From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <b7tup9$44h6o$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 13 Apr 2003 06:38:28 GMT and ending at
20 Apr 2003 01:55:43 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)/.
- 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
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Posters: 196
Articles: 693 (224 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 78
Volume generated: 1605.7 kb
- headers: 689.2 kb (12,064 lines)
- bodies: 880.3 kb (22,779 lines)
- original: 541.6 kb (15,163 lines)
- signatures: 35.5 kb (879 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.615
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.5
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 91 posters
s: 5.0 posts
Posts per thread: 8.9
median: 5.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 15 threads
s: 14.4 posts
Message size: 2372.7 bytes
- header: 1018.4 bytes (17.4 lines)
- body: 1300.8 bytes (32.9 lines)
- original: 800.3 bytes (21.9 lines)
- signature: 52.5 bytes (1.3 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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26 44.2 ( 26.2/ 18.0/ 7.9) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
25 49.9 ( 21.8/ 26.2/ 12.3) Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
20 35.0 ( 21.1/ 13.8/ 10.4) Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
20 51.2 ( 21.9/ 27.9/ 17.3) Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
18 34.6 ( 26.6/ 8.0/ 4.4) "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
16 30.7 ( 12.7/ 18.0/ 10.3) Henrik Motakef <··············@web.de>
16 46.8 ( 18.7/ 25.4/ 11.2) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
15 51.8 ( 20.3/ 28.4/ 17.9) Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
15 40.7 ( 18.2/ 22.5/ 17.5) Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
13 26.2 ( 8.9/ 17.2/ 9.2) Nick Maclaren <····@cus.cam.ac.uk>
These posters accounted for 26.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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51.8 ( 20.3/ 28.4/ 17.9) 15 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
51.2 ( 21.9/ 27.9/ 17.3) 20 Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
49.9 ( 21.8/ 26.2/ 12.3) 25 Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
47.4 ( 7.8/ 39.6/ 28.5) 10 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
46.8 ( 18.7/ 25.4/ 11.2) 16 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
44.2 ( 26.2/ 18.0/ 7.9) 26 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
44.1 ( 11.1/ 33.0/ 25.2) 11 Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
40.7 ( 18.2/ 22.5/ 17.5) 15 Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
35.0 ( 21.1/ 13.8/ 10.4) 20 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
34.6 ( 26.6/ 8.0/ 4.4) 18 "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
These posters accounted for 27.8% 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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0.927 ( 4.4 / 4.7) 5 Raymond Toy <···@rtp.ericsson.se>
0.882 ( 3.5 / 4.0) 5 Andrew Burton <···········@aol.commune>
0.872 ( 9.4 / 10.8) 6 William D Clinger <······@qnci.net>
0.854 ( 13.4 / 15.7) 13 Franz Kafka <·································@hotmail.com>
0.827 ( 15.0 / 18.1) 6 Joerg Hoehle <······@users.sourceforge.net>
0.817 ( 5.0 / 6.1) 6 Francois-Rene Rideau <····@tunes.org>
0.816 ( 13.5 / 16.6) 7 Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.795 ( 15.1 / 18.9) 8 Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.778 ( 17.5 / 22.5) 15 Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
0.775 ( 10.0 / 12.9) 7 "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.422 ( 1.6 / 3.8) 7 Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
0.420 ( 3.8 / 9.0) 9 Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
0.411 ( 1.8 / 4.3) 5 ···@agharta.de
0.378 ( 2.1 / 5.6) 5 Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>
0.377 ( 5.1 / 13.5) 6 Kevin Layer <·····@*n*o*s*p*a*m*franz.com>
0.374 ( 1.0 / 2.6) 5 Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.343 ( 5.4 / 15.8) 5 "Alan Walker" <·························@charter.net>
0.339 ( 4.4 / 13.1) 5 Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
0.324 ( 2.4 / 7.5) 7 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.256 ( 0.7 / 2.8) 5 Friedrich Dominicus <·····@q-software-solutions.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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75 Implementation Favoritism, a question of Lisp mindsets
62 Lisp Machines
47 Proposal: POSIX interfaces
41 Multiplying square matrices (faster than Java)
28 Why functional Python matters
28 hostory of AI Winter?
