From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <bude2a$g7jha$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 11 Jan 2004 07:12:25 GMT and ending at
18 Jan 2004 06:36:59 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:  139
Articles: 462 (203 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  64
Volume generated: 1125.8 kb
    - headers:    506.2 kb (8,045 lines)
    - bodies:     589.5 kb (15,365 lines)
    - original:   369.0 kb (10,384 lines)
    - signatures: 29.6 kb (718 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.626

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.3
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 61 posters
    s:      3.8 posts
Posts per thread: 7.2
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 18 threads
    s:      10.7 posts
Message size: 2495.4 bytes
    - header:     1122.1 bytes (17.4 lines)
    - body:       1306.7 bytes (33.3 lines)
    - original:   818.0 bytes (22.5 lines)
    - signature:  65.6 bytes (1.6 lines)

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

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

   19    53.7 ( 24.9/ 28.7/ 13.8)  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
   16    33.8 ( 20.8/ 13.0/  8.5)  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
   15    39.5 ( 19.4/ 17.5/  7.9)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   14    36.2 ( 13.6/ 16.4/  8.9)  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
   13    30.5 ( 16.3/ 13.2/  7.3)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   12    30.2 ( 15.2/ 15.0/  9.9)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
   12    40.8 ( 15.6/ 24.8/ 12.4)  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
   11    46.5 ( 11.3/ 33.4/ 29.1)  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
   11    20.6 ( 10.9/  8.5/  4.6)  Russell Wallace <················@eircom.net>
   10    24.3 ( 10.7/ 13.5/  5.4)  ··············@setf.de

These posters accounted for 28.8% of all articles.

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

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

  53.7 ( 24.9/ 28.7/ 13.8)     19  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
  46.5 ( 11.3/ 33.4/ 29.1)     11  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
  40.8 ( 15.6/ 24.8/ 12.4)     12  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  39.5 ( 19.4/ 17.5/  7.9)     15  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  36.2 ( 13.6/ 16.4/  8.9)     14  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
  33.8 ( 20.8/ 13.0/  8.5)     16  Tim Bradshaw <···@cley.com>
  30.5 ( 16.3/ 13.2/  7.3)     13  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  30.2 ( 15.2/ 15.0/  9.9)     12  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
  25.8 ( 12.2/ 13.6/ 10.8)      9  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
  25.2 ( 13.3/ 11.9/  9.4)     10  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>

These posters accounted for 32.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.994  (  1.2 /  1.2)      5  Randy Yates <·····@ieee.org>
0.872  ( 29.1 / 33.4)     11  Erik Naggum <····@naggum.no>
0.805  (  6.8 /  8.5)      7  Mark Conrad <············@invalid.com>
0.798  ( 10.8 / 13.6)      9  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.786  (  9.4 / 11.9)     10  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.757  (  3.2 /  4.3)      7  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
0.754  ( 13.2 / 17.6)      7  Brian Harvey <··@cs.berkeley.edu>
0.744  (  4.4 /  5.9)      8  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.735  ( 12.0 / 16.4)      6  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
0.663  (  5.2 /  7.9)      6  Robert STRANDH <·······@labri.fr>

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

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

0.465  (  2.7 /  5.7)      6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.461  (  2.2 /  4.7)      5  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.453  (  3.9 /  8.5)      8  Marc Spitzer <········@optonline.net>
0.450  (  7.9 / 17.5)     15  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.441  (  3.1 /  7.0)      7  q u a s i <·········@yahoo.com>
0.403  (  5.4 / 13.5)     10  ··············@setf.de
0.370  (  2.2 /  5.9)      6  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.339  (  2.7 /  7.9)      5  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.331  (  4.2 / 12.6)      9  Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.190  (  1.6 /  8.3)      5  =?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Lindberg?= <·······@nada.kth.se>

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

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

   50  Programming languages for the very young
   43  Why Lisp is too hard for me to use
   37  OT Re: GNU CLISP 2.32 released
   32  Name for the set of characters legal in identifiers
   24  problem running CL application at boot time
   21  [OT] GNU CLISP 2.32 released
   16  Singleton (Re: Nested case statements)
   13  ASDF-INSTALL for CMUCL, CLISP, AllegroCL, and LispWorks - plus
 tutorial
   13  Newbie question about Lisp on Apple's 'Panther' OS
   12  Lispworks CAPI Headscarf Portability?

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

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

 140.9 ( 55.9/ 83.2/ 54.0)     50  Programming languages for the very young
 133.2 ( 58.6/ 70.9/ 37.4)     37  OT Re: GNU CLISP 2.32 released
 102.8 ( 53.9/ 46.8/ 25.6)     43  Why Lisp is too hard for me to use
  69.2 ( 30.6/ 35.6/ 23.2)     32  Name for the set of characters legal in identifiers
  58.1 ( 30.7/ 25.9/  9.7)     21  [OT] GNU CLISP 2.32 released
  53.2 ( 21.3/ 29.9/ 18.6)     24  problem running CL application at boot time
  41.7 ( 18.8/ 22.5/ 13.4)     16  Singleton (Re: Nested case statements)
  35.9 (  8.5/ 27.3/ 23.5)     10  stack overflow for ackerman
  27.9 ( 13.6/ 13.9/  9.8)     13  Newbie question about Lisp on Apple's 'Panther' OS
  27.3 ( 17.3/  9.9/  5.9)     11  SOT: GUI design

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

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

0.948  (  1.0/   1.1)      3  Programming languages for the very young [Was: Logo as an alternative to Python?]
0.876  (  4.0/   4.5)      3  ASDF-INSTALL for CMUCL, CLISP, AllegroCL, and LispWorks - plus tutorial
0.871  ( 13.9/  16.0)      6  O'reilly subjugated to the Lisp juggenaut (well, almost ;-)
0.860  ( 23.5/  27.3)     10  stack overflow for ackerman
0.836  (  1.7/   2.0)      3  Strings
0.816  (  4.8/   5.9)      4  [OT] Way off topic: religion
0.808  (  3.7/   4.6)      3  Problems executing from command line
0.743  ( 13.0/  17.5)      8  symbol name with case preserved
0.727  (  4.1/   5.6)      4  Lisp2Perl - Lisp to perl compiler
0.717  (  8.3/  11.6)     10  Logo as an alternative to Python?

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

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

0.490  (  2.5 /  5.0)      6  ASDF on CLISP
0.480  (  0.7 /  1.5)      3  Bay Area Lispniks
0.477  (  3.3 /  6.9)      6  OT: vegetables (was Re: Programming languages for the very young)
0.476  (  2.0 /  4.1)      6  Intro book recommendations?
0.459  (  5.1 / 11.2)      7  connection between lisp and speech recognition?
0.457  (  1.2 /  2.6)      5  Newbie: floating point optimization
0.450  (  1.7 /  3.8)      4  (setf (getf ...))
0.436  (  2.1 /  4.8)      6  Lisp w/out GC
0.373  (  9.7 / 25.9)     21  [OT] GNU CLISP 2.32 released
0.348  (  1.9 /  5.4)      5  what is wrong with this loop?

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

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

      72  comp.lang.scheme
      67  comp.lang.logo
       4  comp.lang.perl.misc
       1  gnu.emacs.sources
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  gnu.emacs.help

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

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

      14  Brian Harvey <··@cs.berkeley.edu>
      12  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
      12  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
       8  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
       8  Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
       8  "cr88192" <·······@hotmail.com>
       4  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
       4  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
       4  ·········@lxny.org
       4  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>