Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 02/20/05


Date: 20 Feb 2005 07:53:38 GMT

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 13 Feb 2005 07:32:08 GMT and ending at
20 Feb 2005 06:41:41 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: 137
Articles: 391 (123 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 54
Volume generated: 772.2 kb
    - headers: 366.6 kb (7,081 lines)
    - bodies: 390.1 kb (11,773 lines)
    - original: 254.9 kb (8,256 lines)
    - signatures: 15.1 kb (391 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.653

Averages
========

Posts per poster: 2.9
    median: 2 posts
    mode: 1 post - 59 posters
    s: 3.5 posts
Posts per thread: 7.2
    median: 3.5 posts
    mode: 1 post - 17 threads
    s: 10.5 posts
Message size: 2022.3 bytes
    - header: 960.2 bytes (18.1 lines)
    - body: 1021.6 bytes (30.1 lines)
    - original: 667.5 bytes (21.1 lines)
    - signature: 39.5 bytes (1.0 lines)

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

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

   19 34.4 ( 17.6/ 16.8/ 11.7) Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
   15 34.1 ( 16.9/ 15.2/ 8.2) Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
   12 15.8 ( 9.4/ 5.3/ 2.9) spamtrap@agharta.de
   10 22.1 ( 10.6/ 11.5/ 3.6) marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
   10 21.9 ( 9.7/ 11.3/ 8.9) David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
    9 16.4 ( 8.6/ 7.9/ 4.8) "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
    9 24.9 ( 9.6/ 15.3/ 9.9) lisptracker@mail.ru
    7 13.7 ( 7.3/ 6.3/ 3.2) David Sletten <david@slytobias.com>
    6 7.8 ( 4.8/ 2.9/ 1.2) Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cam.ac.uk>
    6 11.2 ( 5.3/ 4.4/ 2.6) Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>

These posters accounted for 26.3% of all articles.

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

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

  34.4 ( 17.6/ 16.8/ 11.7) 19 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
  34.1 ( 16.9/ 15.2/ 8.2) 15 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
  24.9 ( 9.6/ 15.3/ 9.9) 9 lisptracker@mail.ru
  22.1 ( 10.6/ 11.5/ 3.6) 10 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
  21.9 ( 9.7/ 11.3/ 8.9) 10 David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
  21.6 ( 5.8/ 15.8/ 13.0) 6 Kent M Pitman <pitman@nhplace.com>
  18.0 ( 5.1/ 12.5/ 9.3) 5 drewc <drewc@rift.com>
  16.4 ( 8.6/ 7.9/ 4.8) 9 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
  15.8 ( 9.4/ 5.3/ 2.9) 12 spamtrap@agharta.de
  14.7 ( 6.2/ 7.4/ 3.7) 5 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>

These posters accounted for 29.0% of the total volume.

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

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

1.000 ( 2.7 / 2.7) 5 "Joel Reymont" <joelr1@gmail.com>
0.874 ( 2.6 / 2.9) 6 Bulent Murtezaoglu <bm@acm.org>
0.819 ( 13.0 / 15.8) 6 Kent M Pitman <pitman@nhplace.com>
0.801 ( 6.3 / 7.9) 5 Alan Crowe <alan@cawtech.freeserve.co.uk>
0.782 ( 8.9 / 11.3) 10 David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>
0.743 ( 9.3 / 12.5) 5 drewc <drewc@rift.com>
0.739 ( 3.1 / 4.2) 5 Don Wells <jamesdwells@comcast.net>
0.734 ( 6.6 / 9.0) 6 "Marc Battyani" <Marc.Battyani@fractalconcept.com>
0.695 ( 11.7 / 16.8) 19 Wade Humeniuk <whumeniu+anti+spam@telus.net>
0.679 ( 2.8 / 4.1) 6 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>

