From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <anpfk3$g79q4$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 29 Sep 2002 14:41:11 GMT and ending at
06 Oct 2002 04:56:35 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+>|\+\+)/.
    - 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>

Excluded Posters
================

····················@mox\.perl\.com

Totals
======

Posters:  176
Articles: 778 (276 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  82
Volume generated: 1766.2 kb
    - headers:    779.3 kb (13,222 lines)
    - bodies:     932.2 kb (24,584 lines)
    - original:   641.3 kb (17,653 lines)
    - signatures: 54.0 kb (1,095 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.688

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.4
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 82 posters
    s:      8.5 posts
Posts per thread: 9.5
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 21 threads
    s:      16.4 posts
Message size: 2324.6 bytes
    - header:     1025.7 bytes (17.0 lines)
    - body:       1226.9 bytes (31.6 lines)
    - original:   844.1 bytes (22.7 lines)
    - signature:  71.1 bytes (1.4 lines)

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

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

   72   241.7 ( 82.6/146.6/146.4)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   45    84.9 ( 46.2/ 38.6/ 27.2)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   31    57.9 ( 33.0/ 24.9/ 14.5)  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
   26    61.3 ( 33.6/ 27.7/ 13.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   26    47.7 ( 30.1/ 17.5/ 11.4)  Will Deakin <···········@hotmail.com>
   21    45.2 ( 17.1/ 28.0/ 18.1)  ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
   19    40.5 ( 14.5/ 21.1/ 16.3)  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
   17    31.6 ( 11.1/ 20.5/ 12.7)  ····@gte.com
   16    29.2 ( 14.0/ 15.2/  9.1)  Vassil Nikolov <··········@poboxes.com>
   15    32.2 ( 16.6/ 12.5/  7.0)  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>

These posters accounted for 37.0% of all articles.

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

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

 241.7 ( 82.6/146.6/146.4)     72  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  84.9 ( 46.2/ 38.6/ 27.2)     45  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  61.3 ( 33.6/ 27.7/ 13.7)     26  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  57.9 ( 33.0/ 24.9/ 14.5)     31  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
  48.7 ( 19.2/ 28.7/ 13.6)     15  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  47.9 ( 14.5/ 30.9/ 16.7)     12  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  47.7 ( 30.1/ 17.5/ 11.4)     26  Will Deakin <···········@hotmail.com>
  45.2 ( 17.1/ 28.0/ 18.1)     21  ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
  40.6 ( 12.5/ 28.1/ 21.3)     11  ··············@yahoo.com (Robert Hanlin)
  40.5 ( 14.5/ 21.1/ 16.3)     19  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>

These posters accounted for 40.6% of the total volume.

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

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

0.999  (146.4 /146.6)     72  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.995  ( 13.0 / 13.0)     12  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.972  (  9.3 /  9.6)      5  ····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
0.863  (  5.1 /  5.9)      9  ··@yahoo.de
0.822  (  7.4 /  9.0)      8  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.773  ( 16.3 / 21.1)     19  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.761  (  7.8 / 10.2)      8  Dave Bakhash <·····@alum.mit.edu>
0.760  (  8.5 / 11.2)     11  Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
0.760  ( 21.3 / 28.1)     11  ··············@yahoo.com (Robert Hanlin)
0.743  (  3.0 /  4.1)      6  ozan s yigit <··@blue.cs.yorku.ca>

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

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

0.542  ( 16.7 / 30.9)     12  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.533  (  5.3 /  9.9)      6  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
0.519  (  3.0 /  5.8)      7  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.503  (  3.6 /  7.2)      8  "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
0.501  (  5.4 / 10.8)     10  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
0.493  ( 13.7 / 27.7)     26  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.473  ( 13.6 / 28.7)     15  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.457  (  1.3 /  2.9)      6  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.358  (  1.8 /  4.9)      6  "�p�Х�Tiny Tin" <·······@cuhk.edu.hk>
0.285  (  2.4 /  8.4)      7  "Justin Johnson" <·······@mobiusent.com>

