From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <2hb01vFaj7pnU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 16 May 2004 06:07:54 GMT and ending at
23 May 2004 05:23:32 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: 147
Articles: 662 (318 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 79
Volume generated: 1481.1 kb
- headers: 645.3 kb (11,889 lines)
- bodies: 789.6 kb (22,398 lines)
- original: 459.8 kb (14,038 lines)
- signatures: 45.5 kb (1,004 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.582
Averages
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Posts per poster: 4.5
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 55 posters
s: 7.7 posts
Posts per thread: 8.4
median: 4 posts
mode: 1 post - 21 threads
s: 10.8 posts
Message size: 2290.9 bytes
- header: 998.1 bytes (18.0 lines)
- body: 1221.4 bytes (33.8 lines)
- original: 711.2 bytes (21.2 lines)
- signature: 70.4 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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50 121.7 ( 53.0/ 65.1/ 38.7) David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
48 132.5 ( 57.3/ 64.8/ 32.3) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
29 63.1 ( 29.3/ 29.4/ 17.5) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
28 51.0 ( 24.5/ 26.5/ 9.1) Svein Ove Aas <··············@brage.info>
20 38.3 ( 20.6/ 17.6/ 3.9) Ari Johnson <·····@hotmail.com>
19 40.7 ( 22.3/ 16.3/ 5.1) Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
15 35.6 ( 16.9/ 18.7/ 12.1) Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
13 21.2 ( 11.1/ 10.1/ 4.3) ···@agharta.de
11 20.9 ( 11.6/ 8.2/ 6.1) "Steven E. Harris" <········@raytheon.com>
11 19.0 ( 8.8/ 10.2/ 6.8) rif <···@mit.edu>
These posters accounted for 36.9% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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132.5 ( 57.3/ 64.8/ 32.3) 48 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
121.7 ( 53.0/ 65.1/ 38.7) 50 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
63.1 ( 29.3/ 29.4/ 17.5) 29 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
51.0 ( 24.5/ 26.5/ 9.1) 28 Svein Ove Aas <··············@brage.info>
40.7 ( 22.3/ 16.3/ 5.1) 19 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
39.3 ( 4.7/ 34.7/ 25.5) 8 "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
38.3 ( 20.6/ 17.6/ 3.9) 20 Ari Johnson <·····@hotmail.com>
36.0 ( 9.9/ 26.1/ 12.6) 10 Antonio Menezes Leitao <··············@evaluator.pt>
35.6 ( 16.9/ 18.7/ 12.1) 15 Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
30.2 ( 9.5/ 16.3/ 8.0) 10 Thomas F. Burdick <···@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
These posters accounted for 39.7% 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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0.988 ( 10.0 / 10.2) 5 szymon <···@wp.pl>
0.975 ( 22.4 / 23.0) 6 Aleksandr Skobelev <····@envion.spb.ru>
0.936 ( 4.5 / 4.9) 6 ······@fisica.unige.it
0.848 ( 7.1 / 8.3) 5 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.794 ( 10.2 / 12.8) 6 ··········@YahooGroups.Com
0.781 ( 5.0 / 6.4) 5 Gabor Melis <····@hotpop.com>
0.746 ( 6.4 / 8.6) 6 Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.743 ( 6.1 / 8.2) 11 "Steven E. Harris" <········@raytheon.com>
0.737 ( 25.5 / 34.7) 8 "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.729 ( 7.9 / 10.9) 6 "bufie" <·····@spamneggs.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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0.436 ( 4.4 / 10.0) 9 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.423 ( 4.3 / 10.1) 13 ···@agharta.de
0.379 ( 1.8 / 4.8) 5 Torkel Holm <······@ii.uib.no>
0.379 ( 1.1 / 2.8) 6 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.369 ( 2.9 / 7.8) 6 Reinhard Gantar <········@uptime.at>
0.342 ( 9.1 / 26.5) 28 Svein Ove Aas <··············@brage.info>
0.325 ( 1.6 / 4.8) 8 Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>
0.313 ( 5.1 / 16.3) 19 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.257 ( 3.0 / 11.8) 10 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.222 ( 3.9 / 17.6) 20 Ari Johnson <·····@hotmail.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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50 macro-biology
