Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 09/26/04


Date: 26 Sep 2004 06:53:29 GMT

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 19 Sep 2004 06:53:20 GMT and ending at
26 Sep 2004 05:01:43 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: 158
Articles: 556 (246 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 72
Volume generated: 1326.9 kb
    - headers: 533.2 kb (9,568 lines)
    - bodies: 761.4 kb (20,816 lines)
    - original: 419.4 kb (12,899 lines)
    - signatures: 31.8 kb (753 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.551

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.5
    median: 2.0 posts
    mode: 1 post - 66 posters
    s: 4.8 posts
Posts per thread: 7.7
    median: 3.0 posts
    mode: 1 post - 30 threads
    s: 13.8 posts
Message size: 2443.9 bytes
    - header: 981.9 bytes (17.2 lines)
    - body: 1402.3 bytes (37.4 lines)
    - original: 772.4 bytes (23.2 lines)
    - signature: 58.6 bytes (1.4 lines)

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

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

   35 101.3 ( 31.3/ 62.2/ 26.3) Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
   27 78.3 ( 30.6/ 44.9/ 21.5) Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
   18 37.6 ( 18.4/ 17.2/ 9.2) Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@poboxes.com>
   16 29.5 ( 12.1/ 17.4/ 12.6) Chris Capel <ch.ris@iba.nktech.net>
   15 40.4 ( 18.5/ 19.9/ 10.2) Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
   14 32.2 ( 11.8/ 20.4/ 15.9) Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
   13 38.4 ( 14.9/ 23.5/ 16.7) Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
   13 47.9 ( 14.2/ 33.6/ 10.7) Christophe Turle <cturle@nospam.fr>
   12 22.3 ( 11.5/ 9.9/ 3.3) "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>
   12 28.9 ( 12.8/ 14.6/ 6.5) Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>

These posters accounted for 31.5% of all articles.

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

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

 101.3 ( 31.3/ 62.2/ 26.3) 35 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
  78.3 ( 30.6/ 44.9/ 21.5) 27 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
  47.9 ( 14.2/ 33.6/ 10.7) 13 Christophe Turle <cturle@nospam.fr>
  44.4 ( 1.1/ 43.3/ 8.9) 1 matt parker <matthewparker@nurfuerspam.de>
  40.4 ( 18.5/ 19.9/ 10.2) 15 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
  38.4 ( 14.9/ 23.5/ 16.7) 13 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
  37.6 ( 18.4/ 17.2/ 9.2) 18 Vassil Nikolov <vnikolov@poboxes.com>
  37.2 ( 8.9/ 28.3/ 15.0) 10 Antonio Menezes Leitao <Antonio.Leitao@evaluator.pt>
  32.2 ( 11.8/ 20.4/ 15.9) 14 Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
  29.5 ( 12.1/ 17.4/ 12.6) 16 Chris Capel <ch.ris@iba.nktech.net>

These posters accounted for 36.7% of the total volume.

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

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

0.931 ( 5.1 / 5.5) 7 Bulent Murtezaoglu <bm@acm.org>
0.818 ( 2.1 / 2.5) 5 "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
0.777 ( 15.9 / 20.4) 14 Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.775 ( 3.8 / 5.0) 5 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu-delete-this-antispam-device@telus.net>
0.748 ( 2.8 / 3.8) 6 Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de>
0.748 ( 8.4 / 11.3) 10 "Tim Bradshaw" <tfb+google@tfeb.org>
0.743 ( 15.2 / 20.4) 5 "Will Hartung" <willh@msoft.com>
0.731 ( 7.7 / 10.5) 11 "Jeff" <jma@nospam.insightbb.com>
0.721 ( 12.6 / 17.4) 16 Chris Capel <ch.ris@iba.nktech.net>
0.718 ( 10.7 / 14.9) 7 Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com>

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

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

0.510 ( 4.9 / 9.5) 11 Adam Warner <usenet@consulting.net.nz>
0.489 ( 2.9 / 6.0) 5 als@usenet.thangorodrim.de
0.479 ( 21.5 / 44.9) 27 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
0.447 ( 6.5 / 14.6) 12 Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
0.439 ( 2.2 / 5.0) 11 szymon <ssb@none.org>
0.435 ( 2.2 / 5.0) 5 mikel <mikel@evins.net>
0.424 ( 26.3 / 62.2) 35 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
0.413 ( 1.8 / 4.3) 6 spamtrap@agharta.de
0.328 ( 3.3 / 9.9) 12 "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>
0.319 ( 10.7 / 33.6) 13 Christophe Turle <cturle@nospam.fr>

