From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 06:51:38 +0000
Message-ID: <_hxoe.25045$yG4.1231678@news20.bellglobal.com> Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 29 May 2005 06:51:52 GMT and ending at
05 Jun 2005 05:04:07 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
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Posters: 148
Articles: 547 (236 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 70
Volume generated: 1306.0 kb
- headers: 652.3 kb (9,966 lines)
- bodies: 617.3 kb (16,874 lines)
- original: 393.5 kb (11,489 lines)
- signatures: 35.9 kb (1,005 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.637
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.7
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 65 posters
s: 4.9 posts
Posts per thread: 7.8
median: 4.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 19 threads
s: 11.6 posts
Message size: 2444.8 bytes
- header: 1221.1 bytes (18.2 lines)
- body: 1155.6 bytes (30.8 lines)
- original: 736.6 bytes (21.0 lines)
- signature: 67.2 bytes (1.8 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
36 100.1 ( 36.3/ 57.2/ 34.5) Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
22 62.0 ( 29.6/ 26.8/ 11.3) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
19 41.2 ( 21.6/ 19.6/ 7.7) =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
19 57.6 ( 38.0/ 18.7/ 12.2) "Phlip" <·········@yahoo.com>
18 27.6 ( 16.0/ 9.7/ 5.3) ········@agharta.de
17 32.8 ( 20.9/ 11.9/ 7.0) ·············@gmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
17 48.2 ( 22.4/ 25.7/ 16.4) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
16 47.5 ( 14.8/ 30.8/ 21.1) Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
13 38.4 ( 21.6/ 15.1/ 7.9) Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
11 44.1 ( 20.7/ 23.3/ 15.6) ········@sbcglobal.net
These posters accounted for 34.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
100.1 ( 36.3/ 57.2/ 34.5) 36 Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
62.0 ( 29.6/ 26.8/ 11.3) 22 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
57.6 ( 38.0/ 18.7/ 12.2) 19 "Phlip" <·········@yahoo.com>
48.2 ( 22.4/ 25.7/ 16.4) 17 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
47.5 ( 14.8/ 30.8/ 21.1) 16 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
46.4 ( 7.8/ 37.5/ 32.9) 8 Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
44.1 ( 20.7/ 23.3/ 15.6) 11 ········@sbcglobal.net
41.2 ( 21.6/ 19.6/ 7.7) 19 =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
38.4 ( 21.6/ 15.1/ 7.9) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
32.8 ( 20.9/ 11.9/ 7.0) 17 ·············@gmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
These posters accounted for 39.7% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.876 ( 32.9 / 37.5) 8 Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.795 ( 3.3 / 4.2) 6 Nicolas Neuss <·······@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
0.771 ( 3.2 / 4.2) 6 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <······@knm.org.pl>
0.713 ( 6.9 / 9.7) 10 Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
0.713 ( 4.0 / 5.6) 5 Raffael Cavallaro <················@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
0.702 ( 3.1 / 4.3) 9 Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
0.697 ( 2.6 / 3.7) 5 Paul Sinnett <············@yahoo.co.uk>
0.686 ( 4.8 / 7.0) 5 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.685 ( 21.1 / 30.8) 16 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.674 ( 3.6 / 5.3) 6 Robert Uhl <······@SPAM4dv.net>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.522 ( 7.9 / 15.1) 13 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
0.516 ( 2.9 / 5.6) 5 Joris Bleys <······@arti.vub.ac.be>
0.512 ( 5.1 / 10.0) 6 RC <··········@pvoalfotpmezsaq.net>
0.463 ( 2.8 / 6.0) 5 Tim Josling <····························@nospam.com>
0.461 ( 2.7 / 5.8) 9 "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.456 ( 2.9 / 6.3) 9 David Trudgett <······@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>
0.424 ( 11.3 / 26.8) 22 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.396 ( 7.7 / 19.6) 19 =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.360 ( 2.2 / 6.0) 7 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.236 ( 1.2 / 5.3) 6 alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
----- -------
75 How long should a function be?
48 How to make mod_lisp faster than php?
31 binary file upload with CLISP
29 A lazy or forgiving SUBSTRING a la Python
23 Agility sucks [Was: How long should a function be?]
19 Lisp and Web Programming
19 Ugly loop
18 Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
17 Garbage Collection Survey
17 Portable AllegroServe + Clisp
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
224.1 (118.6/101.7/ 63.0) 75 How long should a function be?
105.1 ( 53.2/ 47.5/ 23.9) 48 How to make mod_lisp faster than php?
