From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <c04pvi$12suth$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 01 Feb 2004 07:53:14 GMT and ending at
08 Feb 2004 06:40:27 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:  180
Articles: 908 (381 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  76
Volume generated: 2293.7 kb
    - headers:    955.5 kb (15,714 lines)
    - bodies:     1280.2 kb (32,490 lines)
    - original:   794.3 kb (21,815 lines)
    - signatures: 57.1 kb (1,323 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.620

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 5.0
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 63 posters
    s:      9.2 posts
Posts per thread: 11.9
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 27 threads
    s:      28.2 posts
Message size: 2586.7 bytes
    - header:     1077.6 bytes (17.3 lines)
    - body:       1443.8 bytes (35.8 lines)
    - original:   895.8 bytes (24.0 lines)
    - signature:  64.4 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   68   199.4 ( 76.5/122.8/ 53.6)  Dave Roberts <·····@re-move.droberts.com>
   44   117.7 ( 43.9/ 54.4/ 26.7)  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
   43    90.8 ( 50.5/ 40.1/ 18.7)  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
   31    70.5 ( 32.3/ 38.1/ 18.6)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   27    81.0 ( 26.2/ 48.5/ 27.8)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
   27    87.6 ( 37.3/ 50.3/ 21.8)  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
   27    71.5 ( 23.7/ 47.7/ 31.9)  Henrik Motakef <············@henrik-motakef.de>
   27    69.0 ( 35.3/ 30.7/ 19.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   23    41.7 ( 27.5/ 12.2/  6.7)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
   22    56.8 ( 28.8/ 28.0/ 14.2)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

These posters accounted for 37.3% of all articles.

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

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

 199.4 ( 76.5/122.8/ 53.6)     68  Dave Roberts <·····@re-move.droberts.com>
 122.3 ( 16.3/106.0/ 93.3)     13  The only true Barbara Schwarz - other postings with my name are forgeries <·············@myway.com>
 117.7 ( 43.9/ 54.4/ 26.7)     44  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
  90.8 ( 50.5/ 40.1/ 18.7)     43  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
  87.6 ( 37.3/ 50.3/ 21.8)     27  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
  81.0 ( 26.2/ 48.5/ 27.8)     27  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
  71.5 ( 23.7/ 47.7/ 31.9)     27  Henrik Motakef <············@henrik-motakef.de>
  70.5 ( 32.3/ 38.1/ 18.6)     31  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
  69.0 ( 35.3/ 30.7/ 19.5)     27  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  56.8 ( 28.8/ 28.0/ 14.2)     22  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

These posters accounted for 42.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.939  ( 11.1 / 11.9)     12  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.929  ( 12.3 / 13.2)      6  Alan Crowe <····@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.880  ( 93.3 /106.0)     13  The only true Barbara Schwarz - other postings with my name are forgeries <·············@myway.com>
0.863  (  7.3 /  8.5)      6  Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.798  (  8.4 / 10.6)      5  Rayiner Hashem <·······@mindspring.com>
0.790  (  7.8 /  9.9)      5  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.774  (  5.4 /  6.9)      6  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······································@justmail.de>
0.757  (  9.6 / 12.6)     10  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.751  ( 10.8 / 14.4)     11  Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.743  (  6.2 /  8.4)      6  Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>

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

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

0.504  (  2.0 /  3.9)      5  Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0.491  ( 26.7 / 54.4)     44  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.486  ( 18.6 / 38.1)     31  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.481  (  3.6 /  7.4)      9  =?iso-8859-1?q?Nils_G=F6sche?= <···@cartan.de>
0.466  ( 18.7 / 40.1)     43  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.453  (  0.7 /  1.5)      5  Stefan Scholl <······@no-spoon.de>
0.436  ( 53.6 /122.8)     68  Dave Roberts <·····@re-move.droberts.com>
0.434  ( 21.8 / 50.3)     27  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.416  (  2.2 /  5.3)      6  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
0.378  (  1.7 /  4.4)      5  Nicolas Neuss <·············@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>

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

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

  179  Understanding #' and function variables
  109  Executables: Why all the abuse?
   91  State machine representation
   82  Stop thinking in C
   37  Correction
   29  moderation of abuse?
   27  How to use packages?
   24  Which Emacs CL mode?
   22  Creating standalone executables
   19  Can I write brutal 3D shooters in lisp?

