From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <3378v7F3som0tU2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 19 Dec 2004 07:50:32 GMT and ending at
26 Dec 2004 02:47:41 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
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Posters: 72
Articles: 183 (72 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 34
Volume generated: 420.1 kb
- headers: 173.9 kb (3,245 lines)
- bodies: 237.1 kb (6,769 lines)
- original: 141.8 kb (4,346 lines)
- signatures: 8.9 kb (217 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.598
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 2.5
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 30 posters
s: 2.6 posts
Posts per thread: 5.4
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 10 threads
s: 6.9 posts
Message size: 2350.5 bytes
- header: 973.1 bytes (17.7 lines)
- body: 1326.8 bytes (37.0 lines)
- original: 793.4 bytes (23.7 lines)
- signature: 49.6 bytes (1.2 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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15 28.3 ( 10.6/ 17.7/ 10.5) Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
14 36.1 ( 10.2/ 22.9/ 15.1) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
7 13.9 ( 7.7/ 5.3/ 2.1) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
7 11.4 ( 6.5/ 5.0/ 2.1) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
6 11.7 ( 4.8/ 6.6/ 3.1) Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
6 19.3 ( 6.4/ 12.9/ 6.1) "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·······@NhOoStPmAaMil.com>
6 12.5 ( 7.3/ 5.2/ 3.3) Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
5 11.9 ( 5.9/ 6.0/ 4.3) Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
5 10.3 ( 2.8/ 7.2/ 3.1) Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>
5 10.8 ( 5.6/ 4.8/ 2.9) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
These posters accounted for 41.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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36.1 ( 10.2/ 22.9/ 15.1) 14 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
28.3 ( 10.6/ 17.7/ 10.5) 15 Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
22.4 ( 4.8/ 17.6/ 7.7) 4 "Mike Ajemian" <············@verizon.net>
19.3 ( 6.4/ 12.9/ 6.1) 6 "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·······@NhOoStPmAaMil.com>
15.8 ( 2.5/ 12.9/ 5.7) 2 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
13.9 ( 7.7/ 5.3/ 2.1) 7 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
12.5 ( 7.3/ 5.2/ 3.3) 6 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
11.9 ( 5.9/ 6.0/ 4.3) 5 Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
11.8 ( 5.3/ 6.5/ 5.8) 4 "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
11.7 ( 4.8/ 6.6/ 3.1) 6 Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
These posters accounted for 43.8% 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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0.710 ( 4.3 / 6.0) 5 Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.660 ( 15.1 / 22.9) 14 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.630 ( 3.3 / 5.2) 6 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.609 ( 2.9 / 4.8) 5 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.594 ( 10.5 / 17.7) 15 Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.475 ( 6.1 / 12.9) 6 "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·······@NhOoStPmAaMil.com>
0.469 ( 3.1 / 6.6) 6 Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
0.431 ( 3.1 / 7.2) 5 Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>
0.427 ( 2.1 / 5.0) 7 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.397 ( 2.1 / 5.3) 7 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.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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0.710 ( 4.3 / 6.0) 5 Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.660 ( 15.1 / 22.9) 14 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.630 ( 3.3 / 5.2) 6 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.609 ( 2.9 / 4.8) 5 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.594 ( 10.5 / 17.7) 15 Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.475 ( 6.1 / 12.9) 6 "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·······@NhOoStPmAaMil.com>
0.469 ( 3.1 / 6.6) 6 Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
0.431 ( 3.1 / 7.2) 5 Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>
0.427 ( 2.1 / 5.0) 7 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.397 ( 2.1 / 5.3) 7 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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22 What's so special about IF?
20 copyright notice in Art of the Metaobject Protocol
16 CLisp case sensitivity
13 Subtracting dates and DST
13 Garbage Collection and Games
8 method-combination-type list
8 Python gets macros - now XML does too
7 defconstant name of structure
7 converting dynamic to lexical scope
7 File versioning on TOPS-20, et alia -- by diffs?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
44.6 ( 18.4/ 25.2/ 16.2) 22 What's so special about IF?
44.1 ( 21.5/ 21.9/ 13.5) 20 copyright notice in Art of the Metaobject Protocol
36.0 ( 8.5/ 27.6/ 12.4) 7 Slot accessors and syntax
32.9 ( 15.2/ 16.0/ 8.2) 16 CLisp case sensitivity
29.2 ( 11.9/ 16.8/ 10.5) 13 Subtracting dates and DST
25.4 ( 13.9/ 11.1/ 7.1) 13 Garbage Collection and Games
20.1 ( 9.4/ 10.3/ 4.7) 8 Python gets macros - now XML does too
19.0 ( 3.4/ 15.2/ 6.9) 3 flets in macros
16.9 ( 6.7/ 10.2/ 6.1) 8 method-combination-type list
15.1 ( 5.0/ 9.7/ 4.7) 5 Bignum limits
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.862 ( 0.8/ 0.9) 3 cl-posix mail list?
0.740 ( 4.0/ 5.4) 5 Lisp Compiler/Environment recommendation needed
0.725 ( 6.0/ 8.2) 7 converting dynamic to lexical scope
0.642 ( 16.2/ 25.2) 22 What's so special about IF?
0.640 ( 7.1/ 11.1) 13 Garbage Collection and Games
0.624 ( 10.5/ 16.8) 13 Subtracting dates and DST
0.614 ( 13.5/ 21.9) 20 copyright notice in Art of the Metaobject Protocol
0.595 ( 6.1/ 10.2) 8 method-combination-type list
0.581 ( 0.8/ 1.3) 3 test equal of two vectors
0.562 ( 1.2/ 2.2) 4 Given enough eyeballs, CLiki spam is shallow
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.516 ( 8.2 / 16.0) 16 CLisp case sensitivity
0.513 ( 1.7 / 3.3) 7 File versioning on TOPS-20, et alia -- by diffs?
0.487 ( 0.9 / 1.9) 3 ~:{...~} equivalent to ~{~1{...~:}~}?
0.485 ( 4.7 / 9.7) 5 Bignum limits
0.474 ( 2.7 / 5.7) 7 defconstant name of structure
0.460 ( 3.2 / 7.1) 6 Yet another FORMAT questionn, ·@? this time
0.454 ( 4.7 / 10.3) 8 Python gets macros - now XML does too
0.454 ( 6.9 / 15.2) 3 flets in macros
0.450 ( 12.4 / 27.6) 7 Slot accessors and syntax
0.431 ( 1.5 / 3.6) 5 what should extract-lambda-list return on &rest &optional etc?
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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7 comp.cad.cadence
2 comp.lang.fortran
2 comp.lang.pop
1 comp.software-eng
1 comp.theory
1 comp.lang.functional
1 comp.lang.misc
1 comp.security.misc
1 comp.lang.scheme
1 comp.lang.prolog
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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11 Don Sannella <···@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
2 Aaron Sloman <···@cs.bham.ac.uk>
2 Aaron Sloman <········@cs.bham.ac.uk>
2 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
2 Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
2 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
1 Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
1 Alexander Schmolck <··········@gmx.net>
0 Bruce Stephens <············@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
0 ········@gmail.com