From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <ba7u3q$q3rq3$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 11 May 2003 06:16:21 GMT and ending at
18 May 2003 01:47:27 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:  189
Articles: 835 (281 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  91
Volume generated: 2150.9 kb
    - headers:    923.8 kb (14,466 lines)
    - bodies:     1174.3 kb (30,041 lines)
    - original:   674.7 kb (18,997 lines)
    - signatures: 52.0 kb (1,057 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.575

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.4
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 82 posters
    s:      8.0 posts
Posts per thread: 9.2
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 27 threads
    s:      25.9 posts
Message size: 2637.8 bytes
    - header:     1132.9 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1440.1 bytes (36.0 lines)
    - original:   827.4 bytes (22.8 lines)
    - signature:  63.8 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   65   209.8 ( 85.3/124.4/ 38.1)  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
   56   154.2 ( 81.2/ 72.9/ 47.6)  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
   42   133.4 ( 43.2/ 90.2/ 65.1)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   29   103.8 ( 41.8/ 55.0/ 25.6)  ·····@davep.org
   27    71.0 ( 35.2/ 32.8/ 18.8)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   26    49.3 ( 30.8/ 18.5/ 11.6)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   23    66.7 ( 21.3/ 40.9/ 19.3)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
   19    54.6 ( 20.9/ 30.7/ 16.5)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   15    26.1 ( 13.6/ 12.5/  6.7)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
   15    28.1 ( 16.3/ 11.2/  6.5)  MJ Ray <··········@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>

These posters accounted for 38.0% of all articles.

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

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

 209.8 ( 85.3/124.4/ 38.1)     65  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
 154.2 ( 81.2/ 72.9/ 47.6)     56  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
 133.4 ( 43.2/ 90.2/ 65.1)     42  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
 103.8 ( 41.8/ 55.0/ 25.6)     29  ·····@davep.org
  71.0 ( 35.2/ 32.8/ 18.8)     27  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  66.7 ( 21.3/ 40.9/ 19.3)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
  54.6 ( 20.9/ 30.7/ 16.5)     19  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  49.3 ( 30.8/ 18.5/ 11.6)     26  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  42.1 ( 11.0/ 26.7/ 19.6)     14  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
  38.1 (  6.2/ 31.9/ 16.5)      5  Marco Parrone <·····@autistici.org>

These posters accounted for 42.9% of the total volume.

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

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

0.931  (  7.2 /  7.7)      5  Eric Smith <········@yahoo.com>
0.888  ( 13.4 / 15.1)      6  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.870  ( 16.0 / 18.4)      9  Mark Conrad <······@iam.invalid>
0.758  ( 11.0 / 14.5)      7  scav50 <······@yahoo.com>
0.733  ( 19.6 / 26.7)     14  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.721  ( 65.1 / 90.2)     42  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
0.709  ( 13.8 / 19.5)      8  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.696  (  7.6 / 10.9)      5  "Adam Warner" <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.691  (  6.5 /  9.3)      5  Drew McDermott <··················@at.yale.dot.edu>
0.689  (  5.5 /  8.0)      9  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>

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

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

0.503  (  1.7 /  3.3)      5  Michael Livshin <······@cmm.kakpryg.net>
0.471  ( 19.3 / 40.9)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.467  (  2.8 /  6.1)      8  ···@agharta.de
0.465  ( 25.6 / 55.0)     29  ·····@davep.org
0.420  (  3.0 /  7.1)      5  ·······@meer.net
0.393  (  5.8 / 14.8)      9  ··········@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk
0.388  (  2.6 /  6.8)      6  ···@gnu.org
0.386  (  1.5 /  3.9)      5  ······@interaccess.com
0.319  (  2.0 /  6.2)      6  Sander Vesik <······@haldjas.folklore.ee>
0.306  ( 38.1 /124.4)     65  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>

