Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 15 Aug 2004 06:52:54 GMT and ending at
22 Aug 2004 05:11:57 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: 130
Articles: 428 (207 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 60
Volume generated: 971.3 kb
- headers: 407.0 kb (7,459 lines)
- bodies: 538.1 kb (14,008 lines)
- original: 327.5 kb (9,114 lines)
- signatures: 25.8 kb (618 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.609
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.3
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 53 posters
s: 4.1 posts
Posts per thread: 7.1
median: 4.5 posts
mode: 1 post - 18 threads
s: 12.6 posts
Message size: 2324.0 bytes
- header: 973.8 bytes (17.4 lines)
- body: 1287.4 bytes (32.7 lines)
- original: 783.6 bytes (21.3 lines)
- signature: 61.7 bytes (1.4 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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22 47.7 ( 18.2/ 24.6/ 10.5) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
15 26.9 ( 13.4/ 13.5/ 7.9) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
13 32.1 ( 15.3/ 15.0/ 7.0) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
13 30.8 ( 14.8/ 14.9/ 8.6) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
12 66.8 ( 9.1/ 57.6/ 51.0) ·······@Yahoo.Com <··········@YahooGroups.Com>
11 17.9 ( 8.1/ 8.3/ 4.1) Joost Kremers <············@yahoo.com>
10 33.7 ( 15.6/ 17.5/ 13.8) Marco Parrone <·····@autistici.org>
10 21.2 ( 11.1/ 9.3/ 5.4) David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
10 19.3 ( 9.4/ 9.9/ 5.0) Ron Garret <·········@flownet.com>
9 25.7 ( 10.7/ 14.3/ 7.3) Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
These posters accounted for 29.2% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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66.8 ( 9.1/ 57.6/ 51.0) 12 ·······@Yahoo.Com <··········@YahooGroups.Com>
47.7 ( 18.2/ 24.6/ 10.5) 22 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
33.7 ( 15.6/ 17.5/ 13.8) 10 Marco Parrone <·····@autistici.org>
32.1 ( 15.3/ 15.0/ 7.0) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
30.8 ( 14.8/ 14.9/ 8.6) 13 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
26.9 ( 13.4/ 13.5/ 7.9) 15 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
25.7 ( 10.7/ 14.3/ 7.3) 9 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
21.2 ( 11.1/ 9.3/ 5.4) 10 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
20.4 ( 5.4/ 14.9/ 11.5) 8 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
20.0 ( 8.8/ 11.2/ 1.9) 8 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
These posters accounted for 33.5% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.940 ( 3.4 / 3.6) 5 Tim Lavoie <········@spamcop.net>
0.885 ( 51.0 / 57.6) 12 ·······@Yahoo.Com <··········@YahooGroups.Com>
0.810 ( 7.9 / 9.8) 8 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.785 ( 13.8 / 17.5) 10 Marco Parrone <·····@autistici.org>
0.772 ( 11.1 / 14.4) 5 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.771 ( 11.5 / 14.9) 8 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
0.739 ( 2.8 / 3.7) 6 neo88 <······@truevine.net>
0.718 ( 2.8 / 3.9) 6 Todd Pierce <···········@hotmail.com>
0.693 ( 4.9 / 7.1) 6 ···········@tfeb.org" <··········@tfeb.org>
0.654 ( 5.8 / 8.9) 7 "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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0.505 ( 5.0 / 9.9) 10 Ron Garret <·········@flownet.com>
0.488 ( 4.1 / 8.3) 11 Joost Kremers <············@yahoo.com>
0.465 ( 7.0 / 15.0) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.462 ( 1.7 / 3.7) 5 Bruce Stephens <············@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
0.429 ( 10.5 / 24.6) 22 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.423 ( 2.4 / 5.7) 7 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.412 ( 1.2 / 2.8) 5 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.378 ( 3.0 / 7.9) 7 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.296 ( 1.3 / 4.4) 5 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.169 ( 1.9 / 11.2) 8 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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79 A programming language is...
27 Lisp compilation
22 macros
21 To diff or not to diff
20 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
16 Small, Fast Prolog in Lisp?
15 performance challenge
14 Initializing an array of structures in Lisp?
12 Why want to do the things Lisp is best at?
12 Practical Common Lisp takes apart binary files
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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163.7 ( 81.3/ 77.8/ 42.4) 79 A programming language is...
63.0 ( 30.5/ 31.3/ 18.9) 22 macros
56.7 ( 21.7/ 33.2/ 20.3) 27 Lisp compilation
48.0 ( 19.2/ 28.4/ 16.9) 21 To diff or not to diff
43.7 ( 10.8/ 32.1/ 21.9) 11 The Lisp CPU
42.9 ( 19.8/ 21.4/ 13.4) 20 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
34.8 ( 9.4/ 24.9/ 18.5) 12 Why want to do the things Lisp is best at?
28.9 ( 11.5/ 16.3/ 8.3) 14 Initializing an array of structures in Lisp?
26.4 ( 12.7/ 13.1/ 8.5) 15 performance challenge
25.6 ( 11.4/ 12.9/ 6.0) 12 Practical Common Lisp takes apart binary files
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.872 ( 3.3/ 3.8) 5 Portable Lisp interface to OpenSSL
0.858 ( 3.1/ 3.6) 5 Lisp readability
0.791 ( 0.9/ 1.1) 3 A different string descriptor
0.742 ( 18.5/ 24.9) 12 Why want to do the things Lisp is best at?
0.726 ( 2.6/ 3.5) 3 Lisp in hardware
0.694 ( 3.8/ 5.5) 3 troll vs troll. I saw it was good
0.685 ( 6.8/ 10.0) 7 embedded systems
0.682 ( 21.9/ 32.1) 11 The Lisp CPU
0.652 ( 4.8/ 7.4) 4 Paul Graham's teaching style is bad
0.650 ( 8.5/ 13.1) 15 performance challenge
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.530 ( 2.9 / 5.5) 6 Cheap, Good Lisps For Novices
0.519 ( 6.1 / 11.7) 10 What is a programming language? (was: E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.)
0.514 ( 5.8 / 11.3) 9 Windoze Lisp
0.507 ( 8.3 / 16.3) 14 Initializing an array of structures in Lisp?
0.495 ( 3.7 / 7.5) 5 Are the lists produced by backquote always non-literal?
0.491 ( 1.4 / 2.8) 4 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's
web writings.
0.462 ( 6.0 / 12.9) 12 Practical Common Lisp takes apart binary files
0.453 ( 5.1 / 11.3) 8 Actual bit patterns used by write-byte and read-byte?
0.347 ( 2.5 / 7.1) 6 request for style evaluation-multiplying polynomials
0.325 ( 2.7 / 8.2) 6 Windoze Lisp [was Re: Cheap, Good Lisps For Novices]
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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27 comp.emacs
26 comp.editors
14 sci.math
1 alt.religion.emacs
1 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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7 ·······@interaccess.com
7 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= <····@husumtoften.dk>
6 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
6 "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
6 ·······@Yahoo.Com <··········@YahooGroups.Com>
6 Alan Mackenzie <···@muc.de>
5 David Kastrup <···@gnu.org>
4 Bruce Ingalls <········@verizon._NO.SPAM_.net>
3 "Mike Cox" <············@yahoo.com>
3 Joseph Hertzlinger <··························@nine.reticulatedcom.com>