From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <2rn7b9F1c88j4U2@uni-berlin.de>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 19 Sep 2004 06:53:20 GMT and ending at
26 Sep 2004 05:01:43 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:  158
Articles: 556 (246 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  72
Volume generated: 1326.9 kb
    - headers:    533.2 kb (9,568 lines)
    - bodies:     761.4 kb (20,816 lines)
    - original:   419.4 kb (12,899 lines)
    - signatures: 31.8 kb (753 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.551

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.5
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 66 posters
    s:      4.8 posts
Posts per thread: 7.7
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 30 threads
    s:      13.8 posts
Message size: 2443.9 bytes
    - header:     981.9 bytes (17.2 lines)
    - body:       1402.3 bytes (37.4 lines)
    - original:   772.4 bytes (23.2 lines)
    - signature:  58.6 bytes (1.4 lines)

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

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

   35   101.3 ( 31.3/ 62.2/ 26.3)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   27    78.3 ( 30.6/ 44.9/ 21.5)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   18    37.6 ( 18.4/ 17.2/  9.2)  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
   16    29.5 ( 12.1/ 17.4/ 12.6)  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
   15    40.4 ( 18.5/ 19.9/ 10.2)  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
   14    32.2 ( 11.8/ 20.4/ 15.9)  Alan Crowe <····@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
   13    38.4 ( 14.9/ 23.5/ 16.7)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   13    47.9 ( 14.2/ 33.6/ 10.7)  Christophe Turle <······@nospam.fr>
   12    22.3 ( 11.5/  9.9/  3.3)  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
   12    28.9 ( 12.8/ 14.6/  6.5)  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>

These posters accounted for 31.5% of all articles.

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

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

 101.3 ( 31.3/ 62.2/ 26.3)     35  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  78.3 ( 30.6/ 44.9/ 21.5)     27  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  47.9 ( 14.2/ 33.6/ 10.7)     13  Christophe Turle <······@nospam.fr>
  44.4 (  1.1/ 43.3/  8.9)      1  matt parker <·············@nurfuerspam.de>
  40.4 ( 18.5/ 19.9/ 10.2)     15  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>
  38.4 ( 14.9/ 23.5/ 16.7)     13  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
  37.6 ( 18.4/ 17.2/  9.2)     18  Vassil Nikolov <········@poboxes.com>
  37.2 (  8.9/ 28.3/ 15.0)     10  Antonio Menezes Leitao <··············@evaluator.pt>
  32.2 ( 11.8/ 20.4/ 15.9)     14  Alan Crowe <····@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
  29.5 ( 12.1/ 17.4/ 12.6)     16  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>

These posters accounted for 36.7% of the total volume.

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

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

0.931  (  5.1 /  5.5)      7  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.818  (  2.1 /  2.5)      5  "Steven E. Harris" <···@panix.com>
0.777  ( 15.9 / 20.4)     14  Alan Crowe <····@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.775  (  3.8 /  5.0)      5  Wade Humeniuk <····································@telus.net>
0.748  (  2.8 /  3.8)      6  Julian Stecklina <··········@web.de>
0.748  (  8.4 / 11.3)     10  "Tim Bradshaw" <··········@tfeb.org>
0.743  ( 15.2 / 20.4)      5  "Will Hartung" <·····@msoft.com>
0.731  (  7.7 / 10.5)     11  "Jeff" <···@nospam.insightbb.com>
0.721  ( 12.6 / 17.4)     16  Chris Capel <······@iba.nktech.net>
0.718  ( 10.7 / 14.9)      7  Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>

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

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

0.510  (  4.9 /  9.5)     11  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
0.489  (  2.9 /  6.0)      5  ···@usenet.thangorodrim.de
0.479  ( 21.5 / 44.9)     27  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.447  (  6.5 / 14.6)     12  Pascal Costanza <········@web.de>
0.439  (  2.2 /  5.0)     11  szymon <···@none.org>
0.435  (  2.2 /  5.0)      5  mikel <·····@evins.net>
0.424  ( 26.3 / 62.2)     35  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.413  (  1.8 /  4.3)      6  ········@agharta.de
0.328  (  3.3 /  9.9)     12  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
0.319  ( 10.7 / 33.6)     13  Christophe Turle <······@nospam.fr>