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

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

  234  Is there a Doom Game Engine Written in Lisp ???
   64  Why aren't people complaining that LispWorks is too pricey?
   57  village idiot
   33  UNWIND-PROTECT in Scheme
   33  Why dynamic typing?
   31  Lisp-2 or Lisp-1
   23  defmacro (was "mass stupidity (was "village idiot")")
   19  Giving Up! (was "UNWIND_PROTECT in Scheme")
   15  Reader problem, : disappears
   14  Mathematica interface

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

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

 707.2 (314.9/375.4/181.6)    234  Is there a Doom Game Engine Written in Lisp ???
 152.8 ( 71.6/ 76.7/ 45.1)     64  Why aren't people complaining that LispWorks is too pricey?
 141.6 ( 54.9/ 80.8/ 43.7)     57  village idiot
 103.4 ( 50.2/ 49.2/ 30.1)     33  Why dynamic typing?
  89.1 ( 35.8/ 52.8/ 36.3)     33  UNWIND-PROTECT in Scheme
  70.3 ( 27.3/ 42.0/ 28.6)     31  Lisp-2 or Lisp-1
  56.6 ( 24.8/ 30.8/ 18.1)     23  defmacro (was "mass stupidity (was "village idiot")")
  51.4 ( 18.4/ 32.9/ 23.9)     19  Giving Up! (was "UNWIND_PROTECT in Scheme")
  36.7 ( 14.0/ 22.2/ 13.9)     15  Reader problem, : disappears
  28.5 ( 11.3/ 17.0/ 12.4)     13  Common Lisp as a statically typed language

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

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

0.907  (  5.5/   6.0)      5  International Lisp Conference 2003 (ILC 2003)
0.899  (  2.6/   2.9)      4  Screamer is now DFSG-free software
0.860  (  6.1/   7.0)      5  Brent's Method?
0.828  (  6.1/   7.3)      5  Mathematica interface / for sale? / how different? /power
0.764  (  2.2/   2.9)      3  Parameter type checking
0.749  (  9.2/  12.3)     10  Code Walker Info. needed (not found on Google)
0.731  (  5.8/   7.9)      4  method and function overloading/redefinition
0.726  ( 12.4/  17.0)     13  Common Lisp as a statically typed language
0.724  ( 23.9/  32.9)     19  Giving Up! (was "UNWIND_PROTECT in Scheme")
0.718  (  7.2/  10.0)      3  Why dynamic typing?  (was Re: Why seperate function namespaces?

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

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

0.533  (  1.1 /  2.1)      7  Blogging Software?
0.523  (  6.3 / 12.0)      9  using loop macro to find argmax
0.484  (181.6 /375.4)    234  Is there a Doom Game Engine Written in Lisp ???
0.473  (  1.5 /  3.2)      3  reading #.
0.471  (  4.7 /  9.9)     11  MAKUNBOUND and nested bindings?
0.460  (  1.2 /  2.7)      4  ILISP FSF key binding changes completed
0.449  (  5.7 / 12.7)      9  general Interface CL <-> interactive Programm ?
0.443  (  4.7 / 10.5)     10  CL newbie seeking sockets and select()
0.424  (  1.0 /  2.3)      4  Hyperspec browsing in Emacs
0.362  (  2.3 /  6.3)      7  Simple Type Conversion question

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

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

     211  comp.lang.scheme
      75  comp.lang.java.programmer
      75  comp.lang.c++
       7  comp.emacs.xemacs
       5  comp
       4  comp.lang.c
       2  comp.lang.smalltalk
       2  comp.arch
       2  comp.object
       2  comp.emacs

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

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

      45  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
      36  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
      17  scav50 <······@yahoo.com>
      15  ·····@davep.org
      15  MJ Ray <··········@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk>
      12  William D Clinger <······@qnci.net>
       9  ··········@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk
       9  Sander Vesik <······@haldjas.folklore.ee>
       9  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
       8  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>