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From: Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>
Subject: Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Date: 16 Aug 1999 14:43:15 GMT
Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 09 Aug 1999 14:42:47 GMT and ending at
16 Aug 1999 07:04:53 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" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gbacon@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 1999 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 620
Articles: 2490 (1136 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 549
Volume generated: 4778.7 kb
- headers: 1973.2 kb (38,667 lines)
- bodies: 2598.8 kb (78,969 lines)
- original: 1689.1 kb (55,946 lines)
- signatures: 204.3 kb (4,183 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.650
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 4.0
median: 1.0 post
mode: 1 post - 349 posters
s: 10.3 posts
Posts per thread: 4.5
median: 3 posts
mode: 2 posts - 135 threads
s: 12.0 posts
Message size: 1965.2 bytes
- header: 811.5 bytes (15.5 lines)
- body: 1068.7 bytes (31.7 lines)
- original: 694.6 bytes (22.5 lines)
- signature: 84.0 bytes (1.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
109 267.0 ( 95.5/158.7/133.4) tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
93 176.9 ( 74.8/ 93.1/ 53.4) David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
91 249.2 (106.3/102.2/ 98.0) abigail@delanet.com
73 133.8 ( 48.3/ 77.1/ 44.2) lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
64 176.9 ( 56.1/ 96.5/ 53.9) Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
62 96.0 ( 41.5/ 54.5/ 23.9) anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
52 84.0 ( 34.9/ 38.3/ 35.7) fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Darth Aggie)
41 122.6 ( 35.9/ 86.7/ 44.1) jstevens@bamboo.verinet.com (John Stevens)
40 63.7 ( 40.0/ 23.7/ 13.5) elaine@chaos.wustl.edu
39 69.6 ( 34.9/ 28.8/ 18.2) brian@pm.org (brian d foy)
These posters accounted for 26.7% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
267.0 ( 95.5/158.7/133.4) 109 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
249.2 (106.3/102.2/ 98.0) 91 abigail@delanet.com
176.9 ( 56.1/ 96.5/ 53.9) 64 Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>
176.9 ( 74.8/ 93.1/ 53.4) 93 David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
133.8 ( 48.3/ 77.1/ 44.2) 73 lr@hpl.hp.com (Larry Rosler)
122.6 ( 35.9/ 86.7/ 44.1) 41 jstevens@bamboo.verinet.com (John Stevens)
104.0 ( 29.5/ 74.5/ 34.0) 34 "John W. Stevens" <jstevens@basho.fc.hp.com>
96.0 ( 41.5/ 54.5/ 23.9) 62 anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
84.0 ( 34.9/ 38.3/ 35.7) 52 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Darth Aggie)
80.1 ( 31.5/ 40.4/ 30.6) 38 mgjv@comdyn.com.au (Martien Verbruggen)
These posters accounted for 31.2% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
1.000 ( 3.9 / 3.9) 6 andrew-johnson@home.com
1.000 ( 1.6 / 1.6) 5 "Troy Knight" <flexit@flexit.eurobell.co.uk>
1.000 ( 2.3 / 2.3) 5 marcza@my-deja.com
1.000 ( 1.8 / 1.8) 6 mesarchm@aol.com (Mesarchm)
0.958 ( 98.0 /102.2) 91 abigail@delanet.com
0.954 ( 2.3 / 2.4) 6 jflowers44@aol.com (Jflowers44)
0.932 ( 35.7 / 38.3) 52 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Darth Aggie)
0.908 ( 8.1 / 8.9) 7 japhy@pobox.com
0.885 ( 5.4 / 6.1) 8 chrisl@tourneyland.com (Chris)
0.864 ( 3.7 / 4.3) 7 support@gethits.com
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.423 ( 3.3 / 7.7) 5 Max Pinton <max@maxgraphic.com>
0.421 ( 3.2 / 7.5) 7 Mark McCoy <mcking@cajunbro.com>
0.386 ( 2.4 / 6.3) 9 jerrad pierce <jerrad@networkengines.com>
0.365 ( 1.8 / 5.0) 6 Shmooth <shmooth@yahoo.com>
0.347 ( 1.6 / 4.5) 5 Chi Yu <chi@cybie.com>
0.327 ( 1.7 / 5.1) 6 "Matthew O. Persico" <mpersico@erols.com>
0.316 ( 3.0 / 9.4) 15 Tom Briles <sariq@texas.net>
0.291 ( 1.4 / 4.8) 6 gerg@shell.ncal.verio.com (Greg Andrews)
