From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <QGGae.29292$Jg5.1578299@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 17 Apr 2005 06:12:30 GMT and ending at
24 Apr 2005 04:56:26 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:  222
Articles: 907 (345 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  108
Volume generated: 2218.5 kb
    - headers:    1092.8 kb (16,268 lines)
    - bodies:     1077.0 kb (28,018 lines)
    - original:   675.9 kb (18,891 lines)
    - signatures: 47.8 kb (1,173 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.628

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 102 posters
    s:      7.9 posts
Posts per thread: 8.4
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 37 threads
    s:      18.0 posts
Message size: 2504.7 bytes
    - header:     1233.8 bytes (17.9 lines)
    - body:       1215.9 bytes (30.9 lines)
    - original:   763.1 bytes (20.8 lines)
    - signature:  53.9 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   84   239.4 ( 94.7/137.0/ 67.9)  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
   55   152.2 ( 72.4/ 71.0/ 42.6)  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····················@mycompanyname.com>
   43   131.8 ( 67.4/ 64.3/ 41.3)  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
   25    68.5 ( 28.3/ 40.2/ 29.0)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   18    33.0 ( 19.6/ 13.3/  8.1)  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
   18    46.9 ( 16.3/ 30.5/ 22.0)  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
   16    46.2 ( 22.1/ 24.1/ 14.2)  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
   15    30.7 ( 15.8/ 11.3/  5.3)  ···@gnu.org
   14    34.1 ( 17.8/ 16.3/  8.5)  Adam Connor <···@nospam.com>
   14    23.7 ( 18.1/  5.6/  3.4)  israel <······@bigpond.net.au>

These posters accounted for 33.3% of all articles.

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

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

 239.4 ( 94.7/137.0/ 67.9)     84  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
 152.2 ( 72.4/ 71.0/ 42.6)     55  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····················@mycompanyname.com>
 131.8 ( 67.4/ 64.3/ 41.3)     43  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
  68.5 ( 28.3/ 40.2/ 29.0)     25  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
  62.5 ( 28.0/ 34.4/ 21.6)     14  Anton van Straaten <·····@appsolutions.com>
  46.9 ( 16.3/ 30.5/ 22.0)     18  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>
  46.2 ( 22.1/ 24.1/ 14.2)     16  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
  44.9 (  3.7/ 41.1/ 41.1)      4  "timmy" <············@hotmail.com>
  39.0 ( 15.2/ 23.8/ 16.1)     13  "Mark Tarver" <··········@ukonline.co.uk>
  35.4 ( 16.0/ 17.5/ 11.3)     13  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>

These posters accounted for 39.1% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  1.9 /  1.9)      5  "nikhilketkar" <············@gmail.com>
0.946  (  5.9 /  6.2)      5  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.937  (  5.7 /  6.0)      5  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
0.842  (  4.1 /  4.9)      5  ·······@gmail.com
0.841  ( 12.7 / 15.1)      7  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.839  (  6.9 /  8.2)      5  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>
0.778  (  3.1 /  4.0)      9  "=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Helgason?=" <······@gmail.com>
0.764  ( 10.8 / 14.1)      7  Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <·······@Yahoo.Com>
0.760  (  1.6 /  2.1)      5  "Joel Reymont" <······@gmail.com>
0.744  (  3.5 /  4.8)      7  "jonathon" <···········@bigfoot.com>

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

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

0.454  (  2.8 /  6.2)      5  Leythos <····@nowhere.lan>
0.433  (  3.1 /  7.2)      7  M Jared Finder <·····@hpalace.com>
0.381  (  4.1 / 10.8)      6  Helmut Eller <········@stud3.tuwien.ac.at>
0.373  (  1.2 /  3.3)      5  ········@clouddancer.com
0.355  (  2.7 /  7.6)      9  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.331  (  1.8 /  5.5)      9  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.329  (  1.3 /  3.8)      5  Ilgaz <·····@spamcop.net>
0.323  (  4.3 / 13.4)     12  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.267  (  1.5 /  5.8)      6  "Scott G. Miller" <········@freenetproject.org>
0.261  (  1.7 /  6.5)      5  ·······@cs.nyu.edu

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

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

  116  Guy Steele interview in DDJ
   90  can anyone offer Lisp job?
   58  Lisp success stories
   55  An ode to Erlang
   43  IDE for Windows
   36  hotmail password request tool (intranet usage)
   30  "a language of failed dreams"
   27  What money? [Way off topic] (was Re: Guy Steele interview in
 DDJ)
   22  Lisp Optimised Workstation
   22  pcl: is LIST the same as '?

