Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 05/30/04


Date: 30 May 2004 06:52:42 GMT

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 23 May 2004 06:52:48 GMT and ending at
30 May 2004 05:50:20 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 <cbbrowne@acm.org>

Totals
======

Posters: 159
Articles: 530 (250 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 65
Volume generated: 1160.0 kb
    - headers: 509.6 kb (9,498 lines)
    - bodies: 616.1 kb (17,079 lines)
    - original: 364.7 kb (10,851 lines)
    - signatures: 33.8 kb (814 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.592

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.3
    median: 2 posts
    mode: 1 post - 63 posters
    s: 4.6 posts
Posts per thread: 8.2
    median: 4 posts
    mode: 1 post - 12 threads
    s: 10.5 posts
Message size: 2241.3 bytes
    - header: 984.7 bytes (17.9 lines)
    - body: 1190.3 bytes (32.2 lines)
    - original: 704.7 bytes (20.5 lines)
    - signature: 65.3 bytes (1.5 lines)

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

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

   29 86.5 ( 32.4/ 51.8/ 39.1) David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
   24 45.9 ( 20.2/ 25.7/ 10.4) Svein Ove Aas <svein+usenet01@brage.info>
   20 65.1 ( 22.3/ 37.8/ 16.8) Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
   15 36.0 ( 14.2/ 19.7/ 9.5) Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
   13 41.2 ( 11.7/ 29.5/ 21.6) Antonio Menezes Leitao <Antonio.Leitao@evaluator.pt>
   11 23.9 ( 12.8/ 9.9/ 3.7) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
   10 39.6 ( 12.7/ 24.8/ 12.6) Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
    9 17.4 ( 8.7/ 8.7/ 4.4) Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch>
    9 21.3 ( 8.4/ 12.9/ 8.6) nikodemus@random-state.net
    8 18.0 ( 9.4/ 8.6/ 6.1) Rob Warnock <rpw3@rpw3.org>

These posters accounted for 27.9% of all articles.

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

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

  86.5 ( 32.4/ 51.8/ 39.1) 29 David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
  65.1 ( 22.3/ 37.8/ 16.8) 20 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
  45.9 ( 20.2/ 25.7/ 10.4) 24 Svein Ove Aas <svein+usenet01@brage.info>
  41.2 ( 11.7/ 29.5/ 21.6) 13 Antonio Menezes Leitao <Antonio.Leitao@evaluator.pt>
  39.6 ( 12.7/ 24.8/ 12.6) 10 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
  36.0 ( 14.2/ 19.7/ 9.5) 15 Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
  28.1 ( 9.5/ 17.7/ 13.4) 7 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
  23.9 ( 12.8/ 9.9/ 3.7) 11 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
  23.7 ( 4.4/ 19.3/ 14.0) 6 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
  21.3 ( 8.4/ 12.9/ 8.6) 9 nikodemus@random-state.net

These posters accounted for 35.5% of the total volume.

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

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

0.846 ( 2.5 / 3.0) 5 Nicolas Neuss <my.name@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
0.777 ( 5.6 / 7.2) 6 Tayssir John Gabbour <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
0.769 ( 4.8 / 6.2) 7 William Bland <news@abstractnonsense.com>
0.759 ( 13.4 / 17.7) 7 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
0.756 ( 39.1 / 51.8) 29 David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
0.732 ( 21.6 / 29.5) 13 Antonio Menezes Leitao <Antonio.Leitao@evaluator.pt>
0.724 ( 14.0 / 19.3) 6 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
0.724 ( 4.9 / 6.7) 8 Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
0.717 ( 6.1 / 8.6) 8 Rob Warnock <rpw3@rpw3.org>
0.697 ( 1.8 / 2.5) 6 Espen Vestre <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>

