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
=====

    - 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:  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
========

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
=================================

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

   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
========================

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

  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)
==============================================

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

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)
=================================================

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

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
=================================

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

   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
========================

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

 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)
==============================================

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

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)
=================================================

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

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
=============================

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

      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
===================

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

       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>