Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/30/05


Date: 30 Jan 2005 07:53:22 GMT

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 23 Jan 2005 07:53:23 GMT and ending at
30 Jan 2005 05:34:20 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: 161
Articles: 634 (248 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 83
Volume generated: 1431.0 kb
    - headers: 652.4 kb (11,738 lines)
    - bodies: 746.1 kb (20,171 lines)
    - original: 476.6 kb (13,796 lines)
    - signatures: 31.9 kb (831 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.639

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 3.9
    median: 2 posts
    mode: 1 post - 64 posters
    s: 6.4 posts
Posts per thread: 7.6
    median: 4 posts
    mode: 1 post - 23 threads
    s: 13.0 posts
Message size: 2311.3 bytes
    - header: 1053.7 bytes (18.5 lines)
    - body: 1205.0 bytes (31.8 lines)
    - original: 769.7 bytes (21.8 lines)
    - signature: 51.5 bytes (1.3 lines)

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

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

   42 71.8 ( 44.9/ 23.1/ 12.7) Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
   34 98.5 ( 41.9/ 56.5/ 56.5) "devmail@runbox.com" <devmail@runbox.com>
   26 73.9 ( 31.9/ 38.6/ 15.9) Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
   21 32.1 ( 15.9/ 14.1/ 7.7) spamtrap@agharta.de
   20 44.1 ( 16.2/ 24.3/ 11.5) Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
   19 34.6 ( 20.1/ 14.5/ 6.7) Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
   16 42.9 ( 17.5/ 25.4/ 12.2) David Sletten <david@slytobias.com>
   14 36.5 ( 14.6/ 21.9/ 14.1) "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
   14 55.8 ( 15.9/ 39.8/ 18.1) drewc <drewc@rift.com>
   13 29.6 ( 12.4/ 17.2/ 12.9) Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>

These posters accounted for 34.5% of all articles.

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

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

  98.5 ( 41.9/ 56.5/ 56.5) 34 "devmail@runbox.com" <devmail@runbox.com>
  73.9 ( 31.9/ 38.6/ 15.9) 26 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
  71.8 ( 44.9/ 23.1/ 12.7) 42 Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
  55.8 ( 15.9/ 39.8/ 18.1) 14 drewc <drewc@rift.com>
  44.1 ( 16.2/ 24.3/ 11.5) 20 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
  42.9 ( 17.5/ 25.4/ 12.2) 16 David Sletten <david@slytobias.com>
  36.5 ( 14.6/ 21.9/ 14.1) 14 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
  34.7 ( 17.1/ 14.3/ 8.1) 13 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
  34.6 ( 20.1/ 14.5/ 6.7) 19 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
  32.1 ( 15.9/ 14.1/ 7.7) 21 spamtrap@agharta.de

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
----- -------------- ----- -------

1.000 ( 56.5 / 56.5) 34 "devmail@runbox.com" <devmail@runbox.com>
0.765 ( 2.8 / 3.6) 6 "Andreas Thiele" <nospam@nospam.com>
0.764 ( 2.7 / 3.5) 6 Frank Buss <fb@frank-buss.de>
0.754 ( 12.9 / 17.2) 13 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
0.698 ( 5.8 / 8.3) 5 "Christophe Turle" <cturle@nospam.com>
0.686 ( 1.8 / 2.6) 5 Espen Vestre <espen@*do-not-spam-me*.vestre.net>
0.657 ( 4.7 / 7.2) 6 David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
0.651 ( 5.8 / 8.9) 7 Friedrich Dominicus <just-for-news-frido@q-software-solutions.de>
0.645 ( 14.1 / 21.9) 14 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
0.640 ( 6.1 / 9.5) 11 Trent Buck <geragohpx@tznvy.pbz>

