From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <blp4pk$e3m7r$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 28 Sep 2003 06:55:54 GMT and ending at
05 Oct 2003 00:33:02 GMT.
Notes
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- 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
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Posters: 171
Articles: 501 (164 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 72
Volume generated: 1188.1 kb
- headers: 511.0 kb (8,812 lines)
- bodies: 651.5 kb (17,769 lines)
- original: 390.6 kb (11,462 lines)
- signatures: 25.1 kb (544 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.599
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.9
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 89 posters
s: 4.2 posts
Posts per thread: 7.0
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 20 threads
s: 13.6 posts
Message size: 2428.4 bytes
- header: 1044.5 bytes (17.6 lines)
- body: 1331.6 bytes (35.5 lines)
- original: 798.3 bytes (22.9 lines)
- signature: 51.3 bytes (1.1 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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25 67.9 ( 31.7/ 36.2/ 16.7) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
21 58.1 ( 18.8/ 39.3/ 24.0) "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
17 36.2 ( 19.8/ 16.4/ 8.2) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
15 31.7 ( 15.4/ 16.3/ 3.5) ·······@cs.nyu.edu
14 38.1 ( 15.1/ 16.8/ 7.9) Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
14 33.0 ( 11.8/ 19.7/ 10.2) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
13 26.1 ( 15.5/ 10.7/ 3.2) ·············@comcast.net
12 38.5 ( 12.4/ 26.1/ 17.3) ··············@setf.de
12 24.5 ( 11.9/ 11.4/ 9.0) Steven E . Harris <········@raytheon.com>
11 36.9 ( 14.0/ 22.3/ 8.3) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
These posters accounted for 30.7% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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67.9 ( 31.7/ 36.2/ 16.7) 25 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
58.1 ( 18.8/ 39.3/ 24.0) 21 "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
38.5 ( 12.4/ 26.1/ 17.3) 12 ··············@setf.de
38.1 ( 15.1/ 16.8/ 7.9) 14 Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
36.9 ( 14.0/ 22.3/ 8.3) 11 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
36.2 ( 19.8/ 16.4/ 8.2) 17 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
33.0 ( 11.8/ 19.7/ 10.2) 14 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
31.7 ( 15.4/ 16.3/ 3.5) 15 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
30.5 ( 10.6/ 18.2/ 10.6) 10 ·····@david-steuber.com
29.7 ( 8.9/ 19.3/ 12.6) 7 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
These posters accounted for 33.7% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.926 ( 6.3 / 6.8) 5 Alan Crowe <····@cawNOtech.freeSPAMserve.co.uk>
0.881 ( 2.5 / 2.9) 5 Rayiner Hashem <·······@mail.gatech.edu>
0.788 ( 9.0 / 11.4) 12 Steven E . Harris <········@raytheon.com>
0.776 ( 16.0 / 20.6) 8 Alex Martelli <·····@aleax.it>
0.744 ( 3.2 / 4.3) 6 Rene van Bevern <···@rvb.dyndns.org>
0.736 ( 8.8 / 11.9) 10 Rayiner Hashem <·······@mindspring.com>
0.661 ( 17.3 / 26.1) 12 ··············@setf.de
0.650 ( 12.6 / 19.3) 7 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.636 ( 7.2 / 11.3) 8 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.633 ( 6.4 / 10.0) 5 synthespian <···········@uol.com.br>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.520 ( 10.2 / 19.7) 14 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.507 ( 0.9 / 1.9) 5 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
0.497 ( 8.2 / 16.4) 17 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.473 ( 7.9 / 16.8) 14 Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.461 ( 16.7 / 36.2) 25 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.459 ( 1.7 / 3.8) 6 Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.377 ( 5.7 / 15.2) 8 Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>
0.370 ( 8.3 / 22.3) 11 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.302 ( 3.2 / 10.7) 13 ·············@comcast.net
0.218 ( 3.5 / 16.3) 15 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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90 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
35 macros, &rest parameters, mulitple evaluation, and forwarding
31 Is it just style or another reason?
27 Lisp and Version Control
24 nyc lisp conf: WAY too expensive! (4me) How to *turn-away* lisp-interest!
