From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <c5apvm$2q18j3$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 04 Apr 2004 07:02:49 GMT and ending at
11 Apr 2004 05:14:00 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: 716 (325 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  83
Volume generated: 1733.8 kb
    - headers:    797.1 kb (13,019 lines)
    - bodies:     898.3 kb (23,450 lines)
    - original:   531.5 kb (15,413 lines)
    - signatures: 37.7 kb (1,051 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.592

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 69 posters
    s:      7.8 posts
Posts per thread: 8.6
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 27 threads
    s:      16.3 posts
Message size: 2479.6 bytes
    - header:     1140.0 bytes (18.2 lines)
    - body:       1284.8 bytes (32.8 lines)
    - original:   760.1 bytes (21.5 lines)
    - signature:  53.9 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   51   123.6 ( 58.2/ 65.3/ 36.2)  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
   48   106.7 ( 60.0/ 45.9/ 25.7)  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
   35    76.6 ( 38.7/ 32.1/ 18.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   29    73.8 ( 32.9/ 33.9/ 18.1)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   28    88.5 ( 42.0/ 45.6/ 28.8)  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
   21    54.6 ( 26.1/ 28.5/ 19.7)  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
   21    79.1 ( 26.0/ 53.1/ 33.0)  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
   17    39.0 ( 18.1/ 20.9/ 11.1)  Erann Gat <·········@flownet.com>
   17    52.5 ( 19.2/ 33.3/ 17.6)  Jeff Dalton <····@tarn.inf.ed.ac.uk>
   16    27.8 ( 16.7/ 11.1/  5.2)  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>

These posters accounted for 39.5% of all articles.

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

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

 123.6 ( 58.2/ 65.3/ 36.2)     51  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
 106.7 ( 60.0/ 45.9/ 25.7)     48  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
  88.5 ( 42.0/ 45.6/ 28.8)     28  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
  79.1 ( 26.0/ 53.1/ 33.0)     21  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
  76.6 ( 38.7/ 32.1/ 18.5)     35  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  73.8 ( 32.9/ 33.9/ 18.1)     29  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  54.6 ( 26.1/ 28.5/ 19.7)     21  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
  52.5 ( 19.2/ 33.3/ 17.6)     17  Jeff Dalton <····@tarn.inf.ed.ac.uk>
  42.4 ( 12.8/ 29.2/ 16.4)     11  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  39.0 ( 18.1/ 20.9/ 11.1)     17  Erann Gat <·········@flownet.com>

These posters accounted for 42.5% of the total volume.

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

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

0.849  ( 15.6 / 18.4)     11  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.780  (  6.9 /  8.8)      7  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.759  (  4.7 /  6.2)      7  Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org>
0.745  (  2.7 /  3.6)      6  Thomas Schilling <······@yahoo.de>
0.731  (  9.3 / 12.7)     13  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.696  (  4.0 /  5.7)      7  Luke Gorrie <····@bluetail.com>
0.693  ( 19.7 / 28.5)     21  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.672  (  3.9 /  5.7)      6  Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>
0.670  (  7.9 / 11.8)      7  William Bland <····@abstractnonsense.com>
0.668  (  8.2 / 12.3)      5  Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>

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

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

0.508  (  8.3 / 16.4)      6  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.486  (  2.2 /  4.5)      5  Tim Daly Jr. <···@tenkan.org>
0.476  (  1.2 /  2.4)      5  =?iso-8859-1?q?Wolfhard_Bu=DF?= <·····@gmx.net>
0.475  (  1.2 /  2.4)      5  Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.466  (  5.2 / 11.1)     16  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>
0.440  (  3.4 /  7.8)     10  ···@agharta.de
0.394  (  3.4 /  8.6)      5  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.365  (  3.2 /  8.9)      7  Chris Hall <·······@verizon.net>
0.351  (  0.6 /  1.8)      5  Julian Stecklina <··········@web.de>
0.313  (  6.0 / 19.0)     13  =?utf-8?b?QmrDtnJuIExpbmRiZXJn?= <·······@nada.kth.se>

