From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <32kqbaF3n304qU2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 12 Dec 2004 07:53:18 GMT and ending at
19 Dec 2004 06:02:17 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:  113
Articles: 408 (186 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  67
Volume generated: 899.5 kb
    - headers:    388.3 kb (7,264 lines)
    - bodies:     486.9 kb (13,406 lines)
    - original:   283.4 kb (8,602 lines)
    - signatures: 23.9 kb (614 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.582

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.6
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 51 posters
    s:      4.5 posts
Posts per thread: 6.1
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      12.3 posts
Message size: 2257.7 bytes
    - header:     974.7 bytes (17.8 lines)
    - body:       1222.0 bytes (32.9 lines)
    - original:   711.2 bytes (21.1 lines)
    - signature:  60.0 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   26    63.0 ( 21.9/ 37.2/ 21.7)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   20    50.7 ( 15.1/ 35.6/ 23.2)  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
   19    45.2 ( 21.2/ 21.8/  9.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   17    49.2 ( 20.1/ 26.9/ 12.6)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   16    46.1 ( 12.9/ 33.2/ 23.4)  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
   14    18.2 ( 10.6/  6.3/  3.7)  ········@agharta.de
   13    29.3 ( 14.8/ 14.5/  7.8)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   11    18.4 (  8.5/  9.9/  3.9)  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
   10    19.8 (  9.2/ 10.7/  6.0)  Carl Shapiro <·············@panix.com>
   10    19.0 (  9.8/  9.2/  4.7)  Matti J Karki <·······@cs.helsinki.fi>

These posters accounted for 38.2% of all articles.

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

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

  63.0 ( 21.9/ 37.2/ 21.7)     26  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  50.7 ( 15.1/ 35.6/ 23.2)     20  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
  49.2 ( 20.1/ 26.9/ 12.6)     17  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  47.2 ( 12.3/ 33.0/ 19.0)      9  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  46.1 ( 12.9/ 33.2/ 23.4)     16  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
  45.2 ( 21.2/ 21.8/  9.7)     19  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  29.3 ( 14.8/ 14.5/  7.8)     13  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  26.1 ( 12.8/ 13.3/  8.9)      9  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
  19.8 (  9.2/ 10.7/  6.0)     10  Carl Shapiro <·············@panix.com>
  19.0 (  9.8/  9.2/  4.7)     10  Matti J Karki <·······@cs.helsinki.fi>

These posters accounted for 44.0% of the total volume.

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

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

0.983  (  3.8 /  3.9)      6  "ramza2" <············@gmail.com>
0.922  (  4.7 /  5.1)      6  "Philip Haddad" <·············@gmail.com>
0.772  (  4.7 /  6.1)      6  Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.714  (  4.1 /  5.8)      7  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.704  ( 23.4 / 33.2)     16  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.670  (  8.9 / 13.3)      9  Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
0.653  ( 23.2 / 35.6)     20  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
0.639  (  2.6 /  4.0)      5  Friedrich Dominicus <···················@q-software-solutions.de>
0.587  (  3.7 /  6.3)     14  ········@agharta.de
0.583  ( 21.7 / 37.2)     26  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>

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

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

0.517  (  4.7 /  9.2)     10  Matti J Karki <·······@cs.helsinki.fi>
0.488  (  3.1 /  6.3)      6  Wade Humeniuk <····················@telus.net>
0.469  ( 12.6 / 26.9)     17  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.444  (  9.7 / 21.8)     19  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.391  (  3.9 /  9.9)     11  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.372  (  2.3 /  6.2)      6  David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>
0.355  (  1.8 /  5.2)      5  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.353  (  2.2 /  6.1)      6  "David R. Sky" <···@viper.wapvi.bc.ca>
0.322  (  1.6 /  4.9)      9  Julian Stecklina <··········@web.de>
0.234  (  1.1 /  4.7)      6  jayessay <······@foo.com>

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

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

   82  CLisp case sensitivity
   40  Slot accessors and syntax
   24  Question about backquotes
   17  (; comment suggestion)
   16  flets in macros
   15  Given enough eyeballs, CLiki spam is shallow
   12  Argument evaluation order
   12  FORMAT question.
   11  Garbage Collection and Games
   10  FFI and function pointers

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

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

 212.8 ( 87.5/119.3/ 64.9)     82  CLisp case sensitivity
 104.9 ( 36.1/ 66.8/ 44.1)     40  Slot accessors and syntax
  53.2 ( 16.2/ 35.7/ 15.4)     16  flets in macros
  50.9 ( 24.1/ 25.5/ 14.5)     24  Question about backquotes
  27.3 ( 14.9/ 11.7/  5.6)     15  Given enough eyeballs, CLiki spam is shallow
  25.1 ( 14.0/ 10.7/  6.9)     17  (; comment suggestion)
  24.0 (  8.6/ 14.9/  8.4)      9  Vancouver : Gregor Kiczales at Meetup.
  23.8 ( 11.1/ 12.4/  6.3)     12  Argument evaluation order
  21.7 (  9.8/ 11.5/  7.7)     11  Garbage Collection and Games
  20.2 ( 11.8/  7.4/  3.3)     12  FORMAT question.

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

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

0.875  (  9.3/  10.6)      6  help me understand some codes
0.778  (  4.1/   5.2)      3  generating user guide with lisp
0.740  (  2.8/   3.8)      4  Replacing subsequences
0.731  (  2.7/   3.6)      5  Another question, pass a function to the function pointer
0.708  (  8.1/  11.4)      5  Unicode and ANSI Common Lisp
0.681  (  2.7/   4.0)      3  Fun? with pathnames
0.669  (  7.7/  11.5)     11  Garbage Collection and Games
0.660  ( 44.1/  66.8)     40  Slot accessors and syntax
0.644  (  6.9/  10.7)     17  (; comment suggestion)
0.643  (  2.3/   3.6)      5  Windows Console Functions

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

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

0.475  (  5.6 / 11.7)     15  Given enough eyeballs, CLiki spam is shallow
0.464  (  1.3 /  2.7)      5  Question about structures
0.463  (  4.0 /  8.6)      5  Python gets macros - now XML does too
0.456  (  0.9 /  2.0)      3  Why C# will fail (and why Lisp didn't), a weird approach
0.445  (  2.5 /  5.6)      7  Yet another FORMAT question: column width as parameter
0.443  (  3.3 /  7.4)     12  FORMAT question.
0.431  ( 15.4 / 35.7)     16  flets in macros
0.425  (  0.7 /  1.7)      4  RDB Idioms in LISP
0.407  (  1.4 /  3.3)      5  Lisp code security
0.290  (  1.7 /  5.8)      5  s-exp to xml?!?

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

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

       2  comp.lang.scheme
       1  comp.lang.pop
       1  comp.lang.fortran

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

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

       2  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <················@mediasec.de>
       1  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
       1  Dominique Boucher <·········@sympatico.ca>
       0  Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>
       0  Bruce Stephens <············@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
       0  Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
       0  Peter Herth <·····@netcologne.de>
       0  "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·············@hotmail.com>
       0  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
       0  Paul Dietz <············@motorola.com>