From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <bqum88$26mhv3$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 30 Nov 2003 07:10:56 GMT and ending at
07 Dec 2003 02:02:08 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:  119
Articles: 425 (175 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  53
Volume generated: 993.7 kb
    - headers:    439.6 kb (7,547 lines)
    - bodies:     526.9 kb (13,353 lines)
    - original:   325.8 kb (8,939 lines)
    - signatures: 26.9 kb (626 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.618

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 58 posters
    s:      5.6 posts
Posts per thread: 8.0
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 18 threads
    s:      22.5 posts
Message size: 2394.4 bytes
    - header:     1059.1 bytes (17.8 lines)
    - body:       1269.6 bytes (31.4 lines)
    - original:   785.0 bytes (21.0 lines)
    - signature:  64.7 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   31    95.8 ( 30.5/ 65.3/ 47.2)  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
   30    72.3 ( 34.1/ 34.9/ 16.9)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   24    52.6 ( 26.9/ 25.7/ 12.2)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   15    22.7 ( 15.3/  6.6/  3.4)  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
   13    33.0 ( 11.2/ 21.8/ 15.6)  Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
   13    37.2 ( 13.0/ 23.5/ 13.7)  Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>
   12    30.8 ( 13.1/ 16.1/  6.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   12    29.2 ( 12.2/ 17.0/ 12.8)  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
   11    41.3 ( 15.2/ 23.8/ 12.4)  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
   10    27.8 ( 11.0/ 16.8/  8.0)  ··············@setf.de

These posters accounted for 40.2% of all articles.

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

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

  95.8 ( 30.5/ 65.3/ 47.2)     31  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
  72.3 ( 34.1/ 34.9/ 16.9)     30  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  52.6 ( 26.9/ 25.7/ 12.2)     24  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  41.3 ( 15.2/ 23.8/ 12.4)     11  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  37.2 ( 13.0/ 23.5/ 13.7)     13  Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>
  33.0 ( 11.2/ 21.8/ 15.6)     13  Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
  30.8 ( 13.1/ 16.1/  6.7)     12  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  29.2 ( 12.2/ 17.0/ 12.8)     12  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
  27.8 ( 11.0/ 16.8/  8.0)     10  ··············@setf.de
  27.2 ( 10.6/ 16.6/ 10.1)      9  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>

These posters accounted for 45.0% of the total volume.

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

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

0.861  ( 10.8 / 12.5)      6  Wendall Marvel <········@speakeasy.net>
0.753  ( 12.8 / 17.0)     12  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
0.735  (  8.7 / 11.9)      9  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
0.723  ( 47.2 / 65.3)     31  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.718  ( 15.6 / 21.8)     13  Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
0.707  (  6.7 /  9.5)      8  Rahul Jain <·····@rice.edu>
0.704  (  8.0 / 11.3)      9  "Harag" <·········@psychedelic.co.za>
0.657  (  5.4 /  8.3)      6  Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.609  ( 10.1 / 16.6)      9  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.580  ( 13.7 / 23.5)     13  Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>

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

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

0.521  (  2.7 /  5.2)      5  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.520  (  3.4 /  6.6)     15  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.484  ( 16.9 / 34.9)     30  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.477  ( 12.2 / 25.7)     24  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.476  (  2.5 /  5.3)      5  Raymond Wiker <·············@fast.no>
0.474  (  8.0 / 16.8)     10  ··············@setf.de
0.466  (  1.8 /  3.8)      5  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.424  (  2.3 /  5.4)      6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.418  (  6.7 / 16.1)     12  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.405  (  4.8 / 11.8)      7  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>

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

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

  159  Where to find good lisp critiques?
   34  type "enum{}"
   23  Seeking UFFI for sockets on Linux
   23  Sum types (Was: Re: OT: More Antilock brakes)
   17  C# to get lambda
   12  deja vu all over again?
   10  Interlisp Reference Manual
   10  define-method-combination question
    9  type-of in Scheme
    9  [NEWBIE]CONS,APPEND AND LIST

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

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

 431.4 (178.9/241.3/146.5)    159  Where to find good lisp critiques?
  68.4 ( 30.7/ 36.2/ 21.9)     23  Sum types (Was: Re: OT: More Antilock brakes)
  59.0 ( 31.1/ 25.0/ 12.6)     34  type "enum{}"
  54.8 ( 22.4/ 30.2/ 20.6)     23  Seeking UFFI for sockets on Linux
  36.1 ( 17.0/ 18.4/ 10.9)     17  C# to get lambda
  31.8 ( 11.3/ 20.5/ 14.7)     10  define-method-combination question
  23.0 ( 10.1/ 12.5/  7.2)     10  Interlisp Reference Manual
  20.8 ( 10.3/  9.7/  5.6)      8  OT: More Antilock brakes
  17.2 (  9.5/  7.0/  3.9)     12  deja vu all over again?
  16.8 (  9.7/  6.7/  4.0)      9  [NEWBIE]CONS,APPEND AND LIST

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

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

0.725  (  5.7/   7.8)      6  academic pricing [was Re: Where to find good lisp critiques?]
0.725  (  3.0/   4.1)      4  (CLtS question) Pathname hosts
0.719  ( 14.7/  20.5)     10  define-method-combination question
0.709  (  3.0/   4.3)      4  newbie quesion: franz lisp emacs setting
0.684  ( 20.6/  30.2)     23  Seeking UFFI for sockets on Linux
0.671  (  5.2/   7.7)      6  mentioned tail call elimination feature/declaration?
0.657  (  4.3/   6.6)      9  type-of in Scheme
0.642  (  1.1/   1.8)      3  Seeking Openlisp tutorial/info?
0.631  (  3.8/   6.0)      8  300 dollars offered for lispworks
0.610  (  3.2/   5.3)      4  Why (eql #c(1 0) 1) but (not (eql #c(1.0 0.0) 1.0))?

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

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

0.581  (  5.6 /  9.7)      8  OT: More Antilock brakes
0.575  (  7.2 / 12.5)     10  Interlisp Reference Manual
0.571  (  4.9 /  8.5)      6  User-defined equality/hashing functions in hash tables?
0.568  (  1.8 /  3.1)      5  Extracting news from HTML pages
0.558  (  3.9 /  7.0)     12  deja vu all over again?
0.535  (  4.6 /  8.6)      7  g-adic development homework
0.505  ( 12.6 / 25.0)     34  type "enum{}"
0.503  (  4.2 /  8.3)      9  java to lisp translation
0.488  (  1.5 /  3.1)      3  Whither Arc?
0.485  (  1.6 /  3.4)      4  GCL Frame stack overflow only 653 frames?

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

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

      33  comp.lang.functional
       5  comp.lang.scheme
       3  comp.lang.lisp.x
       3  comp.lang.lisp.franz

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

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

       8  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
       6  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
       4  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
       4  mikel <·····@evins.net>
       3  Daniel C. Wang <·········@hotmail.com>
       2  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
       2  ·····@ii.uib.no
       2  "Roberto" <········@NOSPAMlibero.it>
       2  Joachim Durchholz <·················@web.de>
       2  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>