

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

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

   33    67.7 ( 33.5/ 29.0/ 19.6)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   32    55.5 ( 32.3/ 23.2/ 15.3)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   22    53.5 ( 19.1/ 34.4/ 20.5)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   17    37.2 ( 18.6/ 13.8/  7.9)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   16    35.2 ( 14.5/ 19.4/  9.5)  Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
   15    43.2 ( 14.1/ 23.3/  9.3)  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
   13    28.6 ( 13.9/ 14.7/  7.8)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   12    17.6 (  9.7/  7.9/  5.3)  "Charlie" <········@zoom.co.uk>
   11    20.6 ( 11.1/  9.6/  5.1)  ···@shore.net (Kurt B. Kaiser)
    9    23.3 ( 10.7/ 12.6/  8.2)  ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)

These posters accounted for 37.4% of all articles.

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

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

  67.7 ( 33.5/ 29.0/ 19.6)     33  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  55.5 ( 32.3/ 23.2/ 15.3)     32  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  53.5 ( 19.1/ 34.4/ 20.5)     22  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
  43.2 ( 14.1/ 23.3/  9.3)     15  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
  37.2 ( 18.6/ 13.8/  7.9)     17  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  35.2 ( 14.5/ 19.4/  9.5)     16  Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
  31.1 (  0.7/  3.6/  3.6)      1  Kevin Rosenberg <·····@rosenberg.net>
  28.6 ( 13.9/ 14.7/  7.8)     13  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  23.3 ( 10.7/ 12.6/  8.2)      9  ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
  21.1 ( 12.1/  9.0/  6.6)      9  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>

These posters accounted for 38.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.884  (  4.1 /  4.7)      5  ····@pobox.com (Michael Hannemann)
0.768  (  3.7 /  4.9)      5  ········@yahoo.com (John Klein)
0.729  (  6.6 /  9.0)      9  Chris Gehlker <·······@fastq.com>
0.676  ( 19.6 / 29.0)     33  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.664  (  5.3 /  7.9)     12  "Charlie" <········@zoom.co.uk>
0.661  ( 15.3 / 23.2)     32  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.658  (  3.5 /  5.3)      8  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.650  (  8.2 / 12.6)      9  ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
0.619  (  5.7 /  9.2)      8  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.596  ( 20.5 / 34.4)     22  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>

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

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

0.522  (  2.4 /  4.7)      5  Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
0.489  (  9.5 / 19.4)     16  Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
0.481  (  1.7 /  3.6)      6  Oleg <············@myrealbox.com>
0.474  (  4.6 /  9.7)      9  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.457  (  2.3 /  5.0)      7  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.453  (  1.8 /  3.9)      5  Bruce Hoult <·····@hoult.org>
0.399  (  9.3 / 23.3)     15  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
0.389  (  0.9 /  2.4)      5  Michael Hudson <···@python.net>
0.366  (  3.6 /  9.8)      6  Aleksandr Skobelev <···········@list.ru>
0.346  (  2.0 /  5.9)      9  Raymond Wiker <·············@fast.no>

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

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

   64  Re: Idiot's guide to special variables take 2
   41  How to use Emacs + Ilisp as working environment?
   40  Lisp problems (maybe emacs)
   28  Printing a name of function (closure ?) with format
   26  functional programming style.
   24  Re: What's up with #'?
   22  About inline
   15  Re: ····@
   15  Re: Alternative *ML syntaxes
   12  Re: Please stop using makeashorterlink etc.

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

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

 149.7 ( 72.4/ 73.8/ 38.9)     64  Re: Idiot's guide to special variables take 2
  83.8 ( 37.5/ 42.7/ 21.4)     41  How to use Emacs + Ilisp as working environment?
  82.7 ( 44.8/ 34.8/ 20.6)     40  Lisp problems (maybe emacs)
  57.0 ( 26.0/ 29.7/ 17.7)     28  Printing a name of function (closure ?) with format
  49.6 ( 19.4/ 27.2/ 15.2)     22  About inline
  48.8 ( 24.9/ 20.2/ 12.3)     24  Re: What's up with #'?
  47.6 ( 23.1/ 23.7/ 14.7)     26  functional programming style.
  36.6 ( 15.1/ 18.8/ 10.4)     15  Re: Alternative *ML syntaxes
  33.2 (  8.5/ 23.4/ 13.8)      9  Re: Interfaces 'r Us
  31.1 (  0.7/  3.6/  3.6)      1  Important: ILISP Developers Licensing Questionnaire

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

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

0.822  (  5.8/   7.0)      4  FORMAT with named arguments?
0.785  (  4.7/   6.0)      7  Re: Portable Allegroserve and CMUCL
0.747  (  4.2/   5.6)      5  Symbol Properties or Generic Functions
0.745  (  9.5/  12.8)      7  Replacing XSLT? Any suggestions? Help please.
0.719  (  4.7/   6.5)      4  Sequence functions on arrays
0.713  (  2.8/   3.9)      8  Mad people of comp.lang.lisp
0.709  (  5.1/   7.2)      5  personal internet proxy?
0.688  (  3.4/   4.9)      5  What exactly is a symbol macro?
0.685  (  3.4/   4.9)      9  Updating a database of object with CLOS
0.671  (  5.3/   7.9)     11  weird loop

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

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

0.556  ( 10.4 / 18.8)     15  Re: Alternative *ML syntaxes
0.547  (  1.1 /  2.1)      4  Scandal! (was Re: What's up with #'?)
0.527  ( 38.9 / 73.8)     64  Re: Idiot's guide to special variables take 2
0.500  ( 21.4 / 42.7)     41  How to use Emacs + Ilisp as working environment?
0.495  (  5.5 / 11.1)     12  Re: Please stop using makeashorterlink etc.
0.491  (  1.3 /  2.6)      3  structures
0.471  (  5.6 / 11.9)     12  Re: concatenating strings
0.457  (  4.1 /  8.9)     15  Re: ····@
0.375  (  0.7 /  1.8)      5  FFI help
0.333  (  0.6 /  1.8)      3  VIM & Lisp (was: Want CL Popularity?)

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

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

       1  alt.usenet.kooks
       1  free.uk.people.mad-scientists
       1  comp.lang.prolog
       1  comp.ai.shells
       1  alt.crazy.people

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

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

       3  ········@scn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
       2  "cschuyle" <················@intel.com>
       0  Eli Bendersky <··@the.signature>
       0  ······@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter)
       0  ········@yahoo.com (John Klein)
       0  Robert STRANDH <·······@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
       0  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
       0  Paul Dietz <············@motorola.com>
       0  ······@qnci.net (William D Clinger)
       0  Gerard Flynn <·····@lure.u-psud.fr>