From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <38dcjmF5k25b6U2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 20 Feb 2005 07:53:38 GMT and ending at
27 Feb 2005 06:46:59 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:  173
Articles: 555 (194 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  63
Volume generated: 1187.0 kb
    - headers:    601.0 kb (10,359 lines)
    - bodies:     561.8 kb (14,687 lines)
    - original:   359.3 kb (10,124 lines)
    - signatures: 23.7 kb (606 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.640

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.2
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 75 posters
    s:      3.9 posts
Posts per thread: 8.8
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 17 threads
    s:      21.3 posts
Message size: 2190.1 bytes
    - header:     1108.9 bytes (18.7 lines)
    - body:       1036.5 bytes (26.5 lines)
    - original:   662.9 bytes (18.2 lines)
    - signature:  43.7 bytes (1.1 lines)

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

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

   19    39.6 ( 22.6/ 17.0/  8.1)  ········@gmail.com" <·······@gmail.com>
   17    47.4 ( 25.4/ 20.7/ 10.2)  Dave Roberts <···········@remove-findinglisp.com>
   15    29.2 ( 18.7/  9.2/  5.1)  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
   13    16.6 ( 11.0/  4.3/  2.1)  ········@agharta.de
   11    28.3 ( 14.3/ 12.6/  5.7)  Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
   11    23.6 ( 12.3/ 10.5/  5.2)  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
   11    22.6 ( 12.1/ 10.5/  3.2)  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
   11    25.9 ( 11.7/ 14.2/ 11.4)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   10    24.4 ( 11.0/ 13.4/ 10.0)  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
   10    20.5 ( 11.4/  8.2/  5.0)  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>

These posters accounted for 23.1% of all articles.

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

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

  47.4 ( 25.4/ 20.7/ 10.2)     17  Dave Roberts <···········@remove-findinglisp.com>
  39.6 ( 22.6/ 17.0/  8.1)     19  ········@gmail.com" <·······@gmail.com>
  29.2 ( 18.7/  9.2/  5.1)     15  Rahul Jain <·····@nyct.net>
  28.3 ( 14.3/ 12.6/  5.7)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
  25.9 ( 11.7/ 14.2/ 11.4)     11  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
  24.4 ( 11.0/ 13.4/ 10.0)     10  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
  24.2 (  6.0/ 18.2/ 13.5)      7  M Jared Finder <·····@hpalace.com>
  23.6 ( 12.3/ 10.5/  5.2)     11  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
  23.3 (  7.2/ 15.1/ 11.5)      5  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  22.8 (  5.4/ 17.4/ 12.4)      6  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>

These posters accounted for 24.3% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  6.1 /  6.1)      7  "lisplover" <·········@hotmail.com>
1.000  (  2.2 /  2.2)      7  "Joel Reymont" <······@gmail.com>
0.995  (  6.9 /  7.0)      6  "=?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster_vom_Silberwald?=" <··········@hotmail.com>
0.917  (  4.9 /  5.3)      6  Holger Duerer <········@gmx.net>
0.824  (  1.7 /  2.1)      5  rif <···@mit.edu>
0.816  (  4.2 /  5.2)      6  "dragentsheets" <·····@cs.colorado.edu>
0.801  ( 11.4 / 14.2)     11  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.781  (  8.8 / 11.3)      6  Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.760  ( 11.5 / 15.1)      5  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.745  ( 13.5 / 18.2)      7  M Jared Finder <·····@hpalace.com>

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

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

0.488  (  2.1 /  4.3)     13  ········@agharta.de
0.483  (  2.0 /  4.2)      8  Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no>
0.480  (  8.1 / 17.0)     19  ········@gmail.com" <·······@gmail.com>
0.464  (  1.2 /  2.5)      7  Trent Buck <·········@tznvy.pbz>
0.458  (  5.7 / 12.6)     11  Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
0.454  (  3.1 /  6.8)      8  A . L . <·················@oddpost_tego_tez_nie.com>
0.440  (  1.2 /  2.8)      5  "Gorbag" <······@invalid.acct>
0.409  (  2.6 /  6.5)      8  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.303  (  3.2 / 10.5)     11  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.299  (  2.4 /  7.9)      6  Peter Seibel <·····@javamonkey.com>

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

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

  164  why not enough lisp libraries?
   45  Interview with Alan Kay
   39  MCL for OS X worth the price?
   31  One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only!
   26  character syntax revisited
   19  When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?
   14  [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
   13  Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
   11  Flash SWF library
   10  LispWorks save-image :restart-function?

