From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <bp7ac9$1lud9q$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 09 Nov 2003 07:23:51 GMT and ending at
16 Nov 2003 06:04:26 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:  157
Articles: 631 (227 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  60
Volume generated: 1604.7 kb
    - headers:    745.9 kb (11,053 lines)
    - bodies:     826.4 kb (21,660 lines)
    - original:   467.7 kb (13,418 lines)
    - signatures: 31.7 kb (783 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.566

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.0
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 66 posters
    s:      11.5 posts
Posts per thread: 10.5
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      30.4 posts
Message size: 2604.1 bytes
    - header:     1210.5 bytes (17.5 lines)
    - body:       1341.1 bytes (34.3 lines)
    - original:   759.1 bytes (21.3 lines)
    - signature:  51.5 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   72   218.3 (106.7/106.7/ 46.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   30    87.5 ( 50.4/ 37.1/ 20.0)  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
   29    99.2 ( 45.8/ 47.0/ 24.2)  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
   24    54.4 ( 28.5/ 22.5/ 11.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   23    49.5 ( 30.5/ 18.9/  7.4)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   20    56.6 ( 20.5/ 36.1/ 22.6)  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
   18    51.3 ( 22.1/ 29.1/ 13.6)  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
   13    32.2 ( 12.7/ 19.4/ 15.1)  Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
   13    25.8 ( 15.0/ 10.9/  3.1)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
   11    36.9 ( 14.5/ 20.9/  8.4)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>

These posters accounted for 40.1% of all articles.

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

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

 218.3 (106.7/106.7/ 46.5)     72  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  99.2 ( 45.8/ 47.0/ 24.2)     29  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
  87.5 ( 50.4/ 37.1/ 20.0)     30  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
  56.6 ( 20.5/ 36.1/ 22.6)     20  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
  54.4 ( 28.5/ 22.5/ 11.7)     24  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  51.3 ( 22.1/ 29.1/ 13.6)     18  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
  49.5 ( 30.5/ 18.9/  7.4)     23  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  43.3 (  9.1/ 34.2/ 26.2)      9  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
  36.9 ( 14.5/ 20.9/  8.4)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  32.4 ( 15.0/ 14.7/  7.3)     10  ········@ps.uni-sb.de

These posters accounted for 45.5% of the total volume.

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

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

0.908  (  6.2 /  6.9)      5  Vladimir S . <·································@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
0.889  (  3.9 /  4.4)      6  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.792  (  3.0 /  3.8)      6  lin8080 <·······@freenet.de>
0.777  ( 15.1 / 19.4)     13  Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
0.765  ( 26.2 / 34.2)      9  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.765  (  6.5 /  8.5)      7  Marco Baringer <··@bese.it>
0.665  (  2.2 /  3.3)      5  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
0.626  ( 22.6 / 36.1)     20  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
0.617  (  9.1 / 14.7)     10  Adrian Hey <····@NoSpicedHam.iee.org>
0.596  (  1.3 /  2.2)      5  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>

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

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

0.466  ( 13.6 / 29.1)     18  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.461  (  3.1 /  6.7)      6  "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
0.439  (  1.9 /  4.4)      6  Jon S. Anthony <·········@rcn.com>
0.436  ( 46.5 /106.7)     72  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.421  (  2.0 /  4.7)      6  ··············@setf.de
0.401  (  3.2 /  7.9)      9  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.401  (  8.4 / 20.9)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.390  (  7.4 / 18.9)     23  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.288  (  1.2 /  4.1)      5  Stephen J. Bevan <·······@dino.dnsalias.com>
0.284  (  3.1 / 10.9)     13  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>

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

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

  236  More static type fun.
   51  Scheme vs Lisp! [was Re: web application framework]
   31  Computability in principle
   27  Loop is cool
   23  I would appreciate a code review
   19  Reasons for preferring Lisp, and for what
   17  Compiling Lisp
   15  OpenGL in Lisp
   14  Style question: #\  versus #\Space
   14  Scheme vs Lisp!

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

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

 689.9 (341.4/335.9/179.8)    236  More static type fun.
 150.5 ( 64.8/ 83.5/ 47.6)     51  Scheme vs Lisp! [was Re: web application framework]
  90.2 ( 41.8/ 45.4/ 22.5)     31  Computability in principle
  54.1 ( 24.6/ 28.7/ 15.6)     27  Loop is cool
  49.6 ( 22.4/ 26.1/ 13.3)     23  I would appreciate a code review
  48.5 ( 18.9/ 28.5/ 18.7)     19  Reasons for preferring Lisp, and for what
  41.4 ( 12.6/ 28.7/ 21.1)     13  web application framework
  39.6 ( 20.6/ 17.2/ 10.3)     11  Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint
  34.7 ( 19.5/ 14.6/  5.0)     14  Scheme vs Lisp!
  30.8 ( 14.9/ 15.4/ 10.3)     17  Compiling Lisp

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

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

0.891  ( 19.5/  21.8)      7  Question about design, defmacro, macrolet, and &environment
0.882  (  9.1/  10.4)      3  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.864  (  3.2/   3.7)      4  simple graphical examples needed
0.765  (  1.6/   2.0)      3  packages: how would I do this
0.744  (  2.9/   3.9)      6  ANNOUNCE: McCLIM 0.9 "Armistice"
0.736  ( 21.1/  28.7)     13  web application framework
0.705  (  0.9/   1.3)      3  3D Maths
0.688  (  3.2/   4.7)      4  CLIM's redisplay
0.685  (  1.8/   2.6)      6  efficiency problem
0.668  ( 10.3/  15.4)     17  Compiling Lisp

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

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

0.495  ( 22.5 / 45.4)     31  Computability in principle
0.476  (  0.6 /  1.2)      3  lists of strings
0.460  (  5.4 / 11.7)      5  macro help?
0.436  (  2.4 /  5.5)      8  just a comment from a...
0.433  (  0.4 /  0.8)      3  Force Garbage Colleect
0.430  (  2.5 /  5.9)      8  The Last Lonely Lisp Link
0.403  (  1.9 /  4.6)      3  genetic algorithms
0.377  (  3.5 /  9.3)     14  Style question: #\  versus #\Space
0.341  (  4.0 / 11.7)     12  Calling a another routine
0.340  (  5.0 / 14.6)     14  Scheme vs Lisp!

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

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

     277  comp.lang.functional
      14  comp.lang.scheme
      13  comp.lang.python
       9  gnu.emacs.help
       8  gnu.misc.discuss
       2  comp.lang.apl
       2  comp.lang.forth
       2  comp.lang.prolog
       2  alt.2600
       1  alt.religion.emacs

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

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

      54  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
      34  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
      30  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
      20  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
      12  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
      12  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
      10  Adrian Hey <····@NoSpicedHam.iee.org>
      10  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
       9  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
       8  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>