From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <KEBhe.49867$B82.1752995@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 08 May 2005 06:08:02 GMT and ending at
15 May 2005 03:02:57 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:  158
Articles: 533 (219 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  91
Volume generated: 1403.3 kb
    - headers:    639.9 kb (9,639 lines)
    - bodies:     724.6 kb (20,225 lines)
    - original:   449.3 kb (13,330 lines)
    - signatures: 38.2 kb (893 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.620

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.4
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 72 posters
    s:      5.2 posts
Posts per thread: 5.9
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 26 threads
    s:      7.9 posts
Message size: 2695.9 bytes
    - header:     1229.4 bytes (18.1 lines)
    - body:       1392.2 bytes (37.9 lines)
    - original:   863.2 bytes (25.0 lines)
    - signature:  73.3 bytes (1.7 lines)

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

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

   35   119.5 ( 35.8/ 77.3/ 49.8)  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
   26    81.9 ( 33.4/ 42.1/ 16.7)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   20    50.8 ( 25.2/ 23.9/ 13.6)  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
   19    53.1 ( 27.3/ 25.8/ 17.2)  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
   15    38.5 ( 14.4/ 24.1/ 20.7)  Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
   14    32.3 ( 17.1/ 15.1/  5.2)  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
   14    25.3 ( 15.4/  9.9/  7.2)  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
   13    32.8 ( 11.6/ 19.7/ 11.4)  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
   12    29.0 ( 11.8/ 14.2/  7.1)  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
   11    24.2 ( 14.2/ 10.1/  6.9)  "Luke Crook" <····@balooga.com>

These posters accounted for 33.6% of all articles.

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

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

 119.5 ( 35.8/ 77.3/ 49.8)     35  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
  81.9 ( 33.4/ 42.1/ 16.7)     26  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  53.1 ( 27.3/ 25.8/ 17.2)     19  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
  50.8 ( 25.2/ 23.9/ 13.6)     20  Ulrich Hobelmann <···········@web.de>
  38.5 ( 14.4/ 24.1/ 20.7)     15  Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
  33.6 ( 10.2/ 23.4/ 10.8)      6  Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
  32.8 ( 11.6/ 19.7/ 11.4)     13  Pascal Costanza <··@p-cos.net>
  32.3 ( 17.1/ 15.1/  5.2)     14  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
  30.1 (  9.3/ 20.4/  3.7)      9  Onay Urfalioglu <·····@gmx.net>
  29.0 ( 11.8/ 14.2/  7.1)     12  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>

These posters accounted for 35.7% of the total volume.

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

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

0.892  (  4.9 /  5.5)      7  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.861  ( 20.7 / 24.1)     15  Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
0.844  (  4.8 /  5.7)      6  Kirk Job Sluder <····@jobsluder.net>
0.832  (  3.6 /  4.3)      5  "Peter Scott" <·········@gmail.com>
0.819  (  7.2 /  8.8)      7  ···@xahlee.org
0.746  (  9.2 / 12.3)      5  Don Geddis <···@geddis.org>
0.725  (  7.2 /  9.9)     14  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
0.689  (  6.9 / 10.1)     11  "Luke Crook" <····@balooga.com>
0.666  ( 17.2 / 25.8)     19  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>
0.644  ( 49.8 / 77.3)     35  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>

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

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

0.536  (  2.6 /  4.8)      5  Patrick Frankenberger <···············@gmx.net>
0.527  (  4.8 /  9.0)      8  "Jamie Border" <·····@jborder.com>
0.499  (  7.1 / 14.2)     12  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.498  (  5.8 / 11.7)      7  "Tayssir John Gabbour" <···········@yahoo.com>
0.466  (  2.8 /  6.0)      9  "jonathon" <···········@bigfoot.com>
0.463  ( 10.8 / 23.4)      6  Greg Menke <··········@toadmail.com>
0.396  ( 16.7 / 42.1)     26  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.342  (  5.2 / 15.1)     14  ·······@cs.nyu.edu
0.311  (  4.1 / 13.1)      8  Barry Margolin <······@alum.mit.edu>
0.180  (  3.7 / 20.4)      9  Onay Urfalioglu <·····@gmx.net>

