From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <c6fn95$bmvd7$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 18 Apr 2004 06:43:02 GMT and ending at
25 Apr 2004 05:08:57 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:  133
Articles: 476 (226 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  78
Volume generated: 1160.4 kb
    - headers:    485.6 kb (8,569 lines)
    - bodies:     644.9 kb (17,397 lines)
    - original:   377.7 kb (11,093 lines)
    - signatures: 29.4 kb (733 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.586

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 54 posters
    s:      5.2 posts
Posts per thread: 6.1
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 26 threads
    s:      8.6 posts
Message size: 2496.4 bytes
    - header:     1044.6 bytes (18.0 lines)
    - body:       1387.4 bytes (36.5 lines)
    - original:   812.6 bytes (23.3 lines)
    - signature:  63.3 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   34    93.8 ( 42.4/ 43.2/ 20.1)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   20    50.1 ( 22.7/ 25.7/ 13.1)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
   19    43.0 ( 21.1/ 20.5/ 15.3)  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
   17    22.3 ( 12.7/  9.6/  5.3)  ···@agharta.de
   16    81.1 ( 15.0/ 66.1/ 15.8)  Alexander Baranovsky <··@cable.netlux.org>
   16    35.2 ( 15.6/ 17.1/ 10.4)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   13    59.2 ( 13.6/ 45.1/ 27.8)  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
   13    38.5 ( 13.3/ 25.1/ 12.1)  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
   10    19.5 ( 10.1/  7.4/  4.2)  Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
    9    43.9 (  6.0/ 37.9/ 35.4)  ··········@YahooGroups.Com

These posters accounted for 35.1% of all articles.

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

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

  93.8 ( 42.4/ 43.2/ 20.1)     34  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  81.1 ( 15.0/ 66.1/ 15.8)     16  Alexander Baranovsky <··@cable.netlux.org>
  59.2 ( 13.6/ 45.1/ 27.8)     13  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  50.1 ( 22.7/ 25.7/ 13.1)     20  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
  43.9 (  6.0/ 37.9/ 35.4)      9  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
  43.0 ( 21.1/ 20.5/ 15.3)     19  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
  38.5 ( 13.3/ 25.1/ 12.1)     13  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
  35.2 ( 15.6/ 17.1/ 10.4)     16  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  22.3 ( 12.7/  9.6/  5.3)     17  ···@agharta.de
  22.2 (  9.1/ 13.0/  8.1)      8  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

These posters accounted for 42.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.933  ( 35.4 / 37.9)      9  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
0.849  (  8.1 /  9.5)      6  Ivan Boldyrev <···············@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
0.778  (  3.0 /  3.9)      5  Ari Johnson <·····@hotmail.com>
0.775  ( 10.0 / 12.8)      8  ·········@random-state.net
0.744  ( 15.3 / 20.5)     19  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.713  (  4.7 /  6.6)      6  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
0.655  (  4.0 /  6.1)      5  Thomas Schilling <······@yahoo.de>
0.650  (  5.2 /  7.9)      7  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
0.624  (  8.1 / 13.0)      8  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.616  ( 27.8 / 45.1)     13  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>

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

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

0.482  ( 12.1 / 25.1)     13  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
0.477  (  4.5 /  9.4)      5  David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>
0.464  ( 20.1 / 43.2)     34  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.445  (  0.8 /  1.7)      5  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.435  (  1.2 /  2.8)      5  Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.411  (  1.9 /  4.6)      5  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.333  (  0.9 /  2.6)      5  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@soegaard.net>
0.318  (  3.3 / 10.5)      8  John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
0.314  (  1.6 /  5.0)      5  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.239  ( 15.8 / 66.1)     16  Alexander Baranovsky <··@cable.netlux.org>

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

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

   51  LISPPA
   36  OpenGL will never catch on
   33  Lisp in a Box
   21  Does LETF lead to an identity crisis?
   21  Two unrelated remarks
   20  Scheme closures
   18  lisp-res-kit question, was Re: Lisp in a Box
   16  PNG? [was Re: ANNC: PortaCello3]
   14  Does function foo exist?
   14  New implementation: Emacs Common Lisp

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

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

 186.9 ( 56.0/127.6/ 53.5)     51  LISPPA
  99.3 ( 44.9/ 50.3/ 26.9)     36  OpenGL will never catch on
  71.5 ( 30.7/ 39.9/ 22.5)     33  Lisp in a Box
  55.6 ( 21.9/ 33.2/ 19.5)     20  Scheme closures
  54.1 (  8.2/ 45.9/ 41.5)      9  I'm not the only one who values interval-arithmetic
  48.5 ( 21.5/ 25.5/ 14.0)     21  Does LETF lead to an identity crisis?
  37.5 ( 22.1/ 14.1/  6.4)     21  Two unrelated remarks
  35.5 ( 19.6/ 14.5/  6.9)     18  lisp-res-kit question, was Re: Lisp in a Box
  29.5 ( 16.1/ 12.0/  7.0)     16  PNG? [was Re: ANNC: PortaCello3]
  28.1 ( 10.2/ 17.6/  9.4)     12  Reversing nested lists

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

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

0.922  (  9.3/  10.1)      6  ASDF-INSTALL for CMUCL, CLISP, AllegroCL, and LispWorks - plus tutorial
0.906  ( 41.5/  45.9)      9  I'm not the only one who values interval-arithmetic
0.835  (  5.2/   6.2)      3  Getting a number from a string
0.835  (  5.9/   7.1)      5  [ANN] LPVM-0.0 -- Common Lisp bindings for PVM
0.731  (  1.4/   1.9)      3  Age you started learning Lisp (was Re: Two unrelated remarks)
0.716  (  2.3/   3.2)      4  [ANN] Linj available for Allegro CL
0.689  (  3.8/   5.5)      5  Lisp implementation details
0.679  (  4.1/   6.1)      4  Right way to package dependencies?
0.676  (  8.2/  12.2)     10  Stupid newbie package question
0.676  (  2.6/   3.8)      3  How do I deal with &optional args?

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

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

0.493  (  4.3 /  8.8)     14  New implementation: Emacs Common Lisp
0.479  (  4.8 / 10.0)     13  My LOOP is ugly
0.478  (  6.9 / 14.5)     18  lisp-res-kit question, was Re: Lisp in a Box
0.461  (  0.4 /  0.8)      3  CL on OS X
0.457  (  0.6 /  1.2)      3  PNG?
0.451  (  6.4 / 14.1)     21  Two unrelated remarks
0.440  (  1.9 /  4.2)      4  Vertical bars & alphanumeric strings
0.420  ( 53.5 /127.6)     51  LISPPA
0.403  (  2.3 /  5.7)      3  Java, was Re: Be afraid of XML
0.390  (  2.0 /  5.2)      7  How would you do this cool Ruby trick in Lisp/CLOS?

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

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

      22  comp.lang.scheme
       2  sci.math.num-analysis
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  gnu.emacs.help
       1  es.comp.hackers
       1  comp.sys.hp.misc
       1  hr.comp.advocacy
       1  cz.comp.lang.php

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

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

       4  "Bradd W. Szonye" <··········@szonye.com>
       4  ·········@votenader.org
       3  ·········@lxny.org
       3  Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
       3  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
       3  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
       1  Janos Hajagos <···@creativelimits.net>
       1  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
       1  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@soegaard.net>
       1  Arnold Neumaier <···············@univie.ac.at>