From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <c1s5pc$1m2g48$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 22 Feb 2004 07:37:36 GMT and ending at
29 Feb 2004 06:47:35 GMT.
Notes
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- 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: 164
Articles: 582 (272 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 83
Volume generated: 1391.8 kb
- headers: 580.1 kb (10,497 lines)
- bodies: 779.2 kb (20,898 lines)
- original: 466.1 kb (13,672 lines)
- signatures: 32.0 kb (866 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.598
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.5
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 72 posters
s: 4.7 posts
Posts per thread: 7.0
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 20 threads
s: 21.4 posts
Message size: 2448.9 bytes
- header: 1020.7 bytes (18.0 lines)
- body: 1371.0 bytes (35.9 lines)
- original: 820.1 bytes (23.5 lines)
- signature: 56.2 bytes (1.5 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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32 70.9 ( 34.9/ 31.8/ 19.1) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
24 58.9 ( 19.6/ 33.4/ 19.0) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
24 42.9 ( 25.6/ 17.4/ 11.7) Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
23 83.1 ( 26.6/ 54.5/ 24.7) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
18 43.7 ( 17.1/ 26.6/ 18.7) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
16 34.3 ( 19.1/ 12.5/ 7.5) David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
13 27.5 ( 12.7/ 14.4/ 8.2) Artem Baguinski <····@v2.nl>
12 28.8 ( 12.5/ 15.2/ 9.7) Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
11 18.3 ( 11.1/ 7.1/ 3.4) Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
10 16.9 ( 8.4/ 7.8/ 3.5) John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
These posters accounted for 31.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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83.1 ( 26.6/ 54.5/ 24.7) 23 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
70.9 ( 34.9/ 31.8/ 19.1) 32 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
58.9 ( 19.6/ 33.4/ 19.0) 24 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
43.7 ( 17.1/ 26.6/ 18.7) 18 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
42.9 ( 25.6/ 17.4/ 11.7) 24 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
40.4 ( 6.7/ 33.7/ 20.8) 5 "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
34.3 ( 19.1/ 12.5/ 7.5) 16 David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
29.0 ( 10.6/ 18.3/ 14.8) 8 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
28.8 ( 12.5/ 15.2/ 9.7) 12 Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
27.7 ( 2.5/ 25.2/ 24.6) 2 Robert E. Brown <······@speakeasy.net>
These posters accounted for 33.0% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.807 ( 14.8 / 18.3) 8 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.781 ( 7.5 / 9.6) 9 Nick Patavalis <····@efault.net>
0.760 ( 3.5 / 4.6) 6 Daniel Barlow <···@telent.net>
0.726 ( 3.5 / 4.8) 7 ···@agharta.de
0.726 ( 3.3 / 4.5) 5 Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.702 ( 18.7 / 26.6) 18 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.688 ( 10.8 / 15.6) 9 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.681 ( 8.2 / 12.1) 6 "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.675 ( 11.7 / 17.4) 24 Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
0.669 ( 2.9 / 4.3) 6 Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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0.501 ( 7.0 / 13.9) 9 "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
0.494 ( 2.2 / 4.5) 5 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.486 ( 7.8 / 16.1) 8 Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>
0.481 ( 3.4 / 7.1) 11 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.454 ( 24.7 / 54.5) 23 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.445 ( 3.5 / 7.8) 10 John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
0.421 ( 4.5 / 10.8) 9 james anderson <··············@setf.de>
0.312 ( 2.0 / 6.5) 6 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.308 ( 4.7 / 15.1) 7 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@jasoegaard.dk>
0.222 ( 1.6 / 7.2) 8 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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65 Popularity of programming languages
59 Advantages of Lisp?
50 Scheme macros
29 lisp and security
28 Has anyone done anything interesting with cl-modlisp?
25 A good open-source CL implementation?
23 Why is lisp so weird?
23 rational arithmetic library?
17 GUI suggestion
12 Bison/Yacc for Common Lisp?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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182.3 ( 59.7/120.4/ 59.8) 50 Scheme macros
159.8 ( 64.4/ 90.9/ 53.9) 65 Popularity of programming languages
131.5 ( 68.9/ 59.0/ 33.6) 59 Advantages of Lisp?
60.5 ( 26.4/ 32.6/ 16.8) 29 lisp and security
49.9 ( 26.8/ 20.8/ 12.0) 28 Has anyone done anything interesting with cl-modlisp?
47.5 ( 21.3/ 25.1/ 14.4) 25 A good open-source CL implementation?
44.5 ( 23.1/ 20.5/ 10.7) 23 rational arithmetic library?
43.7 ( 11.5/ 31.7/ 28.4) 12 Bison/Yacc for Common Lisp?
43.3 ( 21.1/ 21.1/ 13.3) 23 Why is lisp so weird?
34.2 ( 16.5/ 16.5/ 8.9) 17 GUI suggestion
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.896 ( 28.4/ 31.7) 12 Bison/Yacc for Common Lisp?
0.793 ( 4.7/ 5.9) 3 PLEASE IGNORE THAT ONE! All screwed up, multi-duplicated text, ...
0.768 ( 2.2/ 2.8) 4 Are doc-strings deprecated?
0.748 ( 2.8/ 3.7) 4 trying to understanmd packages
0.737 ( 4.6/ 6.3) 7 Problem Compiling in Corman Lisp 2.5
0.733 ( 3.2/ 4.4) 4 [OT] event horizons Re: Advantages of Lisp?
0.688 ( 2.7/ 3.9) 3 dynamicness (dinamicity?) of lisp and its practical side
0.688 ( 9.1/ 13.2) 4 object or struct?
0.678 ( 4.6/ 6.7) 8 OT: iBook battery
0.675 ( 3.3/ 4.9) 3 Question about compile-file
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.486 ( 7.5 / 15.3) 11 trying to understand packages
0.481 ( 13.7 / 28.6) 5 K-Means Algorithm
0.466 ( 1.3 / 2.8) 4 CMUCL alien + slime: can i see alien's stdout?
0.464 ( 2.4 / 5.3) 6 gensym-macrolet ? [ Re: Scheme macros
0.459 ( 2.1 / 4.6) 3 read / prin1 question
0.451 ( 3.5 / 7.8) 9 function call/keyword indirection
0.424 ( 0.8 / 2.0) 3 Which free common lisp do you recommend?
0.390 ( 4.8 / 12.4) 10 Most portable way to make pathname?
0.378 ( 0.4 / 1.1) 3 moderation of abuse?
0.371 ( 0.7 / 1.9) 3 <pop!> Cello for Linux
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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21 comp.emacs
16 comp.lang.scheme
14 sci.math.symbolic
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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11 ·······@noshpam.lbl.government
4 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
4 "Scott G. Miller" <········@freenetproject.org>
3 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
2 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
2 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
2 David Holland <········@wanadoo.nl>
2 David Kastrup <···@gnu.org>
2 Carl Devore <······@math.udel.edu>
2 Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>