From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2ss4j9F1lsd5kU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 03 Oct 2004 06:03:58 GMT and ending at
10 Oct 2004 02:51:48 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:  139
Articles: 537 (231 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  77
Volume generated: 1197.9 kb
    - headers:    528.3 kb (9,559 lines)
    - bodies:     642.7 kb (18,284 lines)
    - original:   362.2 kb (11,284 lines)
    - signatures: 26.3 kb (633 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.564

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.9
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 59 posters
    s:      7.8 posts
Posts per thread: 7.0
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 22 threads
    s:      10.7 posts
Message size: 2284.2 bytes
    - header:     1007.5 bytes (17.8 lines)
    - body:       1225.6 bytes (34.0 lines)
    - original:   690.6 bytes (21.0 lines)
    - signature:  50.1 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   29    74.9 ( 33.4/ 38.0/ 16.1)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   27    77.7 ( 31.1/ 43.6/ 32.1)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   24    86.1 ( 31.7/ 51.2/ 26.1)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   23    45.6 ( 18.3/ 24.1/ 10.6)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   14    36.6 ( 16.5/ 20.1/  7.6)  "Christophe Turle" <······@nospam.com>
   13    40.1 ( 13.7/ 26.4/ 17.8)  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
   13    25.7 ( 13.3/ 11.3/  8.9)  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
   12    24.4 ( 13.5/ 11.0/  7.1)  "Tim Bradshaw" <··········@tfeb.org>
   11    14.1 (  7.2/  7.0/  3.9)  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
   11    25.2 ( 15.4/  9.7/  7.3)  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>

These posters accounted for 33.0% of all articles.

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

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

  86.1 ( 31.7/ 51.2/ 26.1)     24  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  77.7 ( 31.1/ 43.6/ 32.1)     27  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  74.9 ( 33.4/ 38.0/ 16.1)     29  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  51.9 ( 13.1/ 38.8/ 16.2)     10  Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com>
  45.6 ( 18.3/ 24.1/ 10.6)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  40.1 ( 13.7/ 26.4/ 17.8)     13  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
  36.6 ( 16.5/ 20.1/  7.6)     14  "Christophe Turle" <······@nospam.com>
  25.7 ( 13.3/ 11.3/  8.9)     13  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
  25.2 ( 15.4/  9.7/  7.3)     11  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
  24.4 ( 13.5/ 11.0/  7.1)     12  "Tim Bradshaw" <··········@tfeb.org>

These posters accounted for 40.8% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  0.9 /  0.9)      7  "kazzarazza003" <········@students.unisa.edu.au>
0.905  (  4.1 /  4.5)      5  Mark Tarver <··········@ukonline.co.uk>
0.782  (  8.9 / 11.3)     13  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.778  (  6.4 /  8.2)      7  Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>
0.751  (  7.3 /  9.7)     11  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.737  ( 32.1 / 43.6)     27  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.721  (  1.7 /  2.3)      6  Lars Brinkhoff <·········@nocrew.org>
0.704  (  3.6 /  5.0)      6  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.686  (  7.7 / 11.2)      8  Ari Johnson <·········@gmail.com>
0.675  ( 17.8 / 26.4)     13  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>

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

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

0.460  (  2.9 /  6.2)      5  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.455  (  1.9 /  4.3)      7  ········@clouddancer.com
0.440  ( 10.6 / 24.1)     23  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.425  ( 16.1 / 38.0)     29  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.424  (  5.9 / 14.0)      6  "Marc Battyani" <·············@fractalconcept.com>
0.419  ( 16.2 / 38.8)     10  Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com>
0.378  (  7.6 / 20.1)     14  "Christophe Turle" <······@nospam.com>
0.348  (  2.4 /  6.9)      5  jayessay <······@foo.com>
0.301  (  2.5 /  8.4)      8  Andras Simon <······@math.bme.hu>
0.239  (  0.8 /  3.4)      5  ·······@cs.nyu.edu

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

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

   58  Simple problem in PG's ANSI Common Lisp
   35  adding a super class
   31  History of the &AUX hack? Was: Re: removeText
   28  LISP is dead now ! ! !
   25  Thoughts on mod_lisp
   22  Question about compilation/evaluation environments
   20  ILC 2004-is there a reason why there is no such (separate) event?
   19  median of 3 values.
   18  converting a number to a list!!!!
   18  printing \n

