From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <30avs7F2ttf8fU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 14 Nov 2004 07:25:41 GMT and ending at
21 Nov 2004 06:34:18 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:  145
Articles: 460 (200 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  66
Volume generated: 1045.5 kb
    - headers:    477.8 kb (8,156 lines)
    - bodies:     538.8 kb (14,518 lines)
    - original:   333.7 kb (9,608 lines)
    - signatures: 28.4 kb (673 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.619

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.2
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 70 posters
    s:      4.9 posts
Posts per thread: 7.0
    median: 3.5 posts
    mode:   1 post - 16 threads
    s:      12.5 posts
Message size: 2327.4 bytes
    - header:     1063.6 bytes (17.7 lines)
    - body:       1199.5 bytes (31.6 lines)
    - original:   742.9 bytes (20.9 lines)
    - signature:  63.3 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   41   108.0 ( 46.8/ 58.4/ 34.6)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   18    43.0 ( 22.0/ 18.6/ 10.2)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   13    32.6 ( 10.4/ 20.5/ 11.7)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   13    31.5 ( 12.4/ 17.4/ 11.9)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   12    34.3 ( 11.8/ 16.5/  2.6)  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
   12    23.8 ( 13.0/ 10.8/  6.5)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   11    34.3 ( 17.6/ 16.7/  7.7)  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
   11    26.5 ( 14.0/ 11.6/  6.2)  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
   11    28.6 ( 12.7/ 15.9/  9.8)  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
   10    43.2 ( 11.4/ 31.1/ 23.4)  Jerry Coffin <·······@taeus.com>

These posters accounted for 33.0% of all articles.

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

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

 108.0 ( 46.8/ 58.4/ 34.6)     41  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  43.2 ( 11.4/ 31.1/ 23.4)     10  Jerry Coffin <·······@taeus.com>
  43.0 ( 22.0/ 18.6/ 10.2)     18  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  34.3 ( 11.8/ 16.5/  2.6)     12  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
  34.3 ( 17.6/ 16.7/  7.7)     11  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
  32.6 ( 10.4/ 20.5/ 11.7)     13  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  31.5 ( 12.4/ 17.4/ 11.9)     13  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  28.6 ( 12.7/ 15.9/  9.8)     11  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
  26.5 ( 14.0/ 11.6/  6.2)     11  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
  23.8 ( 13.0/ 10.8/  6.5)     12  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>

These posters accounted for 38.8% of the total volume.

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

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

0.943  (  5.5 /  5.8)      6  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.919  (  3.8 /  4.2)      6  Szymon <············@o2.pl>
0.885  (  5.8 /  6.5)      6  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.859  (  4.8 /  5.6)      5  Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>
0.834  (  6.6 /  8.0)      7  Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.795  (  4.9 /  6.2)      7  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.755  (  3.2 /  4.3)      5  David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>
0.752  ( 23.4 / 31.1)     10  Jerry Coffin <·······@taeus.com>
0.688  (  3.0 /  4.3)      8  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.684  ( 11.9 / 17.4)     13  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>

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

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

0.574  (  3.0 /  5.2)      5  Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>
0.571  ( 11.7 / 20.5)     13  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.554  (  6.4 / 11.5)      7  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.550  ( 10.2 / 18.6)     18  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.539  (  6.2 / 11.6)     11  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.524  (  3.5 /  6.7)      7  ········@agharta.de
0.489  (  4.8 /  9.8)      8  Philip Haddad <·············@gmail.com>
0.464  (  7.7 / 16.7)     11  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
0.414  (  1.5 /  3.6)      9  Neo-LISPer <··········@yahoo.com>
0.155  (  2.6 / 16.5)     12  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>

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

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

   71  C++ sucks for games
   56  Lisp Math Engine
   27  Unified lisp
   25  Any users of Logo around? - Survey
   25  Newbie seeking feedback
   17  Cello/OS X update
   15  macros, lexical scope, and around methods
   12  Symbolic programming prior to LISP?
   10  Lisp and Extreme Programming?
    9  INITIALLY clauses in loop

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

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

 237.0 (101.7/132.6/ 83.5)     71  C++ sucks for games
 109.2 ( 54.1/ 52.8/ 25.6)     56  Lisp Math Engine
  57.7 ( 22.4/ 33.6/ 20.5)     25  Newbie seeking feedback
  51.0 ( 25.7/ 23.8/ 16.3)     27  Unified lisp
  50.2 ( 21.5/ 21.9/ 14.6)     25  Any users of Logo around? - Survey
  48.6 ( 25.7/ 22.6/ 17.0)     17  Cello/OS X update
  38.1 ( 13.6/ 23.4/ 14.0)     15  macros, lexical scope, and around methods
  22.9 (  9.8/ 12.5/  8.2)      8  The Road to Lisp Newby Survey [was Re: Newbie seeking feedback]
  20.0 ( 10.5/  8.6/  5.4)     12  Symbolic programming prior to LISP?
  18.2 (  9.6/  8.1/  4.7)      9  INITIALLY clauses in loop

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

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

0.997  (  8.9/   8.9)      3  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.931  (  4.6/   4.9)      6  Doom 4 will be written in LISP ! ! ! !
0.858  (  5.2/   6.1)      3  CL subset?
0.846  (  3.9/   4.6)      8  difference between :symbol and 'symbol
0.792  (  2.3/   2.9)      5  Data for Erann Gat's chellenge (phone numbers & dictionary).
0.783  (  4.9/   6.2)      3  The Joy of Pi
0.753  ( 17.0/  22.6)     17  Cello/OS X update
0.716  (  3.6/   5.0)      3  default superclass again
0.683  ( 16.3/  23.8)     27  Unified lisp
0.677  (  4.5/   6.6)      4  UFFI vs FFI

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

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

0.485  ( 25.6 / 52.8)     56  Lisp Math Engine
0.478  (  1.9 /  4.0)      4  Simple macro with lots of options
0.467  (  1.4 /  3.0)      3  Parameterized Picture (was: C++ sucks for games)
0.456  (  0.9 /  2.0)      3  Class of '04, the Road to Lisp needs you!
0.456  (  1.6 /  3.5)      6  EQ, EQL, EQUAL, EQUALP history
0.447  (  2.7 /  6.1)      7  History of "special"
0.382  (  2.7 /  7.1)      7  RAD, SK8, and a lisp development platform
0.373  (  1.8 /  4.7)      7  UNIX os stuff in lisp
0.353  (  1.1 /  3.0)      4  newbie trying to find a good and simple compiler/editor to practice
 common lisp on
0.342  (  4.3 / 12.6)      4  setup of a new challenge

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

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

      78  comp.lang.c++
      70  comp.games.development.programming.misc
      43  alt.math
       8  comp.lang.java.programmer
       3  can.sun-stroke
       2  comp.lang.scheme

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

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

      22  Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
      16  Jerry Coffin <·······@taeus.com>
      11  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
      10  Trent Buck <··············@bigpond.com>
       8  Ray Blaak <········@STRIPCAPStelus.net>
       8  Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
       8  Philip Haddad <·············@gmail.com>
       8  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
       7  Neo-LISPer <··········@yahoo.com>
       6  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>