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

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

 302.0 (165.8/130.9/ 71.3)    116  Guy Steele interview in DDJ
 215.1 (106.9/101.7/ 61.7)     90  can anyone offer Lisp job?
 162.1 ( 77.2/ 79.2/ 43.3)     58  Lisp success stories
 127.6 ( 63.5/ 63.1/ 40.4)     55  An ode to Erlang
 115.6 ( 46.0/ 69.2/ 44.0)     27  What money? [Way off topic] (was Re: Guy Steele interview in
 DDJ)
 108.2 ( 49.7/ 55.9/ 37.8)     43  IDE for Windows
  85.5 ( 47.8/ 35.1/ 18.0)     36  hotmail password request tool (intranet usage)
  58.2 ( 35.2/ 21.3/ 11.2)     30  "a language of failed dreams"
  45.8 ( 22.4/ 21.3/ 13.2)     22  Lisp Optimised Workstation
  43.8 ( 20.8/ 21.5/ 11.5)     18  [OT] can anyone offer Lisp job?

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

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

0.925  (  8.7/   9.4)      7  writing a arithmetic parser?
0.905  (  4.6/   5.1)      3  Do You Want To Know For Sure That You Are Going To Heaven? The reason some people don't know for sure if they are going to Heaven when they die is because they just don't know. The good news is that you can know for sure that you are going to Heaven which is described in the Holy Bible as a beautiful place with no death, sorrow, sickness or pain. (newsgroup-post 142)
0.848  (  2.8/   3.3)      6  How to change people's minds about LISP?
0.826  (  2.3/   2.7)      4  Lisp and J (was: "Higher Order Perl" book and Lisp)
0.815  (  3.1/   3.8)      3  format to nil?
0.797  (  5.0/   6.3)      9  obstack
0.771  (  1.2/   1.6)      3  Seeking for classical LISP code
0.760  (  3.1/   4.1)      8  macro in other languages
0.733  (  4.5/   6.1)      8  Macro evaluation sequence
0.725  (  6.9/   9.5)      9  What money? [Way off topic] (was Re: Guy Steele interview in DDJ)

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

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

0.487  (  1.7 /  3.6)     10  meaning of OP
0.486  (  1.7 /  3.5)      4  Using ASDF for building non-CL based systems?
0.483  (  1.5 /  3.2)      8  Information about new CLisp Version
0.476  (  4.8 / 10.0)     11  RESTART-CASE :test function argument
0.468  ( 10.6 / 22.7)      6  What money? [Way off topic] (was Re: Guy Steele interview in
   DDJ)
0.467  (  4.1 /  8.7)      5  ASDF question
0.436  (  1.3 /  3.0)      5  pcl: prompt-read skipping inputs???
0.432  (  3.3 /  7.6)      8  "Higher Order Perl" book and Lisp
0.407  (  3.4 /  8.2)     10  SLIME problem
0.289  (  0.9 /  3.2)      5  VIRUS W32.Goldun.M (Re: hotmail password request tool (intranet usage)

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

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

     159  comp.lang.scheme
      39  comp.databases.oracle.server
      39  comp.lang.perl.misc
      39  comp.sys.mac.apps
      39  comp.security.firewalls
      21  comp.lang.apl
       5  talk.rape
       5  macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev
       5  alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets
       5  comp.lang.clipper.visual-objects

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

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

      52  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
      43  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
      20  Leythos <····@nowhere.lan>
      20  Ilgaz <·····@spamcop.net>
      16  DA Morgan <········@x.washington.edu>
      14  Anton van Straaten <·····@appsolutions.com>
      10  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
       9  "=?iso-8859-1?q?Bj=F6rn_Helgason?=" <······@gmail.com>
       8  "Matthias Hoys" <···················@yahoo.com>
       8  "Charles Newman" <··············@comcast.net.spammers.will.be.shot.on.sight>