Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 10/31/04


Date: 31 Oct 2004 07:56:14 GMT

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 24 Oct 2004 07:25:27 GMT and ending at
31 Oct 2004 06:44:31 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: 217
Articles: 1182 (541 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 98
Volume generated: 2894.4 kb
    - headers: 1219.4 kb (21,313 lines)
    - bodies: 1619.5 kb (42,833 lines)
    - original: 900.2 kb (26,284 lines)
    - signatures: 54.4 kb (1,571 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.556

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 5.4
    median: 2 posts
    mode: 1 post - 74 posters
    s: 9.1 posts
Posts per thread: 12.1
    median: 4.0 posts
    mode: 1 post - 26 threads
    s: 34.1 posts
Message size: 2507.5 bytes
    - header: 1056.4 bytes (18.0 lines)
    - body: 1403.0 bytes (36.2 lines)
    - original: 779.8 bytes (22.2 lines)
    - signature: 47.1 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   78 145.0 ( 85.5/ 52.8/ 28.5) Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
   43 118.9 ( 44.3/ 72.9/ 35.5) Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
   37 97.2 ( 45.6/ 48.1/ 22.9) Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
   36 114.7 ( 37.8/ 76.9/ 47.4) Darren <pyedarren@hotmail.com>
   31 55.8 ( 29.3/ 26.5/ 11.6) Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
   30 65.3 ( 35.0/ 27.9/ 19.7) Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
   29 199.1 ( 32.4/166.7/ 39.9) a.drummond@ucl.ac.uk
   28 49.0 ( 25.5/ 23.4/ 10.8) Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>
   22 46.2 ( 17.3/ 25.7/ 13.9) Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
   22 34.0 ( 16.6/ 15.1/ 7.2) spamtrap@agharta.de

These posters accounted for 30.1% of all articles.

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

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

 199.1 ( 32.4/166.7/ 39.9) 29 a.drummond@ucl.ac.uk
 145.0 ( 85.5/ 52.8/ 28.5) 78 Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
 118.9 ( 44.3/ 72.9/ 35.5) 43 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
 114.7 ( 37.8/ 76.9/ 47.4) 36 Darren <pyedarren@hotmail.com>
  97.2 ( 45.6/ 48.1/ 22.9) 37 Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
  69.3 ( 15.0/ 54.3/ 35.1) 10 "Mark A. Gibbs" <x_gibbsmark@rogers.com_x>
  66.6 ( 18.8/ 44.9/ 24.3) 14 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
  65.3 ( 35.0/ 27.9/ 19.7) 30 Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
  64.4 ( 14.5/ 49.9/ 34.5) 15 Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
  55.8 ( 29.3/ 26.5/ 11.6) 31 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>

These posters accounted for 34.4% of the total volume.

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

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

0.935 ( 3.8 / 4.1) 5 Raymond Toy <raymond.toy@ericsson.com>
0.905 ( 12.0 / 13.3) 9 Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.894 ( 3.0 / 3.3) 5 Bulent Murtezaoglu <bm@acm.org>
0.867 ( 5.3 / 6.1) 5 Boris Schaefer <boris@uncommon-sense.net>
0.866 ( 6.3 / 7.3) 6 David Golden <david.golden@oceanfree.net>
0.840 ( 10.8 / 12.8) 5 Cameron MacKinnon <cmackin+nn@clearspot.net>
0.837 ( 9.0 / 10.8) 10 Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
0.792 ( 4.4 / 5.6) 7 "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
0.779 ( 12.2 / 15.6) 12 Adam Warner <usenet@consulting.net.nz>
0.753 ( 4.4 / 5.8) 5 Dave Roberts <ldave-re-move@re-move.droberts.com>

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

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

0.452 ( 1.5 / 3.4) 5 jayessay <nospam@foo.com>
0.439 ( 10.3 / 23.4) 15 "Computer Whizz" <old486whizz@hotmail.com>
0.438 ( 11.6 / 26.5) 31 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
0.426 ( 8.0 / 18.7) 13 Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com>
0.422 ( 9.2 / 21.8) 6 George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net>
0.420 ( 2.8 / 6.7) 5 Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com>
0.371 ( 2.7 / 7.3) 6 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
0.371 ( 4.8 / 13.0) 11 Philippa Cowderoy <flippa@flippac.org>
0.341 ( 4.7 / 13.7) 12 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
0.239 ( 39.9 /166.7) 29 a.drummond@ucl.ac.uk