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

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

0.538 ( 8.2 / 15.2) 15 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>
0.532 ( 2.7 / 5.1) 6 Thomas A. Russ <tar@sevak.isi.edu>
0.499 ( 3.2 / 6.3) 7 David Sletten <david@slytobias.com>
0.499 ( 3.7 / 7.4) 5 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
0.478 ( 1.0 / 2.1) 5 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
0.462 ( 1.6 / 3.4) 5 Adam Warner <usenet@consulting.net.nz>
0.403 ( 1.2 / 2.9) 6 Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cam.ac.uk>
0.323 ( 1.3 / 4.1) 6 Trent Buck <geragohpx@tznvy.pbz>
0.316 ( 3.6 / 11.5) 10 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
0.289 ( 1.2 / 4.3) 5 Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>

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

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

   41 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
   32 Lisp innovations?
   30 Can Windows CL compilers be as fast as CMUCL ?
   20 CLOS / MOP package name
   18 need help with looping
   16 Simple recursive list processing question
   16 Noob: conditional let?
   15 Where you can you go with Lisp?
   15 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
   15 Newbie - I need a suggestion

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

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

  60.6 ( 37.8/ 21.0/ 11.8) 41 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
  60.5 ( 29.4/ 30.3/ 21.0) 30 Can Windows CL compilers be as fast as CMUCL ?
  47.7 ( 29.7/ 16.3/ 9.1) 32 Lisp innovations?
  40.2 ( 20.6/ 18.6/ 8.8) 20 CLOS / MOP package name
  32.8 ( 15.4/ 16.9/ 11.5) 16 Simple recursive list processing question
  31.4 ( 14.8/ 16.2/ 10.4) 13 Continuations in Common Lisp (with apologies)
  31.3 ( 13.7/ 16.9/ 11.4) 15 Newbie - I need a suggestion
  30.2 ( 13.1/ 16.2/ 9.8) 16 Noob: conditional let?
  29.2 ( 8.6/ 20.5/ 16.7) 8 ANSI compliance of check-type in various lisps
  28.9 ( 13.0/ 15.6/ 7.8) 15 Where you can you go with Lisp?

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

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

0.955 ( 8.1/ 8.5) 7 need good IDE and advice
0.835 ( 16.9/ 20.3) 3 Looking for bored Lisper with GUI chops.
0.814 ( 16.7/ 20.5) 8 ANSI compliance of check-type in various lisps
0.807 ( 9.2/ 11.4) 10 Card game logic: state machines vs. threads vs. CPS
0.774 ( 11.3/ 14.6) 11 Object Oriented Omissions
0.739 ( 6.2/ 8.4) 7 Function tracing in CMUCL
0.710 ( 4.9/ 6.9) 10 Help with research
0.693 ( 21.0/ 30.3) 30 Can Windows CL compilers be as fast as CMUCL ?
0.683 ( 4.9/ 7.2) 10 array looses fill-pointer after removing an element
0.681 ( 11.5/ 16.9) 16 Simple recursive list processing question

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

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

0.563 ( 4.2 / 7.5) 8 problem with compiled macro
0.562 ( 11.8 / 21.0) 41 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
0.558 ( 9.1 / 16.3) 32 Lisp innovations?
0.521 ( 2.1 / 4.0) 4 Following the 80-column rule
0.512 ( 5.0 / 9.8) 15 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
0.500 ( 5.7 / 11.4) 12 SDL, UFFI and converting header files
0.499 ( 7.8 / 15.6) 15 Where you can you go with Lisp?
0.472 ( 8.8 / 18.6) 20 CLOS / MOP package name
0.471 ( 2.7 / 5.8) 7 clisp - command line parameters
0.399 ( 1.2 / 3.1) 4 Reading Unicode - invalid byte

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

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

       2 comp.object
       2 comp.lang.smalltalk
       2 comp.lang.forth
       2 comp.lang.scheme
       1 comp.lang.java.programmer
       1 comp.lang.functional
       1 ba.internet

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

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

       4 cpu16x1832@wmconnect.com
       3 ian-news@upright.net
       2 noelwelsh@gmail.com
       1 "mongoose" <mongoose889@hotmail.com>
       1 billclem@gmail.com
       0 Hannah Schroeter <hannah@schlund.de>
       0 Brian Downing <see-signature@lavos.net>
       0 Christophe Rhodes <csr21@cam.ac.uk>
       0 Carl Shapiro <cshapiro+spam@panix.com>
       0 Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@mclink.it>



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