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

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

   86  Lisp collections
   58  Lisp anxieties
   51  Which style do you prefer?
   26  Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
   25  what happened to hash-tables
   25  Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
   22  Lisp OS
   19  parsing a CSV line
   18  Strange LISP: [ http://www.newlisp.org ]
   13  The Lisp-Difference

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

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

 217.1 ( 88.0/124.7/ 71.8)     86  Lisp collections
 135.6 ( 54.4/ 79.4/ 51.3)     58  Lisp anxieties
 127.4 ( 47.3/ 77.2/ 40.9)     51  Which style do you prefer?
  98.7 ( 26.7/ 71.9/ 28.1)     26  Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
  60.6 ( 31.4/ 26.4/ 13.4)     25  what happened to hash-tables
  57.6 ( 23.1/ 33.1/ 18.7)     25  Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
  44.4 (  1.1/ 43.3/  8.9)      1  > > > > matt parker alias e_vonlindtherzog romance matt parker alias evonlintherzog matt parker alias erikvan lunsen matt parker alias evonlunsen herzog cis matt parker alias evon_lunsenherzog matt parker alias e vonlintherzog his mailbox is matt
  43.0 ( 19.6/ 20.5/ 10.4)     22  Lisp OS
  40.1 ( 12.5/ 26.9/ 16.5)     13  How to prevent cdr from capitalizing symbols?
  33.3 ( 16.2/ 16.2/  9.7)     19  parsing a CSV line

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

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

0.905  (  6.0/   6.6)      6  ERROR :odd number of subform to setf
0.821  (  4.7/   5.7)      5  Does my macro create C style pointers?
0.804  (  3.2/   3.9)      3  The Lisp-Difference (was: Lisp anxieties)
0.792  (  1.0/   1.3)      4  Paul Graham vs. Jeff Relf ?
0.784  (  1.9/   2.5)      3  LispWorks' warnings output
0.773  (  4.7/   6.1)      4  Mutating a subset of a global within a function
0.713  (  1.0/   1.5)      3  Martin Fowler mentions Lisp...
0.692  (  4.1/   5.9)      6  Evaluation order
0.685  ( 17.0/  24.9)      8  I'm a C++ programmer, and Relf's X.CPP is good.
0.675  (  2.2/   3.3)      5  odd number of subform to setf

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

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

0.487  (  4.2 /  8.7)      7  troll's food (python vs lisp)
0.478  (  6.3 / 13.2)     13  The Lisp-Difference
0.468  (  1.9 /  4.1)      4  macro doing computation ?
0.467  (  3.9 /  8.4)      7  Printing the body of a function ?
0.466  (  2.0 /  4.2)      9  GNUs attribution format [Re: Lisp collections]
0.452  (  3.3 /  7.2)      8  sockets in lisp?
0.391  ( 28.1 / 71.9)     26  Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
0.389  (  4.1 / 10.5)     12  Xah Lee's Unixism
0.355  (  2.4 /  6.9)      8  meaning of a dialet or implementation of a programming language
0.298  (  0.7 /  2.3)      3  Deep Typing for Plain Old Lists  - A new kind of LISP?

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

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

      26  comp.unix.programmer
      12  comp.lang.python
      12  comp.lang.perl.misc
      12  alt.folklore.computers
      11  comp.os.linux.advocacy
       6  comp.lang.scheme
       5  gnu.emacs.help
       4  comp.unix.shell
       1  comp.lang.functional
       1  comp.ai

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

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

      12  ········@spamcop.net
      12  Chuck Dillon <····@nimblegen.com>
       8  ··········@worldnet.att.net
       6  Mike Cox <············@yahoo.com>
       4  Patrick Scheible <···@drizzle.com>
       4  Jeffrey Mark Siskind <····@purdue.edu>
       4  "Charlie Gibbs" <······@kltpzyxm.invalid>
       4  Stefaan A Eeckels <·····@DELETEMEecc.lu>
       4  ···@invalid.address
       4  Jeff Relf <·········@JeffRelf.Cotse.NET>