Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 29 60.4 Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net>
2 28 63.7 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
3 25 85.7 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
4 20 51.1 Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
5 19 52.0 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
6 16 35.1 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>
7 13 30.6 James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
8 11 20.6 Florian Frank <flori@nixe.ping.de>
9 10 42.9 Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com>
10 10 19.6 Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
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181 461.6 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
199 posters
633 articles
1487.6 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
5.03% of the posters
28.59% of the articles
31.03% of the bytes
Averages:
3.18 articles / poster
2.35 kbytes / article
7.48 kbytes / poster
55 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 86 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
27.64% of the posters
13.59% of the articles
14.90% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.739 kbytes by Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz>
largest post was 27.071 kbytes by Patrick Chanezon <chanezon@gmail.com>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
21 37.4 evaluation of ruby
17 60.2 [ANN] Application-0.6.0
17 36.8 ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails
15 34.9 x==1 vs 1==x
14 26.7 rubyscript2exe
13 26.7 string to Class object
12 33.7 [ANN] traits-0.3.0
12 27.4 tk canvas question
12 27.2 Runtime vs Development
12 23.0 1. Ruby result: 101 seconds , 2. Java result:9.8 seconds
633 articles on 151 subjects
527 were followups (83.25%)
0 were crossposts (0.00%)
1487.6 kbytes total
headers: 717.8kb 48.25%
quoted text: 238.2kb 16.01%
original text: 461.4kb 31.02%
signatures: 25.7kb 1.73%
Averages:
4.19 articles / subjetc
2.35 kbytes / article
9.85 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 97 **********
Tuesday 88 *********
Wednesday 121 ************
Thursday 116 ************
Friday 94 *********
Saturday 63 ******
Sunday 54 *****
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
461 (72.83%) ruby-talk 132 66.33%
62 ( 9.79%) g2 29 14.57%
33 ( 5.21%) outlook 7 3.52%
29 ( 4.58%) thunderbird 12 6.03%
9 ( 1.42%) pan 3 1.51%
8 ( 1.26%) noaa 1 0.50%
7 ( 1.11%) mozilla 4 2.01%
5 ( 0.79%) trn 1 0.50%
4 ( 0.63%) turnpike 1 0.50%
3 ( 0.47%) slrn 2 1.01%
19 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!