Statistics for comp.lang.lisp

From: Christopher Browne (cbbrowne_at_acm.org)
Date: 02/27/05

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    Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
    beginning at 20 Feb 2005 07:53:38 GMT and ending at
    27 Feb 2005 06:46:59 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: 173
    Articles: 555 (194 with cutlined signatures)
    Threads: 63
    Volume generated: 1187.0 kb
        - headers: 601.0 kb (10,359 lines)
        - bodies: 561.8 kb (14,687 lines)
        - original: 359.3 kb (10,124 lines)
        - signatures: 23.7 kb (606 lines)

    Original Content Rating: 0.640

    Averages
    ========

    Posts per poster: 3.2
        median: 2 posts
        mode: 1 post - 75 posters
        s: 3.9 posts
    Posts per thread: 8.8
        median: 4 posts
        mode: 1 post - 17 threads
        s: 21.3 posts
    Message size: 2190.1 bytes
        - header: 1108.9 bytes (18.7 lines)
        - body: 1036.5 bytes (26.5 lines)
        - original: 662.9 bytes (18.2 lines)
        - signature: 43.7 bytes (1.1 lines)

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

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

       19 39.6 ( 22.6/ 17.0/ 8.1) "mauhuur@gmail.com" <mauhuur@gmail.com>
       17 47.4 ( 25.4/ 20.7/ 10.2) Dave Roberts <dave-remove@remove-findinglisp.com>
       15 29.2 ( 18.7/ 9.2/ 5.1) Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
       13 16.6 ( 11.0/ 4.3/ 2.1) spamtrap@agharta.de
       11 28.3 ( 14.3/ 12.6/ 5.7) Peter Seibel <peter@gigamonkeys.com>
       11 23.6 ( 12.3/ 10.5/ 5.2) "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>
       11 22.6 ( 12.1/ 10.5/ 3.2) marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
       11 25.9 ( 11.7/ 14.2/ 11.4) Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
       10 24.4 ( 11.0/ 13.4/ 10.0) "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
       10 20.5 ( 11.4/ 8.2/ 5.0) David Steuber <david@david-steuber.com>

    These posters accounted for 23.1% of all articles.

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

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

      47.4 ( 25.4/ 20.7/ 10.2) 17 Dave Roberts <dave-remove@remove-findinglisp.com>
      39.6 ( 22.6/ 17.0/ 8.1) 19 "mauhuur@gmail.com" <mauhuur@gmail.com>
      29.2 ( 18.7/ 9.2/ 5.1) 15 Rahul Jain <rjain@nyct.net>
      28.3 ( 14.3/ 12.6/ 5.7) 11 Peter Seibel <peter@gigamonkeys.com>
      25.9 ( 11.7/ 14.2/ 11.4) 11 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
      24.4 ( 11.0/ 13.4/ 10.0) 10 "Tayssir John Gabbour" <tayss_temp2@yahoo.com>
      24.2 ( 6.0/ 18.2/ 13.5) 7 M Jared Finder <jared@hpalace.com>
      23.6 ( 12.3/ 10.5/ 5.2) 11 "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>
      23.3 ( 7.2/ 15.1/ 11.5) 5 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
      22.8 ( 5.4/ 17.4/ 12.4) 6 Kent M Pitman <pitman@nhplace.com>

    These posters accounted for 24.3% of the total volume.

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

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

    1.000 ( 6.1 / 6.1) 7 "lisplover" <lisplover@hotmail.com>
    1.000 ( 2.2 / 2.2) 7 "Joel Reymont" <joelr1@gmail.com>
    0.995 ( 6.9 / 7.0) 6 "=?iso-8859-1?q?F=F6rster_vom_Silberwald?=" <chain_lube@hotmail.com>
    0.917 ( 4.9 / 5.3) 6 Holger Duerer <H.Duerer@gmx.net>
    0.824 ( 1.7 / 2.1) 5 rif <rif@mit.edu>
    0.816 ( 4.2 / 5.2) 6 "dragentsheets" <ralex@cs.colorado.edu>
    0.801 ( 11.4 / 14.2) 11 Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com>
    0.781 ( 8.8 / 11.3) 6 Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-dot-mac.com>
    0.760 ( 11.5 / 15.1) 5 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
    0.745 ( 13.5 / 18.2) 7 M Jared Finder <jared@hpalace.com>

