From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <bt8dsj$4agbb$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 28 Dec 2003 07:26:48 GMT and ending at
04 Jan 2004 06:08:08 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: 119
Articles: 442 (183 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 40
Volume generated: 1038.3 kb
- headers: 460.0 kb (7,755 lines)
- bodies: 549.4 kb (13,991 lines)
- original: 321.0 kb (9,075 lines)
- signatures: 28.4 kb (680 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.584
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.7
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 53 posters
s: 5.3 posts
Posts per thread: 11.1
median: 3.5 posts
mode: 1 post - 10 threads
s: 23.1 posts
Message size: 2405.5 bytes
- header: 1065.8 bytes (17.5 lines)
- body: 1272.9 bytes (31.7 lines)
- original: 743.7 bytes (20.5 lines)
- signature: 65.8 bytes (1.5 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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23 40.4 ( 22.5/ 17.8/ 11.0) Paul Rubin <·············@NOSPAM.invalid>
22 43.3 ( 26.2/ 15.2/ 8.0) Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
20 33.6 ( 22.4/ 11.1/ 7.2) "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
19 52.0 ( 21.6/ 28.9/ 16.6) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
15 26.1 ( 16.6/ 9.4/ 4.0) Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
14 37.4 ( 15.0/ 21.9/ 12.4) Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
12 31.3 ( 14.0/ 14.4/ 8.2) Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
12 25.3 ( 13.6/ 10.1/ 4.1) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
11 31.4 ( 9.5/ 21.8/ 16.4) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
11 30.0 ( 13.2/ 16.8/ 5.9) ··············@setf.de
These posters accounted for 36.0% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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52.0 ( 21.6/ 28.9/ 16.6) 19 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
43.3 ( 26.2/ 15.2/ 8.0) 22 Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
40.4 ( 22.5/ 17.8/ 11.0) 23 Paul Rubin <·············@NOSPAM.invalid>
37.4 ( 15.0/ 21.9/ 12.4) 14 Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
33.6 ( 22.4/ 11.1/ 7.2) 20 "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
31.4 ( 9.5/ 21.8/ 16.4) 11 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
31.3 ( 14.0/ 14.4/ 8.2) 12 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
30.0 ( 13.2/ 16.8/ 5.9) 11 ··············@setf.de
30.0 ( 4.7/ 25.1/ 15.4) 3 =?iso-8859-1?q?Nils_G=F6sche?= <···@cartan.de>
27.9 ( 7.7/ 15.2/ 9.9) 9 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
These posters accounted for 34.4% 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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0.952 ( 6.4 / 6.7) 6 Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.775 ( 5.0 / 6.5) 8 David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.757 ( 11.6 / 15.3) 8 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.753 ( 16.4 / 21.8) 11 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.676 ( 3.0 / 4.5) 5 "Steve Ellis" <··········@blueyonder.co.uk>
0.651 ( 7.2 / 11.1) 20 "sajiimori" <··········@hotmail.com>
0.650 ( 9.9 / 15.2) 9 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.615 ( 3.7 / 6.0) 6 Kenneth P. Turvey <··@squeakydolphin.com>
0.614 ( 11.0 / 17.8) 23 Paul Rubin <·············@NOSPAM.invalid>
0.603 ( 9.4 / 15.6) 5 "cr88192" <·······@hotmail.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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0.479 ( 3.4 / 7.2) 8 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.437 ( 5.2 / 12.0) 6 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.427 ( 2.7 / 6.3) 7 "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
0.422 ( 4.0 / 9.4) 15 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.418 ( 6.4 / 15.3) 8 =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindberg?= <·······@nada.kth.se>
0.404 ( 4.1 / 10.1) 12 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.402 ( 1.9 / 4.6) 5 Takehiko Abe <····@com.mac>
0.395 ( 4.8 / 12.0) 8 Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.353 ( 5.9 / 16.8) 11 ··············@setf.de
0.352 ( 5.6 / 16.0) 6 Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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97 Lisp w/out GC
94 Why Lisp is too hard for me to use
42 [OT] Re: Linux & BSD history
24 Another algorithmic complexity question
23 garbage collector pauses, help?
19 GNU CLISP 2.32 released
16 symbol locking
14 Common-Lisp "Primitives"
10 creating passive socket
10 Windows version
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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252.3 (105.2/140.8/ 73.3) 94 Why Lisp is too hard for me to use
182.2 ( 98.4/ 78.8/ 47.9) 97 Lisp w/out GC
135.6 ( 65.2/ 68.7/ 38.2) 42 [OT] Re: Linux & BSD history
58.4 ( 21.7/ 35.0/ 17.3) 23 garbage collector pauses, help?
47.3 ( 14.8/ 30.8/ 17.9) 16 symbol locking
46.4 ( 26.5/ 18.0/ 10.3) 24 Another algorithmic complexity question
33.4 ( 11.8/ 18.5/ 12.3) 14 Common-Lisp "Primitives"
30.1 ( 3.9/ 26.2/ 20.5) 5 Lisp for low-level Systems Programming (was Re: Lisp w/out GC)
28.8 ( 16.8/ 11.2/ 6.0) 19 GNU CLISP 2.32 released
25.0 ( 9.4/ 15.1/ 7.9) 10 creating passive socket
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.781 ( 20.5/ 26.2) 5 Lisp for low-level Systems Programming (was Re: Lisp w/out GC)
0.778 ( 2.4/ 3.0) 3 Asm simulators/emulators?
0.729 ( 1.4/ 1.9) 3 Iterate through two lists, performing an operation on each element
0.723 ( 2.6/ 3.6) 3 questions
0.708 ( 4.7/ 6.6) 7 Forward chaining expert system recommendation
0.667 ( 12.3/ 18.5) 14 Common-Lisp "Primitives"
0.648 ( 2.8/ 4.3) 5 Any Suggestions for Someone Who Dislikes Emacs?
0.607 ( 47.9/ 78.8) 97 Lisp w/out GC
0.601 ( 4.4/ 7.3) 6 Lisp for low-level Systems Programming
0.582 ( 17.9/ 30.8) 16 symbol locking
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.542 ( 2.7 / 4.9) 10 Windows version
0.540 ( 4.2 / 7.8) 8 sort function
0.535 ( 6.0 / 11.2) 19 GNU CLISP 2.32 released
0.521 ( 73.3 /140.8) 94 Why Lisp is too hard for me to use
0.519 ( 7.9 / 15.1) 10 creating passive socket
0.494 ( 17.3 / 35.0) 23 garbage collector pauses, help?
0.475 ( 1.1 / 2.3) 4 Japan Common Lisp Seminar (free) on January 8, 2004
0.458 ( 4.5 / 9.8) 9 a few newbie questions
0.450 ( 5.6 / 12.4) 8 CLOS style question
0.449 ( 1.1 / 2.6) 4 newbie question: how to serialize a variable
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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0 Gene Kahn <·······@yahoo.com>
0 Nikodemus Siivola <······@random-state.net>
0 ·······@ancar.org
0 Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>
0 Ng Pheng Siong <····@netmemetic.com>
0 David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
0 Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0 Brian Downing <·············@lavos.net>
0 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0 Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>