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From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Date: 27 Apr 1998 16:35:47 GMT
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 20 Apr 1998 16:04:21 GMT and ending at
27 Apr 1998 06:55:49 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+>|\+\+)/.
- 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 (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@mox\.perl\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 512
Articles: 1450 (570 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 410
Volume generated: 2291.6 kb
- headers: 1007.9 kb (20,404 lines)
- bodies: 1189.4 kb (37,773 lines)
- original: 802.8 kb (27,545 lines)
- signatures: 92.8 kb (1,952 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.675
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 2.8
median: 1.0 post
mode: 1 post - 324 posters
s: 6.6 posts
Posts per thread: 3.5
median: 3.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 115 threads
s: 3.7 posts
Message size: 1618.3 bytes
- header: 711.8 bytes (14.1 lines)
- body: 840.0 bytes (26.1 lines)
- original: 567.0 bytes (19.0 lines)
- signature: 65.6 bytes (1.3 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
92 147.0 ( 77.3/ 57.2/ 36.1) Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
59 111.7 ( 40.7/ 58.7/ 40.2) mgjv@comdyn.com.au (Martien Verbruggen)
36 44.9 ( 24.6/ 20.2/ 10.6) jgloudon@bbn.com
34 54.5 ( 25.7/ 19.7/ 9.6) rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu
34 42.8 ( 21.4/ 19.5/ 13.2) Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com>
29 51.8 ( 23.6/ 23.5/ 19.7) tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
28 40.0 ( 21.7/ 18.3/ 10.5) jdporter@min.net
27 50.6 ( 21.2/ 25.2/ 9.6) abigail@fnx.com
24 37.1 ( 15.0/ 22.0/ 15.0) cberry@cinenet.net (Craig Berry)
23 32.8 ( 14.5/ 18.2/ 10.8) Gellyfish@btinternet.com
These posters accounted for 26.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
147.0 ( 77.3/ 57.2/ 36.1) 92 Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
111.7 ( 40.7/ 58.7/ 40.2) 59 mgjv@comdyn.com.au (Martien Verbruggen)
54.5 ( 25.7/ 19.7/ 9.6) 34 rjk@coos.dartmouth.edu
51.8 ( 23.6/ 23.5/ 19.7) 29 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
50.6 ( 21.2/ 25.2/ 9.6) 27 abigail@fnx.com
44.9 ( 24.6/ 20.2/ 10.6) 36 jgloudon@bbn.com
42.8 ( 21.4/ 19.5/ 13.2) 34 Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@pobox.com>
40.0 ( 21.7/ 18.3/ 10.5) 28 jdporter@min.net
37.1 ( 15.0/ 22.0/ 15.0) 24 cberry@cinenet.net (Craig Berry)
32.8 ( 14.5/ 18.2/ 10.8) 23 Gellyfish@btinternet.com
These posters accounted for 26.8% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.938 ( 11.0 / 11.7) 15 Quentin Fennessy <quentin@jihad.amd.com>
0.934 ( 1.7 / 1.8) 5 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Aggie)
0.899 ( 3.4 / 3.7) 6 psf@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott)
0.879 ( 7.6 / 8.6) 6 "Robert Friberg" <robban@it-konsult.com>
0.867 ( 3.9 / 4.5) 5 jll@skynet.be
0.867 ( 5.3 / 6.1) 7 scott@softbase.com
0.836 ( 19.7 / 23.5) 29 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
0.818 ( 1.6 / 1.9) 7 beske@worldnet.att.net
0.786 ( 2.6 / 3.3) 5 smcdow@arlut.utexas.edu (Stuart McDow)
0.781 ( 15.5 / 19.9) 18 aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.444 ( 3.2 / 7.1) 8 "Igor Krivokon" <igor.k@usa.net>
0.442 ( 3.0 / 6.8) 9 Reza Naima <newsgroups@reza.net>
0.432 ( 3.5 / 8.2) 7 Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
0.429 ( 6.5 / 15.1) 14 alecler@cam.org (Andre L.)