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

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

0.493 ( 1.4 / 2.8) 6 "Paul F. Dietz" <dietz@dls.net>
0.482 ( 12.2 / 25.4) 16 David Sletten <david@slytobias.com>
0.475 ( 11.5 / 24.3) 20 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
0.465 ( 6.7 / 14.5) 19 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
0.455 ( 18.1 / 39.8) 14 drewc <drewc@rift.com>
0.412 ( 15.9 / 38.6) 26 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
0.410 ( 2.7 / 6.5) 7 Thomas Gagne <tgagne@wide-open-west.com>
0.395 ( 3.9 / 10.0) 10 Svein Ove Aas <svein.ove@aas.no>
0.382 ( 3.0 / 7.8) 7 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
0.317 ( 1.5 / 4.7) 5 Julian Stecklina <der_julian@web.de>

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

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

   80 Lisp or Smalltalk for Specific Suicide Mission (er...Project)?
   73 Lisps' popularity
   46 Lisp or Smalltalk: Suicide Mission, Part II
   26 set/get-dispatch-macro-character
   23 Comments requested on noob code
   17 a noob question
   15 A non-consing arbitrary number of multiple return values?
   14 noob package question
   14 what's OOP's jargons and complexities?
   14 FLET/LABELS question

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

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

 238.6 (100.0/135.2/ 89.1) 80 Lisp or Smalltalk for Specific Suicide Mission (er...Project)?
 155.1 ( 71.4/ 79.7/ 46.6) 73 Lisps' popularity
 101.5 ( 52.2/ 47.6/ 33.1) 46 Lisp or Smalltalk: Suicide Mission, Part II
  63.5 ( 22.5/ 40.1/ 22.2) 23 Comments requested on noob code
  48.9 ( 26.8/ 21.0/ 13.1) 26 set/get-dispatch-macro-character
  39.8 ( 15.5/ 23.5/ 14.2) 17 a noob question
  38.5 ( 14.2/ 23.5/ 11.9) 14 FLET/LABELS question
  36.6 ( 13.3/ 22.8/ 18.4) 15 A non-consing arbitrary number of multiple return values?
  35.5 ( 15.0/ 20.0/ 12.2) 14 Continued...
  30.1 ( 15.2/ 14.0/ 12.1) 14 what's OOP's jargons and complexities?

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

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

0.863 ( 12.1/ 14.0) 14 what's OOP's jargons and complexities?
0.846 ( 2.1/ 2.5) 4 translating some latex to html using Lisp
0.845 ( 7.0/ 8.3) 10 how to write a tutorial
0.804 ( 18.4/ 22.8) 15 A non-consing arbitrary number of multiple return values?
0.777 ( 9.2/ 11.8) 6 A question about memory allocation
0.760 ( 7.8/ 10.2) 11 mv quasi-quotation
0.755 ( 1.7/ 2.3) 3 What happened to the Sybase interface to CLISP
0.754 ( 4.5/ 6.0) 6 funcall
0.753 ( 11.0/ 14.6) 14 Graphics in MCL or LispWorks? (OS X)
0.744 ( 0.9/ 1.2) 3 Is learning lisp good plan to money

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

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

0.506 ( 11.9 / 23.5) 14 FLET/LABELS question
0.506 ( 6.6 / 13.0) 11 Newbie-Question concerning list and inheritance
0.496 ( 3.9 / 7.9) 5 [ANN] Closer Project
0.495 ( 4.1 / 8.2) 4 need list pattern-matching advice
0.478 ( 0.7 / 1.5) 4 history of the standard
0.466 ( 1.1 / 2.3) 4 Processor?
0.452 ( 1.6 / 3.6) 3 Have you bought Practical Common Lisp?
0.452 ( 2.0 / 4.4) 6 Slime with LWW and XEmacs
0.436 ( 3.3 / 7.6) 7 Seeking blurbs
0.404 ( 4.7 / 11.6) 14 noob package question

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

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

     105 comp.lang.smalltalk
      24 comp.lang.scheme
      23 comp.lang.python
      23 comp.lang.c
      23 comp.lang.perl.misc
       1 comp.emacs.xemacs
       1 comp.lang.functional
       1 comp.emacs

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

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

      16 "devmail@runbox.com" <devmail@runbox.com>
      15 Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
      12 "Dan Perl" <danperl@mail-me.com>
      12 Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl@earthlink.net>
      12 Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
      12 "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org>
       8 cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net
       6 drewc <drewc@rift.com>
       6 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
       5 Thomas Gagne <tgagne@wide-open-west.com>



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