From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <2o8fi5F7gqcfU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 08 Aug 2004 06:52:35 GMT and ending at
15 Aug 2004 05:32:03 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: 145
Articles: 635 (346 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 61
Volume generated: 1446.7 kb
- headers: 614.4 kb (11,004 lines)
- bodies: 786.4 kb (21,487 lines)
- original: 455.0 kb (13,628 lines)
- signatures: 45.4 kb (1,127 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.579
Averages
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Posts per poster: 4.4
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 50 posters
s: 6.2 posts
Posts per thread: 10.4
median: 6 posts
mode: 2 posts - 11 threads
s: 19.1 posts
Message size: 2333.0 bytes
- header: 990.7 bytes (17.3 lines)
- body: 1268.1 bytes (33.8 lines)
- original: 733.7 bytes (21.5 lines)
- signature: 73.1 bytes (1.8 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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48 116.6 ( 37.5/ 72.5/ 39.9) Alexander Burger <···@software-lab.de>
26 62.7 ( 20.7/ 36.2/ 19.8) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
20 50.1 ( 24.1/ 23.4/ 11.7) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
19 30.8 ( 15.7/ 11.9/ 6.4) Julian Stecklina <··········@web.de>
17 29.5 ( 15.2/ 11.4/ 6.3) ········@agharta.de
15 32.0 ( 16.5/ 14.4/ 9.1) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
14 56.2 ( 20.6/ 34.2/ 20.8) Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
13 35.4 ( 12.8/ 21.7/ 2.8) "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
13 27.7 ( 14.1/ 13.1/ 8.8) Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
13 29.3 ( 14.8/ 13.5/ 8.5) Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
These posters accounted for 31.2% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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116.6 ( 37.5/ 72.5/ 39.9) 48 Alexander Burger <···@software-lab.de>
62.7 ( 20.7/ 36.2/ 19.8) 26 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
56.2 ( 20.6/ 34.2/ 20.8) 14 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
51.7 ( 9.9/ 41.8/ 37.5) 12 ··········@YahooGroups.Com
50.1 ( 24.1/ 23.4/ 11.7) 20 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
35.4 ( 12.8/ 21.7/ 2.8) 13 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
34.1 ( 9.8/ 22.9/ 10.7) 7 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
32.0 ( 16.5/ 14.4/ 9.1) 15 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
31.7 ( 13.9/ 17.7/ 15.4) 11 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
31.1 ( 16.0/ 14.4/ 8.3) 11 Marco Parrone <·····@autistici.org>
These posters accounted for 34.7% 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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0.958 ( 2.7 / 2.9) 6 "Jeff" <···@insightbb.com>
0.898 ( 37.5 / 41.8) 12 ··········@YahooGroups.Com
0.868 ( 15.4 / 17.7) 11 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.757 ( 7.3 / 9.6) 8 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.739 ( 4.8 / 6.5) 6 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.727 ( 4.8 / 6.6) 7 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
0.718 ( 9.0 / 12.5) 11 ·········@random-state.net
0.703 ( 4.9 / 7.0) 8 Mark McConnell <···············@yahoo.com>
0.682 ( 3.9 / 5.8) 6 Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.679 ( 4.9 / 7.2) 5 "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.473 ( 3.0 / 6.4) 7 "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
0.465 ( 10.7 / 22.9) 7 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.458 ( 3.5 / 7.7) 11 neo88 <······@truevine.net>
0.375 ( 5.3 / 14.1) 9 Rainer Joswig <······@lisp.de>
0.358 ( 1.4 / 4.0) 6 Ivan Boldyrev <···············@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
0.341 ( 2.3 / 6.6) 5 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.289 ( 3.0 / 10.4) 11 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.233 ( 1.5 / 6.4) 5 "Eli Bendersky" <······@gmail.com>
0.209 ( 2.1 / 10.1) 8 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.128 ( 2.8 / 21.7) 13 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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140 Lisp in hardware
41 size of a bignum
28 (DELETE-FILE open-file-stream)
23 Best options for Native GUI under Windows?
23 macros
23 a short article about equality in Lisp (for beginners)
21 Paul Graham's teaching style is bad
19 macros (was: Paul Graham's teaching style is bad}
16 Macros - Lisp novice
16 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
358.0 (136.5/208.3/109.2) 140 Lisp in hardware
74.4 ( 43.6/ 27.8/ 14.9) 41 size of a bignum
68.2 ( 18.3/ 48.6/ 29.1) 21 Paul Graham's teaching style is bad
65.0 ( 27.9/ 33.1/ 17.4) 28 (DELETE-FILE open-file-stream)
61.2 ( 26.9/ 33.2/ 17.8) 23 macros
57.0 ( 12.6/ 43.9/ 37.8) 14 OT: writing resumes with VT100 for a Lisp job
49.1 ( 21.7/ 26.0/ 14.2) 19 macros (was: Paul Graham's teaching style is bad}
44.3 ( 22.8/ 19.3/ 9.3) 23 Best options for Native GUI under Windows?
43.6 ( 22.2/ 20.0/ 7.1) 23 a short article about equality in Lisp (for beginners)
39.2 ( 16.4/ 21.4/ 15.7) 16 Macros - Lisp novice
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.860 ( 37.8/ 43.9) 14 OT: writing resumes with VT100 for a Lisp job
0.734 ( 5.2/ 7.1) 7 am I the only one who misses these two HT operations?
0.734 ( 15.7/ 21.4) 16 Macros - Lisp novice
0.716 ( 2.3/ 3.3) 5 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
0.702 ( 2.9/ 4.1) 8 Which impls support Allegro's simple-streams proposal?
0.669 ( 14.2/ 21.2) 15 Salaries for Lisp engineers
0.653 ( 1.9/ 2.9) 3 Lisp2Perl compiler
0.652 ( 7.7/ 11.9) 10 To diff or not to diff
0.651 ( 8.9/ 13.7) 7 Newbie question on passing functions as arguments
0.646 ( 14.8/ 22.8) 13 The Lisp CPU
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.483 ( 2.1 / 4.4) 7 Creating my own read table
0.483 ( 9.3 / 19.3) 23 Best options for Native GUI under Windows?
0.480 ( 0.6 / 1.3) 3 symbolic algebra lib
0.477 ( 8.0 / 16.8) 14 Interpreters
0.476 ( 1.0 / 2.0) 3 #' at lambda expression
0.469 ( 5.2 / 11.2) 13 When is a symbol GC-ed?
0.443 ( 1.5 / 3.3) 6 Bots in Lisp?
0.419 ( 2.2 / 5.4) 7 Generating recursive macros
0.355 ( 7.1 / 20.0) 23 a short article about equality in Lisp (for beginners)
0.332 ( 3.1 / 9.4) 12 Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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21 comp.emacs
16 comp.editors
15 sci.math
5 comp.lang.java.programmer
5 comp.os.linux.advocacy
4 comp.lang.scheme
3 comp.lang.forth
3 comp.lang.perl
1 alt.religion.emacs
1 gnu.emacs.help
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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6 Mark Carter <···········@yahoo.co.uk>
6 T N <····@no.spam>
6 Johnny <···················@yahoo.com>
6 ····@tech.coop
4 David <······@SPAMAROONEY.blueyonder.co.uk>
3 "Mike Cox" <············@yahoo.com>
3 ·········@lxny.org
3 "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
3 Lieven Marchand <···@wyrd.be>
3 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>