From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <b4flmu$1u0rjm$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 02 Mar 2003 07:16:54 GMT and ending at
09 Mar 2003 06:08:46 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: 124
Articles: 353 (136 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 67
Volume generated: 761.7 kb
- headers: 336.4 kb (6,128 lines)
- bodies: 398.3 kb (11,649 lines)
- original: 256.4 kb (8,229 lines)
- signatures: 26.6 kb (617 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.644
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.8
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 58 posters
s: 3.6 posts
Posts per thread: 5.3
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 20 threads
s: 19.1 posts
Message size: 2209.6 bytes
- header: 975.8 bytes (17.4 lines)
- body: 1155.5 bytes (33.0 lines)
- original: 743.9 bytes (23.3 lines)
- signature: 77.2 bytes (1.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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18 38.7 ( 20.3/ 18.3/ 11.9) Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
16 32.6 ( 16.1/ 12.7/ 7.9) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
15 27.7 ( 15.4/ 12.2/ 5.5) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
14 30.2 ( 14.6/ 15.6/ 4.0) ·······@cs.nyu.edu
12 32.7 ( 9.1/ 23.6/ 18.7) ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
9 20.6 ( 9.1/ 9.3/ 4.6) Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
9 33.3 ( 11.7/ 21.6/ 15.7) Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
9 20.5 ( 7.9/ 11.4/ 7.3) ·····@gmx.net (Wolfhard =?iso-8859-1?q?Bu=DF?=)
8 22.9 ( 9.3/ 10.6/ 8.2) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
7 17.6 ( 6.6/ 11.0/ 8.0) Gabe Garza <·······@ix.netcom.com>
These posters accounted for 33.1% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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38.7 ( 20.3/ 18.3/ 11.9) 18 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
33.3 ( 11.7/ 21.6/ 15.7) 9 Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
32.7 ( 9.1/ 23.6/ 18.7) 12 ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
32.6 ( 16.1/ 12.7/ 7.9) 16 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
30.2 ( 14.6/ 15.6/ 4.0) 14 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
27.7 ( 15.4/ 12.2/ 5.5) 15 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
22.9 ( 9.3/ 10.6/ 8.2) 8 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
20.6 ( 9.1/ 9.3/ 4.6) 9 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
20.5 ( 7.9/ 11.4/ 7.3) 9 ·····@gmx.net (Wolfhard =?iso-8859-1?q?Bu=DF?=)
18.4 ( 8.9/ 9.5/ 6.0) 6 "Alan Baljeu" <·······@sympatico.deleteme.ca>
These posters accounted for 36.4% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.791 ( 18.7 / 23.6) 12 ···@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
0.779 ( 8.2 / 10.6) 8 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.772 ( 4.4 / 5.6) 5 Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
0.768 ( 2.1 / 2.7) 5 Faust <·······@optushome.com.au>
0.730 ( 15.7 / 21.6) 9 Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
0.727 ( 8.0 / 11.0) 7 Gabe Garza <·······@ix.netcom.com>
0.720 ( 3.2 / 4.4) 5 ···@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
0.704 ( 7.3 / 10.4) 7 ·····@telus.net (Ray Blaak)
0.653 ( 3.7 / 5.7) 7 Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>
0.648 ( 11.9 / 18.3) 18 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.643 ( 2.4 / 3.7) 5 rif <···@mit.edu>
0.642 ( 7.3 / 11.4) 9 ·····@gmx.net (Wolfhard =?iso-8859-1?q?Bu=DF?=)
0.636 ( 6.0 / 9.5) 6 "Alan Baljeu" <·······@sympatico.deleteme.ca>