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

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

  310 C++ sucks for games
   82 Static vs Dynamic
   48 why C++ STILL sucks for games
   43 Running Standalone Lisp Programs
   42 Why Lisp supposedly "sucks for game development"
   39 OT Reptitive Strain Injury
   37 clisp on the rise?
   36 ALU CLiki invaded by spam
   34 lisp's age
   33 Lottery number generation

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

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

 964.4 (357.2/595.3/276.0) 310 C++ sucks for games
 259.8 (106.0/149.8/ 91.1) 82 Static vs Dynamic
 114.3 ( 48.0/ 64.3/ 35.4) 42 Why Lisp supposedly "sucks for game development"
  99.1 ( 47.9/ 49.0/ 27.3) 48 why C++ STILL sucks for games
  91.5 ( 41.0/ 49.1/ 29.7) 36 ALU CLiki invaded by spam
  84.3 ( 34.7/ 48.1/ 33.9) 39 OT Reptitive Strain Injury
  79.7 ( 41.5/ 35.6/ 17.2) 43 Running Standalone Lisp Programs
  68.5 ( 29.4/ 37.5/ 23.1) 31 lisp performance questions and observations
  65.5 ( 26.3/ 37.1/ 20.2) 26 reject duplicates in a hashtable?
  63.4 ( 24.0/ 38.0/ 24.7) 25 Prototype based programming in Lisp

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

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

0.900 ( 3.4/ 3.8) 4 OT Reptitive Strain Injury
0.892 ( 2.3/ 2.6) 3 execute a unix command in cmucl
0.854 ( 1.9/ 2.3) 3 Cells and object systems
0.795 ( 3.8/ 4.8) 5 Special variables question
0.788 ( 2.8/ 3.6) 3 Lisp GUI Tutorials
0.782 ( 6.7/ 8.6) 8 Where did all the garbage come from?
0.774 ( 7.2/ 9.2) 8 Efficiency in cmucl
0.723 ( 4.2/ 5.9) 6 Making combination lists
0.710 ( 5.5/ 7.7) 8 Is this legal ANSI CL behaviour?
0.705 ( 33.9/ 48.1) 39 OT Reptitive Strain Injury

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

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

0.464 (276.0 /595.3) 310 C++ sucks for games
0.455 ( 10.9 / 24.1) 34 lisp's age
0.449 ( 1.5 / 3.3) 8 Newbie saluting the international Lisp community
0.412 ( 6.7 / 16.1) 21 clisp - eval function problem
0.397 ( 5.8 / 14.5) 14 Challenge: Triangles puzzle
0.375 ( 0.5 / 1.4) 4 Transparent wrappers/weak types?
0.370 ( 1.5 / 3.9) 4 ANN: trivial-sockets 0.1 asdf-installable
0.362 ( 1.2 / 3.3) 4 Another way to get a Lisp Machine
0.213 ( 0.6 / 2.6) 3 Simple optimizatiaon problem -- signed word to integer
 coercion.
0.170 ( 0.5 / 3.0) 3 AllegroServe (or Portable AllegroServe) and ACL v5.01

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

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

     273 comp.games.development.programming.misc
     244 comp.lang.c++
      12 comp.lang.java.programmer
      12 de.comp.lang.funktional
      12 de.comp.lang.java
       3 can.uucp
       3 comp.lang.pop
       2 comp.lang.scheme
       2 comp.emacs.xemacs
       2 comp.games.development.programming.misc@rogers.com_x

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

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

      41 Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
      36 a.drummond@ucl.ac.uk
      28 Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
      28 "Computer Whizz" <old486whizz@hotmail.com>
      26 "Maahes" <maahes@internode.on.net>
      22 JKop <NULL@NULL.NULL>
      22 Gerry Quinn <gerryq@DELETETHISindigo.ie>
      20 Gareth McCaughan <gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com>
      19 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Thieme?= <address.good.until.2004.dec.17@justmail.de>
      15 Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>



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