From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date:
Message-ID: <61ife.30367$VL3.1040837@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 01 May 2005 06:05:44 GMT and ending at
08 May 2005 04:34:22 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: 205
Articles: 806 (313 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 106
Volume generated: 2072.8 kb
- headers: 975.3 kb (14,448 lines)
- bodies: 1052.7 kb (27,172 lines)
- original: 643.3 kb (17,830 lines)
- signatures: 44.0 kb (1,050 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.611
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.9
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 76 posters
s: 5.9 posts
Posts per thread: 7.6
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 26 threads
s: 46.1 posts
Message size: 2633.5 bytes
- header: 1239.1 bytes (17.9 lines)
- body: 1337.4 bytes (33.7 lines)
- original: 817.4 bytes (22.1 lines)
- signature: 55.9 bytes (1.3 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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54 143.6 ( 60.6/ 73.4/ 38.8) Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
41 138.9 ( 51.6/ 83.5/ 38.3) Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
32 109.3 ( 38.4/ 70.9/ 50.8) Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
22 54.6 ( 26.6/ 22.8/ 9.3) Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
21 46.3 ( 24.9/ 21.4/ 12.4) Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
16 29.5 ( 19.4/ 10.1/ 5.7) ·············@gmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
14 36.2 ( 17.7/ 18.6/ 7.5) ·······@cs.nyu.edu
14 39.0 ( 19.4/ 19.6/ 16.4) David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
13 21.8 ( 13.9/ 5.1/ 2.5) Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
13 30.1 ( 15.9/ 13.7/ 7.0) Gareth McCaughan <················@pobox.com>
These posters accounted for 29.8% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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143.6 ( 60.6/ 73.4/ 38.8) 54 Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
138.9 ( 51.6/ 83.5/ 38.3) 41 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
109.3 ( 38.4/ 70.9/ 50.8) 32 Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
81.5 ( 20.2/ 61.3/ 39.1) 13 Robert Marlow <··········@bobturf.org>
54.6 ( 26.6/ 22.8/ 9.3) 22 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
48.4 ( 10.9/ 37.5/ 25.7) 7 Don Geddis <···@geddis.org>
46.5 ( 18.5/ 28.0/ 15.7) 12 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
46.3 ( 24.9/ 21.4/ 12.4) 21 Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
39.0 ( 19.4/ 19.6/ 16.4) 14 David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
36.2 ( 17.7/ 18.6/ 7.5) 14 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
These posters accounted for 35.9% 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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1.000 ( 0.5 / 0.5) 6 "CM1" <········@walla.com>
0.974 ( 19.0 / 19.5) 10 Bulent Murtezaoglu <··@acm.org>
0.892 ( 6.0 / 6.8) 5 Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.837 ( 16.4 / 19.6) 14 David Golden <············@oceanfree.net>
0.767 ( 10.5 / 13.7) 10 "Steven M. Haflich" <···@alum.mit.edu>
0.761 ( 11.4 / 15.0) 6 ····@spamto.devnul.com
0.742 ( 7.0 / 9.5) 6 David Trudgett <······@zeta.org.au.nospamplease>
0.734 ( 6.4 / 8.7) 8 Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
0.717 ( 50.8 / 70.9) 32 Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
0.707 ( 4.6 / 6.5) 7 Christophe Rhodes <·····@cam.ac.uk>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.458 ( 38.3 / 83.5) 41 Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
0.430 ( 1.3 / 3.1) 5 "jonathon" <···········@bigfoot.com>
0.414 ( 8.1 / 19.6) 7 "Takuon Soho" <···@somwhere.net>
0.407 ( 1.6 / 4.0) 8 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.406 ( 9.3 / 22.8) 22 Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.404 ( 1.1 / 2.6) 5 Christopher Koppler <········@chello.at>
0.401 ( 7.5 / 18.6) 14 ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.387 ( 1.6 / 4.2) 5 ···@gnu.org
0.349 ( 2.9 / 8.4) 6 Ingvar <······@hexapodia.net>
0.279 ( 2.7 / 9.7) 9 =?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Rune_N=F8stdal?= <···········@gmail.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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143 Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
51 Wondering if you guys would like to comment on this
39 hilarious (you can't make up stuff like that)