43 Closures: I'm not getting it
41 Challenge: Loop in Common Lisp and in Java
36 Need some combination of case and cond
33 use of identity
29 MetaBorg
28 Starting out - how to?
24 Why is Monday day 0?
21 Combining &rest and &key
19 CLSQL - feature request?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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142.5 ( 52.8/ 85.3/ 45.7) 50 macro-biology
105.6 ( 39.0/ 63.0/ 30.5) 41 Challenge: Loop in Common Lisp and in Java
75.4 ( 40.2/ 33.4/ 14.6) 43 Closures: I'm not getting it
69.9 ( 36.2/ 30.8/ 16.6) 36 Need some combination of case and cond
64.1 ( 33.9/ 26.6/ 12.8) 29 MetaBorg
60.1 ( 34.6/ 23.3/ 13.5) 33 use of identity
56.7 ( 9.8/ 46.0/ 29.7) 13 DBMS and lisp, etc.
52.1 ( 28.6/ 21.9/ 11.9) 28 Starting out - how to?
47.5 ( 20.6/ 25.4/ 14.3) 21 Combining &rest and &key
39.4 ( 14.2/ 25.1/ 15.5) 16 Is anything easier to do in java than in lisp?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.974 ( 9.8/ 10.1) 3 Critique my code.
0.837 ( 4.2/ 5.0) 4 MS says that macros will revolutionize application development ;-)
0.772 ( 6.4/ 8.3) 6 If C is like marching, Lisp is like dancing
0.754 ( 3.0/ 4.0) 3 make-instance :around
0.717 ( 12.4/ 17.3) 18 Insanity
0.714 ( 2.3/ 3.2) 5 How can I add to the ALU Road to Lisp Survey?
0.698 ( 2.5/ 3.6) 5 Behavior of #'directory
0.677 ( 14.1/ 20.8) 19 CLSQL - feature request?
0.665 ( 1.5/ 2.3) 3 loop macro and multiple-value-bind
0.664 ( 4.9/ 7.4) 5 ai without lisp
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.488 ( 1.1 / 2.3) 6 uControl for OS X
0.485 ( 30.5 / 63.0) 41 Challenge: Loop in Common Lisp and in Java
0.482 ( 12.8 / 26.6) 29 MetaBorg
0.479 ( 4.1 / 8.5) 7 Another book
0.473 ( 2.1 / 4.5) 3 Would it be so wrong?
0.436 ( 14.6 / 33.4) 43 Closures: I'm not getting it
0.390 ( 5.5 / 14.2) 24 Why is Monday day 0?
0.374 ( 4.2 / 11.1) 13 The Yabos of Lisp IRC
0.374 ( 1.5 / 4.1) 4 FORMAT idiom/puzzle
0.353 ( 6.2 / 17.5) 18 Lisp.app
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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6 comp.lang.java
4 comp.lang.scheme
2 comp.emacs.xemacs
2 comp.ai
2 comp.emacs
1 comp.lang.functional
1 alt.religion.scientology
1 comp.lang.c++
1 comp.programming
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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7 Dominique Boucher <·················@nuecho.com>
3 Matthias Buelow <···@mukappabeta.de>
2 Jeff Dalton <····@todday.inf.ed.ac.uk>
2 ··········@YahooGroups.Com
1 Aaron Sloman <········@cs.bham.ac.uk>
1 Barbara Schwarz <················@myway.com>
1 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
1 Svein Ove Aas <··············@brage.info>
1 William D Clinger <··········@verizon.net>
1 ·····@uwaterloo.ca