From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <c2ekd1$1rdgj7$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 29 Feb 2004 07:31:19 GMT and ending at
07 Mar 2004 06:13:40 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: 197
Articles: 708 (353 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 69
Volume generated: 1852.9 kb
- headers: 737.4 kb (12,558 lines)
- bodies: 1071.4 kb (27,646 lines)
- original: 655.2 kb (17,917 lines)
- signatures: 43.4 kb (1,172 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.612
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.6
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 95 posters
s: 6.0 posts
Posts per thread: 10.3
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 21 threads
s: 18.4 posts
Message size: 2679.9 bytes
- header: 1066.5 bytes (17.7 lines)
- body: 1549.6 bytes (39.0 lines)
- original: 947.6 bytes (25.3 lines)
- signature: 62.7 bytes (1.7 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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41 92.3 ( 48.6/ 40.2/ 20.6) Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
36 186.3 ( 32.4/145.6/124.6) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
25 50.6 ( 29.9/ 18.5/ 11.9) David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
24 56.3 ( 26.4/ 29.9/ 16.1) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
20 39.5 ( 21.7/ 17.7/ 10.2) Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
20 48.1 ( 21.3/ 26.7/ 15.2) Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
19 58.2 ( 20.9/ 35.3/ 23.4) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
18 45.1 ( 20.7/ 21.8/ 12.9) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
17 36.3 ( 19.1/ 17.2/ 8.3) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
13 36.1 ( 13.1/ 20.3/ 13.1) Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
These posters accounted for 32.9% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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186.3 ( 32.4/145.6/124.6) 36 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
92.3 ( 48.6/ 40.2/ 20.6) 41 Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
58.2 ( 20.9/ 35.3/ 23.4) 19 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
56.3 ( 26.4/ 29.9/ 16.1) 24 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
50.6 ( 29.9/ 18.5/ 11.9) 25 David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
48.1 ( 21.3/ 26.7/ 15.2) 20 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
45.1 ( 20.7/ 21.8/ 12.9) 18 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
42.3 ( 2.5/ 39.6/ 38.2) 3 Alain Picard <············@memetrics.com>
39.5 ( 21.7/ 17.7/ 10.2) 20 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
36.8 ( 2.6/ 34.2/ 1.1) 3 Lord Isildur <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
These posters accounted for 35.4% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.912 ( 6.3 / 6.9) 7 Raymond Toy <···@rtp.ericsson.se>
0.856 (124.6 /145.6) 36 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
0.830 ( 13.5 / 16.2) 8 Brian Mastenbrook <····················@cs.indiana.edu>
0.799 ( 17.4 / 21.7) 10 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.736 ( 10.0 / 13.6) 9 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.720 ( 7.8 / 10.8) 10 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.711 ( 5.5 / 7.7) 7 rif <···@mit.edu>
0.696 ( 7.3 / 10.5) 7 "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
0.678 ( 6.1 / 9.0) 5 Christian Lynbech <·········@defun.dk>
0.663 ( 23.4 / 35.3) 19 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.480 ( 8.3 / 17.2) 17 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.451 ( 6.8 / 15.1) 7 Corey Murtagh <·····@slingshot.no.uce>
0.447 ( 5.8 / 12.9) 10 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.432 ( 3.7 / 8.5) 6 Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.407 ( 5.0 / 12.2) 5 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@jasoegaard.dk>
0.349 ( 3.5 / 10.0) 11 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.346 ( 0.8 / 2.3) 5 Rajappa Iyer <···@panix.com>
0.237 ( 0.7 / 3.1) 5 Cesar Rabak <······@acm.org>
0.237 ( 4.0 / 17.0) 11 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.111 ( 1.6 / 14.7) 7 John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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106 off-topic: Why is lisp so weird?
105 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
37 A public apology
34 Scheme macros
30 Why is lisp so weird?
25 Cost of closures
25 Garbage Collection and Foreign Data
23 Why does FILE-LENGTH take a stream rather a pathname?
20 Redefining how a standard object prints
18 Postdoc position in program development, analysis and transformation
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
345.9 (108.4/230.7/185.9) 105 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
276.4 (141.0/129.1/ 70.8) 106 off-topic: Why is lisp so weird?
109.3 ( 43.5/ 63.9/ 38.1) 34 Scheme macros
94.6 ( 9.9/ 84.6/ 19.0) 11 Dave Touretzky is for post-partum abortion!
68.7 ( 27.1/ 39.4/ 27.1) 30 Why is lisp so weird?
64.5 ( 32.0/ 30.7/ 13.6) 37 A public apology
61.1 ( 27.1/ 32.0/ 18.2) 25 Garbage Collection and Foreign Data
56.6 ( 24.5/ 30.6/ 17.7) 25 Cost of closures
56.1 ( 7.3/ 47.9/ 43.9) 9 Blowfish, and a question about DEFCONSTANT
48.9 ( 19.3/ 28.6/ 14.3) 17 Popularity of programming languages
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.918 ( 43.9/ 47.9) 9 Blowfish, and a question about DEFCONSTANT
0.913 ( 1.0/ 1.1) 3 Postdoc position in program development, analysis and
transformation
0.824 ( 6.2/ 7.5) 4 Copyright of 1979 MacLisp Manual (Was: Etymology of MAP[LIST,CAR,CON,CAN,C,L])
0.806 (185.9/ 230.7) 105 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
0.800 ( 4.1/ 5.1) 8 [ANN] S-Expression Syntax Trees for C!
0.772 ( 4.2/ 5.4) 8 Lambda Calculus
0.760 ( 3.7/ 4.8) 3 help needed regarding generate-application in ACL6.2.
0.689 ( 27.1/ 39.4) 30 Why is lisp so weird?
0.681 ( 7.1/ 10.5) 11 Need help with cplx-num-add function
0.623 ( 12.7/ 20.4) 13 Nobody doesn't like Lisp
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.447 ( 1.5 / 3.3) 5 Problem Compiling in Corman Lisp 2.5
0.444 ( 13.6 / 30.7) 37 A public apology
0.440 ( 4.2 / 9.6) 14 Syntax for ':'
0.439 ( 9.1 / 20.8) 10 Should I use LISP for this?
0.410 ( 5.5 / 13.5) 11 Runtime optimizations
0.385 ( 2.9 / 7.6) 9 A good open-source CL implementation?
0.378 ( 2.9 / 7.6) 6 libclisp.a
0.356 ( 7.6 / 21.3) 12 unexpected behaviour
0.353 ( 1.9 / 5.3) 5 rational arithmetic library?
0.225 ( 19.0 / 84.6) 11 Dave Touretzky is for post-partum abortion!
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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103 comp.lang.scheme
99 comp.programming
99 comp.lang.c++
95 comp.emacs
25 comp.lang.c
25 comp.lang.fortran
13 comp.lang.functional
12 comp.lang.prolog
12 comp.lang.misc
12 comp.lang.java
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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47 Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
28 Corey Murtagh <·····@slingshot.no.uce>
24 "Claudio Puviani" <·······@hotmail.com>
20 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
19 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
17 David Kastrup <···@gnu.org>
14 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
14 Alan Mackenzie <····@example.invalid>
13 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
13 David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>