From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <2pvrkcFhupn6U2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 29 Aug 2004 06:53:20 GMT and ending at
05 Sep 2004 02:09:04 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
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Posters: 172
Articles: 620 (310 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 60
Volume generated: 1497.7 kb
- headers: 668.6 kb (10,979 lines)
- bodies: 788.7 kb (21,175 lines)
- original: 478.6 kb (13,820 lines)
- signatures: 39.8 kb (981 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.607
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.6
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 67 posters
s: 4.9 posts
Posts per thread: 10.3
median: 5.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 13 threads
s: 25.2 posts
Message size: 2473.7 bytes
- header: 1104.3 bytes (17.7 lines)
- body: 1302.7 bytes (34.2 lines)
- original: 790.4 bytes (22.3 lines)
- signature: 65.7 bytes (1.6 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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22 50.4 ( 23.5/ 26.9/ 8.6) ·········@aol.com
21 56.2 ( 19.7/ 31.8/ 14.2) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
20 45.8 ( 18.2/ 27.6/ 17.0) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
19 47.0 ( 24.8/ 22.2/ 13.7) Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
18 38.5 ( 18.3/ 18.4/ 8.9) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
16 47.9 ( 28.3/ 18.9/ 15.0) Anne & Lynn Wheeler <····@garlic.com>
15 39.6 ( 18.7/ 19.8/ 7.7) "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
15 38.6 ( 15.8/ 21.1/ 8.8) Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
13 29.0 ( 13.0/ 13.2/ 9.5) Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
13 19.4 ( 7.8/ 11.0/ 6.8) Thomas A. Russ <···@sevak.isi.edu>
These posters accounted for 27.7% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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56.2 ( 19.7/ 31.8/ 14.2) 21 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
52.4 ( 4.4/ 48.1/ 46.0) 5 Joel Ray Holveck <·····@juniper.net>
50.4 ( 23.5/ 26.9/ 8.6) 22 ·········@aol.com
47.9 ( 28.3/ 18.9/ 15.0) 16 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <····@garlic.com>
47.0 ( 24.8/ 22.2/ 13.7) 19 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
45.8 ( 18.2/ 27.6/ 17.0) 20 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
42.1 ( 12.9/ 29.2/ 22.5) 11 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
39.6 ( 18.7/ 19.8/ 7.7) 15 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
38.6 ( 15.8/ 21.1/ 8.8) 15 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
38.5 ( 18.3/ 18.4/ 8.9) 18 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
These posters accounted for 30.6% 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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1.000 ( 4.6 / 4.6) 5 SM Ryan <·······@tango-sierra-oscar-foxtrot-tango.fake.org>
0.956 ( 46.0 / 48.1) 5 Joel Ray Holveck <·····@juniper.net>
0.825 ( 9.4 / 11.4) 5 Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.824 ( 6.8 / 8.3) 7 Peter Lewerin <·············@swipnet.se>
0.797 ( 15.0 / 18.9) 16 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <····@garlic.com>
0.771 ( 22.5 / 29.2) 11 Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.730 ( 8.2 / 11.2) 7 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.721 ( 9.5 / 13.2) 13 Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.697 ( 5.0 / 7.2) 6 "Tim Bradshaw" <··········@tfeb.org>
0.694 ( 11.0 / 15.8) 10 Matthew Danish <·······@andrew.cmu.edu>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.415 ( 1.5 / 3.5) 5 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.412 ( 4.2 / 10.3) 12 ········@spamcop.net
0.389 ( 7.7 / 19.8) 15 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.362 ( 4.2 / 11.5) 10 Rupert Pigott <···@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk>
0.346 ( 4.8 / 13.8) 7 mikel <·····@evins.net>
0.331 ( 2.0 / 6.1) 6 ············@SystematicSW.ab.ca
0.320 ( 1.1 / 3.4) 5 Andre Majorel <········@teezer.fr>
0.320 ( 8.6 / 26.9) 22 ·········@aol.com
0.317 ( 1.4 / 4.4) 8 ··········@worldnet.att.net
0.166 ( 0.8 / 4.5) 5 Robert Bruce Carleton <···@hakuhale.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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179 Xah Lee's Unixism
41 I/O in Lisp
38 LIsp on windows
30 XML
23 Flavors features in CLOS
22 Certainty factors with LISA: possible?
20 delaying macroexpansion
15 Looking to buy a Connection Machine CM-2a
14 Looking for a CL "web scraper"
14 Deep Typing for Plain Old Lists - A new kind of LISP?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
421.2 (244.4/163.3/ 79.0) 179 Xah Lee's Unixism
124.5 ( 48.1/ 74.2/ 44.2) 41 I/O in Lisp
71.3 ( 36.0/ 32.1/ 18.2) 38 LIsp on windows
66.9 ( 26.7/ 38.8/ 26.7) 30 XML
56.3 ( 23.8/ 31.1/ 15.4) 22 Certainty factors with LISA: possible?
52.7 ( 10.8/ 41.1/ 38.8) 13 Optimizing Numerical Code
50.9 ( 19.4/ 30.8/ 18.4) 20 delaying macroexpansion
47.5 ( 19.7/ 27.0/ 13.7) 23 Flavors features in CLOS
34.7 ( 11.8/ 21.5/ 9.1) 11 Lisp version of a C'ism
30.6 ( 14.9/ 15.2/ 7.6) 14 Deep Typing for Plain Old Lists - A new kind of LISP?
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.943 ( 38.8/ 41.1) 13 Optimizing Numerical Code
0.841 ( 14.0/ 16.6) 8 Extended loop macro
0.814 ( 16.3/ 20.1) 10 Postscript Lindenmayer Systems
0.810 ( 4.9/ 6.1) 4 Lisp on windows
0.801 ( 12.6/ 15.7) 3 PAIP auxfns.lisp continuable error
0.795 ( 3.4/ 4.2) 5 wyoEditor and language class browser
0.764 ( 8.3/ 10.9) 8 Request for comments on CLOS code
0.721 ( 5.5/ 7.7) 10 Toy noughts and crosses program in Common Lisp
0.720 ( 7.5/ 10.4) 6 arrays or lists ?
0.719 ( 5.9/ 8.2) 4 lisp parsing question
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.493 ( 6.1 / 12.3) 11 Testing for the existence of a file
0.484 ( 79.0 /163.3) 179 Xah Lee's Unixism
0.468 ( 3.8 / 8.1) 6 Lisp in hardware
0.456 ( 3.9 / 8.5) 9 quote-removal in macros
0.452 ( 2.4 / 5.3) 6 Question about a numerical computation (possibly OT as Clisp
question)
0.440 ( 7.6 / 17.2) 8 On "lisp machines"
0.431 ( 1.1 / 2.5) 5 how to concatenate strings?
0.426 ( 9.1 / 21.5) 11 Lisp version of a C'ism
0.402 ( 4.8 / 11.9) 13 Larry Wall & Cults
0.395 ( 5.3 / 13.4) 15 Looking to buy a Connection Machine CM-2a
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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193 alt.folklore.computers
192 comp.lang.python
192 comp.unix.programmer
192 comp.lang.perl.misc
13 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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88 ·········@aol.com
64 Anne & Lynn Wheeler <····@garlic.com>
48 ········@spamcop.net
40 Rupert Pigott <···@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk>
32 "John W. Kennedy" <·······@attglobal.net>
32 ··········@worldnet.att.net
28 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
25 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
24 Brian {Hamilton Kelly} <···@dsl.co.uk>
24 ············@SystematicSW.ab.ca