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

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

  114  scheme seems neater
   41  Java, was Re: Be afraid of XML
   38  Implementing Lisp in C?
   36  "The Little Lisper"
   25  Why does SBCL ...? was Re: "The Little Lisper"
   23  Lispy Python (was Re: Java, was Re: Be afraid of XML)
   22  lisp newbie here
   21  Macros still needed with shorter LAMBDA?
   20  Starting with LISP on Mac OSX
   17  Better is better: improving productivity through programming
 languages

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

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

 306.3 (135.8/165.9/ 87.6)    114  scheme seems neater
  98.0 ( 51.9/ 44.8/ 23.0)     41  Java, was Re: Be afraid of XML
  93.7 ( 42.7/ 49.5/ 30.4)     36  "The Little Lisper"
  93.4 ( 38.7/ 52.5/ 31.3)     38  Implementing Lisp in C?
  64.7 ( 33.4/ 31.1/ 17.9)     23  Lispy Python (was Re: Java, was Re: Be afraid of XML)
  59.3 ( 27.6/ 30.2/ 17.2)     25  Why does SBCL ...? was Re: "The Little Lisper"
  50.2 ( 18.4/ 30.2/ 17.3)     17  Sentience
  49.9 ( 20.4/ 28.2/ 17.4)     21  Macros still needed with shorter LAMBDA?
  48.4 ( 22.5/ 24.2/ 13.1)     22  lisp newbie here
  45.9 ( 21.7/ 23.9/ 14.8)     15  Why flet wins, was Re: scheme seems neater

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

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

0.864  (  7.5/   8.7)      4  [OT] STL, Stepanov [Was: Better is better: improving productivity through programming]
0.831  (  1.7/   2.0)      3  [OT] STL, Stepanov
0.822  (  3.3/   4.0)      4  UncommonSQL for CMUCL on Debian
0.807  (  1.9/   2.4)      4  Why does TRACE look like a special form?
0.803  ( 10.5/  13.1)      9  Better is better: improving productivity through programming languages
0.749  (  3.0/   4.0)      5  Cello scroller widget screen shot
0.693  (  6.6/   9.5)     10  ARC or ARCH ?
0.692  ( 10.1/  14.6)      9  Java Reflection compared to Lisp? (quite long - sorry!)
0.685  ( 15.7/  22.9)     15  Better is better: improving productivity through programming
0.683  ( 18.4/  26.9)     12  Counting namespaces, was Re: scheme seems neater

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

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

0.470  (  1.7 /  3.7)      3  Lisp-based web servers => how do you use / maintain them?
0.467  (  3.1 /  6.7)     13  What are your memories of Erik Naggum?
0.453  (  2.1 /  4.6)      4  (Addendum) Re: Another book
0.448  (  0.5 /  1.1)      4  MCL community
0.447  (  4.0 /  8.9)      6  Feeling the bits between your toes?
0.438  (  5.5 / 12.5)     12  Getting a number from a string
0.436  (  0.4 /  1.0)      3  Books again
0.402  (  0.8 /  2.0)      6  LOOP is awesome
0.373  (  1.0 /  2.6)      4  An Arc Tangent
0.365  (  1.8 /  4.9)      3  What would you do with 10 Man Years?

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

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

      33  comp.lang.scheme
       4  comp.lang.functional
       4  comp.object
       4  comp.lang.clos
       1  comp.sys.mac.games.flight-sim
       1  comp.lang.c
       1  gnu.emacs.help
       1  comp.unix.osf.osf1
       1  comp.os.os2.setup
       1  comp.lang.c++

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

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

       8  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       5  David Fisher <·············@yahoo.com>
       4  Pascal Costanza <········@cs.uni-bonn.de>
       4  Matthias Felleisen <········@ccs.neu.edu>
       3  ·········@votenader.org
       3  judeo-christian revenge <··················@See.Comment.Header>
       3  "Bradd W. Szonye" <··········@szonye.com>
       3  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
       3  Eli Barzilay <···@barzilay.org>
       3  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>