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

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

 116.4 ( 60.9/ 52.8/ 26.4)     58  Simple problem in PG's ANSI Common Lisp
 116.1 ( 32.0/ 81.7/ 38.3)     22  Question about compilation/evaluation environments
  88.4 ( 37.3/ 49.4/ 35.1)     35  adding a super class
  69.0 ( 21.6/ 47.0/ 23.4)     25  Thoughts on mod_lisp
  68.1 ( 38.2/ 27.7/ 12.2)     31  History of the &AUX hack? Was: Re: removeText
  61.3 ( 22.1/ 38.4/ 20.8)     20  ILC 2004-is there a reason why there is no such (separate) event?
  46.1 ( 18.0/ 27.5/ 13.8)     19  median of 3 values.
  43.9 ( 24.0/ 18.1/  9.7)     28  LISP is dead now ! ! !
  33.2 ( 13.4/ 19.3/ 10.9)     15  lisp newbie: how to debug sbcl + araneida + (slime)
  30.9 ( 17.6/ 12.3/  7.2)     18  printing \n

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

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

0.836  (  1.7/   2.0)      4  modulus function
0.828  (  5.4/   6.5)      5  tilt mazes
0.770  (  0.3/   0.3)      3  Roger Corman Visit With Lisp-NYC
0.759  (  7.3/   9.6)      8  Compiling methods on the fly
0.731  (  4.5/   6.1)      8  READ-CHAR-NO-HANG and the read-evaluate-print-loop
0.712  ( 35.1/  49.4)     35  adding a super class
0.707  (  0.6/   0.9)      5  X-price won
0.697  (  8.9/  12.8)      8  Starting Over Again
0.677  (  2.8/   4.1)      7  reverse function!!!
0.662  (  8.4/  12.7)     13  Commercial "Java" machine

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

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

0.500  ( 26.4 / 52.8)     58  Simple problem in PG's ANSI Common Lisp
0.499  ( 23.4 / 47.0)     25  Thoughts on mod_lisp
0.493  (  3.8 /  7.6)     10  how to pronounce these names
0.486  (  1.5 /  3.1)      6  Fun with Lisp and photos
0.468  ( 38.3 / 81.7)     22  Question about compilation/evaluation environments
0.468  (  4.0 /  8.6)      8  question about macro expansion
0.459  (  3.8 /  8.3)     10  implementing SKILL exists with CL find
0.441  ( 12.2 / 27.7)     31  History of the &AUX hack? Was: Re: removeText
0.439  (  6.7 / 15.4)     12  Opposite of FORMAT?
0.401  (  3.0 /  7.4)      6  removeText

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

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

       9  can.vlsi
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  comp.lang.scheme
       1  gnu.emacs.help

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

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

       3  ·········@lxny.org
       2  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
       1  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
       1  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
       1  Brian Raab <···········@yahoo.com>
       1  Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>
       1  Ng Pheng Siong <····@netmemetic.com>
       1  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
       1  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
       0  Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com>

From: Dan Muller
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <hHbad.14371$cr1.5552@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com>
Christopher Browne <········@acm.org> writes:

> Top 10 Crossposters
> ===================
>
> Articles  Address
> --------  -------
>
>        3  ·········@lxny.org
>        2  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
>        1  Espen Vestre <·····@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
>        1  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
>        1  Brian Raab <···········@yahoo.com>
>        1  Sashank Varma <····@vanderbilt.edu>
>        1  Ng Pheng Siong <····@netmemetic.com>
>        1  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
>        1  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
>        0  Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com>

Ouch! How did I end up on the top ten cross-posters list if I had zero
cross-posts? Silly software ...
From: David Steuber
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <87d5zqjt2k.fsf@david-steuber.com>
Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com> writes:

> Ouch! How did I end up on the top ten cross-posters list if I had zero
> cross-posts? Silly software ...

You probably won the tie-breaker.

-- 
An ideal world is left as an excercise to the reader.
   --- Paul Graham, On Lisp 8.1
From: Svein Ove Aas
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <ckddll$o6n$1@services.kq.no>
David Steuber wrote:

> Dan Muller <·········@sneakemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Ouch! How did I end up on the top ten cross-posters list if I had zero
>> cross-posts? Silly software ...
> 
> You probably won the tie-breaker.
> 
Congratulations, you won!