From: Christopher Browne
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Date: 
Message-ID: <cEdme.35341$Ot6.1804982@news20.bellglobal.com>
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 22 May 2005 06:51:36 GMT and ending at
29 May 2005 05:20:55 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:  160
Articles: 496 (170 with cutlined signatures)
Threads:  69
Volume generated: 1171.1 kb
    - headers:    589.1 kb (9,125 lines)
    - bodies:     555.8 kb (15,684 lines)
    - original:   357.0 kb (10,705 lines)
    - signatures: 25.7 kb (613 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.642

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.1
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode:   1 post - 78 posters
    s:      4.7 posts
Posts per thread: 7.2
    median: 3 posts
    mode:   1 post - 24 threads
    s:      14.2 posts
Message size: 2417.7 bytes
    - header:     1216.2 bytes (18.4 lines)
    - body:       1147.5 bytes (31.6 lines)
    - original:   737.1 bytes (21.6 lines)
    - signature:  53.0 bytes (1.2 lines)

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

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

   33    79.5 ( 43.6/ 35.8/ 16.1)  =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
   24    66.4 ( 25.4/ 37.1/ 18.2)  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
   20    56.7 ( 29.0/ 21.7/ 10.4)  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
   20    50.5 ( 26.2/ 22.8/ 18.4)  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
   16    35.4 ( 21.1/ 13.7/  6.2)  ········@clouddancer.com
   11    18.0 ( 13.8/  4.2/  2.7)  "fireblade" <········@YAHOO.COM>
    9    13.5 (  9.5/  4.0/  1.9)  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
    9    13.6 ( 10.7/  2.9/  1.5)  alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>
    9    16.6 (  9.5/  7.1/  5.6)  Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
    8    12.3 (  8.5/  3.8/  2.0)  Matthias Buelow <···@incubus.de>

These posters accounted for 32.1% of all articles.

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

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

  79.5 ( 43.6/ 35.8/ 16.1)     33  =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
  66.4 ( 25.4/ 37.1/ 18.2)     24  Pascal Bourguignon <···@informatimago.com>
  56.7 ( 29.0/ 21.7/ 10.4)     20  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
  50.5 ( 26.2/ 22.8/ 18.4)     20  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
  35.4 ( 21.1/ 13.7/  6.2)     16  ········@clouddancer.com
  32.9 (  3.9/ 28.5/ 27.6)      5  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
  32.1 ( 10.2/ 21.9/ 15.3)      7  ···············@hotmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
  23.3 (  7.4/ 15.9/ 11.0)      7  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>
  21.3 (  8.7/ 12.6/  9.0)      7  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
  18.5 (  4.4/ 14.1/  8.2)      6  Adam Warner <······@consulting.net.nz>

These posters accounted for 35.6% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000  (  5.2 /  5.2)      5  "mlbaun" <·······@comcast.net>
1.000  (  1.2 /  1.2)      5  ···········@gmail.com
0.970  ( 27.6 / 28.5)      5  Christopher Browne <········@acm.org>
0.824  (  5.9 /  7.1)      5  Joel Ray Holveck <·····@juniper.net>
0.806  ( 18.4 / 22.8)     20  Frank Buss <··@frank-buss.de>
0.787  (  5.6 /  7.1)      9  Stefan Ram <···@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
0.750  (  6.3 /  8.4)      6  Wade Humeniuk <··················@telus.net>
0.711  (  9.0 / 12.6)      7  Rob Warnock <····@rpw3.org>
0.695  ( 15.3 / 21.9)      7  ···············@hotmail.com" <············@gmail.com>
0.691  ( 11.0 / 15.9)      7  Kent M Pitman <······@nhplace.com>

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

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

0.481  ( 10.4 / 21.7)     20  Kenny Tilton <·······@nyc.rr.com>
0.466  (  1.9 /  4.0)      9  Christopher C. Stacy <······@news.dtpq.com>
0.458  (  6.2 / 13.7)     16  ········@clouddancer.com
0.454  (  2.2 /  4.9)      8  ·············@hotmail.com
0.451  (  0.7 /  1.6)      5  Paolo Amoroso <·······@mclink.it>
0.450  ( 16.1 / 35.8)     33  =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <······························@justmail.de>
0.400  (  1.8 /  4.4)      6  "doug" <···········@hotmail.com>
0.393  (  4.2 / 10.7)      5  Duane Rettig <·····@franz.com>
0.337  (  0.8 /  2.5)      5  ·····@lycos.com" <····@lycos.com>
0.276  (  0.9 /  3.3)      5  Thomas F. Burdick <···@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>

