From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <bmatni$k93f8$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 05 Oct 2003 07:22:40 GMT and ending at
12 Oct 2003 05:17:05 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: 183
Articles: 828 (296 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 87
Volume generated: 2440.5 kb
- headers: 1035.0 kb (14,857 lines)
- bodies: 1360.8 kb (34,676 lines)
- original: 788.4 kb (21,803 lines)
- signatures: 43.9 kb (1,052 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.579
Averages
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Posts per poster: 4.5
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 78 posters
s: 6.7 posts
Posts per thread: 9.5
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 26 threads
s: 41.1 posts
Message size: 3018.2 bytes
- header: 1280.0 bytes (17.9 lines)
- body: 1682.9 bytes (41.9 lines)
- original: 975.0 bytes (26.3 lines)
- signature: 54.3 bytes (1.3 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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42 122.5 ( 63.8/ 54.0/ 31.0) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
37 124.0 ( 50.3/ 73.6/ 45.1) ··············@setf.de
34 118.1 ( 50.4/ 65.8/ 27.9) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
34 141.9 ( 61.4/ 80.5/ 58.8) "Andrew Dalke" <······@mindspring.com>
28 79.8 ( 34.0/ 42.8/ 22.2) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
23 64.0 ( 31.2/ 32.8/ 10.3) ·······@cs.nyu.edu
23 116.3 ( 31.3/ 84.1/ 31.8) Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>
22 62.5 ( 24.2/ 28.9/ 15.1) Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
21 77.1 ( 27.9/ 49.2/ 28.5) ·············@comcast.net
19 65.1 ( 24.0/ 38.6/ 22.1) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
These posters accounted for 34.2% 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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141.9 ( 61.4/ 80.5/ 58.8) 34 "Andrew Dalke" <······@mindspring.com>
124.0 ( 50.3/ 73.6/ 45.1) 37 ··············@setf.de
122.5 ( 63.8/ 54.0/ 31.0) 42 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
118.4 ( 24.2/ 94.2/ 75.6) 16 Alex Martelli <·····@aleax.it>
118.1 ( 50.4/ 65.8/ 27.9) 34 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
116.3 ( 31.3/ 84.1/ 31.8) 23 Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>
79.8 ( 34.0/ 42.8/ 22.2) 28 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
77.1 ( 27.9/ 49.2/ 28.5) 21 ·············@comcast.net
65.1 ( 24.0/ 38.6/ 22.1) 19 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
64.0 ( 31.2/ 32.8/ 10.3) 23 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
These posters accounted for 42.1% 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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0.917 ( 12.4 / 13.5) 11 ·····@gnosis.cx
0.802 ( 75.6 / 94.2) 16 Alex Martelli <·····@aleax.it>
0.788 ( 3.4 / 4.3) 5 "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
0.755 ( 14.9 / 19.8) 7 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.731 ( 58.8 / 80.5) 34 "Andrew Dalke" <······@mindspring.com>
0.706 ( 4.5 / 6.4) 7 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.706 ( 7.9 / 11.2) 5 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.698 ( 6.4 / 9.1) 7 Rayiner Hashem <·······@mail.gatech.edu>
0.698 ( 4.7 / 6.8) 8 Tayss <··········@yahoo.com>
0.687 ( 8.6 / 12.6) 5 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.437 ( 6.0 / 13.6) 9 =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindberg?= <·······@nada.kth.se>
0.436 ( 11.4 / 26.1) 18 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.425 ( 27.9 / 65.8) 34 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.395 ( 4.5 / 11.4) 7 Ingvar Mattsson <······@cathouse.bofh.se>
0.378 ( 31.8 / 84.1) 23 Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>
0.377 ( 2.2 / 5.9) 7 Eli Barzilay <···@barzilay.org>
0.376 ( 2.8 / 7.5) 10 Jon S. Anthony <·········@rcn.com>
0.352 ( 7.1 / 20.1) 10 Rainer Joswig <······@lispmachine.de>
0.313 ( 10.3 / 32.8) 23 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.179 ( 1.5 / 8.4) 7 "Daniel P. M. Silva" <······@ccs.neu.edu>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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387 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
40 64-bit G5?
27 CL & Practicality
21 name conflicts in packages
20 Some chapters of Practical Common Lisp on web.
15 Newbie - request for code comments
14 beginner closures
14 Common Lisp / Scheme comparison
13 Explanation of macros; Haskell macros
13 Why no BACKQUOTE special operator?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
1340.1 (575.5/743.8/414.6) 387 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
113.0 ( 49.9/ 57.2/ 35.4) 40 64-bit G5?
81.8 ( 25.6/ 55.1/ 33.9) 27 CL & Practicality
51.2 ( 19.2/ 30.6/ 16.9) 20 Some chapters of Practical Common Lisp on web.
49.3 ( 12.4/ 36.7/ 28.0) 13 Explanation of macros; Haskell macros
46.9 ( 10.8/ 35.1/ 24.4) 8 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme (macro tangent)
46.6 ( 18.1/ 27.7/ 16.0) 21 name conflicts in packages
41.7 ( 17.6/ 23.9/ 13.3) 14 Common Lisp / Scheme comparison
36.6 ( 14.6/ 21.5/ 11.6) 15 Newbie - request for code comments
35.6 ( 13.0/ 21.2/ 13.8) 13 Why no BACKQUOTE special operator?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.840 ( 5.0/ 6.0) 3 The compiler canard
0.817 ( 1.1/ 1.3) 3 Rainer Joswig's weblog inaccessible?
0.782 ( 16.1/ 20.7) 7 CL-HTTP commercial deployment
0.765 ( 2.0/ 2.6) 4 native cmucl build for redhat
0.763 ( 28.0/ 36.7) 13 Explanation of macros; Haskell macros
0.735 ( 4.2/ 5.8) 5 higher-order macros [Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
0.723 ( 0.6/ 0.9) 3 what does (featurep 'hilit19) do?
0.721 ( 1.6/ 2.2) 5 Question about data save/load
0.696 ( 24.4/ 35.1) 8 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme (macro tangent)
0.693 ( 3.4/ 4.8) 4 Question for vendors
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.452 ( 3.0 / 6.6) 7 nyc lisp conf: WAY too expensive! (4me) How to *turn-away*
lisp-interest!
0.452 ( 1.3 / 3.0) 3 NYC Lisp Conf -- What tutorials will there be? (no listing at site...)
0.443 ( 2.3 / 5.3) 9 trouble writing to files with names beginning with .
0.441 ( 2.0 / 4.5) 5 CL-HTTP commercial deployment [was: Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme]
0.428 ( 1.3 / 3.1) 5 See you at the ILC
0.402 ( 1.1 / 2.8) 4 Documentation
0.363 ( 1.2 / 3.3) 6 Can we have a hierarchical packages
0.348 ( 1.1 / 3.3) 5 Conflicts between slot accessors and symbols naming functions
in CL package?
0.308 ( 7.2 / 23.5) 7 CL-HTTP commercial deployment [was: Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme]
0.264 ( 1.7 / 6.3) 8 methods & types
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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350 comp.lang.python
259 comp.lang.scheme
138 comp.lang.functional
2 comp.lang.misc
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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58 "Andrew Dalke" <······@mindspring.com>
46 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
40 ··············@setf.de
39 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
36 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
26 Alex Martelli <·····@aleax.it>
22 ·············@comcast.net
21 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
21 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
21 Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>