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

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

    0.488 ( 2.1 / 4.3) 13 spamtrap@agharta.de
    0.483 ( 2.0 / 4.2) 8 Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
    0.480 ( 8.1 / 17.0) 19 "mauhuur@gmail.com" <mauhuur@gmail.com>
    0.464 ( 1.2 / 2.5) 7 Trent Buck <geragohpx@tznvy.pbz>
    0.458 ( 5.7 / 12.6) 11 Peter Seibel <peter@gigamonkeys.com>
    0.454 ( 3.1 / 6.8) 8 A . L . <alewando_tego_nie@oddpost_tego_tez_nie.com>
    0.440 ( 1.2 / 2.8) 5 "Gorbag" <gorbag@invalid.acct>
    0.409 ( 2.6 / 6.5) 8 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
    0.303 ( 3.2 / 10.5) 11 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
    0.299 ( 2.4 / 7.9) 6 Peter Seibel <peter@javamonkey.com>

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

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

      164 why not enough lisp libraries?
       45 Interview with Alan Kay
       39 MCL for OS X worth the price?
       31 One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only!
       26 character syntax revisited
       19 When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?
       14 [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
       13 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck
       11 Flash SWF library
       10 LispWorks save-image :restart-function?

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

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

     371.5 (190.2/174.1/110.3) 164 why not enough lisp libraries?
     141.3 ( 61.2/ 78.0/ 47.1) 45 Interview with Alan Kay
      79.0 ( 39.0/ 39.3/ 27.5) 39 MCL for OS X worth the price?
      61.5 ( 30.5/ 29.0/ 16.3) 31 One last chapter to review! Last chance! One-day only!
      42.5 ( 23.1/ 18.0/ 12.2) 26 character syntax revisited
      31.1 ( 18.6/ 11.7/ 7.4) 19 When CANNOT use 'first'/'rest' in place of 'car'/'cdr'?
      28.6 ( 9.2/ 19.4/ 11.7) 7 ANSI compliance of check-type in various lisps
      26.6 ( 11.4/ 14.6/ 9.1) 11 Flash SWF library
      23.8 ( 13.3/ 9.8/ 7.4) 14 [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
      23.1 ( 14.0/ 8.2/ 4.9) 13 Please help me find a tagline that doesn't suck

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

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

    0.919 ( 2.1/ 2.3) 4 Catch-all eql specializer
    0.909 ( 2.8/ 3.1) 3 portable way to define new stream classes?
    0.889 ( 11.7/ 13.2) 5 What's up with DISASSEMBLE and Slime?
    0.844 ( 1.6/ 1.9) 4 packages for strings
    0.752 ( 7.4/ 9.8) 14 [Ann] Foil - a Foreign Object Interface for Lisp
    0.745 ( 4.9/ 6.6) 5 standard mode for arrow down
    0.729 ( 9.7/ 13.3) 7 An idea for making define-macro more convenient to use
    0.724 ( 0.7/ 1.0) 3 Problem with a defmacro declaration
    0.701 ( 27.5/ 39.3) 39 MCL for OS X worth the price?
    0.691 ( 2.2/ 3.2) 4 What Lisp for Mac OS X with these requirements?

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

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

    0.548 ( 1.4 / 2.5) 5 Lisp and AI...
    0.540 ( 1.0 / 1.9) 4 Lisp keyboard
    0.530 ( 1.4 / 2.7) 5 [OT] Central Park Gates grace a Christo and Jeanne-Claude
    0.527 ( 3.4 / 6.5) 7 Another problem with the defmacro
    0.513 ( 4.0 / 7.9) 7 Join of sets in CL
    0.454 ( 4.1 / 8.9) 9 Saving Peter Seibel's honor
    0.451 ( 0.7 / 1.5) 4 OT: Re: standard mode for arrow down
    0.434 ( 3.7 / 8.4) 8 demonic problem descriptions
    0.428 ( 0.8 / 1.8) 4 demonic numbers !
    0.408 ( 0.8 / 2.0) 3 Hemlock question

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

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

          37 comp.lang.smalltalk
          37 comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin
          23 comp.lang.scheme
           9 comp.emacs.xemacs
           9 comp.emacs
           9 comp.unix.programmer
           9 comp.lang.perl.misc

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

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

          12 Dave Roberts <dave-remove@remove-findinglisp.com>
           8 "John Thingstad" <john.thingstad@chello.no>
           8 Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net>
           6 Holger Duerer <H.Duerer@gmx.net>
           5 Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
           4 Chris Mattern <matternc@comcast.net>
           4 Raymond Toy <raymond.toy@ericsson.com>
           4 =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= <mru@inprovide.com>
           4 Duane Rettig <duane@franz.com>
           4 BR <brodriguez@comcast.net>

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