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

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

   82  Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
   64  Infinite precision floating-point
   24  HTML reader macro
   24  sxhash: what is "same implementation"?
   23  Deploying Common Lisp applications
   18  What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?
   17  How long should a function be?
   15  Infinite precision floating-point (was Re: Counting number of digits)
   14  CliniSys
   14  CliniSys [was Re: Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing]

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

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

 166.7 ( 85.2/ 79.6/ 45.7)     64  Infinite precision floating-point
 152.7 (101.2/ 47.6/ 23.1)     82  Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
  65.8 ( 28.8/ 35.4/ 21.2)     24  HTML reader macro
  64.1 ( 23.3/ 38.8/ 17.9)     24  sxhash: what is "same implementation"?
  61.2 ( 29.1/ 30.3/ 16.7)     23  Deploying Common Lisp applications
  47.8 ( 20.9/ 26.1/ 22.1)     18  What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?
  37.7 ( 21.4/ 15.4/  8.6)     17  How long should a function be?
  37.2 ( 18.4/ 18.6/ 11.7)     15  Infinite precision floating-point (was Re: Counting number of digits)
  35.8 ( 23.3/ 10.9/  5.3)     14  CliniSys [was Re: Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing]
  30.1 ( 20.5/  8.3/  3.1)     14  CliniSys

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

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

1.000  (  5.2/   5.2)      5  Make money while you searching on the internet
1.000  ( 26.6/  26.6)      3  Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.983  (  4.3/   4.4)      4  Critique my (a newbie's) debugging macro
0.895  (  1.8/   2.0)      3  A function returning the next representable floating point value of an argument
0.890  (  0.7/   0.7)      3  Macro keywords become non-optional with &rest or &body?
0.847  ( 22.1/  26.1)     18  What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities?
0.828  (  9.1/  11.0)      5  How can this macro be improved?
0.824  (  9.0/  11.0)     13  Another HTML generation macro
0.777  (  9.7/  12.4)      8  simple testcase to dissect
0.739  (  0.5/   0.6)      3  examples of multiple linear regression in Lisp

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

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

0.486  (  5.3 / 10.9)     14  CliniSys [was Re: Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing]
0.485  ( 23.1 / 47.6)     82  Practical Common Lisp going into 2nd printing
0.484  (  0.9 /  2.0)      5  clisp: how stable/usable is the cl-gtk lib ?
0.461  ( 17.9 / 38.8)     24  sxhash: what is "same implementation"?
0.432  (  3.9 /  9.1)      7  Newbie ASDF question
0.432  (  2.2 /  5.0)     10  S-expression grammar?
0.405  (  2.1 /  5.3)      6  I dream of a LISP that...
0.391  (  4.3 / 11.0)      3  the '+' operator for addition of 2 vectors?
0.370  (  3.1 /  8.3)     14  CliniSys
0.303  (  1.6 /  5.3)      4  Infinite precision floating-point (was Re: Counting number of
 digits)

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

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

      16  comp.software-eng
      16  comp.lang.c
      16  comp.lang.c++
      16  comp.unix.programmer
       3  comp.lang.functional
       3  comp.lang.scheme
       1  gmane.lisp.web

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

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

       9  "Xah Lee" <···@xahlee.org>
       6  "Duck Dodgers" <·········@hotmail.com>
       6  "Eric Lavigne" <············@gmail.com>
       3  "Jirka Klaue" <······@tkn.tu-berlin.de>
       3  ····@spamto.devnul.com
       3  Flash Gordon <····@flash-gordon.me.uk>
       3  Stephane Zuckerman <········@etu.utc.fr>
       3  Stefaan A Eeckels <·····@DELETEMEecc.lu>
       3  Richard Bos <···@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl>
       3  alex goldman <·····@spamm.er>