From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <b9lamp$kh390$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 04 May 2003 06:04:19 GMT and ending at
11 May 2003 01:01:24 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:  183
Articles: 839 (285 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  81
Volume generated: 2204.6 kb
    - headers:    897.9 kb (14,565 lines)
    - bodies:     1258.7 kb (32,875 lines)
    - original:   827.0 kb (23,006 lines)
    - signatures: 47.2 kb (1,099 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.657

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 83 posters
    s:      8.2 posts
Posts per thread: 10.4
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 20 threads
    s:      19.5 posts
Message size: 2690.8 bytes
    - header:     1095.9 bytes (17.4 lines)
    - body:       1536.2 bytes (39.2 lines)
    - original:   1009.4 bytes (27.4 lines)
    - signature:  57.6 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   52   224.4 ( 58.2/166.2/121.0)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   36   100.2 ( 45.8/ 54.3/ 42.2)  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
   36    91.2 ( 40.9/ 46.7/ 30.1)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   34   110.0 ( 38.7/ 71.3/ 35.9)  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
   32    54.0 ( 34.8/ 19.2/ 12.0)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   30   113.2 ( 27.8/ 85.4/ 69.7)  BK <·········@yahoo.co.uk>
   24    77.6 ( 29.3/ 38.9/ 26.3)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   22    43.8 ( 23.3/ 20.2/ 14.6)  ·····@david-steuber.com
   20    35.4 ( 20.6/ 14.8/  9.8)  Nikodemus Siivola <········@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi>
   20    63.3 ( 29.6/ 33.6/ 19.2)  "Franz Kafka" <"The Windows OS is the Sadist; The Windows User is the Masochist.">

These posters accounted for 36.5% of all articles.

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

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

 224.4 ( 58.2/166.2/121.0)     52  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
 113.2 ( 27.8/ 85.4/ 69.7)     30  BK <·········@yahoo.co.uk>
 110.0 ( 38.7/ 71.3/ 35.9)     34  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
 100.2 ( 45.8/ 54.3/ 42.2)     36  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
  91.2 ( 40.9/ 46.7/ 30.1)     36  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  77.6 ( 29.3/ 38.9/ 26.3)     24  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  63.3 ( 29.6/ 33.6/ 19.2)     20  "Franz Kafka" <"The Windows OS is the Sadist; The Windows User is the Masochist.">
  54.0 ( 34.8/ 19.2/ 12.0)     32  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  48.9 ( 14.4/ 34.4/ 17.7)     11  David Longley <·····@longley.demon.co.uk>
  43.8 ( 23.3/ 20.2/ 14.6)     22  ·····@david-steuber.com

These posters accounted for 42.0% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  3.4 /  3.4)      5  "Alex Parshikov" <··········@nowhere.com>
0.859  ( 18.6 / 21.6)     10  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.846  ( 11.2 / 13.3)     14  "Franz Kafka" <·································@hotmail.com>
0.843  (  5.4 /  6.4)      6  Eric Smith <········@yahoo.com>
0.816  ( 69.7 / 85.4)     30  BK <·········@yahoo.co.uk>
0.778  ( 42.2 / 54.3)     36  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
0.768  (  6.9 /  9.0)      6  Raffael Cavallaro <·······@mediaone.net>
0.738  ( 13.7 / 18.5)      8  Nils Goesche <···@cartan.de>
0.737  (  9.6 / 13.1)     13  Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.731  (  8.2 / 11.2)     11  Eray Ozkural  exa <·····@bilkent.edu.tr>

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

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

0.515  ( 17.7 / 34.4)     11  David Longley <·····@longley.demon.co.uk>
0.505  (  4.7 /  9.3)      9  Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
0.503  ( 35.9 / 71.3)     34  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.500  (  2.6 /  5.1)     11  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.463  (  7.3 / 15.7)     11  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.454  (  2.7 /  6.0)      5  Lester Zick <·············@worldnet.att.net>
0.453  (  7.6 / 16.8)     13  Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
0.432  (  1.0 /  2.3)      5  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
0.422  (  4.1 /  9.6)      7  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.352  (  4.9 / 14.0)     11  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>

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

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

   94  MAKUNBOUND and nested bindings?
   78  Lisp Machines vs. Commercial Lisps ???
   77  Why seperate function namespaces?
   74  Recreational Common Lisp  :)
   40  How would you describe this?
   36  history of AI Winter?
   26  More Emacs/ILISP questions
   19  Lisp Machine details
   18  Dynamically scoped functions
   16  Popularity (was Re: MAKUNBOUND and nested bindings?)

