From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2voh7fF2nnbboU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 07 Nov 2004 07:11:20 GMT and ending at
14 Nov 2004 06:40:49 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:  155
Articles: 574 (213 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  74
Volume generated: 1413.0 kb
    - headers:    642.8 kb (10,098 lines)
    - bodies:     748.8 kb (20,083 lines)
    - original:   430.6 kb (12,445 lines)
    - signatures: 20.8 kb (517 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.575

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.7
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 65 posters
    s:      4.9 posts
Posts per thread: 7.8
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 17 threads
    s:      18.7 posts
Message size: 2520.7 bytes
    - header:     1146.8 bytes (17.6 lines)
    - body:       1335.9 bytes (35.0 lines)
    - original:   768.1 bytes (21.7 lines)
    - signature:  37.0 bytes (0.9 lines)

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

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

   39   120.3 ( 59.4/ 60.9/ 27.4)  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
   23    77.9 ( 23.8/ 53.5/ 35.9)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   22    35.0 ( 18.4/ 15.5/  9.6)  "Jeff" <·······@gmail.com>
   18    50.7 ( 25.2/ 25.3/ 10.4)  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   17    37.5 ( 23.3/ 12.9/  5.5)  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
   14    28.1 ( 13.6/ 14.5/  5.2)  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
   13    30.4 ( 19.5/ 10.9/  3.3)  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
   12    36.4 ( 16.9/ 19.0/ 11.2)  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
   12    23.8 ( 11.4/ 12.3/  4.2)  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
   11    25.8 ( 12.6/ 12.3/  6.8)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>

These posters accounted for 31.5% of all articles.

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

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

 120.3 ( 59.4/ 60.9/ 27.4)     39  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
  77.9 ( 23.8/ 53.5/ 35.9)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  50.7 ( 25.2/ 25.3/ 10.4)     18  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  39.9 ( 13.8/ 24.1/ 13.5)     10  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  37.5 ( 23.3/ 12.9/  5.5)     17  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
  36.4 ( 16.9/ 19.0/ 11.2)     12  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
  35.0 ( 18.4/ 15.5/  9.6)     22  "Jeff" <·······@gmail.com>
  30.4 ( 19.5/ 10.9/  3.3)     13  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
  29.2 (  2.4/ 26.8/  4.7)      2  "Martin Houlton" <·······@tenfoot.karoo.co.uk>
  28.2 ( 11.9/ 16.3/  9.2)      8  mikel <·····@evins.net>

These posters accounted for 34.4% of the total volume.

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

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

0.950  (  6.9 /  7.3)      6  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.908  (  2.9 /  3.2)      5  Raymond Toy <···········@ericsson.com>
0.892  ( 11.0 / 12.3)      7  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.865  (  3.4 /  3.9)      5  Szymon <············@o2.pl>
0.754  (  3.9 /  5.2)      5  Mark Carter <··@privacy.net>
0.710  (  4.3 /  6.1)      5  Peter Scott <·········@gmail.com>
0.694  (  5.9 /  8.5)     10  Trent Buck <··············@bigpond.com>
0.692  (  3.9 /  5.6)      5  Tayssir John Gabbour <···········@yahoo.com>
0.681  (  2.5 /  3.7)      8  "Steven E. Harris" <···@panix.com>
0.670  ( 35.9 / 53.5)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>

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

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

0.438  (  4.3 /  9.7)     11  William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com>
0.429  (  5.5 / 12.9)     17  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.413  (  3.7 /  9.1)      8  ········@clouddancer.com
0.412  ( 10.4 / 25.3)     18  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.387  (  2.4 /  6.2)      5  Mark McConnell <···············@yahoo.com>
0.359  (  5.2 / 14.5)     14  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.340  (  4.2 / 12.3)     12  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
0.302  (  3.3 / 10.9)     13  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
0.278  (  2.0 /  7.1)      6  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.251  (  1.9 /  7.5)      9  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>

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

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

  160  C++ sucks for games
   31  Lisp, C++ and game development
   24  read - comma
   20  ''survey'' about SERIES.
   16  Parameterized Picture (was: C++ sucks for games)
   16  begin
   14  First element of a quoted list
   14  HTTP GET from Common LISP ?
   13  OT: TypeMatrix keyboard
   13  Practical Lisp: What are you working on, really?

