From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2tejcbF1ukmjcU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 10 Oct 2004 06:53:30 GMT and ending at
17 Oct 2004 05:31:27 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:  125
Articles: 488 (246 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  55
Volume generated: 1069.8 kb
    - headers:    470.6 kb (8,690 lines)
    - bodies:     570.1 kb (16,375 lines)
    - original:   316.6 kb (9,786 lines)
    - signatures: 28.6 kb (714 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.555

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.9
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 53 posters
    s:      8.6 posts
Posts per thread: 8.9
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 14 threads
    s:      14.0 posts
Message size: 2244.7 bytes
    - header:     987.4 bytes (17.8 lines)
    - body:       1196.4 bytes (33.6 lines)
    - original:   664.3 bytes (20.1 lines)
    - signature:  60.0 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   44    93.2 ( 34.2/ 52.9/ 27.5)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   40   102.6 ( 37.2/ 63.8/ 28.8)  "Christophe Turle" <······@nospam.com>
   24    59.1 ( 25.7/ 30.2/ 19.1)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
   19    46.0 ( 22.2/ 21.6/ 10.9)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   19    50.7 ( 23.5/ 24.7/ 12.3)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   14    23.3 ( 11.2/ 12.1/  4.6)  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
   14    31.8 ( 14.9/ 15.8/ 12.2)  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
   10    20.6 ( 10.2/  9.3/  5.6)  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
   10    24.6 ( 13.9/ 10.7/  8.2)  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
   10    19.0 ( 11.6/  7.4/  1.8)  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

These posters accounted for 41.8% of all articles.

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

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

 102.6 ( 37.2/ 63.8/ 28.8)     40  "Christophe Turle" <······@nospam.com>
  93.2 ( 34.2/ 52.9/ 27.5)     44  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  59.1 ( 25.7/ 30.2/ 19.1)     24  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
  50.7 ( 23.5/ 24.7/ 12.3)     19  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  46.0 ( 22.2/ 21.6/ 10.9)     19  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  31.8 ( 14.9/ 15.8/ 12.2)     14  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
  28.1 (  5.0/ 23.2/  9.7)      5  Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
  24.6 ( 13.9/ 10.7/  8.2)     10  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
  24.3 (  5.6/ 18.7/ 10.1)      7  Darren <·········@hotmail.com>
  23.3 ( 11.2/ 12.1/  4.6)     14  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>

These posters accounted for 45.2% of the total volume.

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

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

0.774  ( 12.2 / 15.8)     14  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.765  (  8.2 / 10.7)     10  "Steven M. Haflich" <·················@alum.mit.edu>
0.714  (  8.2 / 11.5)      8  ········@agharta.de
0.682  (  3.3 /  4.8)      5  Kaz Kylheku <···@ashi.footprints.net>
0.641  (  3.5 /  5.4)      6  Frode Vatvedt Fjeld <······@cs.uit.no>
0.632  ( 19.1 / 30.2)     24  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.595  (  5.6 /  9.3)     10  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.588  (  2.8 /  4.8)      6  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.586  (  4.3 /  7.4)      5  jayessay <······@foo.com>
0.567  (  2.4 /  4.2)      7  Matthew Danish <··········@cmu.edu>

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

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

0.442  (  3.0 /  6.7)      7  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.417  (  9.7 / 23.2)      5  Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.401  (  1.2 /  3.1)      5  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.382  (  4.6 / 12.1)     14  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.361  (  3.5 /  9.7)      7  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.361  (  3.1 /  8.7)      5  Szymon <············@o2.pl>
0.309  (  1.0 /  3.1)      5  K. Ari Krupnikov <···@lib.aero>
0.306  (  0.7 /  2.1)      5  Jon Boone <········@delamancha.org>
0.290  (  2.2 /  7.6)      7  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
0.240  (  1.8 /  7.4)     10  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>

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

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

   64  changing a symbol name
   30  LISP is dead now ! ! !
   29  Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
   28  parameter-specializer
   27  User-defined EQUALP
   24  LISP PROGRAMMING
   24  Python & C++ and Lisp questions
   22  Different execution in package
   19  Is a given list an executable form
   17  LISP newbee question

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

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

 157.9 ( 62.4/ 91.5/ 45.8)     64  changing a symbol name
  92.4 ( 32.8/ 58.0/ 29.0)     30  LISP is dead now ! ! !
  60.3 ( 33.4/ 24.4/  5.1)     29  Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
  57.8 ( 26.8/ 29.5/ 14.4)     28  parameter-specializer
  54.1 ( 23.2/ 29.7/ 20.2)     24  Python & C++ and Lisp questions
  50.6 ( 21.2/ 27.8/ 17.1)     24  LISP PROGRAMMING
  50.5 ( 22.7/ 26.7/ 14.6)     22  Different execution in package
  47.1 ( 24.6/ 20.9/ 10.4)     27  User-defined EQUALP
  40.6 ( 16.1/ 23.7/ 14.7)     14  Sacla loop: a new loop implementation
  36.4 ( 14.4/ 20.5/ 11.8)     17  very newbie

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

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

0.913  (  8.8/   9.6)      4  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.853  (  4.4/   5.2)      9  More fun with Lisp
0.840  (  1.5/   1.8)      3  domain specific languages
0.767  (  1.8/   2.3)      5  Q Documenting LISP code
0.722  (  3.0/   4.1)      3  Buffering of streams?
0.681  ( 20.2/  29.7)     24  Python & C++ and Lisp questions
0.675  (  4.4/   6.5)      3  Patterns, was Re: LISP is dead now ! ! !
0.674  ( 10.5/  15.6)     19  Is a given list an executable form
0.637  ( 12.0/  18.8)     12  Getting started in Lisp: simple tasks
0.620  ( 14.7/  23.7)     14  Sacla loop: a new loop implementation

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

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

0.514  (  8.4 / 16.4)     17  Are Anonymous Functions Garbage Collected?
0.513  (  3.0 /  5.9)      4  help executing a list
0.501  ( 45.8 / 91.5)     64  changing a symbol name
0.500  ( 29.0 / 58.0)     30  LISP is dead now ! ! !
0.498  ( 10.4 / 20.9)     27  User-defined EQUALP
0.487  ( 14.4 / 29.5)     28  parameter-specializer
0.464  (  2.1 /  4.6)      4  Avoiding work in closures?
0.460  (  1.6 /  3.6)      4  newbie: local functions
0.449  (  9.8 / 21.8)     13  tilt mazes
0.211  (  5.1 / 24.4)     29  Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages

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

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

       8  comp.lang.java.programmer
       8  comp.lang.c++
       8  de.comp.lang.funktional
       8  de.comp.lang.java
       2  comp.lang.scheme
       1  alt.religion.emacs
       1  gnu.emacs.help

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

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

       8  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
       4  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
       4  "Yogo" <nospam>
       4  "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
       4  Mikael Brockman <······@phubuh.org>
       4  Raymond Martineau <·····@freenet.carleton.ca>
       4  Jim Newton <·····@rdrop.com>
       3  ·········@lxny.org
       1  Bill Clementson <···············@yahoo.com>
       0  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
From: Pascal Bourguignon
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <874qkt7r6i.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
Christopher Browne <········@acm.org> writes:

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

Should be renamed "Top 10 askers"


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

Should be renamed "Top 10 responders".


> Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
> ==============================================
1st:
> 0.913  (  8.8/   9.6)      4  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ itself ! :-)



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