68.2 ( 36.5/ 29.7/ 17.2) 31 binary file upload with CLISP
64.3 ( 45.5/ 17.3/ 10.5) 23 Agility sucks [Was: How long should a function be?]
63.3 ( 33.1/ 28.7/ 16.9) 29 A lazy or forgiving SUBSTRING a la Python
39.0 ( 20.2/ 18.4/ 10.0) 17 Portable AllegroServe + Clisp
38.1 ( 20.8/ 15.8/ 8.1) 19 Lisp and Web Programming
37.3 ( 18.5/ 16.9/ 10.9) 19 Ugly loop
37.0 ( 24.8/ 10.2/ 4.6) 18 Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
36.0 ( 15.2/ 19.8/ 10.7) 16 package frenzy
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 27.1/ 27.1) 3 Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.953 ( 12.7/ 13.3) 3 What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?
0.944 ( 5.1/ 5.4) 4 Critique my (a newbie's) debugging macro
0.944 ( 3.1/ 3.3) 4 capi/cocoa capturing
0.881 ( 11.7/ 13.2) 4 essentials of programming languages in common lisp
0.804 ( 8.4/ 10.4) 5 MOP/Macroexpansion
0.800 ( 10.8/ 13.5) 12 Overlord programs
0.765 ( 2.5/ 3.2) 4 Unquote
0.753 ( 2.8/ 3.7) 4 sxhash redux
0.749 ( 7.1/ 9.5) 9 a Dijkstra quote (what lang?)
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.476 ( 4.5 / 9.4) 4 newbie needing help (accessing variables within macros)
0.471 ( 1.5 / 3.2) 5 Any Pointers?
0.461 ( 2.2 / 4.7) 3 Bufferoverflows in Lisp?
0.454 ( 4.6 / 10.2) 18 Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
0.445 ( 2.7 / 6.1) 7 URI Escape/Unescape Library?
0.437 ( 6.2 / 14.2) 10 UFFI-izing varargs
0.421 ( 2.3 / 5.5) 9 Lisp hosting?
0.408 ( 1.8 / 4.5) 7 Lispworks+Slime - where is Bill Clementsons Blog?
0.384 ( 4.3 / 11.2) 17 Garbage Collection Survey
0.326 ( 0.6 / 1.7) 4 the world's attitude towards parentheses
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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101 comp.software-eng
13 comp.lang.scheme
10 comp.lang.functional
3 comp.lang.c
2 comp.lang.c++
2 comp.unix.programmer
2 comp.lang.java.security
1 comp.lang.java.programmer
1 comp.lang.lisp.franz
1 comp.lang.java.softwaretools
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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19 "Phlip" <·········@yahoo.com>
11 ········@sbcglobal.net
10 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
9 ·········@excites.com
7 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
6 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
6 "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
6 Andreas Rossberg <········@ps.uni-sb.de>
5 Paul Sinnett <············@yahoo.co.uk>
5 Tim Josling <····························@nospam.com> From: Tim Josling
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 08:07:30 +0000
Message-ID: <d7uc0j$421$1@possum.melbpc.org.au> Christopher Browne wrote:
> Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
What is OCR? Office for Civil Rights? Optical Character Recognition? My
lateral thinking neurone is dead at the moment.
Also, it would be interesting to know the top 10 posters by number of
replies to their posts. Tho' that might encourage trolls.
Tim Josling From: Kenny Tilton
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:24:40 +0000
Message-ID: <sxzoe.20737$IX4.18394@twister.nyc.rr.com> Tim Josling wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
>
>
> What is OCR? Office for Civil Rights? Optical Character Recognition? My
> lateral thinking neurone is dead at the moment.
No, your speed reading dial is set too high:
"- Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
to the total body volume."
--
Kenny
Why Lisp? http://lisp.tech.coop/RtL%20Highlight%20Film
"If you plan to enter text which our system might consider to be
obscene, check here to certify that you are old enough to hear the
resulting output." -- Bell Labs text-to-speech interactive Web page From: Harald Hanche-Olsen
Subject: Re: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 09:20:03 +0000
Message-ID: <pcoslzx2m9o.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> + Tim Josling <····························@nospam.com>:
| Christopher Browne wrote:
| > Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
|
| What is OCR? Office for Civil Rights? Optical Character Recognition?
All of the above.
| My lateral thinking neurone is dead at the moment.
Not much needed, just some basic pattern recognition. The words
"Original Content Rating" appear prominently near the top of the post.
It's harder to figure out what it means at the top google hit for OCR:
http://www.ocr.org.uk/OCR/WebSite/docroot/index.jsp
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction
than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is
of getting closer to the truth. -- C.P. Snow