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

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

 335.5 (114.4/216.0/143.5)     94  MAKUNBOUND and nested bindings?
 217.3 (104.0/109.7/ 68.5)     77  Why seperate function namespaces?
 205.5 ( 78.0/124.9/ 77.4)     78  Lisp Machines vs. Commercial Lisps ???
 194.6 ( 85.4/105.9/ 71.7)     74  Recreational Common Lisp  :)
 112.6 ( 41.5/ 64.3/ 41.6)     40  How would you describe this?
 112.0 ( 45.3/ 65.7/ 37.3)     36  history of AI Winter?
  70.2 ( 26.1/ 42.4/ 33.3)     26  More Emacs/ILISP questions
  49.2 ( 17.5/ 30.6/ 22.4)     14  Being dynamic - C vs AppleScript vs Lisp
  45.8 ( 18.9/ 25.4/ 14.6)     18  Dynamically scoped functions
  45.0 ( 14.3/ 30.3/ 17.7)     13  New Newsgroup on LispM/LispOS?

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

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

0.969  (  1.1/   1.1)      4  Article about Paul Graham on slashdot today
0.885  (  3.9/   4.3)      4  Is there a Doom Game Engine Written in Lisp ???
0.851  (  4.2/   4.9)      4  Why does formatting double-floats create bignums?
0.816  ( 20.2/  24.8)     12  How to integrate OpenMCL w/ProjectBuilder&InterfaceBuilder on OSX?
0.810  (  7.4/   9.1)     10  anonymous function recursion
0.795  (  7.2/   9.1)      6  lost sublists
0.786  ( 33.3/  42.4)     26  More Emacs/ILISP questions
0.776  (  1.3/   1.6)      3  Editors
0.758  (  0.8/   1.1)      5  Is there a reason to set a bar for Lisp programmers?
0.748  (  0.6/   0.8)      4  Austin TX LISPniks

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

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

0.567  ( 37.3 / 65.7)     36  history of AI Winter?
0.544  (  1.9 /  3.4)      5  Switchable feature expression.
0.527  (  1.7 /  3.2)      6  LW Linux & OpenMotif 2.2
0.526  (  2.2 /  4.2)      8  Mathematica interface
0.496  (  5.7 / 11.5)     13  Reasoning v. other AI stuff
0.491  ( 11.0 / 22.4)     16  CLOS and large systems
0.463  (  5.0 / 10.8)     14  Newbie question: Bool Function returns neither True nor False?
0.444  (  1.4 /  3.1)      3  CLOCC vs. CMUCL 18e
0.444  (  3.2 /  7.3)      8  mapcar.org status?
0.390  (  8.3 / 21.3)     16  Popularity (was Re: MAKUNBOUND and nested bindings?)

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

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

      47  comp.ai.philosophy
      31  comp.lang.scheme
      16  comp.lang.functional
      15  comp.lang.lisp.mcl
      13  comp.ai.edu
      13  sci.cognitive
      13  sci.logic
       3  alt.music.midi
       3  alt.folklore.computers
       2  rec.arts.sf.science

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

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

      20  Lester Zick <·············@worldnet.att.net>
      20  Eray Ozkural  exa <·····@bilkent.edu.tr>
      14  David Longley <·····@longley.demon.co.uk>
      11  BK <·········@yahoo.co.uk>
      10  Arthur T. Murray <·····@victoria.tc.ca>
       5  Raffael Cavallaro <·······@mediaone.net>
       4  Eugene Miya <······@cse.ucsc.edu>
       4  "Tom Osborn" <·······@DELETE_CAPS.nuix.com.au>
       4  "Herman Jurjus" <········@hetnet.nl>
       4  Jochen Schmidt <···@dataheaven.de>