From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <bvib99$sn56t$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 25 Jan 2004 07:08:29 GMT and ending at
01 Feb 2004 06:50:34 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:  189
Articles: 828 (390 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  62
Volume generated: 2058.6 kb
    - headers:    896.0 kb (14,667 lines)
    - bodies:     1100.9 kb (27,736 lines)
    - original:   669.4 kb (18,108 lines)
    - signatures: 60.9 kb (1,469 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.608

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.4
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 86 posters
    s:      8.5 posts
Posts per thread: 13.4
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 16 threads
    s:      34.0 posts
Message size: 2545.9 bytes
    - header:     1108.1 bytes (17.7 lines)
    - body:       1361.5 bytes (33.5 lines)
    - original:   827.9 bytes (21.9 lines)
    - signature:  75.3 bytes (1.8 lines)

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

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

   67   202.3 ( 85.5/104.7/ 59.1)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   41   100.1 ( 44.1/ 56.0/ 28.8)  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
   36   107.8 ( 43.5/ 60.8/ 36.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   35    87.9 ( 34.7/ 37.7/ 17.6)  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
   30   117.4 ( 29.4/ 82.0/ 71.6)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   25    51.5 ( 27.6/ 23.9/ 12.2)  "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
   24    54.5 ( 27.7/ 26.8/ 14.0)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   21    35.7 ( 22.0/ 13.7/  7.9)  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>
   19    44.9 ( 19.5/ 24.4/ 14.1)  Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>
   19    50.6 ( 20.6/ 30.0/ 11.5)  ·······@cs.nyu.edu

These posters accounted for 38.3% of all articles.

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

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

 202.3 ( 85.5/104.7/ 59.1)     67  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
 117.4 ( 29.4/ 82.0/ 71.6)     30  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
 107.8 ( 43.5/ 60.8/ 36.5)     36  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
 100.1 ( 44.1/ 56.0/ 28.8)     41  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
  87.9 ( 34.7/ 37.7/ 17.6)     35  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
  54.5 ( 27.7/ 26.8/ 14.0)     24  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  51.5 ( 27.6/ 23.9/ 12.2)     25  "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
  51.1 ( 18.2/ 32.4/ 20.5)     15  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  50.6 ( 20.6/ 30.0/ 11.5)     19  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
  44.9 ( 19.5/ 24.4/ 14.1)     19  Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>

These posters accounted for 42.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.873  ( 71.6 / 82.0)     30  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.772  (  4.5 /  5.8)      9  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
0.749  (  7.3 /  9.7)      6  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.741  ( 10.5 / 14.2)     11  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.730  ( 14.5 / 19.8)     17  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.713  (  9.5 / 13.4)      8  Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.695  (  4.8 /  6.9)      6  Robert STRANDH <·······@labri.fr>
0.677  (  6.2 /  9.1)      5  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.654  (  8.0 / 12.3)      9  Henrik Motakef <············@henrik-motakef.de>
0.640  (  1.9 /  2.9)      5  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>

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

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

0.521  ( 14.0 / 26.8)     24  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.514  ( 28.8 / 56.0)     41  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.510  ( 12.2 / 23.9)     25  "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
0.500  (  3.0 /  6.1)      6  Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0.468  ( 17.6 / 37.7)     35  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.455  (  3.8 /  8.3)      7  Feuer <·····@his.com>
0.414  (  6.8 / 16.4)      5  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.401  (  8.5 / 21.1)     18  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.389  (  1.6 /  4.1)      7  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
0.383  ( 11.5 / 30.0)     19  ·······@cs.nyu.edu

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

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

  222  Lisp's future
  127  Static/Strong/Implicit Typing
   47  articles debunking computing fads and myths
   45  Cello Rising [was Re: Lisp's future]
   26  Cello Rising
   26  intersection
   25  Length of Lisp programs
   22  compile
   21  builtin lists and Intel SSE support?
   18  Lisp2Perl - Lisp to perl compiler

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

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

 589.6 (240.5/334.7/206.6)    222  Lisp's future
 311.3 (138.7/161.2/103.7)    127  Static/Strong/Implicit Typing
 142.3 ( 56.2/ 80.9/ 48.6)     45  Cello Rising [was Re: Lisp's future]
 110.4 ( 60.0/ 49.4/ 26.2)     47  articles debunking computing fads and myths
  93.5 ( 38.2/ 53.1/ 35.2)     26  Cello Rising
  70.4 ( 26.9/ 41.2/ 20.9)     21  builtin lists and Intel SSE support?
  66.6 ( 24.1/ 40.5/ 23.3)     26  intersection
  48.8 ( 23.5/ 24.0/ 10.3)     18  Lisp2Perl - Lisp to perl compiler
  44.3 ( 22.4/ 20.4/ 11.1)     25  Length of Lisp programs
  41.3 ( 20.7/ 18.5/ 11.7)     22  compile

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

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

0.785  (  3.2/   4.0)      4  SVUC again
0.745  (  5.4/   7.2)     11  Mac + Lisp ?
0.728  (  1.6/   2.1)      3  CLIM CALENDAR
0.728  ( 12.9/  17.7)     17  Programmer interested in learning LISP (or not?) - recommendation?
0.706  (  4.6/   6.5)      7  Multi-platform graphics library
0.693  ( 10.3/  14.9)     10  perl bug File::Basename and Perl's nature
0.688  (  8.4/  12.2)     15  Norvig on Lisp vs Python revised
0.663  ( 35.2/  53.1)     26  Cello Rising
0.643  (103.7/ 161.2)    127  Static/Strong/Implicit Typing
0.634  ( 11.7/  18.5)     22  compile

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

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

0.529  (  6.0 / 11.4)     15  MS discovers S-expressions
0.527  (  1.7 /  3.3)      3  cmucl + mcClim on fedora?
0.521  (  6.0 / 11.5)      8  Programming languages for the very young
0.509  ( 20.9 / 41.2)     21  builtin lists and Intel SSE support?
0.505  ( 10.2 / 20.1)     14  Lisp for OpenStep/NeXTSTEP
0.475  (  1.0 /  2.0)      3  obfuscated Lisp [was Re: Spam]
0.468  (  5.9 / 12.6)     12  Size of Lisp teams
0.445  (  1.5 /  3.4)      3  Cells In Space! [was Re: Mars Rover failure]
0.430  ( 10.3 / 24.0)     18  Lisp2Perl - Lisp to perl compiler
0.377  (  0.6 /  1.5)      4  Integer with base preserved!

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

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

      82  comp.lang.scheme
      56  comp.lang.functional
      23  comp.lang.perl.misc
      11  comp.ai.games
      10  comp.lang.python
      10  comp.ai.genetic
      10  sci.math.symbolic
      10  comp.lang.ruby
       5  comp.lang.logo
       5  comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips

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

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

      16  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
      16  Thant Tessman <·····@acm.org>
      13  Feuer <·····@his.com>
      10  Xah Lee <···@xahlee.org>
      10  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       8  Michele Dondi <········@tiscalinet.it>
       7  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
       7  Michele Simionato <·················@poste.it>
       6  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
       6  Sander Vesik <······@haldjas.folklore.ee>