From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <d%Lxe.11338$Ai.878637@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 26 Jun 2005 07:00:20 GMT and ending at
03 Jul 2005 04:31:35 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:  133
Articles: 460 (144 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  63
Volume generated: 1230.7 kb
    - headers:    544.4 kb (8,362 lines)
    - bodies:     659.5 kb (16,829 lines)
    - original:   422.3 kb (11,476 lines)
    - signatures: 26.3 kb (832 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.640

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.5
    median: 2 posts
    mode:   1 post - 62 posters
    s:      5.1 posts
Posts per thread: 7.3
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 18 threads
    s:      22.6 posts
Message size: 2739.6 bytes
    - header:     1211.9 bytes (18.2 lines)
    - body:       1468.1 bytes (36.6 lines)
    - original:   940.0 bytes (24.9 lines)
    - signature:  58.6 bytes (1.8 lines)

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

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

   38   133.5 ( 43.9/ 89.6/ 56.9)  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
   27    64.0 ( 41.0/ 22.9/  8.8)  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
   18    44.2 ( 18.3/ 23.7/  9.8)  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
   16    64.0 ( 24.3/ 39.8/ 19.2)  Rainer Joswig <······@lisp.de>
   15    36.1 ( 19.4/ 16.7/ 10.5)  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
   14    32.3 ( 17.8/ 14.5/  6.8)  "GLS" <·@G.COM>
   12    26.2 ( 14.8/ 11.4/  5.3)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   11    20.3 ( 11.4/  9.0/  5.6)  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
   10    20.5 ( 10.5/ 10.1/  7.2)  Nicolas Neuss <·······@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
   10    22.2 ( 13.0/  9.1/  4.4)  "Robbie Blake-Coleman" <········@glowinternet.net>

These posters accounted for 37.2% of all articles.

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

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

 133.5 ( 43.9/ 89.6/ 56.9)     38  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
  64.0 ( 24.3/ 39.8/ 19.2)     16  Rainer Joswig <······@lisp.de>
  64.0 ( 41.0/ 22.9/  8.8)     27  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
  58.1 (  6.7/ 51.4/ 45.3)      7  Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <·······@Yahoo.Com>
  44.2 ( 18.3/ 23.7/  9.8)     18  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
  43.5 (  9.6/ 32.7/ 22.2)      8  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
  36.1 ( 19.4/ 16.7/ 10.5)     15  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
  32.3 ( 17.8/ 14.5/  6.8)     14  "GLS" <·@G.COM>
  27.2 (  6.1/ 21.1/ 16.8)      5  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
  27.1 (  7.4/  9.4/  4.3)      8  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>

These posters accounted for 43.1% of the total volume.

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

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

0.882  ( 45.3 / 51.4)      7  Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <·······@Yahoo.Com>
0.796  ( 16.8 / 21.1)      5  Ray Dillinger <····@sonic.net>
0.783  (  3.8 /  4.9)      7  Juliusz Chroboczek <···@pps.jussieu.fr>
0.717  (  7.2 / 10.1)     10  Nicolas Neuss <·······@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
0.686  (  1.5 /  2.2)      5  "jonathon" <···········@bigfoot.com>
0.678  ( 22.2 / 32.7)      8  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
0.643  (  1.8 /  2.8)      5  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
0.635  ( 56.9 / 89.6)     38  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.632  (  4.3 /  6.8)      7  Robert Uhl <·········@NOSPAMgmail.com>
0.630  ( 10.5 / 16.7)     15  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>

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

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

0.477  (  4.4 /  9.1)     10  "Robbie Blake-Coleman" <········@glowinternet.net>
0.472  (  6.8 / 14.5)     14  "GLS" <·@G.COM>
0.464  (  5.3 / 11.4)     12  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.462  (  6.5 / 14.1)      7  Joe Marshall <···@ccs.neu.edu>
0.456  (  4.3 /  9.4)      8  "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
0.415  (  2.2 /  5.4)      7  Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
0.415  (  9.8 / 23.7)     18  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.384  (  8.8 / 22.9)     27  Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
0.334  (  1.1 /  3.2)      5  ········@clouddancer.com
0.270  (  1.1 /  4.0)      6  alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>

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

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

  176  ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul
   40  Buying a MacIvory
   16  I can't find which line is causing the error
   14  Canonical Way to Mask SETF?
   12  Screenshots of real-world Lisp apps
   11  Runtime macros
   10  changing binary extension with ASDF
    9  Request for comment: follow-up to Summer of Code
    8  Having trouble deleting first item in list
    8  ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and
 Rahul

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

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

 485.6 (233.4/245.1/140.6)    176  ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and Rahul
  91.4 ( 52.3/ 38.3/ 18.9)     40  Buying a MacIvory
  63.3 ( 18.3/ 34.6/ 31.5)     16  I can't find which line is causing the error
  53.3 (  9.9/ 43.2/ 24.2)     11  Runtime macros
  38.6 ( 13.4/ 25.2/ 12.9)      8  ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and
 Rahul
  33.8 ( 14.0/ 18.9/ 11.4)     14  Canonical Way to Mask SETF?
  28.3 (  9.1/ 19.2/ 14.8)      9  Request for comment: follow-up to Summer of Code
  27.6 (  6.2/ 20.5/ 13.6)      6  Implementing custom containers  in Lisp
  23.5 (  4.1/ 19.1/ 14.8)      4  [OT] can anyone offer Lisp job?
  20.1 ( 10.1/  9.5/  5.7)     10  changing binary extension with ASDF

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

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

0.919  (  1.3/   1.4)      3  Accelerando
0.910  ( 31.5/  34.6)     16  I can't find which line is causing the error
0.856  (  3.7/   4.3)      4  yet again, lisp vs. scheme
0.852  (  2.6/   3.1)      4  Martin Fowler talks about Lisp...
0.790  (  3.1/   4.0)      3  Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]
0.788  (  2.8/   3.5)      5  Creating a read-from-string utility
0.780  (  8.4/  10.8)      6  how to generate function names
0.777  ( 14.8/  19.1)      4  [OT] can anyone offer Lisp job?
0.776  (  3.4/   4.3)      7  Hello-C mailing list?
0.770  ( 14.8/  19.2)      9  Request for comment: follow-up to Summer of Code

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

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

0.559  ( 24.2 / 43.2)     11  Runtime macros
0.554  (  2.1 /  3.8)      3  SBCL funcallable-standard-class confusion
0.536  (  1.9 /  3.6)      4  de threadibus
0.520  (  3.5 /  6.7)      3  Commerical Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2005
0.518  (  3.1 /  5.9)      8  Having trouble deleting first item in list
0.514  ( 12.9 / 25.2)      8  ILC2005: McCarthy denounces Common Lisp, "Lisp", XML, and
 Rahul
0.498  (  2.9 /  5.8)      5  FFI licensing [Was: Hello-C mailing list?]
0.493  ( 18.9 / 38.3)     40  Buying a MacIvory
0.470  (  0.4 /  0.8)      3  Socket programming using lisp
0.448  (  4.2 /  9.5)      7  warn if not top-level?

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

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

       4  comp.lang.functional
       2  comp.text.tex
       1  alt.internet.search-engines

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

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

       1  d'yeux le pair <·····@users.snip.snip.ch>
       1  Didier Verna <······@lrde.epita.fr>
       1  Rainer Joswig <······@lisp.de>
       1  "Borkdude" <··············@gmail.com>
       1  "Andy Moran" <········@gmail.com>
       1  Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
       1  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
       0  Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>
       0  "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <·············@hotmail.com>
       0  "justinhj" <········@gmail.com>