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

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

 611.5 (241.4/360.8/215.7)    179  Understanding #' and function variables
 256.6 (109.3/141.5/ 93.1)    109  Executables: Why all the abuse?
 205.4 ( 96.4/101.7/ 54.4)     91  State machine representation
 164.5 ( 79.1/ 80.2/ 44.9)     82  Stop thinking in C
  79.9 ( 39.8/ 37.4/ 21.7)     37  Correction
  74.7 ( 22.9/ 48.1/ 30.5)     27  How to use packages?
  50.6 ( 22.3/ 27.6/ 17.1)     29  moderation of abuse?
  48.4 ( 15.4/ 31.8/ 18.0)     16  compile
  47.2 ( 17.3/ 29.0/ 18.7)     18  moderation of abuse
  46.8 ( 25.2/ 20.9/ 10.9)     18  Cello Rising

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

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

0.842  (  3.4/   4.1)      4  plugins and lisp
0.826  (  7.6/   9.1)      5  CLISP vs. CMUCL vs. SBCL
0.819  ( 21.4/  26.1)      6  OT: Newbie question re: genetic algorithms/AI
0.817  ( 12.8/  15.7)     10  Exercises, chap. 3, Graham
0.795  (  9.0/  11.3)      3  [NOISE] Re: David Tourtezky rant
0.774  ( 18.6/  24.0)     13  `Standalone Executables'
0.765  (  1.9/   2.5)      3  Problem with global variables [i.e. showing my ignorance]
0.764  (  6.1/   8.0)      5  XEmacs + Ilisp + Clisp on Windows XP
0.748  ( 11.8/  15.7)      7  Quieter glyphs than parentheses
0.718  ( 12.7/  17.7)     13  PLEASE IGNORE THAT ONE!  All screwed up, multi-duplicated text, ...

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

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

0.519  (  3.7 /  7.1)      3  McCLIM [was 'Cello Rising']
0.519  (  9.6 / 18.5)     13  LISP routines to do symbolic differentiation
0.497  (  3.8 /  7.7)      3  SBCL/Threaded Application Question
0.483  (  4.8 / 10.0)     19  Can I write brutal 3D shooters in lisp?
0.459  (  3.2 /  7.0)      8  Programmer interested in learning LISP (or not?) - recommendation?
0.449  (  3.9 /  8.7)     11  To use or not to use CLOS
0.435  (  0.6 /  1.3)      3  obfuscated Lisp [was Re: Spam]
0.431  (  0.6 /  1.3)      3  Documentation for Concordia and similar projects
0.408  (  0.4 /  0.9)      3  ilisp download
0.355  (  4.1 / 11.7)      8  Lisp for OpenStep/NeXTSTEP

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

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

      14  alt.religion.scientology
      11  alt.clearing.technology
       9  comp.lang.scheme
       8  sci.math.symbolic
       4  comp.lang.functional
       4  comp.ai.genetic
       3  misc.education
       2  comp.ai.games

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

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

      16  The only true Barbara Schwarz - other postings with my name are forgeries <·············@myway.com>
       4  "ewsnead" <········@comcast.net>
       4  Jim Ford <·······@excite.com>
       3  Richard Fateman <·······@cs.berkeley.edu>
       2  Ketil Malde <·····@ii.uib.no>
       2  Richard Fateman <········@sbcglobal.net>
       2  Fergus Henderson <···@cs.mu.oz.au>
       2  Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
       2  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
       2  Tim Lavoie <········@spamcop.net>