From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <bmtcb5$pojs6$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 12 Oct 2003 06:52:35 GMT and ending at
19 Oct 2003 12:44:10 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: 192
Articles: 862 (311 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 83
Volume generated: 2143.1 kb
- headers: 961.2 kb (15,347 lines)
- bodies: 1145.2 kb (30,220 lines)
- original: 689.6 kb (19,556 lines)
- signatures: 35.8 kb (957 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.602
Averages
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Posts per poster: 4.5
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 76 posters
s: 8.8 posts
Posts per thread: 10.4
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 26 threads
s: 22.5 posts
Message size: 2545.8 bytes
- header: 1141.9 bytes (17.8 lines)
- body: 1360.4 bytes (35.1 lines)
- original: 819.1 bytes (22.7 lines)
- signature: 42.5 bytes (1.1 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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61 157.5 ( 73.6/ 75.3/ 34.6) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
47 136.7 ( 62.6/ 71.4/ 33.8) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
37 92.8 ( 45.7/ 47.1/ 22.9) ·············@comcast.net
37 106.4 ( 43.8/ 62.6/ 27.4) ··············@setf.de
27 62.6 ( 30.3/ 32.3/ 16.1) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
27 80.8 ( 38.6/ 42.2/ 34.0) Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
20 37.1 ( 17.7/ 19.3/ 12.4) ···@agharta.de
19 33.6 ( 20.0/ 13.0/ 7.7) Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
18 43.5 ( 22.9/ 16.4/ 9.3) ·····@david-steuber.com
18 38.8 ( 17.0/ 19.6/ 9.0) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
These posters accounted for 36.1% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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157.5 ( 73.6/ 75.3/ 34.6) 61 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
136.7 ( 62.6/ 71.4/ 33.8) 47 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
106.4 ( 43.8/ 62.6/ 27.4) 37 ··············@setf.de
92.8 ( 45.7/ 47.1/ 22.9) 37 ·············@comcast.net
80.8 ( 38.6/ 42.2/ 34.0) 27 Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
62.6 ( 30.3/ 32.3/ 16.1) 27 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
59.1 ( 17.0/ 42.1/ 23.9) 13 Alexander Schmolck <··········@gmx.net>
55.4 ( 16.5/ 38.9/ 26.9) 17 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
53.0 ( 29.8/ 23.2/ 20.8) 12 ·····@gnosis.cx
44.1 ( 17.9/ 26.1/ 17.4) 14 "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
These posters accounted for 39.6% 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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0.898 ( 20.8 / 23.2) 12 ·····@gnosis.cx
0.886 ( 17.1 / 19.3) 9 Alan Crowe <····@cawNOtech.freeSPAMserve.co.uk>
0.876 ( 1.8 / 2.1) 6 Conrad Barski <·····················@yahoo.com>
0.856 ( 10.4 / 12.1) 10 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.806 ( 34.0 / 42.2) 27 Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
0.805 ( 7.0 / 8.7) 7 Rayiner Hashem <·······@mail.gatech.edu>
0.794 ( 6.6 / 8.3) 6 Christian Lynbech <·················@ericsson.com>
0.765 ( 4.7 / 6.1) 5 "Alex Mizrahi" <·········@xhotmail.com>
0.746 ( 8.1 / 10.9) 6 Raffael Cavallaro <·······@mediaone.net>
0.742 ( 2.5 / 3.4) 6 Alain Picard <·······················@optushome.com.au>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.474 ( 33.8 / 71.4) 47 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.461 ( 9.0 / 19.6) 18 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.460 ( 34.6 / 75.3) 61 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.445 ( 3.6 / 8.0) 8 Hartmann Schaffer <··@heaven.nirvananet>
0.438 ( 27.4 / 62.6) 37 ··············@setf.de
0.417 ( 2.3 / 5.6) 8 David Eppstein <········@ics.uci.edu>
0.414 ( 3.2 / 7.7) 9 Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
0.412 ( 2.9 / 7.0) 6 Doug Tolton <····@nospam.com>
0.358 ( 5.0 / 14.0) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.354 ( 3.2 / 9.0) 11 Rainer Joswig <······@lispmachine.de>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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174 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
81 Why don't people like lisp?
52 Express What, not How.
40 tail recursion guidelines
30 DEFVAR vs. DEFPARAMETER
29 How to compile a lisp file ?
29 BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)
27 Homework question: LOOP
24 ILC 2003: some impressions
21 which lisp book ?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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586.9 (259.1/322.7/198.7) 174 Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme
191.0 ( 89.5/ 96.9/ 56.6) 81 Why don't people like lisp?
167.7 ( 73.4/ 92.7/ 63.6) 52 Express What, not How.
88.5 ( 37.7/ 49.3/ 24.7) 40 tail recursion guidelines
68.4 ( 33.6/ 33.8/ 24.5) 30 DEFVAR vs. DEFPARAMETER
62.0 ( 23.0/ 38.4/ 26.2) 24 ILC 2003: some impressions
61.9 ( 28.0/ 31.8/ 13.0) 27 Homework question: LOOP
53.3 ( 24.2/ 27.7/ 15.7) 29 How to compile a lisp file ?
50.1 ( 26.7/ 21.6/ 11.6) 29 BIG successes of Lisp (was ...)
49.9 ( 17.4/ 31.4/ 14.6) 21 which lisp book ?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.825 ( 0.8/ 1.0) 3 Incomplete FFI type INT is not allowed here
0.767 ( 2.8/ 3.7) 3 Newbie - request for code comments (thanks)
0.756 ( 5.4/ 7.1) 6 Papers/essays on lisp compiler construction
0.738 ( 11.9/ 16.2) 8 64-bit G5?
0.726 ( 24.5/ 33.8) 30 DEFVAR vs. DEFPARAMETER
0.700 ( 3.0/ 4.3) 3 Help: ilisp 5.12 compilation (and run) problem!
0.688 ( 0.5/ 0.7) 3 Threads in cmulc
0.686 ( 63.6/ 92.7) 52 Express What, not How.
0.682 ( 26.2/ 38.4) 24 ILC 2003: some impressions
0.673 ( 5.1/ 7.6) 9 UNDEFMETHOD
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.500 ( 24.7 / 49.3) 40 tail recursion guidelines
0.500 ( 1.3 / 2.5) 3 cl-typesetting 0.6
0.478 ( 6.2 / 12.9) 18 ILC2003: ARC
0.477 ( 5.5 / 11.6) 7 MOP/AOP [ Re: ILC 2003: some impressions
0.464 ( 14.6 / 31.4) 21 which lisp book ?
0.426 ( 14.6 / 34.3) 11 Logical pathnames on Windows (WAS: make-pathname in LW PE on Win32)
0.408 ( 13.0 / 31.8) 27 Homework question: LOOP
0.406 ( 6.7 / 16.5) 12 Lisp vs. Scheme
0.406 ( 2.8 / 7.0) 7 Cells at ILC2003: Top Ten Lessons
0.391 ( 5.3 / 13.6) 20 Car and cdr (Re: Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme)
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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286 comp.lang.python
143 comp.lang.scheme
95 comp.lang.functional
4 comp.emacs
2 gnuemacs
2 gnu.emacs
1 comp.lang.scheme.c
1 comp.lang.scheme.scsh
1 alt.sys.pdp10
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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70 Raffael Cavallaro <················@junk.mail.me.not.mac.com>
28 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
28 ·············@comcast.net
25 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
25 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
19 ··············@setf.de
16 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
15 Hartmann Schaffer <··@heaven.nirvananet>
15 ··········@ii.uib.no
14 "Terry Reedy" <·······@udel.edu>