20 Lisp vs. Scheme
18 64-bit G5?
17 Kudos to Andrew Choi and other Mac OS X porters
15 Looking for a better Text and HTML Lisp syntax
14 GUI and CGI development
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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233.1 ( 99.0/132.7/ 84.9) 90 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
77.7 ( 34.9/ 40.4/ 25.6) 35 macros, &rest parameters, mulitple evaluation, and forwarding
69.1 ( 33.1/ 34.2/ 16.8) 31 Is it just style or another reason?
67.2 ( 34.5/ 31.0/ 11.4) 20 Lisp vs. Scheme
59.3 ( 26.6/ 31.3/ 17.1) 24 nyc lisp conf: WAY too expensive! (4me) How to *turn-away* lisp-interest!
48.3 ( 22.8/ 24.3/ 16.0) 27 Lisp and Version Control
47.9 ( 17.2/ 28.0/ 18.0) 18 64-bit G5?
47.5 ( 16.8/ 28.1/ 14.4) 17 Kudos to Andrew Choi and other Mac OS X porters
35.7 ( 12.1/ 22.7/ 10.7) 14 Looking for a beter Text and HTML Lisp syntax
26.0 ( 12.5/ 13.1/ 9.0) 14 GUI and CGI development
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.942 ( 3.8/ 4.0) 3 gnuplot common lisp interface
0.893 ( 8.9/ 10.0) 4 cl-typesetting version 0.3 preview
0.842 ( 7.0/ 8.3) 4 What are your favorite portable (or mostly portable) libraries
0.768 ( 2.5/ 3.2) 4 Documentation strings in defclass
0.756 ( 0.4/ 0.5) 3 Proportional fonts in lisp editors?
0.702 ( 1.5/ 2.2) 3 screwgle groups messing up?
0.700 ( 1.7/ 2.5) 3 cmu-llisp: problem with linking foreign libraries
0.694 ( 6.9/ 9.9) 9 Static type checking in Lisp
0.684 ( 9.5/ 14.0) 4 help with AI project
0.683 ( 9.0/ 13.1) 14 GUI and CGI development
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.472 ( 3.3 / 7.0) 3 Java is the SUV of programming tools
0.467 ( 0.5 / 1.1) 3 Whet heppened to Xanalys?
0.459 ( 2.0 / 4.3) 4 eval (Re: macros, &rest parameters, mulitple evaluation, and forwarding)
0.454 ( 2.5 / 5.4) 5 nyc lisp conf: WAY too expensive! (4me) How to *turn-away*
lisp-interest!
0.443 ( 2.6 / 6.0) 8 Lisp image manipulation
0.411 ( 4.3 / 10.5) 15 Looking for a better Text and HTML Lisp syntax
0.377 ( 2.7 / 7.2) 11 cl-typesetting news
0.370 ( 2.7 / 7.4) 9 trouble writing to files with names beginning with .
0.367 ( 11.4 / 31.0) 20 Lisp vs. Scheme
0.247 ( 2.0 / 8.0) 4 code completion
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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78 comp.lang.scheme
74 comp.lang.python
71 comp.lang.functional
6 comp.emacs
5 comp.lang.prolog
3 comp.lang.ruby
3 comp.ai
2 comp.lang.apl
2 comp.lang.scheme.scsh
2 comp.lang.perl.misc
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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24 Alex Martelli <·····@aleax.it>
15 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
12 Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
10 Grzegorz Chrupala <········@pithekos.net>
9 synthespian <···········@uol.com.br>
9 Sander Vesik <······@haldjas.folklore.ee>
9 "Terry Reedy" <·······@udel.edu>
9 David Rush <·····@aol.net>
9 Paul Rubin <·············@NOSPAM.invalid>
6 MetalOne <···@iteris.com>