27 GCC front end
25 Implementing call/cc or Dynamic Continuations in ANSI CL
23 history of AI Winter?
19 Lisp GUI
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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180.8 ( 84.7/ 90.8/ 56.1) 75 Implementation Favoritism, a question of Lisp mindsets
147.9 ( 45.0/ 99.7/ 61.1) 47 Proposal: POSIX interfaces
131.4 ( 62.0/ 66.2/ 38.1) 62 Lisp Machines
112.9 ( 38.9/ 72.8/ 43.9) 41 Multiplying square matrices (faster than Java)
73.4 ( 31.5/ 40.7/ 24.7) 28 Why functional Python matters
57.1 ( 21.2/ 34.9/ 19.5) 23 history of AI Winter?
54.7 ( 24.6/ 29.1/ 20.7) 25 Implementing call/cc or Dynamic Continuations in ANSI CL
54.2 ( 35.9/ 16.8/ 8.4) 27 GCC front end
53.2 ( 6.8/ 46.2/ 34.2) 9 "getting" restarts...
48.7 ( 26.2/ 21.2/ 14.4) 28 hostory of AI Winter?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.869 ( 7.6/ 8.7) 3 Help with eval/compile-time macroexpansion
0.849 ( 3.8/ 4.5) 3 Problems using cl-pdf package with cmucl on debian system
0.797 ( 3.6/ 4.5) 5 Does a non-binding READ function exist?
0.779 ( 1.6/ 2.0) 5 Going with the best price << 2GB / 1GB Flash USB --> $699 / $334 >>
0.778 ( 3.5/ 4.5) 5 &whole, defsetf, define-setf-method, define-setf-expansions, &environment and other Lispy Questions
0.778 ( 6.9/ 8.9) 8 Pitfalls? - Changing Lisp Code to C code, manually
0.768 ( 3.7/ 4.9) 5 Vileness (OFF TOPIC)
0.745 ( 2.4/ 3.3) 3 Using Lisp at your job? Let us know - take two
0.739 ( 1.5/ 2.0) 3 Who first said "Those who do not study Lisp are doomed to
reimplement it, poorly"?
0.739 ( 34.2/ 46.2) 9 "getting" restarts...
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.500 ( 1.4 / 2.8) 4 Perfect Programming Language
0.499 ( 5.0 / 10.0) 14 concatenating symbols
0.488 ( 4.6 / 9.4) 9 Strange ACL printer variable behavior
0.486 ( 3.5 / 7.1) 5 sort, merge, or insertion sort?
0.479 ( 14.6 / 30.4) 12 The Erik Naggum Fan Club (OFF TOPIC)
0.428 ( 1.3 / 2.9) 4 streams portability
0.427 ( 1.7 / 4.0) 3 Closures and multithreading?
0.416 ( 2.2 / 5.3) 9 Announcing new programming language OOUL
0.392 ( 2.5 / 6.3) 6 TK's Master's Thesis
0.369 ( 2.2 / 6.0) 9 macro simplification
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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99 comp.lang.scheme
62 comp.arch
41 alt.folklore.computers
18 comp.lang.python
14 comp.programming
9 comp.object
5 comp.sys.apple2
5 comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows
5 comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
4 comp.lang.misc
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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34 Nick Maclaren <····@cus.cam.ac.uk>
18 Franz Kafka <·································@hotmail.com>
12 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <····@garlic.com>
9 ············@SystematicSw.ab.ca
8 Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
8 Toon Moene <····@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
7 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
7 Jeffrey Mark Siskind <····@purdue.edu>
7 Tony Finch <···@dotat.at>
7 Arthur T. Murray <·····@victoria.tc.ca>