From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <322bndF3g0up6U2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 05 Dec 2004 07:50:48 GMT and ending at
13 Dec 2004 01:30:35 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:  159
Articles: 546 (235 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  72
Volume generated: 1185.1 kb
    - headers:    555.0 kb (9,653 lines)
    - bodies:     599.4 kb (16,548 lines)
    - original:   368.0 kb (11,092 lines)
    - signatures: 30.3 kb (733 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.614

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.4
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 75 posters
    s:      5.7 posts
Posts per thread: 7.6
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 21 threads
    s:      13.3 posts
Message size: 2222.7 bytes
    - header:     1040.9 bytes (17.7 lines)
    - body:       1124.1 bytes (30.3 lines)
    - original:   690.2 bytes (20.3 lines)
    - signature:  56.7 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   43   123.7 ( 37.0/ 80.9/ 53.1)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   30    86.7 ( 38.9/ 45.0/ 26.2)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   19    23.7 ( 19.3/  4.4/  3.5)  ······@gmail.com
   18    46.3 ( 23.0/ 20.9/ 12.0)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   17    24.5 ( 14.0/  9.7/  6.9)  "Jeff" <·······@gmail.com>
   16    40.4 ( 13.0/ 27.4/ 13.5)  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
   15    22.3 ( 12.3/ 10.0/  5.0)  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
   14    50.6 ( 18.2/ 29.5/ 14.3)  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
   12    19.4 (  9.7/  9.8/  4.3)  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
   11    25.8 ( 10.4/ 15.4/ 12.0)  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>

These posters accounted for 35.7% of all articles.

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

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

 123.7 ( 37.0/ 80.9/ 53.1)     43  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  86.7 ( 38.9/ 45.0/ 26.2)     30  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  50.6 ( 18.2/ 29.5/ 14.3)     14  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  46.3 ( 23.0/ 20.9/ 12.0)     18  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  40.4 ( 13.0/ 27.4/ 13.5)     16  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
  31.0 (  7.5/ 20.7/ 14.3)      9  Manuel Lemos <······@acm.org>
  26.5 ( 13.8/ 12.7/  5.3)      8  mikel <·····@evins.net>
  25.8 ( 10.4/ 15.4/ 12.0)     11  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
  24.5 ( 14.0/  9.7/  6.9)     17  "Jeff" <·······@gmail.com>
  23.7 ( 19.3/  4.4/  3.5)     19  ······@gmail.com

These posters accounted for 40.4% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  2.2 /  2.2)      5  "ramza2" <············@gmail.com>
0.998  (  1.4 /  1.4)      5  ··········@gmail.com
0.799  (  3.5 /  4.4)     19  ······@gmail.com
0.775  ( 12.0 / 15.4)     11  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.770  (  5.0 /  6.5)      6  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.739  (  4.2 /  5.6)      7  "Alex Mizrahi" <········@hotmail.com>
0.724  (  2.8 /  3.8)      7  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.705  (  6.9 /  9.7)     17  "Jeff" <·······@gmail.com>
0.689  ( 14.3 / 20.7)      9  Manuel Lemos <······@acm.org>
0.657  ( 53.1 / 80.9)     43  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>

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

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

0.496  (  7.0 / 14.1)      9  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.493  ( 13.5 / 27.4)     16  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
0.487  ( 14.3 / 29.5)     14  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.448  (  1.3 /  2.9)      5  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.440  (  1.0 /  2.3)      5  Nikodemus Siivola <········@kekkonen.cs.hut.fi>
0.438  (  4.3 /  9.8)     12  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.421  (  2.0 /  4.8)      7  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.420  (  5.3 / 12.7)      8  mikel <·····@evins.net>
0.417  (  1.7 /  4.2)      5  ········@clouddancer.com
0.387  (  1.8 /  4.6)      5  David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>

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

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

   54  Casting SPELs in Lisp - The Comic Book!
   52  Lisp vs. I/O
   41  Python gets macros - now XML does too
   39  Novice: problem with atoms showing up in caps with append
   31  cells-gtk screen shots
   31  Lisp code security
   29  Go Fish game in Lisp
   20  Lisp Game Engine
   18  Bignum limits
   18  Replacing subsequences

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

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

 132.0 ( 52.2/ 73.5/ 44.1)     52  Lisp vs. I/O
 100.7 ( 40.9/ 55.3/ 29.3)     41  Python gets macros - now XML does too
  95.9 ( 31.7/ 63.0/ 40.2)     31  Lisp code security
  95.2 ( 50.8/ 42.6/ 21.6)     31  cells-gtk screen shots
  78.3 ( 37.9/ 37.7/ 17.2)     39  Novice: problem with atoms showing up in caps with append
  78.1 ( 51.9/ 24.4/ 16.4)     54  Casting SPELs in Lisp - The Comic Book!
  55.8 ( 27.4/ 27.0/ 17.8)     29  Go Fish game in Lisp
  39.0 ( 23.1/ 15.2/  9.7)     20  Lisp Game Engine
  35.6 ( 14.1/ 21.3/ 13.2)     18  Replacing subsequences
  30.3 ( 17.9/ 11.3/  4.9)     18  Bignum limits

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

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

1.000  (  1.6/   1.6)      5  Simple Applications for learning FTP
0.850  (  3.6/   4.2)      5  How does rationalize work?
0.834  (  4.7/   5.6)      3  SBCL, udp sockets and sendto
0.797  (  6.8/   8.5)      6  Python gets macros
0.793  ( 11.1/  14.0)      9  Profiling Lisp code
0.769  (  6.5/   8.5)      9  Re Profiling Lisp code
0.738  (  5.6/   7.6)      4  how do I access f77 libraries on linux (for lapack and blas)?
0.731  (  4.0/   5.5)      7  GUI programming + lisp?
0.725  (  3.5/   4.9)     10  FORMAT question.
0.722  (  2.6/   3.6)      5  Where is the class constructors/destructors in common lisp

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

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

0.534  (  1.7 /  3.2)      3  Lisp GUI How-to [was Re: cells-gtk screen shots]
0.530  ( 29.3 / 55.3)     41  Python gets macros - now XML does too
0.508  ( 21.6 / 42.6)     31  cells-gtk screen shots
0.502  (  7.0 / 14.0)      4  RDNZL (.NET for Common Lisp) - please test
0.488  (  0.4 /  0.9)      3  dot meaning
0.457  ( 17.2 / 37.7)     39  Novice: problem with atoms showing up in caps with append
0.439  (  4.9 / 11.1)     10  C++ sucks for games.... oh really?
0.437  (  4.9 / 11.3)     18  Bignum limits
0.435  (  2.2 /  5.0)      4  lisp compiling to elf
0.367  (  1.7 /  4.6)      6  #| comenting style |#

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

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

      11  comp.lang.c++
      10  comp.games.development.programming.misc
       7  comp.lang.fortran
       7  comp.lang.pop
       2  comp.lang.scheme
       1  comp.lang.python
       1  control.cancel
       1  comp.os.linux.misc
       1  chile.test

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

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

       8  Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
       4  etamp <···@etamp.net>
       4  Aaron Sloman <········@cs.bham.ac.uk>
       4  "Tim Prince" <·······@nospamcomputer.org>
       4  Aaron Sloman <···@cs.bham.ac.uk>
       2  Nathan Mates <······@visi.com>
       2  "Phlip" <·········@yahoo.com>
       2  "Pablo" <············@earthlink.net>
       2  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
       2  rif <···@mit.edu>