Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 41 149.9 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
2 21 68.3 Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
3 20 46.0 Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
4 20 44.7 Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
5 17 49.5 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
6 17 43.2 David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
7 16 36.8 Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
8 14 33.1 mathew <meta@pobox.com>
9 13 32.8 James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
10 13 29.9 Stefan Lang <langstefan@gmx.at>
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192 534.0 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
224 posters
820 articles
1850.8 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
4.46% of the posters
23.41% of the articles
28.85% of the bytes
Averages:
3.66 articles / poster
2.26 kbytes / article
8.26 kbytes / poster
77 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 170 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
34.38% of the posters
20.73% of the articles
17.17% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.786 kbytes by Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner <wonado@donnerweb.de>
largest post was 28.473 kbytes by Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
70 176.0 Ruby/Rails as a starter language?
28 68.3 Ruby momentum?
24 61.6 [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language?
23 52.2 ] Re: Ruby has ruined my Java (was Re: Ruby has ruined m
20 42.6 Local Instance Methods
19 65.8 Refactoring Tycho API - Opinions wanted
17 40.5 Are there packages?
16 40.1 [RCR] nil for unassigned keys
16 39.9 C extension makes things slower
14 19.8 FreeRIDE: Where does the output go?
820 articles on 164 subjects
698 were followups (85.12%)
0 were crossposts (0.00%)
1850.8 kbytes total
headers: 951.7kb 51.42%
quoted text: 247.9kb 13.39%
original text: 550.9kb 29.77%
signatures: 47.1kb 2.55%
Averages:
5.00 articles / subjetc
2.26 kbytes / article
11.29 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 183 ******************
Tuesday 149 ***************
Wednesday 134 *************
Thursday 121 ************
Friday 114 ***********
Saturday 65 *******
Sunday 54 *****
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
549 (66.95%) ruby-talk 142 63.39%
121 (14.76%) g2 46 20.54%
59 ( 7.20%) thunderbird 12 5.36%
30 ( 3.66%) outlook 7 3.12%
7 ( 0.85%) slrn 2 0.89%
7 ( 0.85%) noaa 1 0.45%
7 ( 0.85%) trn 1 0.45%
6 ( 0.73%) 40tude_dialog 3 1.34%
6 ( 0.73%) gnus 3 1.34%
6 ( 0.73%) mozilla 2 0.89%
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!