From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <3a4olnF65tbguU2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 13 Mar 2005 07:53:25 GMT and ending at
20 Mar 2005 06:02:34 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:  172
Articles: 739 (353 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  80
Volume generated: 1808.2 kb
    - headers:    824.3 kb (12,934 lines)
    - bodies:     930.8 kb (24,367 lines)
    - original:   547.7 kb (15,611 lines)
    - signatures: 52.3 kb (1,429 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.588

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 4.3
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 72 posters
    s:      9.8 posts
Posts per thread: 9.2
    median: 3.5 posts
    mode:   1 post - 19 threads
    s:      19.0 posts
Message size: 2505.5 bytes
    - header:     1142.2 bytes (17.5 lines)
    - body:       1289.8 bytes (33.0 lines)
    - original:   759.0 bytes (21.1 lines)
    - signature:  72.5 bytes (1.9 lines)

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

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

   95   214.9 ( 96.9/ 99.8/ 60.9)  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
   52   109.1 ( 57.4/ 51.7/ 26.8)  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
   40    92.6 ( 47.5/ 45.1/ 20.3)  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
   31    71.2 ( 30.0/ 36.1/ 15.2)  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
   29    86.7 ( 50.3/ 35.0/ 14.6)  jayessay <······@foo.com>
   21    49.7 ( 24.3/ 23.0/ 15.2)  Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone <························@gmail.com>
   13    62.2 ( 19.9/ 39.7/ 16.3)  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
   12    28.2 ( 13.5/ 14.6/  9.3)  Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>
   12    24.8 ( 12.8/ 12.0/  9.9)  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
   11    40.1 ( 11.6/ 28.5/ 20.7)  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>

These posters accounted for 42.8% of all articles.

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

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

 214.9 ( 96.9/ 99.8/ 60.9)     95  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
 109.1 ( 57.4/ 51.7/ 26.8)     52  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
  92.6 ( 47.5/ 45.1/ 20.3)     40  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
  86.7 ( 50.3/ 35.0/ 14.6)     29  jayessay <······@foo.com>
  71.2 ( 30.0/ 36.1/ 15.2)     31  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
  62.2 ( 19.9/ 39.7/ 16.3)     13  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
  49.7 ( 24.3/ 23.0/ 15.2)     21  Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone <························@gmail.com>
  40.1 ( 11.6/ 28.5/ 20.7)     11  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
  30.5 ( 12.1/ 18.5/  9.1)      9  Matthias <····@spam.pls>
  28.2 ( 13.5/ 14.6/  9.3)     12  Jacek Generowicz <················@cern.ch>

These posters accounted for 43.4% of the total volume.

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

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

0.886  (  9.4 / 10.6)      5  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.858  ( 10.2 / 11.9)      6  "Alexander Repenning" <·····@cs.colorado.edu>
0.827  (  1.8 /  2.2)      5  "Peter Scott" <·········@gmail.com>
0.824  (  9.9 / 12.0)     12  David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.818  (  2.2 /  2.7)      5  Fred Gilham <······@snapdragon.csl.sri.com>
0.727  ( 20.7 / 28.5)     11  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.699  (  2.3 /  3.3)      5  Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <···@iki.fi>
0.698  (  8.9 / 12.8)      6  Anton Ertl <·····@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
0.669  (  3.1 /  4.6)      5  ·······@xnet.com
0.660  ( 15.2 / 23.0)     21  Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone <························@gmail.com>

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

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

0.449  ( 20.3 / 45.1)     40  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.443  (  3.7 /  8.3)      5  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.421  ( 15.2 / 36.1)     31  Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.418  (  3.2 /  7.7)      9  David Steuber <·····@david-steuber.com>
0.418  ( 14.6 / 35.0)     29  jayessay <······@foo.com>
0.410  ( 16.3 / 39.7)     13  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.408  (  2.0 /  4.9)      5  Svein Ove Aas <·········@aas.no>
0.404  (  1.5 /  3.7)      5  ········@gmail.com" <·······@gmail.com>
0.371  (  4.7 / 12.7)      7  Albert van der Horst <······@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
0.240  (  2.4 / 10.1)      6  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>

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

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

  139  Python becoming less Lisp-like
   71  Lisp fragmentation (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)
   59  The library metric
   41  Productivity With Lisp (was Re: I get it)
   36  PostLisp, a language experiment
   30  Lisp-likeness
   28  I get it
   26  [OT] PostLisp, a language experiment
   22  compiled open source Windows lisp
   15  string to list

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

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

 321.8 (160.0/154.1/ 92.5)    139  Python becoming less Lisp-like
 210.1 (113.8/ 91.7/ 41.9)     71  Lisp fragmentation (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)
 131.4 ( 30.7/ 96.1/ 54.6)     26  [OT] PostLisp, a language experiment
 117.3 ( 62.3/ 51.8/ 23.4)     41  Productivity With Lisp (was Re: I get it)
 116.5 ( 54.8/ 56.2/ 34.6)     59  The library metric
 101.4 ( 39.2/ 59.8/ 35.8)     36  PostLisp, a language experiment
  79.7 ( 31.5/ 46.2/ 23.4)     28  I get it
  59.3 ( 32.0/ 26.0/ 13.4)     30  Lisp-likeness
  45.6 ( 22.5/ 21.3/ 12.3)     22  compiled open source Windows lisp
  35.6 ( 13.2/ 21.9/ 11.2)     12  Common LISP Implementations for Mac OS X?

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

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

0.987  (  2.0/   2.0)      3  depressing University Bookstore
0.982  (  8.2/   8.4)      3  King of all holidays
0.886  (  2.8/   3.2)      3  Tim Bray's Mind
0.868  (  0.5/   0.5)      4  xmls, free to good home
0.835  (  1.1/   1.3)      3  Lisp web framework. KPAX and WebActions
0.814  (  6.1/   7.5)      4  XMLisp
0.788  (  4.3/   5.5)      4  Types (was: PostLisp, a language experiment)
0.788  (  4.6/   5.8)      5  LTK NoteBook
0.755  ( 10.1/  13.4)     13  compiled open source Windows lisp (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)
0.733  (  2.0/   2.8)      4  [newbie] mapping with side effects

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

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

0.514  ( 13.4 / 26.0)     30  Lisp-likeness
0.512  ( 11.2 / 21.9)     12  Common LISP Implementations for Mac OS X?
0.506  ( 23.4 / 46.2)     28  I get it
0.496  (  0.5 /  1.1)      3  Good Books for Learning LISP
0.457  ( 41.9 / 91.7)     71  Lisp fragmentation (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)
0.451  ( 23.4 / 51.8)     41  Productivity With Lisp (was Re: I get it)
0.422  (  5.0 / 11.8)     11  compiled lisp and VS7.1?
0.406  (  1.4 /  3.3)      4  Lisp marketing
0.343  (  3.3 /  9.6)      8  why not enough lisp libraries?
0.339  (  2.1 /  6.3)      5  How to pass on only unrecognized keyword params?

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

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

      78  comp.lang.forth
      45  comp.lang.python
       4  comp.lang.scheme
       2  comp.lang.functional
       2  rec.music.hip-hop
       1  comp.lang.tcl
       1  fa.caml

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

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

       8  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
       7  Albert van der Horst <······@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
       6  Anton Ertl <·····@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
       6  "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>
       5  ···@amleth.demon.co.uk
       4  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
       4  Bernd Paysan <············@gmx.de>
       4  Darin Johnson <······@_usa_._net>
       4  alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>
       4  "Elizabeth D Rather" <··········@forth.com>