From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <aoblps$kr5lf$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 06 Oct 2002 06:15:50 GMT and ending at
13 Oct 2002 01:56:02 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
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····················@mox\.perl\.com

Totals
======

Posters:  150
Articles: 614 (257 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  79
Volume generated: 1485.7 kb
    - headers:    660.7 kb (10,513 lines)
    - bodies:     784.2 kb (20,389 lines)
    - original:   549.0 kb (14,836 lines)
    - signatures: 40.2 kb (915 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.700

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 64 posters
    s:      7.8 posts
Posts per thread: 7.8
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 35 threads
    s:      16.9 posts
Message size: 2477.8 bytes
    - header:     1101.8 bytes (17.1 lines)
    - body:       1307.9 bytes (33.2 lines)
    - original:   915.6 bytes (24.2 lines)
    - signature:  67.1 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   71   241.4 ( 87.0/143.2/143.2)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   36    54.5 ( 37.4/ 17.1/ 11.9)  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
   33   106.8 ( 45.5/ 59.4/ 31.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   22    59.8 ( 20.9/ 38.9/ 22.0)  ·········@yahoo.com
   21    41.2 ( 19.2/ 22.0/ 16.8)  ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
   19    50.2 ( 28.3/ 21.9/ 12.8)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   18    39.6 ( 20.4/ 17.0/ 16.9)  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
   13    45.0 ( 20.9/ 24.1/ 11.8)  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
   12    27.1 ( 13.5/ 13.6/  7.8)  "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
   11    22.6 (  9.4/ 12.4/  3.2)  arien <·············@getlost.invalid>

These posters accounted for 41.7% of all articles.

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

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

 241.4 ( 87.0/143.2/143.2)     71  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
 106.8 ( 45.5/ 59.4/ 31.5)     33  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  59.8 ( 20.9/ 38.9/ 22.0)     22  ·········@yahoo.com
  54.5 ( 37.4/ 17.1/ 11.9)     36  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
  50.2 ( 28.3/ 21.9/ 12.8)     19  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  45.0 ( 20.9/ 24.1/ 11.8)     13  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
  41.2 ( 19.2/ 22.0/ 16.8)     21  ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
  39.6 ( 20.4/ 17.0/ 16.9)     18  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
  28.9 ( 12.3/ 16.6/ 12.1)      8  William Elliot <····@xx.com>
  28.4 (  9.0/ 17.5/ 13.9)      9  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>

These posters accounted for 46.8% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (143.2 /143.2)     71  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.992  ( 16.9 / 17.0)     18  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.967  (  8.0 /  8.3)      5  Charlton Wilbur <·······@mithril.chromatico.net>
0.907  (  9.2 / 10.1)      6  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.793  ( 13.9 / 17.5)      9  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.781  (  4.1 /  5.2)      6  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.764  ( 16.8 / 22.0)     21  ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
0.757  (  3.6 /  4.7)      5  Marcus Breiing <············@breiing.com>
0.754  (  2.8 /  3.8)      5  ·······@ancar.org
0.740  ( 11.7 / 15.8)      9  ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)

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

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

0.530  ( 31.5 / 59.4)     33  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.508  (  1.4 /  2.8)      5  ··@vorpalbunnyeircom.net (Russell Wallace)
0.491  (  4.9 / 10.0)      8  Edi Weitz <···@agharta.de>
0.489  ( 11.8 / 24.1)     13  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
0.482  (  5.6 / 11.7)      8  David Kastrup <·············@t-online.de>
0.460  (  2.9 /  6.4)      6  ······@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter)
0.399  (  2.9 /  7.2)      9  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
0.295  (  1.6 /  5.6)      6  ·······@haeckel.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert St. Amant)
0.261  (  3.2 / 12.4)     11  arien <·············@getlost.invalid>
0.230  (  1.1 /  4.8)      5  cr88192 <·······@hotmail.nospam.com>

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

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

  104  Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
   76  Difference between LISP and C++
   42  Re: Why no call with current continuation?
   41  Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP
   32  Re: Bohr's way
   28  Re: Small read macro issue
   22  Re: Lisp function define
   20  What is LISP ?
   15  Declarations in LET*
   15  Re: Moving from Another Language to LISP?

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

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

 388.1 (156.6/225.6/163.3)    104  Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
 174.7 ( 69.8/ 97.9/ 64.8)     76  Difference between LISP and C++
 118.6 ( 50.0/ 65.1/ 42.5)     41  Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP
  91.0 ( 45.9/ 42.2/ 37.9)     32  Re: Bohr's way
  78.4 ( 38.7/ 37.6/ 23.0)     42  Re: Why no call with current continuation?
  62.1 ( 25.7/ 33.7/ 26.3)     28  Re: Small read macro issue
  50.6 ( 29.9/ 20.3/ 12.7)     22  Re: Lisp function define
  32.2 ( 17.7/ 13.6/  9.0)     20  What is LISP ?
  31.4 ( 12.0/ 18.8/  8.1)     15  Re: Moving from Another Language to LISP?
  29.3 ( 11.6/ 16.4/ 10.7)     15  Declarations in LET*

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

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

0.992  ( 13.3/  13.4)      3  the plight of society
0.985  (  2.7/   2.8)      3  Top Down - Bottom Up - Inside Out
0.949  (  3.6/   3.8)      6  Determining whitespace
0.897  ( 37.9/  42.2)     32  Re: Bohr's way
0.877  ( 13.2/  15.1)     10  When to recompile/reeval?
0.836  (  2.6/   3.1)      3  Object finalization
0.781  ( 26.3/  33.7)     28  Re: Small read macro issue
0.770  (  3.7/   4.8)      6  Re: How can I read raw floating point data?
0.768  (  2.2/   2.8)      3  timing operations & garbage collection
0.754  (  4.7/   6.2)      6  Understanding c.l.l. (was Re: Understanding Erik Naggum)

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

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

0.568  (  2.3 /  4.1)      5  Drawing directed, cyclic graphs
0.562  (  3.1 /  5.5)      6  LISP - The Spirit of Lisp - Transparency!
0.552  (  0.5 /  0.9)      6  Re: LISP - an excercise for experts?
0.551  (  4.9 /  8.9)     11  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (was Re: Lisp in Python)
0.538  (  6.9 / 12.7)     14  a function like all-combinations
0.484  (  4.4 /  9.2)      9  Re: Error: The function DEFCLASS is undefined
0.472  (  2.0 /  4.1)      5  New To Lisp and after a good interpreter for win32
0.434  (  8.1 / 18.8)     15  Re: Moving from Another Language to LISP?
0.380  (  4.2 / 11.0)     10  Can anyone show a beginner a short code as solution? CLOS
0.162  (  0.4 /  2.4)      3  Re: Chaosnet

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

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

      39  sci.math
      33  sci.logic
      25  gnu.emacs.help
       7  comp.emacs
       6  comp.lang.smalltalk
       4  comp.lang.scheme
       3  alt.folklore.computers
       1  comp.unix.shell
       1  gnu.utils
       1  help

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

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

      24  William Elliot <····@xx.com>
      19  David Kastrup <·············@t-online.de>
      10  Marcus Breiing <············@breiing.com>
       9  ················@pobox.com
       9  ···@sig.below (Barb Knox)
       8  ·········@hotmail.com (gnuist)
       6  ········@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead)
       6  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
       4  ······@interaccess.com
       3  ilias <·······@pontos.net>