From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2n3i9tFs6mt5U2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 25 Jul 2004 06:55:10 GMT and ending at
01 Aug 2004 04:22:04 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:  126
Articles: 386 (159 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  62
Volume generated: 823.8 kb
    - headers:    342.0 kb (6,522 lines)
    - bodies:     460.1 kb (12,622 lines)
    - original:   287.3 kb (8,344 lines)
    - signatures: 21.3 kb (508 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.624

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 49 posters
    s:      3.8 posts
Posts per thread: 6.2
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 16 threads
    s:      18.5 posts
Message size: 2185.3 bytes
    - header:     907.2 bytes (16.9 lines)
    - body:       1220.7 bytes (32.7 lines)
    - original:   762.1 bytes (21.6 lines)
    - signature:  56.5 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   25    65.7 ( 20.3/ 40.0/ 22.2)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
   17    40.2 ( 12.9/ 26.8/ 14.6)  neo88 <······@truevine.net>
   15    30.9 ( 15.6/ 13.4/  7.6)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   10    16.4 ( 10.0/  6.4/  3.2)  David Douthitt <·····@mailbag.com>
    9    19.8 (  7.0/ 12.7/ 10.0)  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
    8    15.9 (  7.7/  8.2/  2.9)  Lowell Kirsh <······@cs.ubc.ca>
    8    15.0 (  9.8/  5.3/  4.1)  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
    8    15.6 (  5.1/ 10.5/  5.6)  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
    8    19.7 (  8.3/  9.6/  6.8)  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
    7    25.2 (  4.9/ 20.2/ 15.4)  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>

These posters accounted for 29.8% of all articles.

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

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

  65.7 ( 20.3/ 40.0/ 22.2)     25  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
  40.2 ( 12.9/ 26.8/ 14.6)     17  neo88 <······@truevine.net>
  30.9 ( 15.6/ 13.4/  7.6)     15  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  25.2 (  4.9/ 20.2/ 15.4)      7  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
  20.1 (  2.8/ 17.1/ 15.9)      5  Christian Pietsch <·······@interling.de>
  19.8 (  7.0/ 12.7/ 10.0)      9  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
  19.7 (  8.3/  9.6/  6.8)      8  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
  17.9 (  8.8/  8.3/  3.4)      7  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
  16.8 (  7.1/  9.2/  5.6)      7  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
  16.5 (  3.5/ 12.7/  8.9)      6  Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>

These posters accounted for 33.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.929  ( 15.9 / 17.1)      5  Christian Pietsch <·······@interling.de>
0.798  (  2.2 /  2.8)      5  ·······@mindprod.com.invalid
0.785  ( 10.0 / 12.7)      9  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
0.772  (  4.1 /  5.3)      8  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.769  (  5.6 /  7.3)      5  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.765  (  6.2 /  8.1)      6  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.760  ( 15.4 / 20.2)      7  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.756  (  4.1 /  5.4)      5  Stephen Kellett <·····@objmedia.demon.co.uk>
0.755  (  4.0 /  5.4)      7  Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0.718  (  3.7 /  5.2)      5  Bruce Stephens <············@cenderis.demon.co.uk>

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

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

0.569  (  7.6 / 13.4)     15  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.556  ( 22.2 / 40.0)     25  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.544  ( 14.6 / 26.8)     17  neo88 <······@truevine.net>
0.535  (  5.6 / 10.5)      8  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.499  (  3.2 /  6.4)     10  David Douthitt <·····@mailbag.com>
0.403  (  3.4 /  8.3)      7  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.381  (  1.5 /  3.9)      5  Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>
0.377  (  1.7 /  4.4)      5  norman werner <·············@student.uni-magdeburg.de>
0.357  (  2.9 /  8.2)      8  Lowell Kirsh <······@cs.ubc.ca>
0.221  (  0.7 /  3.3)      5  Johnny <···················@yahoo.com>

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

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

   45  Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.
   29  Understanding Macro DOLIST
   23  elisp macros problem
   20  Using concat and lists
   19  Salaries for Lisp engineers
   18  Towers of Hanoi Problem
   16  new benchmark results for 8 CL implementations in cliki.net
   15  ILC and other conferences
   13  Immortal Self-Rejuvenating Artificial Intelligence
   11  Mandelbrot for the terminal

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

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

  90.6 ( 48.1/ 38.1/ 25.5)     45  Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.
  59.3 ( 25.5/ 32.3/ 16.8)     29  Understanding Macro DOLIST
  49.1 ( 22.8/ 25.0/ 13.7)     23  elisp macros problem
  48.7 ( 14.2/ 33.6/ 26.2)     16  new benchmark results for 8 CL implementations in cliki.net
  46.4 ( 15.2/ 29.5/ 19.1)     18  Towers of Hanoi Problem
  38.5 ( 17.9/ 19.4/ 10.7)     19  Salaries for Lisp engineers
  33.5 ( 17.8/ 15.0/  9.5)     20  Using concat and lists
  27.1 ( 11.8/ 14.2/  9.4)     15  ILC and other conferences
  24.0 (  4.6/ 19.4/ 14.5)      6  ArmedBear Common Lisp relicensed!
  22.5 (  6.4/ 15.6/ 10.7)      8  Getting started w/ Common Lisp:

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

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

0.779  ( 26.2/  33.6)     16  new benchmark results for 8 CL implementations in cliki.net
0.772  (  3.1/   4.0)      5  How to make a CLOS method using lambda?
0.757  (  7.3/   9.6)      8  How to make slots private
0.754  (  2.9/   3.8)      3  How do I deal with code that doesn't compile?
0.747  (  2.5/   3.3)      3  call by value
0.745  ( 14.5/  19.4)      6  ArmedBear Common Lisp relicensed!
0.714  (  2.1/   3.0)      3  Arnold Schwarzenegger Commits Suicide
0.700  (  3.0/   4.3)      4  relationship skill/common-lisp
0.699  (  5.6/   8.0)      6  decode-float vs integer-decode-float
0.688  (  1.3/   1.8)      3  compiling lisp with GCL

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

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

0.518  (  8.0 / 15.4)      8  Assembler in Common Lisp
0.515  (  1.6 /  3.2)      6  EQUALP in a hash table
0.508  (  1.6 /  3.2)      3  Parsing a List with infix-operators
0.504  (  5.8 / 11.6)      6  Style and/or advisability of this symbol-macrolet usage
0.499  (  2.3 /  4.5)      3  Problem with iterate
0.489  (  1.3 /  2.7)      3  mixin precedence
0.463  (  1.0 /  2.1)      5  inlining lists
0.462  (  0.6 /  1.3)      3  Alan Kay for everybody / was: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting
 trashed on Slashdot.
0.345  (  4.1 / 12.0)     11  Mandelbrot for the terminal
0.304  (  0.7 /  2.4)      3  Scheme closures

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

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

      41  comp.emacs
      41  comp.os.linux.advocacy
      36  comp.lang.java.programmer
      22  gnu.emacs.help
       6  comp.lang.java
       4  comp.lang.scheme
       3  comp.lang.labview
       3  comp.lang.javascript
       3  comp.lang.limbo
       2  comp.speech.users

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

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

      24  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
      15  ·······@mindprod.com.invalid
      12  Stephen Kellett <·····@objmedia.demon.co.uk>
      10  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       9  Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>
       8  Lowell Kirsh <······@cs.ubc.ca>
       7  Johnny <···················@yahoo.com>
       6  "Tony Morris" <···@telling.you>
       6  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
       4  Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>