From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <3an73oF6c2r1uU2@individual.net>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 20 Mar 2005 07:05:21 GMT and ending at
27 Mar 2005 05:53:29 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: 143
Articles: 403 (124 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 66
Volume generated: 813.0 kb
- headers: 381.9 kb (7,227 lines)
- bodies: 413.3 kb (11,890 lines)
- original: 259.3 kb (8,054 lines)
- signatures: 17.4 kb (451 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.627
Averages
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Posts per poster: 2.8
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 72 posters
s: 4.0 posts
Posts per thread: 6.1
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 26 threads
s: 14.5 posts
Message size: 2065.9 bytes
- header: 970.5 bytes (17.9 lines)
- body: 1050.1 bytes (29.5 lines)
- original: 658.8 bytes (20.0 lines)
- signature: 44.3 bytes (1.1 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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27 46.9 ( 22.2/ 24.7/ 12.8) Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
21 45.3 ( 15.4/ 29.9/ 15.5) Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
18 36.4 ( 20.4/ 16.0/ 11.1) ·············@gmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
13 25.9 ( 12.4/ 10.3/ 5.3) Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no>
11 19.3 ( 7.9/ 9.6/ 4.3) Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
9 16.9 ( 9.3/ 6.9/ 5.8) Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
9 19.6 ( 8.7/ 10.9/ 9.0) Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
8 13.0 ( 6.4/ 6.6/ 5.2) David Mullen <······@umr.edu>
8 18.3 ( 10.0/ 7.4/ 2.6) Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
7 16.5 ( 8.6/ 7.8/ 5.2) Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
These posters accounted for 32.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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46.9 ( 22.2/ 24.7/ 12.8) 27 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
45.3 ( 15.4/ 29.9/ 15.5) 21 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
36.4 ( 20.4/ 16.0/ 11.1) 18 ·············@gmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
25.9 ( 12.4/ 10.3/ 5.3) 13 Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no>
19.6 ( 8.7/ 10.9/ 9.0) 9 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
19.3 ( 7.9/ 9.6/ 4.3) 11 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
18.3 ( 10.0/ 7.4/ 2.6) 8 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
16.9 ( 9.3/ 6.9/ 5.8) 9 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
16.5 ( 8.6/ 7.8/ 5.2) 7 Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
14.4 ( 8.1/ 5.4/ 4.4) 7 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
These posters accounted for 31.9% 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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0.887 ( 7.7 / 8.7) 6 Alan Crowe <····@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.858 ( 2.7 / 3.2) 5 ·······@mail.dntis.ro
0.828 ( 5.8 / 6.9) 9 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.824 ( 9.0 / 10.9) 9 Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.818 ( 4.4 / 5.4) 7 Peter Seibel <·····@gigamonkeys.com>
0.795 ( 5.1 / 6.4) 6 "Steven E. Harris" <···@panix.com>
0.788 ( 5.2 / 6.6) 8 David Mullen <······@umr.edu>
0.749 ( 1.9 / 2.5) 5 "V.Ch." <····@notreal.com>
0.731 ( 3.0 / 4.1) 5 David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.711 ( 3.1 / 4.4) 5 Matthew D Swank <·······································@c.net>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.556 ( 2.0 / 3.5) 5 Trent Buck <·········@gmail.com>
0.551 ( 3.6 / 6.5) 5 Eric Daniel <···········@barberic.org>
0.518 ( 12.8 / 24.7) 27 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
0.518 ( 15.5 / 29.9) 21 Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
0.515 ( 5.3 / 10.3) 13 Harald Hanche-Olsen <······@math.ntnu.no>
0.453 ( 1.7 / 3.8) 6 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.452 ( 0.9 / 2.0) 5 "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.450 ( 4.3 / 9.6) 11 Pascal Bourguignon <····@mouse-potato.com>
0.344 ( 2.6 / 7.4) 8 Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.258 ( 2.0 / 7.7) 5 "Takuon Soho" <···@somwhere.net>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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96 Tim Bray's Mind
36 Tail call optimization and OO
29 How powerful macros are?
23 is there a better way...
13 Newbie lisper looking for hints
11 debugging
11 URGENT help with project
11 Lisp Workflow
10 Lisp for Startups
10 MS SQL Server driver
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
185.4 ( 95.2/ 86.9/ 54.4) 96 Tim Bray's Mind
77.8 ( 35.5/ 41.1/ 21.0) 36 Tail call optimization and OO
56.9 ( 26.2/ 30.0/ 22.0) 29 How powerful macros are?
49.8 ( 20.9/ 27.5/ 15.8) 23 is there a better way...
27.5 ( 11.3/ 14.7/ 11.2) 11 Lisp Workflow
26.0 ( 13.2/ 12.5/ 7.4) 13 Newbie lisper looking for hints
22.9 ( 9.2/ 13.0/ 7.0) 9 PostLisp, a language experiment
20.5 ( 7.6/ 12.5/ 9.1) 6 Python docs [was: function with a state]
19.3 ( 10.2/ 7.8/ 5.0) 11 debugging
19.2 ( 9.8/ 9.3/ 3.6) 10 MS SQL Server driver
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.876 ( 3.3/ 3.8) 3 [BVE PSA] The library metric
0.852 ( 7.1/ 8.4) 4 an old, apparently unanswered, question
0.776 ( 0.9/ 1.1) 4 The Greatest News Ever!
0.768 ( 2.6/ 3.4) 4 CL-Canvas or yet another graphics library for Logo and Mandelbrot
0.762 ( 2.1/ 2.8) 4 bit arrays vs. logical operations?
0.760 ( 11.2/ 14.7) 11 Lisp Workflow
0.743 ( 2.4/ 3.2) 4 Beginner question: help with macros
0.734 ( 22.0/ 30.0) 29 How powerful macros are?
0.730 ( 9.1/ 12.5) 6 Python docs [was: function with a state]
0.723 ( 4.9/ 6.8) 7 Macro composition problem
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.528 ( 3.2 / 6.0) 5 Macro trouble
0.513 ( 2.9 / 5.6) 8 automating ffi? what would it take?....
0.512 ( 21.0 / 41.1) 36 Tail call optimization and OO
0.509 ( 2.5 / 4.9) 10 Lisp for Startups
0.504 ( 1.4 / 2.8) 3 XMLisp
0.462 ( 1.7 / 3.6) 6 Accessing Lisp from 3GLs
0.454 ( 3.4 / 7.6) 4 ltk hanging under lisp-in-a-box+clisp on windows
0.380 ( 3.6 / 9.3) 10 MS SQL Server driver
0.362 ( 1.8 / 4.9) 6 New to Lisp
0.247 ( 2.5 / 10.0) 8 Screamer ClLisp, Win32
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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10 comp.lang.forth
7 comp.lang.python
6 comp.lang.c
6 comp.lang.perl.misc
6 comp.lang.smalltalk
6 comp.unix.programmer
1 comp.lang.functional
1 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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4 John Bokma <··········@castleamber.com>
4 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
4 ····@white-eagle.invalid.uk
4 Martin Ambuhl <·······@earthlink.net>
4 Keith Thompson <·····@mib.org>
4 "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
3 Thomas Gagne <······@wide-open-west.com>
2 Albert van der Horst <······@spenarnc.xs4all.nl>
2 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
2 "Brandon J. Van Every" <·····························@yahoo.com>