From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <b7bg7c$cscin$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 06 Apr 2003 08:58:31 GMT and ending at
13 Apr 2003 01:28:08 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+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\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>

Totals
======

Posters:  144
Articles: 420 (154 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  51
Volume generated: 961.8 kb
    - headers:    422.5 kb (7,262 lines)
    - bodies:     510.0 kb (13,197 lines)
    - original:   313.6 kb (8,720 lines)
    - signatures: 28.9 kb (691 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.615

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 2.9
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 71 posters
    s:      3.6 posts
Posts per thread: 8.2
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 13 threads
    s:      14.0 posts
Message size: 2344.9 bytes
    - header:     1030.0 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1243.3 bytes (31.4 lines)
    - original:   764.7 bytes (20.8 lines)
    - signature:  70.5 bytes (1.6 lines)

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

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

   23    57.7 ( 22.7/ 35.0/ 21.6)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   17    32.0 ( 19.6/ 12.4/  5.7)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   17    46.8 ( 20.4/ 19.8/ 11.2)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   16    43.5 ( 17.2/ 24.9/ 14.7)  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
   15    35.2 ( 16.0/ 16.9/ 10.0)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   13    23.4 ( 10.1/ 13.3/ 10.0)  "Adam Warner" <······@consulting.net.nz>
   11    25.7 ( 12.6/ 10.3/  4.1)  Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
   11    18.0 ( 11.6/  6.4/  2.6)  Florian Weimer <··@deneb.enyo.de>
   10    23.4 (  9.6/ 13.8/ 11.2)  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
   10    28.3 (  7.7/ 20.6/ 15.1)  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>

These posters accounted for 34.0% of all articles.

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

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

  57.7 ( 22.7/ 35.0/ 21.6)     23  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
  46.8 ( 20.4/ 19.8/ 11.2)     17  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  43.5 ( 17.2/ 24.9/ 14.7)     16  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
  35.2 ( 16.0/ 16.9/ 10.0)     15  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  32.0 ( 19.6/ 12.4/  5.7)     17  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  28.3 (  7.7/ 20.6/ 15.1)     10  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
  25.7 ( 12.6/ 10.3/  4.1)     11  Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
  23.4 (  9.6/ 13.8/ 11.2)     10  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
  23.4 ( 10.1/ 13.3/ 10.0)     13  "Adam Warner" <······@consulting.net.nz>
  20.9 (  7.2/ 13.7/ 11.5)      5  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>

These posters accounted for 35.0% of the total volume.

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

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

0.835  ( 11.5 / 13.7)      5  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.814  ( 11.2 / 13.8)     10  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
0.785  (  7.3 /  9.3)      7  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.755  ( 10.0 / 13.3)     13  "Adam Warner" <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.736  ( 15.1 / 20.6)     10  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.727  (  4.5 /  6.1)      5  Joerg Hoehle <············@dont.t-systems.UCE.spam.no.com>
0.714  (  8.4 / 11.7)      7  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.695  (  4.1 /  6.0)      6  Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.672  (  1.4 /  2.0)      5  "llama" <·····@yahoo.com>
0.641  (  4.4 /  6.9)      5  Nick Maclaren <····@cus.cam.ac.uk>

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

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

0.591  ( 14.7 / 24.9)     16  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.586  (  4.6 /  7.8)      5  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.566  ( 11.2 / 19.8)     17  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.517  (  4.3 /  8.4)      7  Doug Quale <······@charter.net>
0.492  (  4.0 /  8.0)      9  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
0.458  (  5.7 / 12.4)     17  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.406  (  2.2 /  5.4)      8  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
0.401  (  2.6 /  6.4)     11  Florian Weimer <··@deneb.enyo.de>
0.401  (  4.1 / 10.3)     11  Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
0.400  (  3.8 /  9.4)      7  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>

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

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

   82  Lisp development not using emacs.
   45  Report on languages for planning and scheduling
   35  Lisp Machines
   21  Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp Code to C code, manually
   21  Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp to C (enlightened<g>)
   21  Reclaiming space with CMUCL
   13  Why many don't use Lisp ( Re: Lisp development not using emacs. )
   13  recognizer in lisp?
   12  Paul Graham on Slashdot: The Hundred-Year Language
   11  greatest single programming language ever designed

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

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

 205.7 ( 89.0/110.1/ 64.3)     82  Lisp development not using emacs.
 115.7 ( 46.0/ 68.8/ 45.2)     45  Report on languages for planning and scheduling
  77.7 ( 39.0/ 36.6/ 22.6)     35  Lisp Machines
  55.1 ( 18.9/ 34.1/ 22.6)     21  Reclaiming space with CMUCL
  53.6 ( 19.7/ 30.0/ 19.6)     21  Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp Code to C code, manually
  43.1 ( 19.3/ 23.2/ 15.0)     21  Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp to C (enlightened<g>)
  27.4 ( 13.2/ 13.5/  8.0)     13  Why many don't use Lisp ( Re: Lisp development not using emacs. )
  25.3 (  8.9/ 15.4/  8.6)      9  Help with eval/compile-time macroexpansion
  24.2 ( 13.0/  9.4/  5.6)     12  Paul Graham on Slashdot: The Hundred-Year Language
  24.0 ( 13.3/ 10.1/  5.0)     10  Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.

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

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

0.920  (  4.3/   4.7)      3  Cello!  [was Re: Report on languages for planning and scheduling}
0.914  ( 11.7/  12.8)      4  ANNOUNCEMENT: CMUCL 18e Released
0.783  (  1.5/   2.0)      4  Animation using Lisp
0.780  (  1.6/   2.0)      4  CL implementation and editor
0.769  (  4.1/   5.4)      5  Decompiling a function?
0.708  (  3.9/   5.5)      6  (vector bit *) vs integer
0.694  (  5.4/   7.8)     13  recognizer in lisp?
0.682  (  2.1/   3.1)      4  Determining whether something is a type specifier
0.675  (  4.0/   5.9)      5  memoization and compilation
0.667  (  1.3/   2.0)      3  Lisp on multiple platforms?

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

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

0.552  (  4.7 /  8.4)     11  greatest single programming language ever designed
0.546  (  7.3 / 13.4)      9  Accessors vs Functions
0.526  (  2.7 /  5.2)      4  Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" 
 architecture.
0.523  (  6.1 / 11.6)     10  Perfect Programming Language
0.520  (  2.0 /  3.8)      4  stream-file-descriptor ?
0.497  (  1.2 /  2.4)      8  nconc and nil
0.490  (  5.0 / 10.1)     10  Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm" architecture.
0.459  (  2.8 /  6.2)      4  destructive operators
0.444  (  2.7 /  6.1)      4  Embedding arbitrary chars in string literals
0.368  (  2.9 /  7.8)      7  Could somebody use SCSH, Sheme, or Lisp to create the "Lispm"  architecture.

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

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

      42  comp.lang.scheme
      38  comp.arch
      19  comp.lang.scheme.scsh
      10  comp.lang.misc
       2  comp.lang.c
       1  comp.lang.java.programmer
       1  comp.software-eng
       1  comp.lang.python
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  comp.lang.forth

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

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

      10  Nick Maclaren <····@cus.cam.ac.uk>
       8  Florian Weimer <··@deneb.enyo.de>
       7  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
       7  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
       6  "Harri Haataja" <·············@cs.helsinki.fi>
       5  "Andy Glew" <················@sbcglobal.net>
       5  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
       4  "Dennis Ritchie" <···@bell-labs.com>
       4  ·········@lxny.org
       4  Andreas Eder <············@t-online.de>