From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <an73e6$bb7tl$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 22 Sep 2002 15:08:22 GMT and ending at
29 Sep 2002 13:45:02 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
================

····················@mox\.perl\.com

Totals
======

Posters:  175
Articles: 800 (246 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  76
Volume generated: 1762.4 kb
    - headers:    770.7 kb (13,875 lines)
    - bodies:     944.4 kb (27,274 lines)
    - original:   581.0 kb (18,329 lines)
    - signatures: 46.5 kb (945 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.615

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 64 posters
    s:      9.7 posts
Posts per thread: 10.5
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      17.4 posts
Message size: 2255.9 bytes
    - header:     986.6 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1208.9 bytes (34.1 lines)
    - original:   743.7 bytes (22.9 lines)
    - signature:  59.5 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   98   277.2 (102.8/174.4/ 76.4)  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
   50   139.1 ( 46.1/ 83.4/ 83.4)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   33    70.5 ( 32.1/ 38.4/ 29.7)  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>
   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>
   17    40.8 ( 17.7/ 21.8/ 11.2)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   17    28.9 ( 17.8/ 11.1/  7.0)  Will Deakin <···········@hotmail.com>

These posters accounted for 38.1% of all articles.

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

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

 277.2 (102.8/174.4/ 76.4)     98  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
 139.1 ( 46.1/ 83.4/ 83.4)     50  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  70.5 ( 32.1/ 38.4/ 29.7)     33  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  50.3 ( 18.3/ 32.0/ 12.0)     17  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
  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>
  40.8 ( 17.7/ 21.8/ 11.2)     17  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  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
  28.9 ( 17.8/ 11.1/  7.0)     17  Will Deakin <···········@hotmail.com>

These posters accounted for 42.9% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  2.5 /  2.5)      5  ·········@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
1.000  ( 83.4 / 83.4)     50  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)
0.775  ( 29.7 / 38.4)     33  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>

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

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

0.467  (  0.7 /  1.6)      5  Aleksandr Skobelev <···········@list.ru>
0.464  (  4.4 /  9.4)      7  Tim Josling <···@melbpc.org.au>
0.438  ( 76.4 /174.4)     98  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
0.426  (  4.6 / 10.9)     17  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.424  (  4.7 / 11.1)      7  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
-----  -------

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

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

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

 184.7 ( 76.6/101.9/ 75.3)     83  The toxicity of trolls
 135.1 ( 63.7/ 66.4/ 40.5)     64  Lisp in Python
 131.6 ( 48.6/ 81.7/ 40.8)     40  Re: Use Java! Was: becoming a better programmer
 130.3 ( 68.8/ 56.4/ 24.3)     58  Re: becoming a better programmer
  86.1 ( 37.1/ 45.9/ 34.4)     33  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile."
  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
  67.9 ( 27.1/ 37.6/ 29.2)     32  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
  62.0 ( 19.8/ 42.0/ 17.5)     18  Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm. - [#V0.3]
  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
0.872  (  7.0/   8.1)      3  Re: Type and Optimize  declarations and speedup (was: Re: is it ok if I quote?)
0.786  (  0.9/   1.1)      3  What is professional way of commenting and indenting in lisp?
0.786  (  4.2/   5.4)      6  Scope of (in-package)
0.784  ( 13.3/  16.9)      4  explanation
0.776  ( 29.2/  37.6)     32  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.768  (  2.5/   3.3)      4  packages,namespaces,...
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
-----  --------------  -----  -------

0.431  ( 24.3 / 56.4)     58  Re: becoming a better programmer
0.430  ( 12.3 / 28.6)     39  LISP - R5RS - John McCarthy
0.417  ( 17.5 / 42.0)     18  Re: LISP - [SPECS ERR] - Backquote - please confirm. - [#V0.3]
0.411  (  1.3 /  3.3)      5  Re: The toxicity of trolls - toxicity of professionals
0.359  (  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
--------  ---------

      89  comp.lang.java.programmer
      88  comp.lang.c++
      86  comp.lang.perl.misc
      48  comp.lang.scheme
       7  alt.folklore.computers
       5  comp.lang.prolog
       5  gnu.emacs.help
       4  comp.unix.shell
       4  comp.unix.programmer
       4  comp.lang.pop

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

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

      48  "Dale King" <·····@TCE.com>
      28  ilias <·······@pontos.net>
      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)
       9  ·········@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
       9  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       7  ······@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter)