From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <UgnCe.42979$6e3.982112@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 10 Jul 2005 07:00:19 GMT and ending at
17 Jul 2005 06:51:39 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: 153
Articles: 587 (265 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 70
Volume generated: 1241.1 kb
- headers: 641.0 kb (10,646 lines)
- bodies: 562.6 kb (15,176 lines)
- original: 337.1 kb (9,869 lines)
- signatures: 36.8 kb (898 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.599
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.8
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 65 posters
s: 5.4 posts
Posts per thread: 8.4
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 21 threads
s: 14.2 posts
Message size: 2165.0 bytes
- header: 1118.3 bytes (18.1 lines)
- body: 981.4 bytes (25.9 lines)
- original: 588.0 bytes (16.8 lines)
- signature: 64.3 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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30 76.5 ( 28.5/ 41.9/ 22.2) Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
28 55.4 ( 25.1/ 26.8/ 13.8) Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
26 48.3 ( 27.3/ 18.3/ 10.8) ········@agharta.de
22 45.4 ( 21.6/ 23.8/ 13.6) Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
19 46.0 ( 22.8/ 23.2/ 7.6) "Jamie Border" <·····@jborder.com>
18 45.5 ( 21.6/ 23.9/ 8.2) "Tron3k" <······@gmail.com>
18 35.9 ( 17.2/ 16.7/ 8.8) Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
17 48.5 ( 17.8/ 26.9/ 16.2) ····@spamto.devnul.com
17 29.3 ( 17.0/ 12.3/ 7.9) Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
13 30.1 ( 16.6/ 10.4/ 7.3) Robert Uhl <·········@NOSPAMgmail.com>
These posters accounted for 35.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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76.5 ( 28.5/ 41.9/ 22.2) 30 Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
55.4 ( 25.1/ 26.8/ 13.8) 28 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
48.5 ( 17.8/ 26.9/ 16.2) 17 ····@spamto.devnul.com
48.3 ( 27.3/ 18.3/ 10.8) 26 ········@agharta.de
46.0 ( 22.8/ 23.2/ 7.6) 19 "Jamie Border" <·····@jborder.com>
45.5 ( 21.6/ 23.9/ 8.2) 18 "Tron3k" <······@gmail.com>
45.4 ( 21.6/ 23.8/ 13.6) 22 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
35.9 ( 17.2/ 16.7/ 8.8) 18 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
30.1 ( 16.6/ 10.4/ 7.3) 13 Robert Uhl <·········@NOSPAMgmail.com>
29.3 ( 17.0/ 12.3/ 7.9) 17 Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
These posters accounted for 37.1% 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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1.000 ( 2.9 / 2.9) 5 "Jenjhiz" <·······@yahoo.com>
0.876 ( 2.3 / 2.6) 5 "David L. Rager" <·······@cs.utexas.edu>
0.841 ( 1.7 / 2.0) 6 "Karol Skocik" <············@gmail.com>
0.793 ( 11.2 / 14.1) 5 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.747 ( 3.7 / 4.9) 12 ·············@hotmail.com
0.735 ( 9.3 / 12.7) 9 drewc <·····@rift.com>
0.716 ( 7.5 / 10.5) 10 "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
0.701 ( 7.3 / 10.4) 13 Robert Uhl <·········@NOSPAMgmail.com>
0.697 ( 4.2 / 6.0) 8 David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.648 ( 3.7 / 5.8) 6 Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.513 ( 1.5 / 2.9) 5 Julian Stecklina <··········@web.de>
0.473 ( 1.2 / 2.6) 5 Drew Krause <········@mindspring.com>
0.466 ( 4.4 / 9.5) 13 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.458 ( 1.6 / 3.5) 5 Hannah Schroeter <······@schlund.de>
0.452 ( 3.5 / 7.8) 12 ········@clouddancer.com
0.443 ( 1.2 / 2.6) 7 Ivan Boldyrev <···············@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
0.345 ( 8.2 / 23.9) 18 "Tron3k" <······@gmail.com>
0.338 ( 1.3 / 3.7) 5 ···@gnu.org
0.325 ( 7.6 / 23.2) 19 "Jamie Border" <·····@jborder.com>
0.303 ( 1.1 / 3.7) 8 Joe Marshall <·············@comcast.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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56 Beyond CL?
53 How to create a standalone GNU/Linux binary using SBCL?
51 How do you imagine future Common Lisp standard ?
32 Allegro/LispWorks-like free IDE anytime soon?
29 How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
27 FYI: I bought a good german book on Lisp
25 How to xor?
24 TSP in CL &/or Screamer
22 Business applications in Lisp
21 Speed: a column of floats from large file
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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135.7 ( 66.2/ 65.7/ 39.6) 53 How to create a standalone GNU/Linux binary using SBCL?
117.4 ( 61.0/ 53.3/ 27.5) 51 How do you imagine future Common Lisp standard ?
115.1 ( 59.8/ 51.6/ 23.2) 56 Beyond CL?
71.9 ( 30.0/ 39.0/ 25.1) 29 How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract?
60.9 ( 38.4/ 19.0/ 9.9) 32 Allegro/LispWorks-like free IDE anytime soon?
49.8 ( 22.6/ 26.7/ 16.3) 21 Speed: a column of floats from large file
49.0 ( 27.3/ 19.8/ 10.8) 27 FYI: I bought a good german book on Lisp
47.7 ( 27.0/ 19.9/ 12.0) 25 How to xor?
47.5 ( 28.5/ 18.1/ 10.2) 24 TSP in CL &/or Screamer
44.8 ( 25.2/ 18.2/ 11.8) 22 Business applications in Lisp
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.768 ( 10.5/ 13.6) 7 Calling Process-run-function
0.738 ( 10.6/ 14.4) 17 Writing shared libraries using Lisp
0.729 ( 0.8/ 1.0) 3 AllegroCache written on top of Berkeley DB?
0.717 ( 2.1/ 3.0) 6 Corman Lisp: problem with inferior-lisp mode
0.714 ( 0.6/ 0.8) 3 displaced arrays
0.702 ( 5.0/ 7.1) 13 Need advice on next Lisp book to buy
0.680 ( 7.6/ 11.2) 10 `let*' and functional design
0.680 ( 1.8/ 2.7) 4 cLisp: learning lisp
0.678 ( 1.7/ 2.5) 3 restart question
0.652 ( 11.8/ 18.2) 22 Business applications in Lisp
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.545 ( 10.8 / 19.8) 27 FYI: I bought a good german book on Lisp
0.522 ( 9.9 / 19.0) 32 Allegro/LispWorks-like free IDE anytime soon?
0.521 ( 3.5 / 6.7) 6 a language reference book for Common Lisp?
0.517 ( 27.5 / 53.3) 51 How do you imagine future Common Lisp standard ?
0.450 ( 23.2 / 51.6) 56 Beyond CL?
0.443 ( 3.8 / 8.6) 3 Business applications in Lisp (Oracle Developer)
0.441 ( 2.6 / 5.9) 5 How do I handle ^M and ^H characters output from external programs?
0.405 ( 3.5 / 8.7) 8 combination function help
0.395 ( 1.9 / 4.9) 6 Compiling PCL example, possible CLISP bug?
0.318 ( 1.0 / 3.2) 3 multiple return values
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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16 comp.lang.java.programmer
16 comp.programming
2 comp.lang.scheme
1 comp.mail.sendmail
1 alt.religion.emacs
1 aus.culture.lesbigay
1 gnu.emacs.help
1 comp.lang.fortran
1 comp.sys.laptops
1 comp.lang.c++
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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7 "cox" <········@tigertanks.com>
6 Chris Sonnack <·····@Sonnack.com>
4 ····@spamto.devnul.com
4 Michael Sullivan <·······@bcect.com>
3 ·········@lxny.org
2 "Phlip" <·········@yahoo.com>
2 Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <·······@Yahoo.Com>
2 Gerry Quinn <······@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
2 "Coby Beck" <·····@mercury.bc.ca>
2 David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>