From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <30tef8F339u6rU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 21 Nov 2004 07:53:44 GMT and ending at
28 Nov 2004 06:52:29 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: 143
Articles: 453 (180 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 77
Volume generated: 1014.8 kb
- headers: 466.9 kb (7,973 lines)
- bodies: 526.3 kb (14,620 lines)
- original: 322.7 kb (9,704 lines)
- signatures: 21.1 kb (502 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.613
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.2
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 71 posters
s: 4.4 posts
Posts per thread: 5.9
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 20 threads
s: 8.3 posts
Message size: 2293.9 bytes
- header: 1055.5 bytes (17.6 lines)
- body: 1189.7 bytes (32.3 lines)
- original: 729.4 bytes (21.4 lines)
- signature: 47.7 bytes (1.1 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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32 70.0 ( 28.4/ 37.2/ 15.6) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
28 60.0 ( 31.2/ 25.1/ 12.3) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
22 82.5 ( 29.9/ 50.6/ 27.2) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
15 37.2 ( 14.2/ 23.0/ 13.8) Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
12 19.0 ( 10.6/ 8.4/ 2.8) Szymon <············@o2.pl>
11 33.5 ( 11.7/ 21.7/ 19.0) Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
10 17.1 ( 8.9/ 7.2/ 2.8) ········@agharta.de
10 17.5 ( 8.6/ 8.9/ 4.6) "David R. Sky" <···@viper.wapvi.bc.ca>
9 15.7 ( 8.4/ 6.9/ 2.9) Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
9 26.5 ( 14.8/ 11.7/ 4.5) Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
These posters accounted for 34.9% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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82.5 ( 29.9/ 50.6/ 27.2) 22 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
70.0 ( 28.4/ 37.2/ 15.6) 32 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
60.0 ( 31.2/ 25.1/ 12.3) 28 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
37.2 ( 14.2/ 23.0/ 13.8) 15 Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
33.5 ( 11.7/ 21.7/ 19.0) 11 Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
26.5 ( 14.8/ 11.7/ 4.5) 9 Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
24.2 ( 12.2/ 12.0/ 8.6) 9 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
19.9 ( 5.0/ 14.9/ 14.1) 4 "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
19.0 ( 10.6/ 8.4/ 2.8) 12 Szymon <············@o2.pl>
17.7 ( 10.5/ 7.3/ 4.7) 7 Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
These posters accounted for 38.5% 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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0.898 ( 6.2 / 6.9) 6 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.873 ( 19.0 / 21.7) 11 Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.848 ( 4.8 / 5.7) 5 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.831 ( 6.2 / 7.4) 6 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.804 ( 9.6 / 11.9) 5 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
0.781 ( 5.6 / 7.2) 8 Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.714 ( 8.6 / 12.0) 9 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.710 ( 6.5 / 9.1) 7 David Sletten <·····@slytobias.com>
0.675 ( 3.6 / 5.4) 9 Trent Buck <··············@bigpond.com>
0.653 ( 4.7 / 7.3) 7 Cameron MacKinnon <··········@clearspot.net>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.514 ( 4.6 / 8.9) 10 "David R. Sky" <···@viper.wapvi.bc.ca>
0.488 ( 12.3 / 25.1) 28 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.479 ( 2.9 / 6.0) 9 Neo-LISPer <··········@yahoo.com>
0.422 ( 2.9 / 6.9) 9 Surendra Singhi <·········@netscape.net>
0.419 ( 15.6 / 37.2) 32 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.417 ( 3.8 / 9.2) 7 Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.386 ( 4.5 / 11.7) 9 Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
0.384 ( 2.3 / 6.0) 5 Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.383 ( 2.8 / 7.2) 10 ········@agharta.de
0.338 ( 2.8 / 8.4) 12 Szymon <············@o2.pl>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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48 Floating-point arithmetic in CL
42 C++ sucks for games.... oh really?
30 What do Users really want?
21 passing parameters by reference
21 (rplaca) vs. (setf (car))
18 What c++, and most other languages don't have, but c# does
14 Probably a simple question about list variables
13 Arrays
11 CL subset?
11 Two new Practical Common Lisp chapters ...
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
125.7 ( 72.3/ 52.2/ 26.6) 42 C++ sucks for games.... oh really?
100.5 ( 50.8/ 48.2/ 28.7) 48 Floating-point arithmetic in CL
59.4 ( 26.9/ 31.6/ 19.2) 30 What do Users really want?
44.3 ( 20.8/ 22.5/ 11.4) 21 passing parameters by reference
38.0 ( 18.7/ 17.7/ 7.4) 21 (rplaca) vs. (setf (car))
34.5 ( 18.1/ 15.5/ 7.8) 18 What c++, and most other languages don't have, but c# does
31.6 ( 10.1/ 21.0/ 12.0) 11 CL subset?
28.4 ( 8.0/ 20.1/ 18.7) 8 sound synthesis
27.5 ( 13.7/ 13.1/ 7.1) 14 Probably a simple question about list variables
26.5 ( 4.8/ 21.7/ 19.1) 5 Computing on samples in audio/wav-files
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.962 ( 7.4/ 7.7) 5 The Joy of Pi
0.931 ( 18.7/ 20.1) 8 sound synthesis
0.908 ( 3.0/ 3.3) 3 Macroexpansion, bindings and information flow (Iterate package)
0.881 ( 19.1/ 21.7) 5 Computing on samples in audio/wav-files
0.856 ( 7.4/ 8.6) 5 macro flow from inside to outside
0.814 ( 1.7/ 2.0) 3 Regular expressions for objects
0.768 ( 9.9/ 12.9) 6 newbie - more on my search program
0.763 ( 2.8/ 3.7) 5 something to think about
0.763 ( 1.4/ 1.8) 4 Collecting Garbage /= Garbage Collection
0.712 ( 1.1/ 1.6) 4 Can someone explain the logic of FORMAT's ~G directive?
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.457 ( 2.6 / 5.8) 6 macros and eval-when
0.456 ( 1.3 / 2.8) 4 slime and xemacs
0.444 ( 1.4 / 3.1) 4 make-pathname :directory
0.421 ( 1.2 / 2.9) 3 printer settings, how to?
0.416 ( 7.4 / 17.7) 21 (rplaca) vs. (setf (car))
0.395 ( 2.4 / 6.2) 5 UFFI vs. Boolean
0.384 ( 1.3 / 3.4) 4 Did the FORMAT in ZetaLisp come from elsewhere?
0.382 ( 0.6 / 1.6) 3 [OT] Question about style, DO vs LOOP.
0.340 ( 0.7 / 2.0) 4 gigamonkeys.com down for the count
0.232 ( 1.0 / 4.4) 3 Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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41 comp.lang.c++
41 comp.games.development.programming.misc
18 comp.os.linux.advocacy
1 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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16 Peter Ashford <··@here.there.com>
12 Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
10 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
10 Neo-LISPer <··········@yahoo.com>
10 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
4 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
4 Philippa Cowderoy <······@flippac.org>
4 Raghar <······@mail.com>
3 ·······@earthlink.net
3 Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>