From: Greg Bacon
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <an6vqh$bl750$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 22 Sep 2002 06:43:00 GMT and ending at
29 Sep 2002 03:51:34 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 Greg Bacon <······@cs.uah.edu>.

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

····················@mox\.perl\.com

Totals
======

Posters:  174
Articles: 789 (246 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  73
Volume generated: 1725.8 kb
    - headers:    761.5 kb (13,666 lines)
    - bodies:     917.8 kb (26,642 lines)
    - original:   551.5 kb (17,651 lines)
    - signatures: 45.7 kb (940 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.601

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.5
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 61 posters
    s:      9.5 posts
Posts per thread: 10.8
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      17.8 posts
Message size: 2239.8 bytes
    - header:     988.3 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1191.1 bytes (33.8 lines)
    - original:   715.8 bytes (22.4 lines)
    - signature:  59.3 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   96   271.0 (100.7/170.2/ 73.5)  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
   47   121.3 ( 42.8/ 70.0/ 70.0)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   30    62.0 ( 28.9/ 33.1/ 25.6)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   19    33.2 ( 19.0/ 14.2/  6.7)  Brian Palmer <·····@invalid.dom>
   19    41.7 ( 17.7/ 19.1/ 11.2)  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
   19    46.3 ( 20.4/ 24.7/ 12.0)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   18    44.3 ( 19.9/ 20.7/ 13.2)  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
   17    26.7 ( 15.7/ 10.9/  4.6)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   17    50.3 ( 18.3/ 32.0/ 12.0)  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
   16    26.6 ( 16.8/  9.9/  6.3)  Will Deakin <···········@hotmail.com>

These posters accounted for 37.8% of all articles.

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

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

 271.0 (100.7/170.2/ 73.5)     96  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
 121.3 ( 42.8/ 70.0/ 70.0)     47  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  62.0 ( 28.9/ 33.1/ 25.6)     30  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  50.3 ( 18.3/ 32.0/ 12.0)     17  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
  46.3 ( 20.4/ 24.7/ 12.0)     19  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  44.3 ( 19.9/ 20.7/ 13.2)     18  Barry Margolin <······@genuity.net>
  41.7 ( 17.7/ 19.1/ 11.2)     19  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
  33.2 ( 19.0/ 14.2/  6.7)     19  Brian Palmer <·····@invalid.dom>
  30.6 (  8.9/ 21.7/ 15.2)     10  ···@ashi.footprints.net
  28.7 ( 10.3/ 16.8/  7.1)      8  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>

These posters accounted for 42.3% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  ( 70.0 / 70.0)     47  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.957  ( 14.8 / 15.5)     12  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.895  (  5.8 /  6.5)      5  Rodrigo Cunha <····@netcabo.pt>
0.850  (  6.1 /  7.2)      7  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.817  (  2.8 /  3.4)      8  ozan s yigit <··@blue.cs.yorku.ca>
0.799  (  2.9 /  3.6)      5  ·······@ai.mit.edu (Jeremy H. Brown)
0.798  (  9.4 / 11.7)      7  Dave Bakhash <·····@alum.mit.edu>
0.793  (  5.0 /  6.3)      6  ·······@mediaone.net (Raffael Cavallaro)
0.774  ( 25.6 / 33.1)     30  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.772  (  3.6 /  4.7)      5  Friedrich Dominicus <·····@q-software-solutions.com>

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

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

0.472  (  6.7 / 14.2)     19  Brian Palmer <·····@invalid.dom>
0.471  (  1.6 /  3.3)      6  Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>
0.432  ( 73.5 /170.2)     96  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
0.426  (  4.6 / 10.9)     17  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.426  (  7.1 / 16.8)      8  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.376  ( 12.0 / 32.0)     17  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
0.356  (  3.1 /  8.7)      6  Raymond Wiker <·············@fast.no>
0.311  (  2.3 /  7.3)      6  ····@gte.com
0.292  (  3.9 / 13.5)     10  Marco Antoniotti <·······@cs.nyu.edu>
0.241  (  2.9 / 12.1)      9  ··············@supanet.com

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

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

   81  The toxicity of trolls
   64  Lisp in Python
   59  Re: becoming a better programmer
   48  Re: Use Java! Was: becoming a better programmer
   39  LISP - R5RS - John McCarthy
   34  ZetaLisp top level environment
   31  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
   28  Question: macros and lambdas
   28  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."
   22  This newsgroup...