0.428 ( 7.0 / 16.3) 10 phenix@interpath.com (John Moreno)
0.395 ( 2.9 / 7.4) 7 ced@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Charles DeRykus)
0.389 ( 1.7 / 4.3) 9 Tony Curtis <Tony.Curtis+usenet@vcpc.univie.ac.at>
0.382 ( 9.6 / 25.2) 27 abigail@fnx.com
0.349 ( 2.5 / 7.1) 11 kpreid@ibm.net (Kevin Reid)
0.324 ( 2.2 / 6.7) 8 Brandon Golm <br@ndon.com>
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
31 Defending Perl
25 spoiled noobie
22 Regular Expression to match a valid IP address
18 array elements -- how to exclude when reading in?
17 Removing spaces from a variable, how?
16 RMS should be invited to O'Reilly's "Free Software Summit"
16 Time : Year2000 & 2038 code question
12 WebMail Server ?
12 Just a thought...
12 Array / List question
These threads accounted for 12.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
56.2 ( 21.8/ 32.2/ 23.0) 31 Defending Perl
42.4 ( 15.0/ 26.3/ 13.4) 16 RMS should be invited to O'Reilly's "Free Software Summit"
35.2 ( 20.1/ 12.9/ 7.2) 25 spoiled noobie
34.5 ( 11.6/ 21.2/ 12.0) 16 Time : Year2000 & 2038 code question
34.4 ( 18.5/ 14.2/ 9.3) 22 Regular Expression to match a valid IP address
28.6 ( 13.3/ 14.5/ 8.0) 18 array elements -- how to exclude when reading in?
24.2 ( 13.0/ 10.3/ 7.2) 17 Removing spaces from a variable, how?
23.6 ( 8.4/ 14.4/ 7.6) 12 Just a thought...
22.3 ( 11.8/ 10.3/ 6.3) 12 WebMail Server ?
21.6 ( 9.4/ 11.1/ 5.3) 12 Array / List question
These threads accounted for 14.1% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.949 ( 5.5/ 5.8) 5 'wait' under perl5.004 (possibly a perl bug?)
0.908 ( 7.0/ 7.7) 8 beginnings....
0.863 ( 2.6/ 3.1) 6 Cron job and Date problem
0.830 ( 4.0/ 4.8) 5 System call in Perl not working
0.830 ( 5.8/ 7.0) 6 Short circuit predicates based on existence or definedness, not truth
0.810 ( 5.2/ 6.4) 8 perl and spaces in strings
0.810 ( 5.6/ 7.0) 5 socket input problems
0.809 ( 10.2/ 12.6) 11 Symbolic ref and angle opeator
0.806 ( 3.2/ 3.9) 5 foreach trouble
0.797 ( 4.3/ 5.4) 6 Free http perl cgi windows95 practice platform
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.500 ( 4.6 / 9.1) 9 Are there things NOT answered yet ?
0.496 ( 3.6 / 7.2) 6 Perl experts!! help me!!
0.492 ( 1.2 / 2.5) 5 Bye All :-)
0.486 ( 3.1 / 6.4) 6 Perl-only distribution (was Re: How do I build Linux from stratch?? (w/o distribution of course!!))
0.476 ( 5.3 / 11.1) 12 Array / List question
0.472 ( 2.1 / 4.5) 10 Eat my dust - Perl running on Windows 95
0.461 ( 2.8 / 6.2) 8 Hash ref slice syntax?
0.447 ( 2.0 / 4.4) 8 SendMail on NT
0.439 ( 3.7 / 8.5) 9 Pattern Matching on HighBit Characters
0.428 ( 3.0 / 7.1) 6 ANNOUNCE: Win32API::SerialPort Documentation
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
30 comp.lang.perl.modules
18 comp.os.linux.misc
17 gnu.misc.discuss
16 comp.mail.sendmail
14 comp.lang.perl
13 comp.os.linux.development.apps
11 comp.os.linux.development.system
11 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
11 comp.lang.javascript
11 de.comp.lang.perl
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
24 "news.seed.net.tw" <fangshen@kssh.tn.edu.tw>
9 petdance@maxx.mc.net (Andy Lester)
8 Chris Wertman <chrisw@webchamps.com>
8 Fain <mindmore@mindless.com>
8 terry <dont@spam.me>
8 ecl6ql@leeds.leeds.ac.uk (Q Li)
8 "Robert Friberg" <robban@it-konsult.com>
6 eugene@cs.umb.edu (Eugene O'Neil)
6 ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
6 David Lee Lambert <lamber45@EGR.msu.edu>