From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <Yk_ce.17598$BW6.1513530@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 24 Apr 2005 06:05:36 GMT and ending at
01 May 2005 04:53:34 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:  200
Articles: 1016 (409 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  101
Volume generated: 2380.8 kb
    - headers:    1179.2 kb (17,967 lines)
    - bodies:     1146.1 kb (30,648 lines)
    - original:   709.9 kb (20,584 lines)
    - signatures: 54.4 kb (1,330 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.619

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 5.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 82 posters
    s:      9.7 posts
Posts per thread: 10.1
    median: 4 posts
    mode:   1 post - 28 threads
    s:      21.9 posts
Message size: 2399.6 bytes
    - header:     1188.5 bytes (17.7 lines)
    - body:       1155.2 bytes (30.2 lines)
    - original:   715.5 bytes (20.3 lines)
    - signature:  54.9 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   72   190.1 ( 79.0/104.4/ 47.7)  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
   57   171.1 ( 57.8/103.3/ 68.7)  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
   45    85.9 ( 48.6/ 37.2/ 25.7)  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
   43    85.4 ( 45.4/ 40.0/ 23.6)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
   34    76.3 ( 40.4/ 35.8/ 29.9)  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
   32    67.6 ( 36.7/ 30.9/ 13.0)  =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
   25    50.3 ( 30.3/ 13.9/  6.5)  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
   22    39.8 ( 29.2/ 10.5/  6.8)  vermicule <······@bigpond.net.au>
   19    82.3 ( 23.1/ 59.2/ 41.8)  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
   18    45.2 ( 26.7/ 18.5/  9.3)  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>

These posters accounted for 36.1% of all articles.

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

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

 190.1 ( 79.0/104.4/ 47.7)     72  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
 171.1 ( 57.8/103.3/ 68.7)     57  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
  85.9 ( 48.6/ 37.2/ 25.7)     45  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
  85.4 ( 45.4/ 40.0/ 23.6)     43  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
  82.3 ( 23.1/ 59.2/ 41.8)     19  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
  76.3 ( 40.4/ 35.8/ 29.9)     34  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
  67.6 ( 36.7/ 30.9/ 13.0)     32  =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
  50.3 ( 30.3/ 13.9/  6.5)     25  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
  45.2 ( 26.7/ 18.5/  9.3)     18  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
  41.9 ( 21.3/ 16.3/  7.9)     18  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>

These posters accounted for 37.6% of the total volume.

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

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

0.975  (  2.4 /  2.5)      6  "fireblade" <········@YAHOO.COM>
0.920  (  3.6 /  3.9)      5  Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.840  (  1.9 /  2.3)      6  "Toki" <··········@gmail.com>
0.835  ( 29.9 / 35.8)     34  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
0.830  (  8.0 /  9.7)      5  Don Geddis <···@geddis.org>
0.796  ( 22.6 / 28.4)     14  Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <·······@Yahoo.Com>
0.762  ( 10.4 / 13.7)     12  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.758  (  4.1 /  5.4)      7  ······@snobis.de
0.757  ( 12.7 / 16.8)      8  Bob Bain <····@tpg.com.au>
0.741  ( 12.2 / 16.5)     14  "Karl A. Krueger" <········@example.edu>

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

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

0.388  (  1.2 /  3.2)      8  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
0.383  (  2.2 /  5.8)      8  Raymond Wiker <·············@fast.no>
0.371  (  2.6 /  6.9)     10  =?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Rune_N=F8stdal?= <···········@gmail.com>
0.364  (  1.0 /  2.7)      5  vedm <··@nospam.com>
0.360  (  0.7 /  2.0)      6  "Paul F. Dietz" <·····@dls.net>
0.345  (  1.3 /  3.7)      6  A . L . <·················@hotfuck.com>
0.342  (  3.8 / 11.0)     10  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.274  (  0.9 /  3.1)      5  Casper H . S . Dik <··········@Sun.COM>
0.235  (  2.2 /  9.4)      6  "Mark Tarver" <··········@ukonline.co.uk>
0.217  (  0.8 /  3.9)      5  "Stan de SD" <········@earthlink.net>

