From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <c3jhl9$29n69v$2@ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 14 Mar 2004 07:42:40 GMT and ending at
21 Mar 2004 06:18:31 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:  174
Articles: 794 (385 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  83
Volume generated: 1783.4 kb
    - headers:    788.3 kb (14,178 lines)
    - bodies:     945.6 kb (25,522 lines)
    - original:   569.8 kb (16,638 lines)
    - signatures: 48.8 kb (1,343 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.603

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.6
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 64 posters
    s:      6.8 posts
Posts per thread: 9.6
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 22 threads
    s:      15.2 posts
Message size: 2300.0 bytes
    - header:     1016.6 bytes (17.9 lines)
    - body:       1219.5 bytes (32.1 lines)
    - original:   734.9 bytes (21.0 lines)
    - signature:  62.9 bytes (1.7 lines)

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

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

   44   117.0 ( 50.4/ 60.5/ 34.9)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   33    80.2 ( 37.3/ 39.9/ 26.4)  David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
   32    72.9 ( 28.4/ 36.7/ 16.2)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
   25    49.7 ( 23.0/ 26.6/ 11.5)  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
   22    74.7 ( 28.9/ 42.9/ 20.5)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   20    58.1 ( 25.2/ 32.9/ 27.0)  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
   20    77.8 ( 24.5/ 53.2/ 33.0)  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
   19    36.3 ( 16.6/ 19.7/ 14.4)  Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org>
   18    34.3 ( 14.6/ 19.6/ 10.9)  David Fisher <·············@yahoo.com>
   17    30.0 ( 19.1/ 10.9/  4.2)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

These posters accounted for 31.5% of all articles.

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

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

 117.0 ( 50.4/ 60.5/ 34.9)     44  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  80.2 ( 37.3/ 39.9/ 26.4)     33  David Steuber <·············@verizon.net>
  77.8 ( 24.5/ 53.2/ 33.0)     20  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
  74.7 ( 28.9/ 42.9/ 20.5)     22  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  72.9 ( 28.4/ 36.7/ 16.2)     32  Pascal Bourguignon <····@thalassa.informatimago.com>
  58.1 ( 25.2/ 32.9/ 27.0)     20  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
  49.7 ( 23.0/ 26.6/ 11.5)     25  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
  46.1 ( 19.2/ 26.8/  8.8)     17  ·······@noshpam.lbl.government
  36.4 ( 17.1/ 17.1/ 11.0)     16  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  36.3 ( 16.6/ 19.7/ 14.4)     19  Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org>

These posters accounted for 36.4% of the total volume.

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

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

0.869  ( 22.7 / 26.1)      7  ··········@YahooGroups.Com
0.821  ( 27.0 / 32.9)     20  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.810  (  6.1 /  7.6)     10  Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.777  (  4.4 /  5.7)      5  Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.769  (  4.9 /  6.4)      7  "Steven E. Harris" <········@raytheon.com>
0.764  (  4.3 /  5.6)      7  ·········@random-state.net
0.732  ( 14.4 / 19.7)     19  Tim Bradshaw <··········@tfeb.org>
0.706  ( 12.5 / 17.8)     13  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.702  (  4.0 /  5.6)      5  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.694  (  4.6 /  6.6)      7  Brian Mastenbrook <··············@cs.indiana.edu>

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

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

0.432  ( 11.5 / 26.6)     25  Erann Gat <·········@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.407  (  3.7 /  9.0)     11  Raymond Wiker <·············@fast.no>
0.403  (  1.2 /  3.0)      5  David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>
0.394  (  1.1 /  2.8)      5  Alain Picard <············@memetrics.com>
0.383  (  3.2 /  8.4)     10  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.382  (  4.2 / 10.9)     17  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.372  (  0.6 /  1.6)      5  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
0.327  (  8.8 / 26.8)     17  ·······@noshpam.lbl.government
0.325  (  2.5 /  7.8)      9  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.209  (  1.0 /  4.8)      7  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@soegaard.net>

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

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

   59  CLOS and databases
   55  TERPRI
   47  three macro systems
   43  How do I construct this string?
   36  The Groovy Programming Language
   32  Some advice for a lisp newb
   32  Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers?
   31  exercise from PAIP
   27  primitive question about functions
   27  Lisp puns considered good style?

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

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

 153.6 ( 54.2/ 97.3/ 57.7)     47  three macro systems
 135.5 ( 55.3/ 78.2/ 46.9)     59  CLOS and databases
 123.0 ( 60.6/ 58.8/ 34.8)     55  TERPRI
  85.7 ( 35.2/ 49.3/ 21.2)     32  Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers?
  83.6 ( 40.2/ 40.8/ 26.0)     43  How do I construct this string?
  75.3 ( 30.5/ 42.7/ 25.4)     32  Some advice for a lisp newb
  72.9 ( 34.6/ 35.3/ 20.9)     36  The Groovy Programming Language
  63.6 ( 29.2/ 33.4/ 19.1)     31  exercise from PAIP
  60.6 ( 28.6/ 30.5/ 16.6)     27  Lisp puns considered good style?
  53.6 ( 27.0/ 22.5/ 10.8)     27  primitive question about functions

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

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

0.917  (  5.5/   6.0)      5  Your favorite Lisp on Debian?
0.906  ( 22.1/  24.3)     13  [Very Long] More Buffalos - was "Lisp puns considered good style?"
0.882  (  1.8/   2.0)      4  [Very Long] More Buffalos - was "Lisp puns considered good
 style?"
0.875  (  4.2/   4.8)      4  Cello update: Web info, and a feature
0.793  (  2.0/   2.5)      3  How do I hide lisp source code?
0.774  (  3.9/   5.1)      6  final version ? ;-)
0.767  (  5.7/   7.4)      5  How do I construct this string? -- strange results (sbcl).
0.735  (  3.8/   5.2)      4  Parsing English
0.687  (  4.6/   6.6)      4  Scheme macros
0.682  (  5.3/   7.8)      5  restarting

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

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

0.523  (  4.5 /  8.5)      7  Calling MAKE-INSTANCES-OBSOLETE directly
0.489  ( 12.3 / 25.1)     25  K5 article: "Why I Like PLT Scheme"
0.479  ( 10.8 / 22.5)     27  primitive question about functions
0.474  (  2.7 /  5.7)     11  unit testing framework ?
0.441  (  1.0 /  2.2)      3  Launching exe programs from Lisp
0.433  (  1.1 /  2.4)      6  why doesn't this work
0.430  (  4.9 / 11.4)     10  Converting numbers into sequences of bytes
0.430  ( 21.2 / 49.3)     32  Business Opportunities for SF Bay Lispers?
0.429  (  5.6 / 13.0)     16  CMUCL for Windows - how much $$$ ?
0.425  (  3.7 /  8.6)      9  Copy-struct dude

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

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

      87  comp.lang.scheme
       7  comp.lang.functional
       1  comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
       1  comp.lang.labview
       1  comp.lang.perl.misc
       1  comp.lang.php

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

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

      17  ·······@noshpam.lbl.government
      13  "Anton van Straaten" <·····@appsolutions.com>
       8  Manuel Serrano <··············@sophia.inria.fr>
       7  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
       6  William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
       5  David Fisher <·············@yahoo.com>
       4  Uri Guttman <···@stemsystems.com>
       4  Lupo LeBoucher <··@io.com>
       3  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jens_Axel_S=F8gaard?= <······@soegaard.net>