From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <c5t8jg$5btpk$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 11 Apr 2004 06:19:13 GMT and ending at
18 Apr 2004 05:50:33 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:  142
Articles: 711 (341 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  78
Volume generated: 1813.2 kb
    - headers:    859.0 kb (13,062 lines)
    - bodies:     908.3 kb (24,255 lines)
    - original:   499.5 kb (14,899 lines)
    - signatures: 45.2 kb (1,086 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.550

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 5.0
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 48 posters
    s:      7.6 posts
Posts per thread: 9.1
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 20 threads
    s:      24.3 posts
Message size: 2611.5 bytes
    - header:     1237.1 bytes (18.4 lines)
    - body:       1308.2 bytes (34.1 lines)
    - original:   719.3 bytes (21.0 lines)
    - signature:  65.1 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   45   124.4 ( 63.6/ 54.0/ 29.1)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   36    66.0 ( 37.1/ 25.8/ 13.1)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
   36   153.0 ( 62.3/ 90.7/ 51.0)  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
   34    80.6 ( 36.8/ 40.3/ 25.1)  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
   32   123.8 ( 46.3/ 77.4/ 38.0)  Jeff Dalton <····@tarn.inf.ed.ac.uk>
   23    60.3 ( 26.5/ 33.8/ 17.0)  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>
   19    45.8 ( 24.5/ 21.2/  5.1)  Ilya Sher <············@example.com>
   18    31.0 ( 15.7/ 15.3/  8.0)  ···@agharta.de
   14    38.8 ( 15.6/ 19.1/  4.8)  Randy Yates <·····@ieee.org>
   14    40.1 ( 17.4/ 22.1/  9.1)  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>

These posters accounted for 38.1% of all articles.

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

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

 153.0 ( 62.3/ 90.7/ 51.0)     36  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
 124.4 ( 63.6/ 54.0/ 29.1)     45  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
 123.8 ( 46.3/ 77.4/ 38.0)     32  Jeff Dalton <····@tarn.inf.ed.ac.uk>
  80.6 ( 36.8/ 40.3/ 25.1)     34  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
  66.0 ( 37.1/ 25.8/ 13.1)     36  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
  60.3 ( 26.5/ 33.8/ 17.0)     23  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>
  57.4 ( 27.7/ 29.2/ 16.7)     14  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
  45.8 ( 24.5/ 21.2/  5.1)     19  Ilya Sher <············@example.com>
  44.4 ( 21.5/ 19.5/ 10.2)     14  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  43.5 ( 21.7/ 19.2/  8.4)     13  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>

These posters accounted for 44.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.951  ( 10.5 / 11.0)      7  Artem Baguinski <····@v2.nl>
0.825  ( 17.6 / 21.4)     11  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.773  (  8.0 / 10.4)      9  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
0.751  (  3.6 /  4.8)      6  =?UTF-8?B?SmVucyBBeGVsIFPDuGdhYXJk?= <······@soegaard.net>
0.734  (  3.2 /  4.4)      5  ·········@random-state.net
0.690  (  6.0 /  8.7)      7  Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.651  (  5.0 /  7.7)      7  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
0.647  (  7.4 / 11.5)     13  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.628  (  5.0 /  7.9)     11  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.622  ( 25.1 / 40.3)     34  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>

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

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

0.437  (  8.4 / 19.2)     13  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.411  (  9.1 / 22.1)     14  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
0.396  (  4.8 / 12.2)      6  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.360  (  3.1 /  8.7)      7  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.349  (  6.4 / 18.3)     11  John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
0.321  (  1.0 /  3.2)      6  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.255  (  4.1 / 16.2)     13  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.252  (  4.8 / 19.1)     14  Randy Yates <·····@ieee.org>
0.240  (  5.1 / 21.2)     19  Ilya Sher <············@example.com>
0.211  (  1.2 /  5.8)      5  =?utf-8?b?QmrDtnJuIExpbmRiZXJn?= <·······@nada.kth.se>

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

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

  169  scheme seems neater
  113  Sentience
   35  How would you do this cool Ruby trick in Lisp/CLOS?
   31  long time, no lisp
   30  functional purity
   28  Scheme closures
   25  Q: xchg-rows simplification
   16  How many functions do you know?
   15  (setf #'x 42)
   12  ARC or ARCH ?

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

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

 566.7 (277.0/281.5/148.2)    169  scheme seems neater
 294.8 (120.7/165.6/ 88.5)    113  Sentience
  81.4 ( 37.8/ 41.6/ 23.1)     35  How would you do this cool Ruby trick in Lisp/CLOS?
  76.9 ( 41.4/ 33.0/ 13.8)     30  functional purity
  65.4 ( 32.9/ 30.2/ 14.1)     31  long time, no lisp
  52.4 ( 28.0/ 23.7/ 11.7)     25  Q: xchg-rows simplification
  51.0 ( 26.5/ 23.2/ 13.8)     28  Scheme closures
  43.8 ( 16.9/ 25.6/ 17.2)     16  How many functions do you know?
  29.5 ( 10.6/ 17.2/  7.3)     10  harder questions from lisp newbie
  28.2 ( 15.0/ 13.2/  7.8)     12  "The Little Lisper"

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

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

0.751  (  0.5/   0.7)      3  WebBrowser that doesn't accept any commands
0.738  (  4.4/   5.9)      4  Using ActiveX from Common Lisp
0.736  (  0.3/   0.3)      4  Test
0.732  (  0.4/   0.5)      3  cmucl under cygwin?
0.722  (  2.6/   3.5)      4  accessing print-object of superclass
0.720  (  2.2/   3.1)      6  Configuring emacs/slime hyperspec use
0.713  (  4.8/   6.8)      4  Parsers
0.693  (  5.9/   8.5)      3  mod_lisp debug page
0.682  (  2.2/   3.3)      4  LISPPA
0.675  (  3.9/   5.8)      4  OT Re: Sentience

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

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

0.473  (  5.7 / 12.0)      7  UncommonSQL for CMUCL on Debian
0.472  (  1.3 /  2.8)      5  [Slightly OT] Apache 500 error page for cl-modlisp
0.472  (  1.9 /  4.0)      3  Why does SBCL ...? was Re: "The Little Lisper"
0.468  ( 14.1 / 30.2)     31  long time, no lisp
0.426  (  7.3 / 17.2)     10  harder questions from lisp newbie
0.416  ( 13.8 / 33.0)     30  functional purity
0.392  (  3.9 / 10.0)      6  ImpractiCello [was Re: scheme seems neater]
0.392  (  2.5 /  6.4)      5  The Groovy Programming Language
0.389  (  0.5 /  1.3)      3  Feeling the bits between your toes?
0.343  (  1.9 /  5.4)      8  Why flet wins

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

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

      48  comp.lang.scheme
       2  gnu.emacs.help
       1  comp.lang.functional
       1  comp.lang.misc
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  comp.lang.c
       1  comp.lang.java
       1  comp.lang.c++
       1  comp.os.linux.advocacy

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

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

       7  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
       5  David Fisher <·············@yahoo.com>
       5  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
       4  =?UTF-8?B?SmVucyBBeGVsIFPDuGdhYXJk?= <······@soegaard.net>
       4  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
       4  "Shemp" <············@mchsi.com>
       3  ·········@lxny.org
       3  Grumble <·······@kma.eu.org>
       3  "Bradd W. Szonye" <··········@szonye.com>
       3  Matthias Felleisen <········@ccs.neu.edu>