Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 18 58.6 Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
2 18 46.7 David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
3 13 38.0 Julian Leviston <julian@coretech.net.au>
4 13 35.1 Brian Schröder <ruby.brian@gmail.com>
5 10 24.3 Jim Weirich <jim@weirichhouse.org>
6 10 20.4 Dave Burt <dave@burt.id.au>
7 9 31.6 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
8 9 23.3 Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>
9 9 19.7 Adrian Howard <adrianh@quietstars.com>
10 9 16.5 Greg Brown <greg7224@gmail.com>
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118 314.3 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
149 posters
418 articles
981.0 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
6.71% of the posters
28.23% of the articles
32.04% of the bytes
Averages:
2.81 articles / poster
2.35 kbytes / article
6.58 kbytes / poster
56 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 112 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
37.58% of the posters
26.79% of the articles
24.87% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.877 kbytes by walter a kehowski <wkehowski@cox.net>
largest post was 10.324 kbytes by Tim Sutherland <timsuth@ihug.co.nz>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
40 101.4 Ruby Performance
22 56.4 Ruby report generation tool
20 41.8 Another newbie question
18 54.9 no clue
13 30.5 Array redefinition problem
11 25.3 Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require.
11 20.7 eval, attr_* like methods
10 25.9 Head First Design Patterns - Strategy Pattern [was: Java
10 24.1 How do I use heredocs
10 19.6 Problems with Net::HTTP.get
418 articles on 99 subjects
362 were followups (86.60%)
1 were crossposts (0.24%)
981.0 kbytes total
headers: 509.8kb 51.96%
quoted text: 143.0kb 14.57%
original text: 285.1kb 29.07%
signatures: 14.2kb 1.44%
Averages:
4.22 articles / subjetc
2.35 kbytes / article
9.91 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 24 **
Tuesday 0
Wednesday 0
Thursday 67 *******
Friday 186 *******************
Saturday 80 ********
Sunday 61 ******
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
267 (63.88%) ruby-talk 88 59.06%
75 (17.94%) g2 29 19.46%
33 ( 7.89%) outlook 8 5.37%
11 ( 2.63%) thunderbird 7 4.70%
10 ( 2.39%) gnus 5 3.36%
4 ( 0.96%) slrn 3 2.01%
4 ( 0.96%) 40tude_dialog 1 0.67%
4 ( 0.96%) nn 1 0.67%
3 ( 0.72%) mozilla 2 1.34%
2 ( 0.48%) noaa 1 0.67%
15 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!