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

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

   44  I dream of a LISP that...
   34  defmethod with multiple parameters
   28  A (non-negative) 'what is LISP good for?'
   27  Free software vs. commercial software Was: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
   26  How to speed up an OpenGL application?
   20  Please help to understand closures
   19  Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
   18  collect-max for structs
   17  Iterating over general sequences
   15  Changing source on the fly

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

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

 109.7 ( 44.6/ 64.7/ 38.6)     27  Free software vs. commercial software Was: Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
 105.7 ( 56.3/ 45.8/ 24.8)     44  I dream of a LISP that...
  80.1 ( 40.6/ 37.0/ 20.5)     34  defmethod with multiple parameters
  73.3 ( 27.5/ 44.7/ 35.8)     26  How to speed up an OpenGL application?
  62.4 ( 32.7/ 27.7/ 14.1)     28  A (non-negative) 'what is LISP good for?'
  62.0 ( 32.0/ 29.0/ 18.9)     19  Comparing Lisp conditions to Java Exceptions
  54.4 ( 27.2/ 26.5/ 14.2)     15  Economic and politics
  48.5 ( 14.7/ 32.9/ 10.7)     14  the '+' operator for addition of 2 vectors?
  43.6 ( 20.1/ 22.2/ 13.8)     20  Please help to understand closures
  42.4 ( 21.5/ 20.0/ 12.4)     15  Changing source on the fly

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

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

1.000  (  3.8/   3.8)      3  What is the fastest way to write floats and signed integers into
 binary file ?
0.959  (  2.1/   2.2)      3  [perl-python] Range function
0.866  (  3.1/   3.6)      3  3.4.1.3: &rest may share structure with the last argument to apply
0.818  (  2.6/   3.2)      4  Computing Industry shams
0.812  ( 24.4/  30.0)     12  unix / dos newline - possible FAQ?
0.802  ( 35.8/  44.7)     26  How to speed up an OpenGL application?
0.780  (  2.4/   3.1)      4  An ode to Erlang
0.745  (  2.2/   2.9)      3  What's the purpose of CLEANUP rule in Lisa mab-clos.lisp example?
0.741  ( 10.2/  13.7)      7  Free software vs. commercial software Was: Comparing Lisp
 conditions to Java Exceptions
0.737  (  6.6/   9.0)      8  tree functions daily exercise

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

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

0.479  (  6.5 / 13.6)     17  Iterating over general sequences
0.460  (  3.3 /  7.2)      6  How can I access function multiple-values partially (w/o warnings)?
0.446  (  0.8 /  1.8)      5  How to test a string contains only numbers?
0.421  (  2.5 /  5.9)      5  stupid clisp question
0.388  (  1.7 /  4.5)      4  (arbitrary precision) long float implementation for free lisp's other than clisp ???
0.370  (  3.0 /  8.2)      7  Old newbie question- Configurator?
0.326  ( 10.7 / 32.9)     14  the '+' operator for addition of 2 vectors?
0.300  (  1.8 /  6.0)      9  anamorphic macros
0.267  (  1.0 /  3.8)      3  [OT] Re: anamorphic macros
0.264  (  1.6 /  6.0)      8  Language documentation ( was Re: Computing Industry shams)

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

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

      28  comp.lang.scheme
      26  comp.lang.functional
      13  comp.lang.c
      12  comp.unix.programmer
      11  comp.lang.python
       3  comp.lang.perl.misc
       2  comp.lang.prolog
       1  talk.rape
       1  com.lang.scheme
       1  macromedia.dreamweaver.appdev

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

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

      20  alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>
      18  ···@xahlee.org
      10  Lawrence Kirby <······@netactive.co.uk>
       9  Keith Thompson <·····@mib.org>
       5  Sean Burke <······@mystery.org>
       4  ················@yahoo.com
       4  Ketil Malde <··········@ii.uib.no>
       4  ··········@worldnet.att.net
       3  "J�rgen Exner" <········@hotmail.com>
       3  Oliver Bandel <······@first.in-berlin.de>