From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <bppovr$1s2vgs$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 16 Nov 2003 07:12:02 GMT and ending at
23 Nov 2003 06:36:57 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:  170
Articles: 1009 (376 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  61
Volume generated: 2512.6 kb
    - headers:    1149.2 kb (17,407 lines)
    - bodies:     1309.4 kb (32,967 lines)
    - original:   780.9 kb (21,402 lines)
    - signatures: 53.0 kb (1,276 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.596

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 5.9
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 77 posters
    s:      9.9 posts
Posts per thread: 16.5
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 16 threads
    s:      57.6 posts
Message size: 2550.0 bytes
    - header:     1166.3 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1328.9 bytes (32.7 lines)
    - original:   792.5 bytes (21.2 lines)
    - signature:  53.8 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   51   132.5 ( 69.2/ 54.5/ 26.1)  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
   42   141.7 ( 61.2/ 74.8/ 37.0)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   40    90.8 ( 36.8/ 54.0/ 33.0)  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
   38   103.0 ( 45.5/ 57.4/ 36.3)  Joachim Durchholz <·················@web.de>
   35   103.3 ( 58.0/ 45.2/ 23.8)  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
   33    93.4 ( 45.9/ 47.4/ 37.3)  Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
   31    66.9 ( 38.1/ 28.6/ 12.0)  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
   29    64.8 ( 28.2/ 36.6/ 19.0)  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
   28    68.5 ( 29.6/ 37.4/ 21.7)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
   26   103.7 ( 33.8/ 66.5/ 35.3)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>

These posters accounted for 35.0% of all articles.

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

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

 141.7 ( 61.2/ 74.8/ 37.0)     42  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
 132.5 ( 69.2/ 54.5/ 26.1)     51  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
 103.7 ( 33.8/ 66.5/ 35.3)     26  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
 103.3 ( 58.0/ 45.2/ 23.8)     35  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
 103.0 ( 45.5/ 57.4/ 36.3)     38  Joachim Durchholz <·················@web.de>
  93.4 ( 45.9/ 47.4/ 37.3)     33  Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
  90.8 ( 36.8/ 54.0/ 33.0)     40  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
  77.4 ( 30.1/ 43.4/ 21.8)     26  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  70.1 ( 35.2/ 29.6/ 17.0)     24  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
  68.5 ( 29.6/ 37.4/ 21.7)     28  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>

These posters accounted for 39.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.861  ( 10.4 / 12.1)     12  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.814  ( 14.2 / 17.4)      5  "Harag" <·········@psychedelic.co.za>
0.807  (  6.1 /  7.6)      9  ·······@ancar.org
0.803  (  5.5 /  6.8)      7  Jesse Tov <···@eecs.harvREMOVEard.edu>
0.786  ( 37.3 / 47.4)     33  Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
0.784  ( 13.2 / 16.8)      6  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.782  (  5.9 /  7.5)      9  Rayiner Hashem <·······@mindspring.com>
0.779  (  7.3 /  9.4)     10  "Steven E. Harris" <········@raytheon.com>
0.778  ( 15.5 / 19.9)      6  Damien Kick <······@email.mot.com>
0.778  ( 14.0 / 18.0)      9  Roger Corman <·····@corman.net>

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

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

0.498  (  3.3 /  6.5)      6  Matthias <··@spam.pls>
0.494  ( 37.0 / 74.8)     42  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.478  ( 26.1 / 54.5)     51  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
0.467  ( 13.5 / 29.0)     24  Mario S . Mommer <········@yahoo.com>
0.452  (  9.7 / 21.5)     19  Isaac Gouy <·····@yahoo.com>
0.419  ( 12.0 / 28.6)     31  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.408  (  8.8 / 21.6)     25  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.367  (  5.0 / 13.7)     11  Darius <·······@hotpop.com>
0.356  (  5.7 / 16.0)     12  Christopher C. Stacy <······@dtpq.com>
0.296  (  3.7 / 12.6)     11  ·······@cs.nyu.edu

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

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

  376  Why I don't believe in static typing
  246  More static type fun.
   62  CLOS and C++
   45  Implementing multithreading in Lisp
   28  Relationship of Lisp and Dylan
   27  Lisper's computing bookshelf: share your favorites
   22  Why I believe in static analysis
   17  Another code review perhaps?
   14  Antilock brakes
   13  Question about design, defmacro, macrolet, and &environment

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

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

 847.4 (400.1/432.5/254.3)    376  Why I don't believe in static typing
 735.1 (366.0/352.8/195.1)    246  More static type fun.
 168.4 ( 66.0/ 95.9/ 56.1)     62  CLOS and C++
 111.4 ( 42.5/ 67.1/ 42.1)     45  Implementing multithreading in Lisp
  69.0 ( 26.8/ 40.3/ 23.4)     22  Why I believe in static analysis
  63.6 ( 29.4/ 33.0/ 21.6)     28  Relationship of Lisp and Dylan
  57.9 ( 24.6/ 32.2/ 22.5)     27  Lisper's computing bookshelf: share your favorites
  51.0 ( 15.4/ 34.8/ 19.9)     13  Question about design, defmacro, macrolet, and &environment
  45.7 ( 12.8/ 32.6/ 25.7)     11  NEWBIE: Read/write IO (Random Access)/:overwrite- replace?
  37.7 ( 14.8/ 20.6/ 12.9)     17  Another code review perhaps?

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

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

0.787  ( 25.7/  32.6)     11  NEWBIE: Read/write IO (Random Access)/:overwrite- replace?
0.765  (  7.1/   9.3)      7  .NET and multilanguage programming (was: More static type fun.)
0.745  (  1.6/   2.2)      5  new question, create file in lisp
0.745  (  1.3/   1.8)      3  Unit test framework
0.734  (  7.6/  10.3)      5  macro help?
0.726  ( 10.1/  13.9)      6  Macro style question.
0.707  (  4.6/   6.4)      8  Newbie Q: How can I evaluate a form?
0.698  (  3.6/   5.2)      7  I wrote a function to rotate ...
0.698  ( 22.5/  32.2)     27  Lisper's computing bookshelf: share your favorites
0.698  (  7.2/  10.4)      8  Newbie question: a function that returns an argument w/o evaluating it...

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

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

0.580  ( 23.4 / 40.3)     22  Why I believe in static analysis
0.573  ( 19.9 / 34.8)     13  Question about design, defmacro, macrolet, and &environment
0.564  (  3.9 /  6.9)      8  Another algorithmic complexity question
0.555  (  2.9 /  5.3)      5  Precission in CL (was Re: [...])
0.553  (195.1 /352.8)    246  More static type fun.
0.522  (  1.7 /  3.3)      3  packages
0.474  (  7.9 / 16.6)     14  Antilock brakes
0.433  (  1.3 /  3.0)      5  Style question: #\  versus #\Space
0.373  (  0.9 /  2.3)      4  Why is Screamer not a good example for the inclusion of
 call/cc?
0.331  (  0.9 /  2.8)      4  Funcalling writer methods

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

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

     646  comp.lang.functional
       4  comp.lang.lisp.x
       4  comp.lang.lisp.franz
       4  comp.lang.lisp.mcl
       4  comp.org.lisp-users
       3  comp.dcom.telecom.tech
       1  comp.lang.python

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

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

      51  ········@ps.uni-sb.de
      40  Dirk Thierbach <··········@gmx.de>
      38  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
      37  Joachim Durchholz <·················@web.de>
      35  Matthias Blume <····@my.address.elsewhere>
      33  Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
      27  Erann Gat <···@jpl.nasa.gov>
      25  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
      23  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
      23  Feuer <·····@his.com>