From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2v62ohF2gghf0U2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 31 Oct 2004 07:04:36 GMT and ending at
07 Nov 2004 05:39:41 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:  152
Articles: 624 (283 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  61
Volume generated: 1512.6 kb
    - headers:    707.2 kb (11,055 lines)
    - bodies:     778.3 kb (21,190 lines)
    - original:   446.7 kb (13,397 lines)
    - signatures: 26.4 kb (752 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.574

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 67 posters
    s:      6.5 posts
Posts per thread: 10.2
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 18 threads
    s:      30.8 posts
Message size: 2482.1 bytes
    - header:     1160.6 bytes (17.7 lines)
    - body:       1277.3 bytes (34.0 lines)
    - original:   733.1 bytes (21.5 lines)
    - signature:  43.3 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   41   107.8 ( 57.0/ 50.8/ 18.0)  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
   36    81.3 ( 44.8/ 33.4/ 15.8)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
   24    52.6 ( 24.0/ 27.5/ 14.9)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   21    57.0 ( 24.3/ 32.4/ 18.6)  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   16    39.0 ( 16.6/ 22.3/ 11.1)  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
   16    34.4 ( 17.2/ 17.2/ 10.0)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   14    46.6 ( 19.3/ 26.8/ 13.3)  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
   14    41.3 ( 20.0/ 19.7/  9.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   13    32.2 ( 12.7/ 19.5/ 15.5)  Szymon <············@o2.pl>
   13    34.6 ( 20.2/ 12.9/  7.4)  William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com>

These posters accounted for 33.3% of all articles.

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

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

 107.8 ( 57.0/ 50.8/ 18.0)     41  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
  81.3 ( 44.8/ 33.4/ 15.8)     36  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
  57.0 ( 24.3/ 32.4/ 18.6)     21  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  52.6 ( 24.0/ 27.5/ 14.9)     24  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  46.6 ( 19.3/ 26.8/ 13.3)     14  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  45.5 ( 12.0/ 33.5/  6.6)      9  ··········@ucl.ac.uk
  41.3 ( 20.0/ 19.7/  9.5)     14  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  39.0 ( 16.6/ 22.3/ 11.1)     16  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
  38.1 ( 13.8/ 23.1/ 19.5)     12  Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
  37.8 ( 13.0/ 24.8/ 15.3)     12  Darren <·········@hotmail.com>

These posters accounted for 36.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.954  (  7.1 /  7.4)      6  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.844  ( 19.5 / 23.1)     12  Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.798  ( 15.5 / 19.5)     13  Szymon <············@o2.pl>
0.775  ( 17.1 / 22.0)      7  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.762  (  6.1 /  8.0)      8  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.744  (  2.9 /  3.8)      5  Matthew Danish <··········@cmu.edu>
0.694  (  4.6 /  6.7)      7  Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>
0.690  (  2.6 /  3.7)      6  "Marco Baringer" <··@bese.it>
0.682  (  4.2 /  6.1)     10  ········@agharta.de
0.668  (  5.2 /  7.7)      5  K. Ari Krupnikov <···@lib.aero>

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

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

0.497  (  4.3 /  8.6)     12  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
0.497  ( 11.1 / 22.3)     16  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.494  ( 13.3 / 26.8)     14  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
0.480  (  9.5 / 19.7)     14  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.472  ( 15.8 / 33.4)     36  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
0.471  (  4.1 /  8.6)      7  Philippa Cowderoy <······@flippac.org>
0.406  (  4.7 / 11.5)     12  surendra <·········@netscape.net>
0.402  (  2.0 /  4.9)      6  Paul Foley <···@below.invalid>
0.355  ( 18.0 / 50.8)     41  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
0.197  (  6.6 / 33.5)      9  ··········@ucl.ac.uk

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

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

  231  C++ sucks for games
   40  Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?
   36  Static vs Dynamic
   29  Running Standalone Lisp Programs
   23  newbie: hierarchies in lisp? (long)
   16  setf problem
   15  Threads and dynamic bindings
   14  Is this the Right Thing?
   13  Challenge for lisp lovers....
   13  Managerial-oriented tech? David Nobles.

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

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

 648.9 (318.7/321.8/163.8)    231  C++ sucks for games
  98.7 ( 49.4/ 47.4/ 24.9)     36  Static vs Dynamic
  71.8 ( 33.3/ 37.0/ 27.0)     40  Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?
  70.7 ( 36.2/ 33.4/ 18.8)     29  Running Standalone Lisp Programs
  64.9 ( 22.1/ 41.3/ 27.5)     23  newbie: hierarchies in lisp? (long)
  44.0 ( 15.8/ 27.3/ 16.4)     13  Challenge for lisp lovers....
  38.9 ( 14.6/ 23.4/ 17.6)     15  Threads and dynamic bindings
  31.7 ( 12.8/ 18.6/  9.5)     13  why C++ STILL sucks for games
  30.9 ( 14.2/ 15.8/  7.9)     14  Is this the Right Thing?
  30.8 ( 14.8/ 14.9/  6.2)     16  setf problem

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

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

0.875  ( 13.2/  15.1)      5  [ANN] ECL 0.9d released
0.820  (  4.1/   5.1)      3  Language flame wars are moot
0.751  ( 17.6/  23.4)     15  Threads and dynamic bindings
0.730  ( 27.0/  37.0)     40  Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?
0.702  (  3.0/   4.2)      7  Another Lisp newbie
0.690  (  1.5/   2.2)      5  Extended loop macro indentation
0.678  (  0.7/   1.0)      6  what happens to www.paulgraham.com?
0.666  ( 27.5/  41.3)     23  newbie: hierarchies in lisp? (long)
0.638  (  8.5/  13.3)     13  How to destructure list to places?
0.632  (  2.9/   4.6)      7  with-all-slots?

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

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

0.510  (  9.5 / 18.6)     13  why C++ STILL sucks for games
0.509  (163.8 /321.8)    231  C++ sucks for games
0.502  (  2.2 /  4.4)      6  Lispworks vs. pipes
0.498  (  7.9 / 15.8)     14  Is this the Right Thing?
0.418  (  6.2 / 14.9)     16  setf problem
0.390  (  2.7 /  7.0)      6  ASDF and build directory
0.364  (  2.0 /  5.5)      6  LISP is dead now ! ! !
0.360  (  0.6 /  1.6)      4  Do academics really love Lisp? I doubt!
0.356  (  1.9 /  5.2)     10  clisp on the rise?
0.345  (  3.0 /  8.6)      6  MCL 5 vs Unix files

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

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

     213  comp.games.development.programming.misc
     211  comp.lang.c++
       2  comp.os.cpm
       1  comp.lang.java.programmer
       1  de.comp.lang.funktional
       1  de.comp.lang.java

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

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

      78  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
      32  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
      24  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
      18  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
      16  ··········@ucl.ac.uk
      16  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
      14  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
      14  Jon Boone <········@delamancha.org>
      13  Philippa Cowderoy <······@flippac.org>
      12  Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>