0.283 ( 11.3 / 39.8) 26 QuestionExchange <USENET@questionexchange.com>
0.239 ( 3.2 / 13.5) 5 "Ben Quick" <newsgroup@bigwig.net>
103 posters (16%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
256 Why use Perl when we've got Python?!
38 HARASSMENT -- Monthly Autoemail
36 Reading the Online Documentation?
33 Nastiness contrary to the spirit of perl?
33 Sesssion ID
33 Looking for a good Perl Book
30 pricing a perl job
28 is our reese the author of mysql book?
20 s/// and interpolation
20 Help - Split Function Blowing My Mind Away!!
These threads accounted for 21.2% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
718.7 (223.1/475.5/284.9) 256 Why use Perl when we've got Python?!
83.7 ( 32.5/ 48.7/ 29.9) 38 HARASSMENT -- Monthly Autoemail
83.1 ( 27.8/ 47.3/ 32.9) 33 Sesssion ID
78.6 ( 31.8/ 43.7/ 25.3) 33 Nastiness contrary to the spirit of perl?
72.9 ( 30.7/ 37.3/ 24.1) 33 Looking for a good Perl Book
69.9 ( 28.2/ 39.7/ 23.7) 30 pricing a perl job
60.8 ( 26.7/ 28.6/ 19.8) 28 is our reese the author of mysql book?
57.6 ( 27.1/ 27.7/ 19.2) 36 Reading the Online Documentation?
55.8 ( 14.9/ 38.5/ 31.0) 20 s/// and interpolation
52.6 ( 15.4/ 35.8/ 21.3) 14 Problem reading forms with perl
These threads accounted for 27.9% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.945 ( 20.6/ 21.8) 5 Creating hotlinks out of plain URLs in Perl.
0.898 ( 5.8/ 6.4) 5 perl script for changing all upper case letters to lower case with first word of sentence capitolized
0.830 ( 14.2/ 17.1) 18 Perl Programmers' Web Design "Difficulties"
0.822 ( 1.6/ 2.0) 5 saving a hash
0.810 ( 14.6/ 18.0) 14 Why use Python when we've got Perl?
0.805 ( 31.0/ 38.5) 20 s/// and interpolation
0.796 ( 7.3/ 9.2) 9 dot is too precious to be only for string concatenation
0.784 ( 7.1/ 9.0) 8 Member of an array
0.783 ( 4.5/ 5.8) 5 Things my math teacher forgot to tell me
0.779 ( 2.1/ 2.7) 6 Stopping someone from getting my cgi-scripts
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.430 ( 1.7 / 4.0) 6 obtaining local IP address in ActivePerl
0.430 ( 1.9 / 4.5) 5 Stripping quotes only from HTML tags
0.405 ( 3.0 / 7.4) 9 Fastest form of an 'if'
0.399 ( 1.3 / 3.3) 6 Announcement: "CRAP"
0.384 ( 1.4 / 3.7) 5 Making a new web page out of an existing page
0.374 ( 9.3 / 24.8) 11 I guess this is a Misc question: Cgi-bin
0.358 ( 2.7 / 7.4) 6 code references to builtin functions
0.337 ( 2.0 / 5.8) 6 Quick Question :)
0.323 ( 3.7 / 11.4) 10 exists problem
0.311 ( 1.3 / 4.1) 6 Newbie question about $_
138 threads (25%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
76 comp.lang.python
46 comp.lang.perl.tk
40 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
31 comp.lang.perl.modules
29 alt.perl
14 comp.lang.perl
5 comp.lang.javascript
4 comp.lang.c
4 comp.lang.java.javascript
4 de.comp.lang.perl
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
25 "John W. Stevens" <jstevens@basho.fc.hp.com>
14 Mark Worsdall <linux@worsdall.demon.co.uk>
12 fl_aggie@thepentagon.com (I R A Darth Aggie)
10 jstevens@bamboo.verinet.com (John Stevens)
9 anno4000@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Anno Siegel)
8 tchrist@mox.perl.com (Tom Christiansen)
7 sholden@cs.usyd.edu.au
7 David Cassell <cassell@mail.cor.epa.gov>
6 Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>
6 William Pettrey <Bill@fuckyou.co.uk>