From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <2r4omvF16f2inU2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 12 Sep 2004 06:48:35 GMT and ending at
19 Sep 2004 05:19:07 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: 138
Articles: 378 (182 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 61
Volume generated: 877.6 kb
- headers: 368.4 kb (6,528 lines)
- bodies: 486.0 kb (13,077 lines)
- original: 302.1 kb (8,718 lines)
- signatures: 22.8 kb (573 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.622
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.7
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 62 posters
s: 3.0 posts
Posts per thread: 6.2
median: 3 posts
mode: 1 post - 16 threads
s: 11.8 posts
Message size: 2377.3 bytes
- header: 997.9 bytes (17.3 lines)
- body: 1316.6 bytes (34.6 lines)
- original: 818.5 bytes (23.1 lines)
- signature: 61.8 bytes (1.5 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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13 27.5 ( 12.7/ 13.3/ 5.0) Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
12 28.1 ( 10.1/ 15.3/ 7.6) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
12 35.8 ( 13.3/ 22.5/ 8.0) ·········@aol.com
11 20.9 ( 11.2/ 8.8/ 4.5) "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
8 22.2 ( 10.0/ 10.5/ 5.8) Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
8 16.7 ( 9.3/ 6.4/ 3.9) Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
8 15.6 ( 7.9/ 7.7/ 6.0) Yuji Minejima <········@nifty.ne.jp>
8 20.4 ( 7.8/ 11.5/ 7.1) Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
7 18.3 ( 7.3/ 10.8/ 6.2) Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
7 15.8 ( 9.3/ 5.4/ 2.9) William Bland <·······@abstractnonsense.com>
These posters accounted for 24.9% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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42.8 ( 5.5/ 37.4/ 36.1) 6 Joel Ray Holveck <·····@juniper.net>
35.8 ( 13.3/ 22.5/ 8.0) 12 ·········@aol.com
28.1 ( 10.1/ 15.3/ 7.6) 12 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
27.5 ( 12.7/ 13.3/ 5.0) 13 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
22.2 ( 10.0/ 10.5/ 5.8) 8 Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
21.5 ( 7.2/ 14.0/ 8.1) 5 Chuck Dillon <····@nimblegen.com>
21.4 ( 6.3/ 15.0/ 6.5) 5 Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
20.9 ( 11.2/ 8.8/ 4.5) 11 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
20.6 ( 7.4/ 13.3/ 9.1) 6 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
20.4 ( 7.8/ 11.5/ 7.1) 8 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
These posters accounted for 29.8% 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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0.974 ( 10.3 / 10.6) 5 Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.965 ( 36.1 / 37.4) 6 Joel Ray Holveck <·····@juniper.net>
0.771 ( 6.0 / 7.7) 8 Yuji Minejima <········@nifty.ne.jp>
0.698 ( 3.4 / 4.9) 6 ·········@random-state.net
0.684 ( 9.1 / 13.3) 6 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.618 ( 7.1 / 11.5) 8 Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.608 ( 3.9 / 6.4) 8 Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
0.594 ( 1.9 / 3.2) 5 marco <··@bese.it>
0.580 ( 8.1 / 14.0) 5 Chuck Dillon <····@nimblegen.com>
0.572 ( 4.4 / 7.8) 6 "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.507 ( 4.5 / 8.8) 11 "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.500 ( 7.6 / 15.3) 12 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.483 ( 1.0 / 2.1) 5 Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.431 ( 6.5 / 15.0) 5 Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.427 ( 2.4 / 5.7) 6 Robert Strandh <·······@labri.fr>
0.402 ( 3.0 / 7.4) 5 "David E. Young" <·······@nospampoboxnospam.com>
0.401 ( 1.8 / 4.4) 6 ········@spamcop.net
0.377 ( 5.0 / 13.3) 13 Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
0.356 ( 8.0 / 22.5) 12 ·········@aol.com
0.253 ( 1.4 / 5.6) 6 Walter Bushell <·····@panix.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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75 troll's food (python vs lisp)
59 Xah Lee's Unixism
21 difference between macros and functions
13 lisp used in game creation?
