From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <2pdcqvFitmg8U2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 22 Aug 2004 06:35:06 GMT and ending at
29 Aug 2004 04:14:55 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: 165
Articles: 500 (276 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 68
Volume generated: 1028.7 kb
- headers: 462.8 kb (8,618 lines)
- bodies: 530.2 kb (15,378 lines)
- original: 319.2 kb (9,993 lines)
- signatures: 35.3 kb (937 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.602
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.0
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 75 posters
s: 3.9 posts
Posts per thread: 7.4
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 18 threads
s: 10.2 posts
Message size: 2106.8 bytes
- header: 947.8 bytes (17.2 lines)
- body: 1085.8 bytes (30.8 lines)
- original: 653.8 bytes (20.0 lines)
- signature: 72.3 bytes (1.9 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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20 58.4 ( 16.7/ 37.2/ 22.2) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
17 36.2 ( 17.3/ 17.0/ 7.1) Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
14 31.1 ( 10.6/ 19.7/ 10.0) neo88 <······@truevine.net>
14 24.9 ( 12.0/ 12.1/ 5.1) "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
13 19.7 ( 8.7/ 9.3/ 4.8) Joost Kremers <············@yahoo.com>
12 30.6 ( 15.1/ 15.5/ 11.2) Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
12 23.2 ( 8.3/ 14.9/ 10.0) Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
11 25.4 ( 13.2/ 10.8/ 5.3) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
11 15.9 ( 8.5/ 5.5/ 2.8) ········@agharta.de
11 22.8 ( 12.6/ 9.3/ 5.4) David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
These posters accounted for 27.0% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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58.4 ( 16.7/ 37.2/ 22.2) 20 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
36.2 ( 17.3/ 17.0/ 7.1) 17 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
31.1 ( 10.6/ 19.7/ 10.0) 14 neo88 <······@truevine.net>
30.6 ( 15.1/ 15.5/ 11.2) 12 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
30.3 ( 7.6/ 22.1/ 21.0) 7 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
25.4 ( 13.2/ 10.8/ 5.3) 11 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
24.9 ( 12.0/ 12.1/ 5.1) 14 "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
24.6 ( 14.5/ 9.1/ 6.0) 10 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
23.2 ( 8.3/ 14.9/ 10.0) 12 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
22.8 ( 12.6/ 9.3/ 5.4) 11 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
These posters accounted for 29.9% 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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0.949 ( 21.0 / 22.1) 7 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.880 ( 5.7 / 6.5) 5 Martin Ginkel <·············@epost.de>
0.828 ( 7.4 / 8.9) 7 ·········@random-state.net
0.799 ( 3.7 / 4.7) 5 Yuji Minejima <········@nifty.ne.jp>
0.723 ( 11.2 / 15.5) 12 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.701 ( 5.0 / 7.1) 5 Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.668 ( 10.0 / 14.9) 12 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.661 ( 6.0 / 9.1) 10 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
0.661 ( 5.1 / 7.7) 9 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.660 ( 6.6 / 10.0) 6 M Jared Finder <·······@hpalace.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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0.511 ( 2.8 / 5.5) 11 ········@agharta.de
0.507 ( 10.0 / 19.7) 14 neo88 <······@truevine.net>
0.488 ( 5.3 / 10.8) 11 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.471 ( 2.9 / 6.1) 6 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.435 ( 2.8 / 6.4) 6 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.419 ( 7.1 / 17.0) 17 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.419 ( 5.1 / 12.1) 14 "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.412 ( 3.5 / 8.5) 6 "bufie" <·····@spamneggs.com>
0.329 ( 1.8 / 5.4) 7 "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
0.177 ( 1.4 / 7.7) 6 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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57 Larry Wall & Cults
43 Lisp readability
37 Making structures useable
27 Beginner's Question on an exercise from Graham's ACL
23 spec 3.1.2.1.2 and the lambda exception
18 Ten Commandments for Lisp Programmers
18 performance challenge
17 Newbie Question: Why is (if ...) a special operator?
15 (Web programming) Newby Qs Re: [ANNOUNCE] mod_lisp 2.38
15 Xah Lee's Unixism
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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101.9 ( 42.4/ 56.3/ 38.6) 43 Lisp readability
95.4 ( 61.2/ 30.7/ 15.2) 57 Larry Wall & Cults
75.3 ( 29.2/ 44.4/ 24.6) 37 Making structures useable
57.5 ( 24.6/ 31.3/ 17.5) 27 Beginner's Question on an exercise from Graham's ACL
52.6 ( 21.8/ 28.3/ 13.7) 23 spec 3.1.2.1.2 and the lambda exception
44.2 ( 15.5/ 27.0/ 12.9) 18 Ten Commandments for Lisp Programmers
34.4 ( 15.8/ 17.2/ 9.8) 17 Newbie Question: Why is (if ...) a special operator?
33.0 ( 11.2/ 20.3/ 14.7) 13 A "Lisp Machine" and cons cells
31.6 ( 16.9/ 13.1/ 4.8) 15 Xah Lee's Unixism
29.8 ( 8.1/ 21.0/ 11.0) 9 parsing parameters
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.786 ( 11.5/ 14.6) 9 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
0.786 ( 2.3/ 2.9) 3 PAIP auxfns.lisp continuable error
0.769 ( 2.7/ 3.5) 3 Unicode-handling library
0.722 ( 14.7/ 20.3) 13 A "Lisp Machine" and cons cells
0.719 ( 2.9/ 4.0) 3 Paul Graham's teaching style is bad
0.701 ( 10.0/ 14.3) 14 Common-lisp.net down due to attack
0.692 ( 3.5/ 5.1) 6 Small, Fast Prolog in Lisp?
0.685 ( 38.6/ 56.3) 43 Lisp readability
0.684 ( 1.4/ 2.1) 4 Trying to solve equations in Lisp
0.683 ( 6.5/ 9.5) 11 quote-removal in macros
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.480 ( 12.9 / 27.0) 18 Ten Commandments for Lisp Programmers
0.466 ( 3.3 / 7.1) 9 Troubles extending a string...
0.454 ( 0.9 / 2.0) 4 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
0.433 ( 2.0 / 4.5) 5 Lisp version of a C'ism
0.432 ( 4.2 / 9.6) 10 another simple defmacro question
0.431 ( 0.9 / 2.2) 4 Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot.
0.380 ( 0.6 / 1.6) 3 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's web writings.
0.365 ( 0.6 / 1.8) 3 OT Google and message IDs (wasRe: Is this gross?)
0.364 ( 4.8 / 13.1) 15 Xah Lee's Unixism
0.297 ( 0.9 / 3.0) 3 E. W. Dijkstra VS. John McCarthy. A rebuttal to Paul Graham's
web writings.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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70 comp.lang.python
70 comp.lang.perl.misc
70 comp.unix.programmer
70 alt.folklore.computers
4 comp.lang.java
2 comp.lang.scheme
2 comp.editors
2 sci.math
2 comp.emacs
1 comp.lang.prolog
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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20 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
12 Peter Hansen <·····@engcorp.com>
12 Rich Teer <·········@rite-group.com>
12 Otto Wyss <·········@orpatec.ch>
8 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
8 "David Schwartz" <······@webmaster.com>
8 Dr. Richard E. Hawkins <····@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
8 ················@post.rwth-aachen.de
8 Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <···················@broadpark.no>
8 Grant Edwards <······@visi.com>