0.624 ( 7.9 / 12.7) 16 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.519 ( 1.8 / 3.5) 5 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.494 ( 4.6 / 9.3) 9 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0.464 ( 4.0 / 8.6) 7 Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
0.450 ( 5.5 / 12.2) 15 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.418 ( 1.6 / 3.8) 5 Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.256 ( 4.0 / 15.6) 14 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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39 dolist type declaration
32 Closures vs. objects
23 We need a Lex/Yacc for Common Lisp (Re: Processing (SG|X)ML)
23 Common Lisp Extensions (Was: UK lispers mailing list)
21 interactive TMs (was Re: Other languages with Lisp macros)
12 Re: Splitting sequence at object
11 Generalized function names
11 translate Common-Lisp (cltl2) to Scheme
10 Washington DC Lispers
10 Adding slots to an instance.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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91.2 ( 41.5/ 44.4/ 25.6) 39 dolist type declaration
67.2 ( 28.3/ 37.9/ 23.0) 32 Closures vs. objects
62.3 ( 28.1/ 33.4/ 22.8) 21 interactive TMs (was Re: Other languages with Lisp macros)
55.9 ( 23.3/ 31.2/ 20.4) 23 Common Lisp Extensions (Was: UK lispers mailing list)
53.7 ( 21.3/ 30.7/ 16.8) 23 We need a Lex/Yacc for Common Lisp (Re: Processing (SG|X)ML)
31.2 ( 12.3/ 16.1/ 11.0) 12 Re: Splitting sequence at object
28.1 ( 10.3/ 17.0/ 9.5) 11 Generalized function names
23.4 ( 4.8/ 18.6/ 16.5) 6 List of all Common Lisp functions?
20.5 ( 8.8/ 10.8/ 6.1) 10 Adding slots to an instance.
19.1 ( 10.7/ 8.3/ 4.2) 11 translate Common-Lisp (cltl2) to Scheme
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.886 ( 16.5/ 18.6) 6 List of all Common Lisp functions?
0.872 ( 1.8/ 2.1) 3 Need some pointers on starting to program in Lisp
0.825 ( 2.6/ 3.1) 4 Processing (SG|X)ML
0.804 ( 7.0/ 8.7) 6 handler-case vs handler-bind
0.790 ( 7.1/ 9.0) 6 [Maybe OT?] using the socket interface
0.776 ( 5.4/ 6.9) 4 special variables in function declarations
0.765 ( 3.4/ 4.5) 3 Arrays, files, and EOF
0.765 ( 1.3/ 1.8) 4 how to force evaluation of a list?
0.731 ( 1.7/ 2.3) 4 Adding functions at runtime - understanding eval
0.708 ( 1.5/ 2.1) 4 Re: Learn about Erlang, the concurrent , distributed functional
programming language.
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.562 ( 6.1 / 10.8) 10 Adding slots to an instance.
0.561 ( 1.1 / 1.9) 3 Adding an :initarg?
0.547 ( 16.8 / 30.7) 23 We need a Lex/Yacc for Common Lisp (Re: Processing (SG|X)ML)
0.542 ( 4.1 / 7.5) 8 [ANN] Yet another persistent CLOS
0.506 ( 4.2 / 8.3) 11 translate Common-Lisp (cltl2) to Scheme
0.461 ( 2.9 / 6.3) 6 Re: Learn about Erlang, the concurrent , distributed functional programming language.
0.444 ( 1.1 / 2.4) 4 Write to file question...
0.443 ( 2.4 / 5.5) 10 Washington DC Lispers
0.437 ( 1.5 / 3.4) 4 Floating point warnings in CLISP 2.30
0.423 ( 2.0 / 4.7) 3 Re: Announcement: new Lisp implementation
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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16 comp.lang.c++
15 comp.lang.functional
15 comp.lang.c
11 comp.lang.scheme
6 sci.math.symbolic
1 comp.lang.sather
1 comp.lang.dylan
1 comp.lang.prolog
1 comp.lang.objective-c
1 comp.lang.logo
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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15 Faust <·······@optushome.com.au>
9 ········@earthlink.net
6 Jack Klein <·········@spamcop.net>
6 Martin Ambuhl <·······@earthlink.net>
3 ·······@yahoo.com (Gene Kahn)
3 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
3 Jerzy Karczmarczuk <·······@info.unicaen.fr>
3 "White Wolf" <·····@freemail.hu>
3 "bd" <·······@bd-home-comp.no-ip.org>
3 ·······@cs.nyu.edu