Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

ruby-talk
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Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes name <address>
   1 44 128.5 Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
   2 36 119.9 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
   3 30 49.8 Trans <transfire@gmail.com>
   4 21 53.8 Brian Schröder <ruby.brian@gmail.com>
   5 19 36.8 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
   6 18 52.7 Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
   7 18 45.0 Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org>
   8 18 42.7 James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
   9 16 36.0 Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
  10 16 28.2 Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner <wonado@donnerweb.de>
     ----- ------
       236 593.5 Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
210 posters
834 articles
1837.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
   4.76% of the posters
  28.30% of the articles
  32.30% of the bytes

Averages:
   3.97 articles / poster
   2.20 kbytes / article
   8.75 kbytes / poster

71 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 145 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  33.81% of the posters
  17.39% of the articles
  15.35% of the bytes

smallest post was 0.699 kbytes by Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner <wonado@donnerweb.de>
largest post was 9.023 kbytes by James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>*

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes subject
   83 238.1 What's so special about operators, built-in classes and
   31 92.6 Lisp on Lines
   24 47.8 Idea for Ruby 2.0
   21 42.8 make local var visible
   20 38.8 Trying to understand symbols
   18 37.9 [newbie] make local var visible
   18 36.4 Next Official Ruby Version
   17 42.5 Factory Patterns in Ruby
   17 33.5 Combination of two arrays
   12 22.1 Chopping the beginning of a string elegantly

834 articles on 169 subjects
716 were followups (85.85%)
0 were crossposts (0.00%)

1837.4 kbytes total
headers: 946.0kb 51.49%
quoted text: 219.9kb 11.97%
original text: 591.2kb 32.18%
signatures: 25.1kb 1.36%

Averages:
   4.93 articles / subjetc
   2.20 kbytes / article
  10.87 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day posts
Monday 124 ************
Tuesday 134 *************
Wednesday 115 ************
Thursday 148 ***************
Friday 167 *****************
Saturday 90 *********
Sunday 56 ******
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts newsreader users
  537 (64.39%) ruby-talk 133 63.33%
  140 (16.79%) g2 36 17.14%
   52 ( 6.24%) thunderbird 14 6.67%
   38 ( 4.56%) outlook 7 3.33%
   11 ( 1.32%) slrn 1 0.48%
   10 ( 1.20%) gnus 4 1.90%
    8 ( 0.96%) tin 1 0.48%
    8 ( 0.96%) trn 1 0.48%
    7 ( 0.84%) noaa 1 0.48%
    5 ( 0.60%) knode 3 1.43%

18 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!

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Balwinder Singh Dheeman schrieb:

Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
...
71 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 145 articles altogether

I'm not buying those numbers. How do you determine the first time posters?

Regards,
Pit

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1. Normally all these who have never posted in the newsgroup in question are considered new posters.

2. If a poster does not post anything within a set period (say 8 weeks) of time, he/she is considered to have left the newsgroup; on his return he/she will also be considered a new poster.

For any further details you can have a look at source code available at http://rubyforge.org/projects/newsstats

Hope that helps,

Regards,

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On 08/01/2005 03:24 PM, Pit Capitain wrote:

Balwinder Singh Dheeman schrieb:

Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
...
71 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 145 articles altogether

I'm not buying those numbers. How do you determine the first time posters?

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Dr Balwinder S Dheeman schrieb:

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On 08/01/2005 03:24 PM, Pit Capitain wrote:

Balwinder Singh Dheeman schrieb:

Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
...
71 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 145 articles altogether

I'm not buying those numbers. How do you determine the first time posters?

1. Normally all these who have never posted in the newsgroup in question are considered new posters.

2. If a poster does not post anything within a set period (say 8 weeks) of time, he/she is considered to have left the newsgroup; on his return he/she will also be considered a new poster.

For any further details you can have a look at source code available at http://rubyforge.org/projects/newsstats

Hope that helps,

Thanks for the infos.

Regards,
Pit