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

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

   76  Re: CLOS is hard. Let's go shopping  (Was Re: Lisp in Python)
   73  Why no call with current continuation?
   52  who should read comp.lang.lisp? /civility
   46  A social problem of lisp (Was: Re: The toxicity of trolls)
   30  Lisp function define
   29  (setq car 0) - Functions on Indices
   27  Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble
   26  about recursion
   22  Re: What is professional way of commenting and indenting in lisp?
   21  About reduce funciton

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

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

 210.8 (105.9/ 99.8/ 75.9)     76  Re: CLOS is hard. Let's go shopping  (Was Re: Lisp in Python)
 162.3 ( 65.9/ 91.4/ 57.0)     73  Why no call with current continuation?
 133.8 ( 55.7/ 75.5/ 50.8)     46  A social problem of lisp (Was: Re: The toxicity of trolls)
 128.4 ( 46.4/ 78.6/ 61.3)     52  who should read comp.lang.lisp? /civility
  92.2 ( 30.2/ 60.7/ 45.6)     18  Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
  60.8 ( 30.1/ 29.6/ 19.2)     30  Lisp function define
  58.2 ( 24.2/ 32.0/ 16.4)     29  (setq car 0) - Functions on Indices
  51.8 ( 24.8/ 25.0/ 15.1)     27  Re: Simple newbie list processing troubble
  48.9 ( 12.7/ 35.1/ 16.7)     13  Re: explanation
  46.7 ( 23.2/ 21.6/ 12.5)     26  about recursion

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

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

0.962  ( 15.2/  15.8)      9  Creating functions at runtime
0.951  (  9.6/  10.0)      5  CLOSE with :abort t
0.939  ( 15.7/  16.7)      8  Core ideas behind SGML and XML
0.915  (  2.8/   3.0)      4  Nil as a case key
0.899  (  0.5/   0.6)      3  New braindamage spotted: XVCL.
0.879  (  2.0/   2.3)      3  Re: [OT Elizabethan English]  (Was Re: Lisp in Python)
0.862  (  2.5/   2.9)      3  Emacs package for CLOS syntax highlighting ?
0.851  (  8.8/  10.4)     11  Understanding Erik Naggum (was Re: CLOS is hard. Let's go shopping  (Was Re: Lisp in Python))
0.814  ( 18.0/  22.1)     17  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."
0.798  (  6.1/   7.7)      4  Lisp implementation help needed

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

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

0.574  (  3.7 /  6.5)      7  Re: What's wrong with this combination?
0.562  (  3.0 /  5.4)      6  On refining regexp by adding exceptions systematically
0.535  (  3.5 /  6.5)      9  i'm writing a yet another GO game
0.531  (  3.1 /  5.8)      7  Re: Use Java! Was: becoming a better programmer
0.513  (  1.1 /  2.1)      4  Re: Wanted opinions regarding the many lisp blocking constructs
0.512  ( 16.4 / 32.0)     29  (setq car 0) - Functions on Indices
0.510  (  1.3 /  2.6)      3  Moving from Another Language to LISP?
0.508  (  3.6 /  7.2)     15  Re: Upcoming Lisp Conference
0.480  (  2.1 /  4.4)      9  Re: Lisp in Python
0.475  ( 16.7 / 35.1)     13  Re: explanation

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

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

      28  gnu.emacs.help
      18  gnu.utils.help
      14  alt.folklore.computers
      13  sci.logic
      13  comp.unix.shell
      13  sci.math
      13  comp.unix.programmer
      10  comp.lang.java.programmer
      10  comp.lang.perl.misc
      10  comp.lang.c++

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

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

      22  ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
       9  ·········@hotmail.com (gnuist)
       8  ·········@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
       7  David Kastrup <·············@t-online.de>
       7  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
       7  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
       6  ······@dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
       6  malte <··············@gmx.net>
       4  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
       4  "Raymond de Lacaze" <·······@hotmail.com>