Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

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Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
   2 26 67.5 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
   3 22 50.3 Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com>
   4 21 49.9 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
   5 20 42.4 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
   6 19 37.5 Lyndon Samson <lyndon.samson@gmail.com>
   7 17 48.9 vikkous <google@inforadical.net>
   8 17 34.0 Curt Hibbs <curt@hibbs.com>
   9 16 31.8 nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
  10 14 36.5 Fu Limin <fu.limin.tao@gmail.com>
     ----- ------
       205 471.9 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
275 posters
973 articles
2176.6 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
   3.64% of the posters
  21.07% of the articles
  21.68% of the bytes

Averages:
   3.54 articles / poster
   2.24 kbytes / article
   7.91 kbytes / poster

148 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 306 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  53.82% of the posters
  31.45% of the articles
  31.91% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   44 118.8 Comments Are More Important Than Code
   41 117.0 Ruby and IDE
   28 52.7 [ANN] One-Click Ruby Installer 182-15 for Windows
   26 50.7 Folding editor for ruby code browsing
   23 42.7 [ANN] Arachno Ruby IDE 0.5.5 for Linux
   22 44.0 ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released!
   20 40.0 Emacs vs. VI vs. IDE
   18 43.7 Announcing Reg 0.4.0
   16 61.8 tk_optionMenu bug in 1.8.2
   16 42.1 Re ANN: A new scripting language Tao 0.9.0 beta released

973 articles on 198 subjects
818 were followups (84.07%)
29 were crossposts (2.98%)

2176.6 kbytes total
headers: 1046.9kb 48.10%
quoted text: 317.5kb 14.59%
original text: 711.4kb 32.69%
signatures: 36.6kb 1.68%

Averages:
   4.91 articles / subjetc
   2.24 kbytes / article
  10.99 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 153 ***************
Tuesday 141 **************
Wednesday 185 *******************
Thursday 183 ******************
Friday 177 ******************
Saturday 75 ********
Sunday 59 ******
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
  670 (68.86%) ruby-talk 181 65.82%
  104 (10.69%) g2 38 13.82%
   46 ( 4.73%) thunderbird 16 5.82%
   36 ( 3.70%) outlook 11 4.00%
   25 ( 2.57%) noaa 1 0.36%
   20 ( 2.06%) knode 7 2.55%
   16 ( 1.64%) mozilla 7 2.55%
   11 ( 1.13%) gg 2 0.73%
   11 ( 1.13%) tin 1 0.36%
    9 ( 0.92%) pan 5 1.82%

20 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!

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Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>

<snip>

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.

What the hell is that supposed to mean??!

<cries>

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On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:

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Wow - what happened to all the tin users? Surely I can't be the only
one.

martin

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Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
  670 (68.86%) ruby-talk 181 65.82%
  104 (10.69%) g2 38 13.82%
   46 ( 4.73%) thunderbird 16 5.82%
   36 ( 3.70%) outlook 11 4.00%
   25 ( 2.57%) noaa 1 0.36%
   20 ( 2.06%) knode 7 2.55%
   16 ( 1.64%) mozilla 7 2.55%
   11 ( 1.13%) gg 2 0.73%
   11 ( 1.13%) tin 1 0.36%
    9 ( 0.92%) pan 5 1.82%

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Lookup last weeks post
(http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/139680\), it
may shed greater insight on this disclaimer :wink:

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On 5/1/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
>
> Top 10 posters for the period:
>
> rank posts kbytes name <address>
> 1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>

<snip>

>
> DISCLAIMER
> Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
> imply any quality.

What the hell is that supposed to mean??!

<cries>

--
Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/

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Joe Van Dyk wrote:

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On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
  1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
   
DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.
   

What the hell is that supposed to mean??!

I think, something like: "Yes, there are people who post 30+ pages of text per week on this list. Most of these people, nevertheless, are posting relevant content." :slight_smile:

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Ah... I see. :slight_smile:

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On 5/1/05, Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/1/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:
> > Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
> >
> > Top 10 posters for the period:
> >
> > rank posts kbytes name <address>
> > 1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > DISCLAIMER
> > Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
> > imply any quality.
>
> What the hell is that supposed to mean??!
>
> <cries>
>
>
Lookup last weeks post
(http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/139680\), it
may shed greater insight on this disclaimer :wink:

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> > Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
> >
> > Top 10 posters for the period:
> >
> > rank posts kbytes name <address>
> > 1 33 73.2 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > DISCLAIMER
> > Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
> > imply any quality.
>
> What the hell is that supposed to mean??!
>
> <cries>
>
>
Lookup last weeks post
(http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/139680\), it
may shed greater insight on this disclaimer :wink:

That thought had crossed my mind too, but I still read the disclaimer
as if it applied to the quantity of the stats themselves.

Of course, this reminds me of the comments thread and the ambiguity of
english, as I have no idea what BSD's 'intent' was, and now I see it
could be taken either way. Perhaps that's for the best.

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On 5/1/05, Jason Sweat <jason.sweat@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/1/05, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/1/05, Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> wrote:

--
Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/

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