From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <31ft3mF3b5g3mU2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 28 Nov 2004 07:53:13 GMT and ending at
05 Dec 2004 06:50:59 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: 190
Articles: 679 (312 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 81
Volume generated: 1462.6 kb
- headers: 712.2 kb (12,202 lines)
- bodies: 714.0 kb (19,571 lines)
- original: 396.4 kb (11,927 lines)
- signatures: 35.7 kb (861 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.555
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.6
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 88 posters
s: 5.6 posts
Posts per thread: 8.4
median: 5 posts
mode: 2 posts - 12 threads
s: 14.1 posts
Message size: 2205.7 bytes
- header: 1074.0 bytes (18.0 lines)
- body: 1076.8 bytes (28.8 lines)
- original: 597.9 bytes (17.6 lines)
- signature: 53.8 bytes (1.3 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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43 105.0 ( 53.8/ 46.6/ 25.8) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
30 70.6 ( 25.3/ 41.3/ 18.0) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
25 59.5 ( 32.2/ 24.1/ 11.0) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
24 47.2 ( 18.0/ 29.2/ 18.0) Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
23 54.2 ( 30.2/ 22.1/ 11.3) David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
17 31.2 ( 13.6/ 16.8/ 9.4) "Jeff M." <·······@gmail.com>
15 42.6 ( 22.2/ 20.4/ 12.8) Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
15 32.1 ( 21.2/ 10.9/ 5.4) William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com>
13 26.7 ( 13.2/ 13.5/ 5.5) Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
13 27.3 ( 15.8/ 10.5/ 4.5) "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
These posters accounted for 32.1% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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105.0 ( 53.8/ 46.6/ 25.8) 43 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
70.6 ( 25.3/ 41.3/ 18.0) 30 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
59.5 ( 32.2/ 24.1/ 11.0) 25 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
54.2 ( 30.2/ 22.1/ 11.3) 23 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
47.2 ( 18.0/ 29.2/ 18.0) 24 Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
44.9 ( 22.8/ 22.1/ 7.0) 13 Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
42.6 ( 22.2/ 20.4/ 12.8) 15 Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
36.9 ( 21.1/ 15.8/ 7.6) 12 Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
32.1 ( 21.2/ 10.9/ 5.4) 15 William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com>
32.0 ( 16.5/ 14.1/ 4.8) 13 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
These posters accounted for 35.9% 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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0.952 ( 2.2 / 2.3) 5 ·········@gmail.com
0.749 ( 3.1 / 4.2) 5 Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.712 ( 1.8 / 2.5) 6 "Steven E. Harris" <···@panix.com>
0.710 ( 5.6 / 7.9) 5 Philip Haddad <·············@gmail.com>
0.709 ( 6.1 / 8.6) 6 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.693 ( 3.3 / 4.8) 6 Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.688 ( 7.9 / 11.5) 9 Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.655 ( 5.3 / 8.0) 10 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.643 ( 2.0 / 3.0) 5 Szymon <············@o2.pl>
0.639 ( 7.4 / 11.6) 7 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.452 ( 3.0 / 6.5) 6 ···@gnu.org
0.451 ( 6.2 / 13.7) 5 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.437 ( 18.0 / 41.3) 30 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.433 ( 4.5 / 10.5) 13 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.407 ( 5.5 / 13.5) 13 Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.338 ( 4.8 / 14.1) 13 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.332 ( 2.6 / 7.7) 6 mikel <·····@evins.net>
0.323 ( 1.9 / 6.0) 5 Ingvar <······@hexapodia.net>
0.317 ( 7.0 / 22.1) 13 Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
0.295 ( 3.1 / 10.4) 10 Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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61 C++ sucks for games.... oh really?
57 Floating-point arithmetic in CL
43 using function names as variable names? Is it Justified?
35 cells-gtk screen shots
31 Python gets macros
25 How to survive using a non Lisp language?
25 dot meaning
19 Go Fish game in Lisp
17 YALCFO (Yet Another Lisp Criticism From an Outsider)
16 fasl-file-valid-p
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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201.7 (113.9/ 85.7/ 40.8) 61 C++ sucks for games.... oh really?
149.9 ( 72.8/ 73.9/ 39.1) 57 Floating-point arithmetic in CL
92.2 ( 44.8/ 44.4/ 20.7) 43 using function names as variable names? Is it Justified?
79.1 ( 40.6/ 36.3/ 18.1) 35 cells-gtk screen shots
59.7 ( 23.3/ 33.9/ 19.4) 25 dot meaning
58.5 ( 31.3/ 25.2/ 16.9) 31 Python gets macros
42.7 ( 22.7/ 19.5/ 12.0) 25 How to survive using a non Lisp language?
39.2 ( 16.5/ 21.6/ 13.8) 19 Go Fish game in Lisp
35.6 ( 13.6/ 20.8/ 11.8) 16 fasl-file-valid-p
33.8 ( 16.8/ 16.6/ 8.1) 11 DYNAMIC-EXTENT vs C's auto (was Re: Cons-less code)
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.866 ( 3.1/ 3.6) 3 Free Desktop Computer---Not a Scam
0.782 ( 2.4/ 3.1) 4 a lisp code repository?
0.759 ( 1.9/ 2.5) 3 Portable Allegroserve on cmucl on SPARC/Solaris
0.695 ( 2.6/ 3.7) 6 Problem with heap size in ACL6.2 trial edition
0.694 ( 2.0/ 2.9) 3 passing parameters by reference
0.689 ( 6.3/ 9.2) 11 Lisp Beginner question
0.669 ( 16.9/ 25.2) 31 Python gets macros
0.662 ( 3.5/ 5.3) 4 Novice: problem with atoms showing up in caps with append
0.661 ( 4.7/ 7.1) 4 Petition koders.com [sic] to add Lisp to it's search category.
0.651 ( 3.4/ 5.2) 7 value not reinitialized on subsequent function calls
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.421 ( 2.6 / 6.2) 5 persistence in lisp
0.421 ( 4.7 / 11.1) 7 sorting behaviour - question
0.400 ( 0.7 / 1.8) 3 Cons-less code
0.399 ( 1.0 / 2.6) 3 CL subset?
0.393 ( 2.7 / 6.8) 8 C++ sucks for games
0.393 ( 1.9 / 4.9) 5 recursive problem
0.390 ( 2.6 / 6.6) 7 What do Users really want?
0.389 ( 1.3 / 3.4) 5 Simple export?
0.356 ( 1.7 / 4.8) 7 Crossing the 4 GB barrier
0.329 ( 1.7 / 5.1) 5 Cons-less code (was C++ sucks for games.... oh really?)
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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58 comp.games.development.programming.misc
53 comp.lang.c++
4 comp.lang.scheme
3 comp.lang.lisp.franz
1 comp.theory.cell-automata
1 comp.lang.prolog
1 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
1 alt.math
1 comp.lang.pop
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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24 Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
21 Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
15 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
8 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
4 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
4 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
4 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
3 Aaron Sloman <········@cs.bham.ac.uk>
2 Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
2 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>