Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 21 62.9 Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
2 19 50.8 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
3 18 42.1 James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
4 17 53.5 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
5 16 33.5 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
6 10 20.1 Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
7 9 22.9 Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
8 8 14.2 Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com>
9 7 21.9 Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins@ieee.org>
10 7 17.4 sujeet kumar <sujeetkr@gmail.com>
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132 339.4 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
208 posters
590 articles
1313.2 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
4.81% of the posters
22.37% of the articles
25.84% of the bytes
Averages:
2.84 articles / poster
2.23 kbytes / article
6.31 kbytes / poster
50 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 88 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
24.04% of the posters
14.92% of the articles
13.80% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.902 kbytes by ngoc <ngoc@yahoo.com>
largest post was 20.605 kbytes by Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
60 101.8 survey: what editor do you use to hack ruby?
20 52.7 [ANN] PDF::Writer 1.0 (version 1.0.1)
14 39.8 Ruby and recursion (Ackermann benchmark)
14 24.5 Truth maintenance system in Ruby
12 30.3 python/ruby benchmark(don't shoot the messenger)
11 38.5 [SOLUTION] Chess Variants (I) (#35)
11 26.8 Super-scalar Optimizations
10 31.3 GC.disable not working?
10 19.6 Why do arrays work this way?
10 17.1 Multitasking server?
590 articles on 150 subjects
473 were followups (80.17%)
0 were crossposts (0.00%)
1313.2 kbytes total
headers: 663.1kb 50.49%
quoted text: 167.2kb 12.73%
original text: 424.1kb 32.29%
signatures: 20.6kb 1.57%
Averages:
3.93 articles / subjetc
2.23 kbytes / article
8.75 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 64 ******
Tuesday 111 ***********
Wednesday 128 *************
Thursday 85 *********
Friday 95 **********
Saturday 54 *****
Sunday 53 *****
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
417 (70.68%) ruby-talk 136 65.38%
70 (11.86%) g2 35 16.83%
31 ( 5.25%) outlook 9 4.33%
26 ( 4.41%) thunderbird 13 6.25%
7 ( 1.19%) pan 2 0.96%
7 ( 1.19%) tin 1 0.48%
6 ( 1.02%) mozilla 4 1.92%
5 ( 0.85%) noaa 1 0.48%
4 ( 0.68%) knode 2 0.96%
4 ( 0.68%) trn 1 0.48%
17 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).
DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a grain of salt, quantity might not always
denote any quality; people who are not among the top posters also often have
very important and interesting things to say, though they are not listed
here by name.
Have a lot ..., lots of fun!