13 what happened to hash-tables
12 Newbie RFC: A utility macro
11 simple lisp function
10 easily embedding html into Lisp
9 Writing a Text Editor in Lisp
7 MOP way to extract slot documentation?
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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186.9 ( 69.9/110.2/ 76.9) 75 troll's food (python vs lisp)
173.6 ( 71.0/100.8/ 52.5) 59 Xah Lee's Unixism
49.6 ( 18.3/ 29.6/ 22.9) 21 difference between macros and functions
42.9 ( 9.0/ 33.7/ 15.7) 10 easily embedding html into Lisp
32.0 ( 13.2/ 18.2/ 10.3) 13 what happened to hash-tables
29.0 ( 12.2/ 15.6/ 7.5) 12 Newbie RFC: A utility macro
28.4 ( 14.7/ 12.7/ 7.2) 13 lisp used in game creation?
23.5 ( 10.6/ 12.1/ 9.1) 11 simple lisp function
19.5 ( 8.7/ 10.5/ 4.8) 7 Certainty factors with LISA: possible?
17.1 ( 8.3/ 8.0/ 5.3) 9 Writing a Text Editor in Lisp
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.889 ( 6.6/ 7.5) 3 meaning of a dialet or implementation of a programming language
0.861 ( 4.3/ 4.9) 4 Modifying the reader at compile-time
0.834 ( 4.5/ 5.3) 6 Evaluation order
0.783 ( 1.8/ 2.3) 3 hyperspec-addon.el 1.6 --- Add additional entries to CL HyperSpec lookup table
0.773 ( 22.9/ 29.6) 21 difference between macros and functions
0.753 ( 9.1/ 12.1) 11 simple lisp function
0.750 ( 2.9/ 3.9) 3 Looking for comments on this comment on Scheme macros
0.730 ( 2.3/ 3.1) 7 Lisp OS
0.698 ( 76.9/ 110.2) 75 troll's food (python vs lisp)
0.672 ( 0.8/ 1.1) 4 try - catch
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.512 ( 1.8 / 3.5) 6 For a native GUI in Lisp see GARNET! Was: troll's food (python vs lisp)
0.483 ( 1.7 / 3.4) 5 Big-O of the Length Function
0.479 ( 7.5 / 15.6) 12 Newbie RFC: A utility macro
0.465 ( 15.7 / 33.7) 10 easily embedding html into Lisp
0.461 ( 4.8 / 10.5) 7 Certainty factors with LISA: possible?
0.459 ( 1.4 / 3.1) 4 Debugging Lisp code (stupid newbie question)
0.456 ( 1.2 / 2.7) 5 Gray streams and READ
0.442 ( 1.6 / 3.5) 3 NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 14 September 2004 Lisp NYC: Mark McConnell on Technologies Together: Java and Lisp
0.323 ( 1.4 / 4.3) 6 why does the mop handle default-initargs as persistent,
0.232 ( 0.9 / 3.8) 3 Supporting tilt-wheels at the OS level.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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59 comp.lang.perl.misc
59 alt.folklore.computers
56 comp.lang.python
56 comp.unix.programmer
8 gnu.emacs.sources
4 comp.lang.scheme
3 comp.os.linux.advocacy
3 comp.os.linux.development.apps
3 alt.religion.emacs
3 gnu.emacs.help
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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48 ·········@aol.com
24 ········@spamcop.net
24 Walter Bushell <·····@panix.com>
20 Chuck Dillon <····@nimblegen.com>
16 Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
16 Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
12 ···@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk
12 Patrick Scheible <···@drizzle.com>
12 SM Ryan <·······@tango-sierra-oscar-foxtrot-tango.fake.org>
12 Morten Reistad <·········@lastname.pr1v.n0>