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

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

 437.1 (244.9/189.1/ 90.5)    160  C++ sucks for games
  64.1 ( 31.6/ 31.5/ 16.8)     31  Lisp, C++ and game development
  55.6 (  4.7/ 50.7/ 26.0)      5  Another Lisp newbie
  42.4 (  8.4/ 33.6/ 31.0)      9  The Joy of Pi
  41.4 ( 23.3/ 17.6/  9.5)     16  Parameterized Picture (was: C++ sucks for games)
  41.2 ( 12.4/ 28.0/ 17.0)     11  constantp values always available at macro expansion time?
  41.1 ( 22.9/ 17.0/  7.4)     24  read - comma
  33.3 ( 11.8/ 20.2/  8.5)     14  HTTP GET from Common LISP ?
  32.6 ( 12.6/ 19.3/ 10.6)     14  First element of a quoted list
  28.2 ( 11.2/ 16.1/  8.8)     12  First use of Lisp at work!

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

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

0.923  ( 31.0/  33.6)      9  The Joy of Pi
0.831  (  4.5/   5.4)      3  Is this the Right Thing?
0.806  (  3.4/   4.2)      4  efficiently generating hash keys
0.803  (  6.3/   7.8)      4  Subject: is optimization still possible after macroexpand?
0.789  (  2.4/   3.1)      3  macros, lexical scope, and around methods
0.785  (  2.6/   3.3)      3  Factory methods: putting an :around on make-instance, or not?
0.782  (  5.5/   7.0)      3  defining a start function for problem
0.766  (  4.8/   6.3)      5  Quality and ANSI compatibility of GCL?
0.737  (  8.3/  11.2)     12  asdf on windows: soft links problem
0.725  (  7.5/  10.4)     20  ''survey'' about SERIES.

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

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

0.471  (  3.4 /  7.3)      8  Anyone want to lob some hand grenades into a language war?
0.468  (  1.3 /  2.8)      6  Desktop apps
0.450  (  1.8 /  4.1)      7  Cross platform wonders (was Re: C++ sucks for games)
0.437  (  7.4 / 17.0)     24  read - comma
0.421  (  8.5 / 20.2)     14  HTTP GET from Common LISP ?
0.388  (  2.6 /  6.6)      7  Cells
0.386  (  2.7 /  7.0)      6  Running Standalone Lisp Programs
0.353  (  3.6 / 10.2)      8  circulatory analysis
0.336  (  5.0 / 14.9)      6  Terminology, translation, English-Turkish, interpretation, Lisp, etc.
0.333  (  0.8 /  2.3)      3  Cross platform wonders

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

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

     179  comp.lang.c++
     179  comp.games.development.programming.misc
       1  comp.lang.lisp.x
       1  comp.lang.lisp.franz
       1  comp.lang.lisp.mcl
       1  comp.lang.scheme

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

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

      76  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
      26  "Maahes" <······@internode.on.net>
      22  Kenneth Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
      20  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
      14  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
      12  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
      12  Philippa Cowderoy <······@flippac.org>
      10  Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>
      10  Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>
      10  Trent Buck <··············@bigpond.com>

From: Trent Buck
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <20041114190734.379b1624@harpo.marx>
What does OCR stand for?
-t
From: Edi Weitz
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <upt2g7rr5.fsf@agharta.de>
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 08:07:10 GMT, Trent Buck <··············@bigpond.com> wrote:

> What does OCR stand for?

See around line 30 of the message you replied to.

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