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

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

0.450 ( 1.4 / 3.0) 7 Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
0.443 ( 16.8 / 37.8) 20 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
0.425 ( 1.3 / 3.0) 5 Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de>
0.419 ( 3.1 / 7.4) 5 mrd <mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu>
0.405 ( 10.4 / 25.7) 24 Svein Ove Aas <svein+usenet01@brage.info>
0.383 ( 1.6 / 4.2) 7 Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org>
0.372 ( 3.7 / 9.9) 11 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
0.331 ( 0.6 / 1.7) 5 Stefan Scholl <stesch@no-spoon.de>
0.217 ( 2.6 / 12.1) 8 Ari Johnson <ari_j@hotmail.com>
0.196 ( 2.5 / 13.0) 7 "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>

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

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

   42 ai without lisp
   42 Dredging up patterns
   39 Haskell: functional languages vs Lisp
   30 GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release
   30 Why is Monday day 0?
   28 Is Lisp more than another language?
   20 hanging macros
   14 Cells Update [was IRC Yobbo Uprising]
   13 If C is like marching, Lisp is like dancing
   13 How to decline a condition ?

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

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

  99.1 ( 41.4/ 56.1/ 30.8) 42 Dredging up patterns
  94.2 ( 35.0/ 57.2/ 31.3) 39 Haskell: functional languages vs Lisp
  78.1 ( 39.9/ 36.2/ 21.2) 42 ai without lisp
  64.8 ( 27.0/ 35.7/ 21.1) 28 Is Lisp more than another language?
  56.2 ( 31.1/ 23.9/ 12.9) 30 GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release
  53.4 ( 31.1/ 19.1/ 9.5) 30 Why is Monday day 0?
  51.4 ( 20.3/ 29.1/ 16.0) 20 hanging macros
  40.4 ( 15.4/ 24.6/ 21.0) 13 If C is like marching, Lisp is like dancing
  33.6 ( 16.1/ 16.7/ 11.0) 11 Socket Programming
  32.9 ( 18.2/ 13.8/ 9.7) 14 Cells Update [was IRC Yobbo Uprising]

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

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

0.851 ( 21.0/ 24.6) 13 If C is like marching, Lisp is like dancing
0.755 ( 1.1/ 1.5) 3 ANN: CLSQL 2.11.0 with full Oracle & AMD64 support
0.755 ( 5.0/ 6.6) 4 `#2a((1.0))
0.739 ( 8.9/ 12.0) 4 Behavior of #'directory
0.717 ( 9.6/ 13.5) 8 Loop for and behaviour
0.710 ( 5.0/ 7.0) 8 A Succinctness Challenge
0.703 ( 9.7/ 13.8) 14 Cells Update [was IRC Yobbo Uprising]
0.686 ( 0.3/ 0.5) 3 Extensible Programming for the 21st Century ... LISP ... macros ... XML ... etc
0.682 ( 4.3/ 6.3) 6 Need help with CMUCL and Debian
0.658 ( 11.0/ 16.7) 11 Socket Programming

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

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

0.515 ( 3.4 / 6.6) 10 aserve webactions under cmucl
0.502 ( 5.1 / 10.2) 7 Code coverage
0.496 ( 9.5 / 19.1) 30 Why is Monday day 0?
0.474 ( 6.9 / 14.5) 10 Please review macro
0.469 ( 5.1 / 10.8) 7 empty lists in destructuring
0.466 ( 2.8 / 6.0) 6 Design of Lisp-based operating systems
0.427 ( 3.6 / 8.4) 9 Problem with recursive function and &rest
0.420 ( 8.5 / 20.2) 12 Challenge: Loop in Common Lisp and in Java
0.411 ( 5.2 / 12.6) 12 undefining a class
0.386 ( 2.5 / 6.6) 11 [SOLVED] (was: CL standard ?)

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

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

       4 cis.course.cis45931

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

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

       1 Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net>
       1 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
       1 Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@tfeb.org>
       1 "Paul Betts" <bettspSPAMISBAD@cis.ohio-state.edu>
       0 Hannah Schroeter <hannah@schlund.de>
       0 "Andrew Wolven" <awolven@nospam.net>
       0 Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cam.ac.uk>
       0 Paul Dietz <paul.f.dietz@motorola.com>
       0 Dominique Boucher <dominique.boucher@nuecho.com>
       0 Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>



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