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 32 72.6 David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
   2 30 99.1 Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
   3 25 67.0 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
   4 24 52.8 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
   5 21 38.4 nobu.nokada@softhome.net <nobu.nokada@softhome.net>
   6 21 38.3 James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
   7 20 42.1 Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com>
   8 19 39.6 Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@rawuncut.el>
   9 18 46.2 ES <ruby-ml@magical-cat.org>
  10 16 37.4 Brian Schröder <ruby.brian@gmail.com>
     ----- ------
       226 533.4 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
257 posters
956 articles
2139.2 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
   3.89% of the posters
  23.64% of the articles
  24.93% of the bytes

Averages:
   3.72 articles / poster
   2.24 kbytes / article
   8.32 kbytes / poster

94 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 156 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  36.58% of the posters
  16.32% of the articles
  15.51% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   61 156.4 ruby vs. java?
   47 91.9 [ANN] Redesign 2005, Round Two
   42 83.2 Redesign 2005, Round Two
   31 73.2 {} vs begin/end [was Re: object loops and what they retu
   25 46.3 [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes
   23 47.1 alternatives to ? : contruct
   18 53.1 Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please)
   17 34.3 Go through directories recursively
   16 35.3 String Hashing Algorithms
   15 33.0 Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

956 articles on 205 subjects
809 were followups (84.62%)
5 were crossposts (0.52%)

2139.2 kbytes total
headers: 1082.1kb 50.59%
quoted text: 320.4kb 14.98%
original text: 640.1kb 29.92%
signatures: 32.2kb 1.50%

Averages:
   4.66 articles / subjetc
   2.24 kbytes / article
  10.44 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 145 ***************
Tuesday 180 ******************
Wednesday 171 *****************
Thursday 190 *******************
Friday 121 ************
Saturday 56 ******
Sunday 93 *********
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
  667 (69.77%) ruby-talk 166 64.59%
   85 ( 8.89%) g2 39 15.18%
   67 ( 7.01%) thunderbird 22 8.56%
   40 ( 4.18%) outlook 9 3.50%
   30 ( 3.14%) noaa 1 0.39%
   17 ( 1.78%) mozilla 4 1.56%
   14 ( 1.46%) tin 2 0.78%
    9 ( 0.94%) knode 4 1.56%
    8 ( 0.84%) t-gnus 1 0.39%
    4 ( 0.42%) pan 3 1.17%

19 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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Hi --

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

I don't mean to sound lacking in humility, but could you please stop
posting this disclaimer? I put a lot of effort into trying to write
helpful and non-frivolous posts, and so do a lot of other frequent
posters to this list. If there's something wrong with something
someone says, please bring it up in the relevant thread. Warning the
whole list to be on its guard for nonsense from frequent posters is
unproductive and rather unkind.

David

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On Mon, 16 May 2005, Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

--
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net

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Hi David,

I think you may have the wrong idea here. I suspect the reference to "quantity" here is WRT all the preceeding stats, _rather_ than to your own posts. Having just read this Stats post for the first time I said to myself - "boy, there are a lot of them"...

Just a thought,

Greg

David A. Black wrote:

···

Hi --

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

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

I don't mean to sound lacking in humility, but could you please stop
posting this disclaimer? I put a lot of effort into trying to write
helpful and non-frivolous posts, and so do a lot of other frequent
posters to this list. If there's something wrong with something
someone says, please bring it up in the relevant thread. Warning the
whole list to be on its guard for nonsense from frequent posters is
unproductive and rather unkind.

David

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I'm sorry, if you feel offended, but the said disclaimer has nothing to do with honest, devoted and, or true posters like you. I added it just to discourage trolls.

OTOH, All we over here at Usenet are aware of the fact that a poster is best known by the replies and, or questions he/she posts.

···

On 05/16/2005 06:31 AM, David A. Black wrote:

Hi --

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

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

I don't mean to sound lacking in humility, but could you please stop
posting this disclaimer? I put a lot of effort into trying to write
helpful and non-frivolous posts, and so do a lot of other frequent
posters to this list. If there's something wrong with something
someone says, please bring it up in the relevant thread. Warning the
whole list to be on its guard for nonsense from frequent posters is
unproductive and rather unkind.

--
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Anu's Linux@HOME Distros: Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix
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Hi --

Hi --

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

I don't mean to sound lacking in humility, but could you please stop
posting this disclaimer? I put a lot of effort into trying to write
helpful and non-frivolous posts, and so do a lot of other frequent
posters to this list. If there's something wrong with something
someone says, please bring it up in the relevant thread. Warning the
whole list to be on its guard for nonsense from frequent posters is
unproductive and rather unkind.

I'm sorry, if you feel offended, but the said disclaimer has nothing to do with honest, devoted and, or true posters like you. I added it just to discourage trolls.

In that case you now have two reasons to delete it: first, it is
hurtful to at least one frequent contributor; second, trolls do not
respond to discouragement (at least not by decreasing their presence :slight_smile:

OTOH, All we over here at Usenet are aware of the fact that a poster is best known by the replies and, or questions he/she posts.

Yes, that's how I'd like to keep it: no editorializing; let the
messages speak for themselves.

Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709

David Registered Linux User: 7855 (sorry, couldn't resist :slight_smile:

···

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Dr Balwinder S Dheeman wrote:

On 05/16/2005 06:31 AM, David A. Black wrote:

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Balwinder Singh Dheeman wrote:

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David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net