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
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- 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
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····················@mox\.perl\.com
Totals
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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
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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
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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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
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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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)
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(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)
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(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
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Posts Subject
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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
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(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)
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(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)
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(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
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Articles Newsgroup
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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
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Articles Address
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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>