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

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

   86 Lisp collections
   58 Lisp anxieties
   51 Which style do you prefer?
   26 Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
   25 what happened to hash-tables
   25 Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
   22 Lisp OS
   19 parsing a CSV line
   18 Strange LISP: [ http://www.newlisp.org ]
   13 The Lisp-Difference

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

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

 217.1 ( 88.0/124.7/ 71.8) 86 Lisp collections
 135.6 ( 54.4/ 79.4/ 51.3) 58 Lisp anxieties
 127.4 ( 47.3/ 77.2/ 40.9) 51 Which style do you prefer?
  98.7 ( 26.7/ 71.9/ 28.1) 26 Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
  60.6 ( 31.4/ 26.4/ 13.4) 25 what happened to hash-tables
  57.6 ( 23.1/ 33.1/ 18.7) 25 Lisp benefits against other functional programming languages
  44.4 ( 1.1/ 43.3/ 8.9) 1 > > > > matt parker alias e_vonlindtherzog romance matt parker alias evonlintherzog matt parker alias erikvan lunsen matt parker alias evonlunsen herzog cis matt parker alias evon_lunsenherzog matt parker alias e vonlintherzog his mailbox is matt
  43.0 ( 19.6/ 20.5/ 10.4) 22 Lisp OS
  40.1 ( 12.5/ 26.9/ 16.5) 13 How to prevent cdr from capitalizing symbols?
  33.3 ( 16.2/ 16.2/ 9.7) 19 parsing a CSV line

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

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

0.905 ( 6.0/ 6.6) 6 ERROR :odd number of subform to setf
0.821 ( 4.7/ 5.7) 5 Does my macro create C style pointers?
0.804 ( 3.2/ 3.9) 3 The Lisp-Difference (was: Lisp anxieties)
0.792 ( 1.0/ 1.3) 4 Paul Graham vs. Jeff Relf ?
0.784 ( 1.9/ 2.5) 3 LispWorks' warnings output
0.773 ( 4.7/ 6.1) 4 Mutating a subset of a global within a function
0.713 ( 1.0/ 1.5) 3 Martin Fowler mentions Lisp...
0.692 ( 4.1/ 5.9) 6 Evaluation order
0.685 ( 17.0/ 24.9) 8 I'm a C++ programmer, and Relf's X.CPP is good.
0.675 ( 2.2/ 3.3) 5 odd number of subform to setf

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

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

0.487 ( 4.2 / 8.7) 7 troll's food (python vs lisp)
0.478 ( 6.3 / 13.2) 13 The Lisp-Difference
0.468 ( 1.9 / 4.1) 4 macro doing computation ?
0.467 ( 3.9 / 8.4) 7 Printing the body of a function ?
0.466 ( 2.0 / 4.2) 9 GNUs attribution format [Re: Lisp collections]
0.452 ( 3.3 / 7.2) 8 sockets in lisp?
0.391 ( 28.1 / 71.9) 26 Some kind of Lisp targeting J2ME?
0.389 ( 4.1 / 10.5) 12 Xah Lee's Unixism
0.355 ( 2.4 / 6.9) 8 meaning of a dialet or implementation of a programming language
0.298 ( 0.7 / 2.3) 3 Deep Typing for Plain Old Lists - A new kind of LISP?

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

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

      26 comp.unix.programmer
      12 comp.lang.python
      12 comp.lang.perl.misc
      12 alt.folklore.computers
      11 comp.os.linux.advocacy
       6 comp.lang.scheme
       5 gnu.emacs.help
       4 comp.unix.shell
       1 comp.lang.functional
       1 comp.ai

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

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

      12 albalmer@spamcop.net
      12 Chuck Dillon <spam@nimblegen.com>
       8 cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net
       6 Mike Cox <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com>
       4 Patrick Scheible <kkt@drizzle.com>
       4 Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi@purdue.edu>
       4 "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
       4 Stefaan A Eeckels <tengo@DELETEMEecc.lu>
       4 joe@invalid.address
       4 Jeff Relf <Usenet_3_@JeffRelf.Cotse.NET>



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