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

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

 371.5 (190.2/174.1/110.3)    164  why not enough lisp libraries?
 141.3 ( 61.2/ 78.0/ 47.1)     45  Interview with Alan Kay
  79.0 ( 39.0/ 39.3/ 27.5)     39  MCL for OS X worth the price?
  61.5 ( 30.5/ 29.0/ 16.3)     31  One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only!
  42.5 ( 23.1/ 18.0/ 12.2)     26  character syntax revisited
  31.1 ( 18.6/ 11.7/  7.4)     19  When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?
  28.6 (  9.2/ 19.4/ 11.7)      7  ANSI compliance of check-type in various lisps
  26.6 ( 11.4/ 14.6/  9.1)     11  Flash SWF library
  23.8 ( 13.3/  9.8/  7.4)     14  [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
  23.1 ( 14.0/  8.2/  4.9)     13  Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck

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

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

0.919  (  2.1/   2.3)      4  Catch-all eql specializer
0.909  (  2.8/   3.1)      3  portable way to define new stream classes?
0.889  ( 11.7/  13.2)      5  What's up with DISASSEMBLE and Slime?
0.844  (  1.6/   1.9)      4  packages for strings
0.752  (  7.4/   9.8)     14  [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
0.745  (  4.9/   6.6)      5  standard mode for arrow down
0.729  (  9.7/  13.3)      7  An idea for making define-macro more convenient to use
0.724  (  0.7/   1.0)      3  Problem with a defmacro declaration
0.701  ( 27.5/  39.3)     39  MCL for OS X worth the price?
0.691  (  2.2/   3.2)      4  What Lisp for Mac OS X with these requirements?

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

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

0.548  (  1.4 /  2.5)      5  Lisp and AI...
0.540  (  1.0 /  1.9)      4  Lisp keyboard
0.530  (  1.4 /  2.7)      5  [OT] Central Park Gates grace a Christo and Jeanne-Claude
0.527  (  3.4 /  6.5)      7  Another problem with the defmacro
0.513  (  4.0 /  7.9)      7  Join of sets in CL
0.454  (  4.1 /  8.9)      9  Saving Peter Seibel's honor
0.451  (  0.7 /  1.5)      4  OT: Re: standard mode for arrow down
0.434  (  3.7 /  8.4)      8  demonic problem descriptions
0.428  (  0.8 /  1.8)      4  demonic numbers !
0.408  (  0.8 /  2.0)      3  Hemlock question

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

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

      37  comp.lang.smalltalk
      37  comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin
      23  comp.lang.scheme
       9  comp.emacs.xemacs
       9  comp.emacs
       9  comp.unix.programmer
       9  comp.lang.perl.misc

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

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

      12  Dave Roberts <···········@remove-findinglisp.com>
       8  "John Thingstad" <··············@chello.no>
       8  Tim May <·······@removethis.got.net>
       6  Holger Duerer <········@gmx.net>
       5  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
       4  Chris Mattern <········@comcast.net>
       4  Raymond Toy <···········@ericsson.com>
       4  =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <···@inprovide.com>
       4  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
       4  BR <··········@comcast.net>
From: Gottfried von Korinth
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <38o7cgF5p9vc1U1@individual.net>
"Christopher Browne" <········@acm.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
····················@individual.net...
> Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
> beginning at 20 Feb 2005 07:53:38 GMT and ending at
> 27 Feb 2005 06:46:59 GMT.

A question: How is this information sampled? Is there some special program
for this?

TIA,

-- 
jb