From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <baq814$2c4d1$1@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 18 May 2003 06:12:42 GMT and ending at
25 May 2003 02:52:33 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:  151
Articles: 530 (188 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  74
Volume generated: 1196.8 kb
    - headers:    557.7 kb (9,264 lines)
    - bodies:     610.8 kb (16,326 lines)
    - original:   380.2 kb (10,834 lines)
    - signatures: 27.8 kb (683 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.622

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.5
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 65 posters
    s:      5.5 posts
Posts per thread: 7.2
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      14.2 posts
Message size: 2312.4 bytes
    - header:     1077.5 bytes (17.5 lines)
    - body:       1180.1 bytes (30.8 lines)
    - original:   734.5 bytes (20.4 lines)
    - signature:  53.7 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   34    96.7 ( 52.7/ 44.0/ 26.7)  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
   33    63.8 ( 35.0/ 28.8/ 14.9)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   19    33.0 ( 20.9/ 12.1/  7.9)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   18    69.7 ( 22.9/ 46.8/ 36.6)  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
   17    38.7 ( 17.5/ 17.8/ 11.6)  Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
   15    42.5 ( 15.9/ 24.1/ 13.8)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   14    32.1 ( 15.9/ 15.9/ 12.7)  ·····@david-steuber.com
   13    30.5 ( 16.1/ 14.4/  9.2)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
   12    40.8 ( 12.9/ 24.6/ 20.2)  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
   11    31.6 ( 12.6/ 17.6/ 12.9)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>

These posters accounted for 35.1% of all articles.

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

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

  96.7 ( 52.7/ 44.0/ 26.7)     34  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
  69.7 ( 22.9/ 46.8/ 36.6)     18  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
  63.8 ( 35.0/ 28.8/ 14.9)     33  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  42.5 ( 15.9/ 24.1/ 13.8)     15  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  40.8 ( 12.9/ 24.6/ 20.2)     12  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
  38.7 ( 17.5/ 17.8/ 11.6)     17  Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
  33.0 ( 20.9/ 12.1/  7.9)     19  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  32.1 ( 15.9/ 15.9/ 12.7)     14  ·····@david-steuber.com
  31.6 ( 12.6/ 17.6/ 12.9)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  30.7 (  9.1/ 21.6/  5.1)      7  "Scott McKay" <···@attbi.com>

These posters accounted for 40.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.823  (  2.4 /  3.0)      7  Nikodemus Siivola <········@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi>
0.820  ( 20.2 / 24.6)     12  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.796  ( 12.7 / 15.9)     14  ·····@david-steuber.com
0.782  ( 36.6 / 46.8)     18  Kent M Pitman <······@world.std.com>
0.769  (  1.5 /  2.0)      5  Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.751  (  7.7 / 10.2)      7  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.731  ( 12.9 / 17.6)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.720  (  6.6 /  9.1)      6  Arthur Lemmens <········@xs4all.nl>
0.719  (  5.1 /  7.0)      6  "Kevin Hayward" <············@hotmail.com>
0.676  (  2.9 /  4.3)     10  Michael Park <···········@whoever.com>

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

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

0.597  (  5.3 /  8.8)     11  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.573  ( 13.8 / 24.1)     15  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.566  (  2.1 /  3.7)      7  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.542  (  1.3 /  2.3)      5  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
0.537  (  4.1 /  7.7)      8  Barry Margolin <··············@level3.com>
0.516  ( 14.9 / 28.8)     33  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.514  (  4.1 /  7.9)      5  Eric Daniel <···········@barberic.vancouver.wa.us>
0.464  (  2.0 /  4.3)      7  "Adam Warner" <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.382  (  3.5 /  9.2)      7  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.238  (  5.1 / 21.6)      7  "Scott McKay" <···@attbi.com>

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

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

   72  New Newsgroup on LispM/LispOS?
   53  Tell Me About Lisp Machines
   28  Lisp-2 or Lisp-1
   24  Implicit local variables vs macros
   23  Naming conventions
   20  classes and structs
   19  set-car!/cdr! in CL
   18  Why aren't people complaining that LispWorks is too pricey?
   16  Recursion problem
   15  compiling automatically

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

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

 240.5 (108.1/129.6/ 81.0)     72  New Newsgroup on LispM/LispOS?
 111.1 ( 54.6/ 55.2/ 30.1)     53  Tell Me About Lisp Machines
  91.0 ( 29.5/ 59.8/ 38.6)     28  Lisp-2 or Lisp-1
  45.3 ( 21.9/ 21.7/ 12.4)     24  Implicit local variables vs macros
  44.3 ( 22.0/ 21.2/ 13.4)     18  Why aren't people complaining that LispWorks is too pricey?
  41.9 ( 26.1/ 15.5/  9.2)     23  Naming conventions
  40.6 ( 17.0/ 22.5/ 15.2)     16  Recursion problem
  39.8 ( 19.1/ 19.9/ 12.9)     20  classes and structs
  35.7 ( 13.2/ 20.9/ 12.8)     14  Is defmethod slow?
  29.0 ( 16.4/ 11.5/  5.6)     19  set-car!/cdr! in CL

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

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

0.840  (  5.1/   6.1)      4  history of conditional expressions
0.839  (  1.4/   1.7)      3  Novice user ot LISP
0.831  (  2.7/   3.3)      3  CMUCL: concurrent programming questions
0.803  (  1.2/   1.5)      3  village idiot
0.774  (  2.4/   3.1)      3  Diff between .RPM and CygWin CLisp 2.30, CLX
0.759  (  3.4/   4.5)      4  Saving random state in CMUCL
0.754  (  2.3/   3.0)      4  The programming language T
0.731  (  6.1/   8.3)      7  Complex macros
0.715  (  5.7/   8.0)     13  No SOAP for Lisp???
0.705  (  2.1/   3.0)      5  (compiled-function-p #'(lambda (x) (+ x x)))

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

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

0.521  (  0.9 /  1.7)      4  Cliki & Konqueror
0.505  (  2.1 /  4.2)      5  CLOS problem ---urgent
0.486  (  5.6 / 11.5)     19  set-car!/cdr! in CL
0.471  (  1.6 /  3.3)      5  2 LispM projects on PubSoft.com
0.461  (  2.5 /  5.4)      7  :before and :after
0.423  (  1.4 /  3.2)      4  c-http 70.157 or 70.159 devo
0.414  (  1.1 /  2.6)      3  Hyperspec browsing in Emacs
0.367  (  4.6 / 12.5)      8  Preventing instantiation of 'virtual' classes
0.356  (  1.4 /  3.9)      5  static -> dynamic
0.329  (  0.8 /  2.5)      3  newbie case-sensitive switch in lisp compiler (FRANZ)

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

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

      20  comp.lang.scheme
       7  gnu.emacs.help
       6  comp.lang.c++
       5  comp.lang.java.programmer
       2  gnu.emacs.sources
       2  comp.lang.functional
       2  alt.religion.emacs
       1  comp.lang.c

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

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

       7  "Franz Kafka" <"The C++ Compiler is the Sadist; The C++ Programmer is the Masochist."AnonC++.DescribingDebugingamemoryleakinC++.;>
       4  ·········@lxny.org
       4  John Bacalle <······@unixen.org>
       3  Boris Schaefer <·····@uncommon-sense.net>
       3  "Howard" <·······@hotmail.com>
       3  David Rush <·····@aol.net>
       2  Grzegorz Chrupala <········@pithekos.net>
       2  Bent C Dalager <···@pvv.ntnu.no>
       2  Mark A. Washburn <·················@yahoo.com>
       2  ················@paradiseDOROTHYnetDOROTHYnz