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

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

  137  Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
  111  Why is Lisp not as popular as Python?
   88  How to change people's minds about LISP?
   47  LISP
   37  Guy Steele interview in DDJ
   31  long term unemployment.
   28  Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]
   26  arithmetic speed
   22  Practical Common Lisp reviewed on /.
   22  optimizing diffusion code (was arithmetic speed)

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

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

 408.6 (197.1/203.9/125.8)    137  Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
 249.4 (126.7/116.2/ 66.1)    111  Why is Lisp not as popular as Python?
 191.9 ( 93.6/ 93.4/ 56.7)     88  How to change people's minds about LISP?
 104.0 ( 61.2/ 41.9/ 21.8)     37  Guy Steele interview in DDJ
  95.5 ( 51.4/ 40.3/ 24.6)     47  LISP
  82.7 ( 43.9/ 38.4/ 22.1)     31  long term unemployment.
  67.3 ( 27.7/ 38.0/ 20.6)     28  Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]
  56.3 ( 25.8/ 30.0/ 19.3)     21  An ode to Erlang
  56.0 ( 30.9/ 23.9/ 15.6)     26  arithmetic speed
  48.7 ( 19.6/ 28.5/ 20.4)     19  can anyone offer Lisp job?

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

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

0.870  ( 11.1/  12.8)     11  Implementing custom containers in Lisp
0.844  (  4.4/   5.2)      7  If I want to put an atom at the end of a list, which is better ?
0.843  (  4.0/   4.7)      3  help debugging function
0.805  (  3.0/   3.8)      5  Von Neumanns less well known accomplishments.
0.799  (  1.3/   1.6)      3  McCLIM: subclassing text-field?
0.763  (  1.3/   1.7)      5  Announce: BOTHTON - Boston Lisp Announcements Email List
0.760  ( 10.2/  13.4)      9  Extracting key-values from a list
0.754  ( 15.4/  20.5)     22  optimizing diffusion code (was arithmetic speed)
0.745  ( 10.7/  14.3)      6  Lisp-ifying FFI's
0.742  (  5.1/   6.9)     10  Gui/multithreaded lisp version

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

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

0.516  (  3.8 /  7.3)      6  nested backquote confusion
0.514  (  1.5 /  2.9)      5  ANSI question (load evaluation order)
0.498  (  3.8 /  7.6)      8  Web services in CL
0.487  ( 11.8 / 24.2)     21  A cool thing Lisp can do...
0.473  (  1.4 /  2.9)      4  On Lisp: the 6 keystones of Lisp
0.447  (  1.1 /  2.5)      6  Lisp is becoming mainstream language (and python does not grow) [Was: Why is Lisp not as popular as Python?]
0.439  (  5.6 / 12.9)     22  Practical Common Lisp reviewed on /.
0.393  (  3.8 /  9.6)     12  Good morning or good evening depending upon your location. I want to ask you the most important question of your life. Your joy or sorrow for all eternity depends upon your answer. The question is: Are you saved? It is not a question of how good you ar
0.299  (  0.5 /  1.8)      3  Is recursive compilation required by ANSI CL?
0.225  (  1.6 /  6.9)      7  Lisp is dead and smells like fish

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

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

      64  comp.lang.scheme
      31  alt.society.homeless
      28  talk.bizarre
      28  misc.misc
      24  comp.lang.functional
      16  comp.lang.c
      15  talk.rape
      15  macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev
      15  alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets
      15  comp.lang.clipper.visual-objects

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

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

      22  Bob Bain <····@tpg.com.au>
      18  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
      15  "Stan de SD" <········@earthlink.net>
      13  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
      13  vermicule <······@bigpond.net.au>
      12  "Drew" <········@worldnet.att.not>
      10  Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
       9  Martin Ambuhl <·······@earthlink.net>
       9  "CM1" <········@walla.com>
       9  Chris McDonald <·····@csse.uwa.edu.au>