From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <c3131q$22ct1j$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 07 Mar 2004 07:16:57 GMT and ending at
14 Mar 2004 07:42:40 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: 155
Articles: 441 (221 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 63
Volume generated: 1078.6 kb
- headers: 447.8 kb (7,837 lines)
- bodies: 603.7 kb (16,068 lines)
- original: 388.7 kb (11,153 lines)
- signatures: 26.7 kb (736 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.644
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.8
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 81 posters
s: 4.2 posts
Posts per thread: 7.0
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 21 threads
s: 11.7 posts
Message size: 2504.4 bytes
- header: 1039.7 bytes (17.8 lines)
- body: 1401.7 bytes (36.4 lines)
- original: 902.5 bytes (25.3 lines)
- signature: 62.0 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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24 72.8 ( 27.2/ 43.4/ 26.3) David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
20 50.4 ( 22.8/ 24.6/ 13.8) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
19 49.0 ( 16.1/ 28.3/ 17.1) Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
16 37.1 ( 17.2/ 19.9/ 13.7) William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
14 41.7 ( 18.1/ 21.5/ 14.4) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
13 34.9 ( 16.8/ 16.4/ 5.7) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
13 22.4 ( 13.6/ 8.7/ 2.6) Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
11 27.9 ( 10.0/ 17.9/ 11.4) Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
10 30.9 ( 14.1/ 16.8/ 11.3) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
9 18.6 ( 9.7/ 8.9/ 2.9) ·······@cs.nyu.edu
These posters accounted for 33.8% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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72.8 ( 27.2/ 43.4/ 26.3) 24 David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
50.4 ( 22.8/ 24.6/ 13.8) 20 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
49.0 ( 16.1/ 28.3/ 17.1) 19 Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
41.7 ( 18.1/ 21.5/ 14.4) 14 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
37.1 ( 17.2/ 19.9/ 13.7) 16 William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
34.9 ( 16.8/ 16.4/ 5.7) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
30.9 ( 14.1/ 16.8/ 11.3) 10 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
27.9 ( 10.0/ 17.9/ 11.4) 11 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
27.3 ( 2.6/ 24.7/ 21.2) 3 rif <···@mit.edu>
27.2 ( 8.9/ 18.2/ 13.1) 9 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
These posters accounted for 37.0% 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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0.754 ( 4.4 / 5.9) 6 Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org>
0.753 ( 11.2 / 14.8) 7 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.745 ( 2.8 / 3.7) 5 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.718 ( 13.1 / 18.2) 9 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.686 ( 13.7 / 19.9) 16 William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
0.676 ( 12.0 / 17.7) 6 Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
0.672 ( 11.3 / 16.8) 10 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.671 ( 14.4 / 21.5) 14 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.636 ( 11.4 / 17.9) 11 Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.624 ( 1.2 / 1.9) 5 Szabolcs Rozsnyai <··········@gmx.at>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.561 ( 13.8 / 24.6) 20 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.532 ( 3.7 / 7.0) 6 Rudi Schlatte <····@constantly.at>
0.502 ( 3.4 / 6.9) 9 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.462 ( 1.6 / 3.5) 7 Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.440 ( 1.6 / 3.7) 5 John Thingstad <··············@chello.no>
0.425 ( 2.3 / 5.5) 5 Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.348 ( 5.7 / 16.4) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.328 ( 2.9 / 8.9) 9 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.317 ( 1.2 / 3.7) 6 =?iso-8859-1?q?Wolfhard_Bu=DF?= <·····@gmx.net>
0.300 ( 2.6 / 8.7) 13 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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54 Scheme macros
47 DEFUN list argument
30 Generating Garbage
28 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
27 Be afraid of XML
23 is there a more concise or efficient way to code this fn ?
21 Lisp sucks! [was Re: Generating Garbage]
20 Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers?
19 The LOOP macro (was Re: Be afraid of XML)
13 Some advice for a lisp newb
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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142.8 ( 70.5/ 69.9/ 41.2) 54 Scheme macros
99.0 ( 28.6/ 68.9/ 53.9) 28 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
88.7 ( 49.7/ 36.2/ 17.9) 47 DEFUN list argument
85.9 ( 27.8/ 55.5/ 33.8) 30 Generating Garbage
70.3 ( 19.6/ 49.8/ 27.0) 20 Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers?
64.6 ( 25.0/ 38.4/ 27.5) 27 Be afraid of XML
54.2 ( 25.5/ 26.6/ 17.1) 21 Lisp sucks! [was Re: Generating Garbage]
44.0 ( 11.9/ 31.5/ 22.3) 13 Some advice for a lisp newb
43.8 ( 23.5/ 18.5/ 11.1) 19 The LOOP macro (was Re: Be afraid of XML)
43.0 ( 20.5/ 21.1/ 10.0) 23 is there a more concise or efficient way to code this fn ?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.856 ( 24.6/ 28.7) 8 Lisp Parsing Documents
0.834 ( 3.7/ 4.4) 3 Did someone ask about Cello? [was Re: game enthusiasts/developers?]
0.782 ( 53.9/ 68.9) 28 off-topic: open challenge to Christian Lynbeck
0.752 ( 4.3/ 5.8) 3 Why does FILE-LENGTH take a stream rather a pathname?
0.749 ( 5.3/ 7.1) 5 Cost of closures
0.733 ( 1.4/ 1.9) 3 Meta (lisp-like language) question
0.717 ( 27.5/ 38.4) 27 Be afraid of XML
0.708 ( 22.3/ 31.5) 13 Some advice for a lisp newb
0.689 ( 2.9/ 4.1) 4 gcl-2.6.1 on Fedora Core?
0.674 ( 5.4/ 8.0) 8 Parsing English
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.517 ( 1.2 / 2.4) 4 use package on the fly
0.508 ( 3.7 / 7.2) 6 Packages and relative symbols
0.503 ( 2.6 / 5.2) 3 portable pathname construction tools anywhere?
0.493 ( 17.9 / 36.2) 47 DEFUN list argument
0.485 ( 1.5 / 3.1) 4 How do I hide lisp source code?
0.483 ( 2.4 / 4.9) 3 The Packaging Struggle...
0.476 ( 10.0 / 21.1) 23 is there a more concise or efficient way to code this fn ?
0.443 ( 2.2 / 5.1) 3 off-topic: Why is lisp so weird?
0.353 ( 0.6 / 1.8) 5 The LOOP macro
0.284 ( 1.4 / 4.9) 4 [ANN] New tool for integrating Vi with Lisp development
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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33 comp.lang.scheme
8 comp.lang.functional
8 comp.lang.misc
8 comp.lang.java
8 comp.lang.prolog
8 comp.lang.c++
8 comp.programming
5 comp.lang.c
5 comp.lang.fortran
4 comp.emacs
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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10 Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>
5 Matthew Huntbach <···@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
5 c7517665 <········@wanadoo.nl>
5 chris <·····@kiffer.eunet.be>
5 "Markus Mottl" <······@oefai.at>
5 Yoyoma_2 <········@[at-]Hotmail.com>
5 Simon Helsen <·······@computer.org>
4 Raymond Toy <····@earthlink.net>
4 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
4 rif <···@mit.edu>