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

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

 178.4 ( 74.6/ 97.8/ 71.5)     81  The toxicity of trolls
 158.3 ( 58.7/ 98.1/ 48.4)     48  Re: Use Java! Was: becoming a better programmer
 135.1 ( 63.7/ 66.4/ 40.5)     64  Lisp in Python
 133.2 ( 69.9/ 58.2/ 26.0)     59  Re: becoming a better programmer
  71.0 ( 26.2/ 42.7/ 30.2)     28  Question: macros and lambdas
  68.5 ( 39.6/ 28.6/ 12.3)     39  LISP - R5RS - John McCarthy
  67.8 ( 31.1/ 34.2/ 25.3)     28  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."
  64.4 ( 20.7/ 43.5/ 18.2)     19  Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm. - [#V0.3]
  58.7 ( 26.7/ 28.8/ 20.4)     31  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
  55.0 ( 30.8/ 23.3/ 16.5)     34  ZetaLisp top level environment

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

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

0.935  (  4.5/   4.8)      3  ECL v0.6 released
0.894  (  3.1/   3.5)      4  LISP - The Entry Point
0.872  (  7.0/   8.1)      3  Re: Type and Optimize  declarations and speedup (was: Re: is it ok if I quote?)
0.863  (  3.6/   4.1)      5  Scope of (in-package)
0.786  (  0.9/   1.1)      3  What is professional way of commenting and indenting in lisp?
0.768  (  2.5/   3.3)      4  packages,namespaces,...
0.762  ( 16.3/  21.4)     12  CLOS is hard. Let's go shopping  (Was Re: Lisp in Python)
0.757  (  2.2/   2.9)      7  if x in (list 1 2 3)
0.753  ( 12.5/  16.6)     18  mysql + cmulisp + xemacs + ...
0.750  (  5.9/   7.9)      4  backquote expansion in LW

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

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

0.430  ( 12.3 / 28.6)     39  LISP - R5RS - John McCarthy
0.418  ( 18.2 / 43.5)     19  Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm. - [#V0.3]
0.411  (  1.3 /  3.3)      5  Re: The toxicity of trolls - toxicity of professionals
0.378  (  1.4 /  3.7)      5  Re: Lisp for Linux
0.359  (  0.6 /  1.7)      3  Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm.
0.348  (  0.4 /  1.1)      4  friday
0.347  (  0.4 /  1.3)      3  ILIAS the TROLL (was Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm. - [#V0.4])
0.337  (  6.7 / 19.8)     13  Re: read-right-paren
0.221  (  1.0 /  4.7)      3  Re: LISP - CommonLisp / Scheme - Differences
0.145  (  1.8 / 12.5)      4  Re: LISP - 2 exponent 0 = 1

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

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

      97  comp.lang.java.programmer
      96  comp.lang.c++
      94  comp.lang.perl.misc
      48  comp.lang.scheme
       7  alt.folklore.computers
       5  comp.lang.prolog
       4  comp.lang.pop
       1  comp.lang.functional
       1  comp.lang.python
       1  soc.culture.singapore

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

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

      48  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
      28  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
      15  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
      13  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
      12  Joona I Palaste <·······@cc.helsinki.fi>
      12  "Marshall Spight" <·······@dnai.com>
      11  Donald Fisk <················@enterprise.net>
       9  ·······@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Danish)
       7  ······@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter)
       6  jvm <···@fiberia.is.no.more>