32 Lisp Book(s) in the K&R Style
31 This Lispofobics really gone too far
21 Lispy without macros and/or CLOS?
21 How to change people's minds about LISP?
20 Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]
20 Why is Lisp not as popular as Python?
19 Alternative tof Microsoft Windows vis a vis Lisp
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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545.4 (226.6/312.5/200.7) 143 Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
122.0 ( 55.0/ 63.3/ 36.9) 51 Wondering if you guys would like to comment on this
75.9 ( 42.9/ 31.6/ 17.4) 39 hilarious (you can't make up stuff like that)
61.2 ( 34.3/ 24.5/ 17.7) 32 Lisp Book(s) in the K&R Style
60.4 ( 23.4/ 35.9/ 20.6) 19 ANSI question (load evaluation order)
60.2 ( 25.3/ 33.8/ 19.8) 20 Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]
59.1 ( 37.8/ 19.0/ 11.4) 31 This Lispofobics really gone too far
53.8 ( 27.9/ 24.1/ 14.8) 21 How to change people's minds about LISP?
52.4 ( 19.2/ 32.7/ 12.9) 19 Alternative tof Microsoft Windows vis a vis Lisp
52.1 ( 20.2/ 30.8/ 17.0) 19 An idea for a freak DWIM lisp-2
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.940 ( 12.2/ 13.0) 4 Critique my code: using Lisp to parse lots of "ps -elf" files in AIX
0.869 ( 3.1/ 3.5) 4 Implementing custom containers in Lisp
0.775 ( 5.8/ 7.5) 5 Axiom graphics porting
0.724 ( 5.7/ 7.9) 10 floating point performance in cmucl, lispworks and acl
0.722 ( 7.5/ 10.3) 14 anamorphic macros
0.719 ( 17.7/ 24.5) 32 Lisp Book(s) in the K&R Style
0.677 ( 2.4/ 3.5) 6 Exact decimals in Python
0.671 ( 2.3/ 3.4) 5 question about CMUCL processes
0.669 ( 1.0/ 1.5) 4 Parser With Lisp
0.661 ( 11.6/ 17.6) 9 CLOS block compilation type checking
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.473 ( 0.5 / 1.0) 3 What was rms's original plan for GNU ?
0.472 ( 4.2 / 8.9) 13 How do I create a string with #\Newline in it?
0.460 ( 10.1 / 22.0) 20 Why is Lisp not as popular as Python?
0.454 ( 2.7 / 5.9) 9 clisp: = and eql
0.436 ( 2.4 / 5.6) 6 cmucl multiprocessing/mp package
0.432 ( 1.8 / 4.2) 8 scheme in lisp
0.396 ( 3.8 / 9.7) 7 looking for FFI examples with CLISP (newbie)
0.395 ( 12.9 / 32.7) 19 Alternative tof Microsoft Windows vis a vis Lisp
0.358 ( 3.8 / 10.7) 7 Assertions
0.339 ( 2.5 / 7.4) 12 The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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27 comp.lang.scheme
19 comp.lang.functional
16 comp.lang.c
13 talk.bizarre
13 misc.misc
13 alt.society.homeless
5 talk.rape
5 macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev
5 alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets
5 comp.lang.clipper.visual-objects
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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18 "CM1" <········@walla.com>
10 Sunnan <······@handgranat.org>
6 Richard Bos <···@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl>
6 =?iso-8859-1?q?Lars_Rune_N=F8stdal?= <···········@gmail.com>
6 Joona I Palaste <·······@cc.helsinki.fi>
6 ····@Nowhere.com
5 =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <···@inprovide.com>
5 vermicule <······@bigpond.net.au>
4 Keith Thompson <·····@mib.org>
4 "Jamie Macleod" <·····················@yahoo.ca>