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
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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: 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
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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
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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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
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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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)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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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)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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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
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Posts Subject
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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
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Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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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)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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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)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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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
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Articles Newsgroup
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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
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Articles Address
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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>