From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <aoca7k$l42dm$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 06 Oct 2002 17:23:07 GMT and ending at
13 Oct 2002 11:35:26 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+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
This was just changed to add in something that properly recognizes quoting in
Erik's somewhat different quoting style...
- 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: 146
Articles: 564 (236 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 75
Volume generated: 1350.3 kb
- headers: 600.7 kb (9,618 lines)
- bodies: 712.2 kb (18,600 lines)
- original: 467.2 kb (12,849 lines)
- signatures: 36.8 kb (833 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.656
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.9
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 68 posters
s: 7.2 posts
Posts per thread: 7.5
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 34 threads
s: 16.1 posts
Message size: 2451.5 bytes
- header: 1090.7 bytes (17.1 lines)
- body: 1293.0 bytes (33.0 lines)
- original: 848.3 bytes (22.8 lines)
- signature: 66.8 bytes (1.5 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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62 209.1 ( 74.4/124.9/ 95.8) Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
34 51.6 ( 35.5/ 16.1/ 11.6) ilias <·······@pontos.net>
29 82.7 ( 39.5/ 41.3/ 22.3) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
23 61.6 ( 21.8/ 39.8/ 22.5) ·········@yahoo.com
21 41.2 ( 19.2/ 22.0/ 16.8) ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
17 37.9 ( 19.6/ 16.3/ 16.0) Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
15 41.3 ( 21.9/ 19.4/ 11.6) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
12 27.1 ( 13.5/ 13.6/ 7.8) "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
11 39.3 ( 17.6/ 21.7/ 10.3) Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
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
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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209.1 ( 74.4/124.9/ 95.8) 62 Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
82.7 ( 39.5/ 41.3/ 22.3) 29 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
61.6 ( 21.8/ 39.8/ 22.5) 23 ·········@yahoo.com
51.6 ( 35.5/ 16.1/ 11.6) 34 ilias <·······@pontos.net>
41.3 ( 21.9/ 19.4/ 11.6) 15 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
41.2 ( 19.2/ 22.0/ 16.8) 21 ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
39.3 ( 17.6/ 21.7/ 10.3) 11 Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
37.9 ( 19.6/ 16.3/ 16.0) 17 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
28.0 ( 9.0/ 17.2/ 13.4) 9 Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
27.1 ( 13.5/ 13.6/ 7.8) 12 "Wade Humeniuk" <····@nospam.nowhere>
These posters accounted for 45.9% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.983 ( 16.0 / 16.3) 17 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.967 ( 8.0 / 8.3) 5 Charlton Wilbur <·······@mithril.chromatico.net>
0.884 ( 7.1 / 8.0) 5 Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.781 ( 13.4 / 17.2) 9 Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.767 ( 95.8 /124.9) 62 Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.764 ( 16.8 / 22.0) 21 ··········@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
0.754 ( 2.8 / 3.8) 5 ·······@ancar.org
0.740 ( 11.7 / 15.8) 9 ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
0.720 ( 11.6 / 16.1) 34 ilias <·······@pontos.net>
0.713 ( 3.4 / 4.7) 5 Marcus Breiing <············@breiing.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.555 ( 2.4 / 4.3) 10 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.542 ( 22.3 / 41.3) 29 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>
0.482 ( 5.6 / 11.7) 8 David Kastrup <·············@t-online.de>
0.477 ( 10.3 / 21.7) 11 Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
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>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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91 Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
76 Difference between LISP and C++
38 Re: Why no call with current continuation?
38 Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP
31 Re: Bohr's way
22 Re: Small read macro issue
20 What is LISP ?
19 Re: Lisp function define
15 Declarations in LET*
14 Totaly newbie trying to learn LISP at uni
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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326.5 (133.9/187.7/119.1) 91 Re: Understanding Erik Naggum
174.7 ( 69.8/ 97.9/ 63.7) 76 Difference between LISP and C++
111.1 ( 46.6/ 61.3/ 38.9) 38 Re: Lambda calculus and it relation to LISP
88.9 ( 44.3/ 41.9/ 33.4) 31 Re: Bohr's way
71.4 ( 34.4/ 35.2/ 21.4) 38 Re: Why no call with current continuation?
48.6 ( 20.4/ 25.6/ 18.3) 22 Re: Small read macro issue
45.0 ( 25.9/ 18.8/ 12.0) 19 Re: Lisp function define
32.2 ( 17.7/ 13.6/ 9.0) 20 What is LISP ?
29.3 ( 11.6/ 16.4/ 8.9) 15 Declarations in LET*
26.9 ( 13.1/ 12.7/ 6.3) 14 a function like all-combinations
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.979 ( 13.1/ 13.4) 3 the plight of society
0.931 ( 2.6/ 2.8) 3 Top Down - Bottom Up - Inside Out
0.930 ( 1.8/ 2.0) 3 reading the output of another program
0.876 ( 3.3/ 3.8) 6 Determining whitespace
0.836 ( 2.6/ 3.1) 3 Object finalization
0.818 ( 12.3/ 15.1) 10 When to recompile/reeval?
0.798 ( 33.4/ 41.9) 31 Re: Bohr's way
0.768 ( 2.2/ 2.8) 3 timing operations & garbage collection
0.764 ( 3.0/ 3.9) 5 Re: How can I read raw floating point data?
0.714 ( 4.5/ 6.2) 6 Understanding c.l.l. (was Re: Understanding Erik Naggum)
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.562 ( 3.1 / 5.5) 6 LISP - The Spirit of Lisp - Transparency!
0.558 ( 4.7 / 8.4) 10 Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (was Re: Lisp in Python)
0.552 ( 0.5 / 0.9) 6 Re: LISP - an excercise for experts?
0.544 ( 8.9 / 16.4) 15 Declarations in LET*
0.542 ( 4.2 / 7.8) 14 Totaly newbie trying to learn LISP at uni
0.496 ( 6.3 / 12.7) 14 a function like all-combinations
0.468 ( 4.2 / 8.9) 8 Re: Error: The function DEFCLASS is undefined
0.413 ( 6.3 / 15.3) 12 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
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Articles Newsgroup
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36 sci.math
30 sci.logic
22 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
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Articles Address
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21 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>
3 ilias <·······@pontos.net>
3 "James Wong" <···@nin.com>