christopher browne

Following is a summary of articles spanning a 7 day period,
beginning at 27 Jul 2003 06:20:38 GMT and ending at
02 Aug 2003 02:35:46 GMT.

Notes
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- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
to the total body volume.
- Please send all comments to Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>

Totals
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Posters: 143
Articles: 424 (130 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 54
Volume generated: 912.8 kb
- headers: 416.9 kb (7,291 lines)
- bodies: 475.3 kb (13,344 lines)
- original: 284.7 kb (8,592 lines)
- signatures: 20.1 kb (548 lines)

Original Content Rating: 0.599

Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.0
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 71 posters
s: 4.1 posts
Posts per thread: 7.9
median: 4.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 14 threads
s: 12.5 posts
Message size: 2204.4 bytes
- header: 1006.9 bytes (17.2 lines)
- body: 1148.0 bytes (31.5 lines)
- original: 687.5 bytes (20.3 lines)
- signature: 48.6 bytes (1.3 lines)

Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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21 49.6 ( 20.6/ 29.0/ 13.8) Erann Gat <gat@jpl.nasa.gov>
20 42.4 ( 20.9/ 18.4/ 8.8) Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
18 43.3 ( 18.7/ 24.6/ 7.3) marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
15 24.6 ( 17.6/ 7.0/ 2.2) Joe Marshall <jrm@ccs.neu.edu>
14 32.0 ( 15.4/ 16.6/ 8.1) Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com>
12 23.5 ( 11.0/ 11.3/ 6.3) Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
10 17.9 ( 9.8/ 8.1/ 2.5) jmfbahciv@aol.com
10 15.5 ( 9.4/ 6.0/ 3.4) Lowell <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca>
9 20.4 ( 8.6/ 11.3/ 6.8) "Coby Beck" <cbeck@mercury.bc.ca>
8 14.0 ( 7.4/ 6.6/ 4.4) Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>

These posters accounted for 32.3% of all articles.

Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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49.6 ( 20.6/ 29.0/ 13.8) 21 Erann Gat <gat@jpl.nasa.gov>
43.3 ( 18.7/ 24.6/ 7.3) 18 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
42.4 ( 20.9/ 18.4/ 8.8) 20 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
32.0 ( 15.4/ 16.6/ 8.1) 14 Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com>
24.6 ( 17.6/ 7.0/ 2.2) 15 Joe Marshall <jrm@ccs.neu.edu>
23.5 ( 11.0/ 11.3/ 6.3) 12 Pascal Costanza <costanza@web.de>
23.1 ( 6.3/ 16.9/ 16.7) 7 RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com
20.4 ( 8.6/ 11.3/ 6.8) 9 "Coby Beck" <cbeck@mercury.bc.ca>
19.5 ( 5.8/ 13.7/ 10.0) 6 Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at>
19.2 ( 5.4/ 13.8/ 6.8) 7 Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com>

These posters accounted for 32.6% of the total volume.

Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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1.000 ( 1.9 / 1.9) 5 "mike420@ziplip.com" <mike420@ziplip.com>
0.991 ( 16.7 / 16.9) 7 RobertMaas@YahooGroups.Com
0.937 ( 7.2 / 7.7) 8 Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se>
0.898 ( 3.2 / 3.5) 6 Conrad Barski <mygenericemailaccount@yahoo.com>
0.778 ( 5.4 / 6.9) 6 "Steven M. Haflich" <smh_no_spiced_ham@alum.mit.edu>
0.732 ( 10.0 / 13.7) 6 Siegfried Gonzi <siegfried.gonzi@kfunigraz.ac.at>
0.664 ( 4.4 / 6.6) 8 Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>
0.649 ( 3.2 / 4.9) 5 Russell Wallace <wallacethinmintr@eircom.net>
0.632 ( 4.6 / 7.3) 5 Thomas A. Russ <tar@sevak.isi.edu>
0.618 ( 4.0 / 6.4) 7 Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com>

Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.492 ( 6.8 / 13.8) 7 Greg Menke <gregm-news@toadmail.com>
0.491 ( 8.1 / 16.6) 14 Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com>
0.481 ( 8.8 / 18.4) 20 Kenny Tilton <ktilton@nyc.rr.com>
0.476 ( 13.8 / 29.0) 21 Erann Gat <gat@jpl.nasa.gov>
0.443 ( 2.9 / 6.6) 7 Thomas F. Bur**** <tfb@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
0.403 ( 1.6 / 4.0) 5 =?iso-8859-1?q?Eduardo_Mu=F1oz?= <emufer@terra.es>
0.312 ( 2.2 / 7.0) 15 Joe Marshall <jrm@ccs.neu.edu>
0.302 ( 2.5 / 8.1) 10 jmfbahciv@aol.com
0.297 ( 7.3 / 24.6) 18 marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu
0.213 ( 1.0 / 4.8) 5 Eternal Vigilance <wotan@oneeye.com>

Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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63 Artificial intelligence (AI) has been solved
37 why I/O is so slow?
28 Function names and "filter" function
24 A Critique of Common Lisp
22 Comp.lang.lisp Census 2003
17 looking for a more elegant solution to a simple problem
14 Why A.I. Is Brain-Dead
13 String manipulation
13 Is eval ok here?
13 Computing the actual size of an array given dimensions and element
type.

Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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124.2 ( 68.1/ 54.0/ 25.8) 63 Artificial intelligence (AI) has been solved
97.6 ( 39.0/ 58.1/ 35.0) 37 why I/O is so slow?
53.3 ( 24.9/ 25.5/ 14.3) 28 Function names and "filter" function
52.6 ( 30.1/ 22.0/ 11.3) 24 A Critique of Common Lisp
32.9 ( 10.1/ 22.5/ 13.6) 13 Is eval ok here?
32.3 ( 13.0/ 18.9/ 8.1) 13 Computing the actual size of an array given dimensions and element
type.
31.4 ( 18.0/ 12.1/ 7.2) 22 Comp.lang.lisp Census 2003
31.2 ( 15.8/ 14.3/ 8.6) 17 looking for a more elegant solution to a simple problem
30.2 ( 11.3/ 18.4/ 12.9) 12 Where to start
28.8 ( 12.4/ 15.4/ 8.0) 13 String manipulation

Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.819 ( 2.3/ 2.8) 3 The Right Way to process streams, strings, etc. etc.
0.815 ( 10.7/ 13.1) 5 html generation API
0.813 ( 4.3/ 5.3) 4 comparing ANYTHING
0.804 ( 4.9/ 6.1) 5 tree of all elementary types
0.804 ( 0.8/ 1.0) 4 How to copy an array?
0.747 ( 2.5/ 3.3) 3 help: Server Slave 1 busy, compilation of "(defun bar" queued. [was] Loading new definitions into running program images?
0.742 ( 11.2/ 15.1) 11 newbie needs some direction
0.719 ( 3.2/ 4.4) 3 Funcalling from flet
0.715 ( 8.9/ 12.5) 9 name clash
0.699 ( 12.9/ 18.4) 12 Where to start

Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
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0.521 ( 8.0 / 15.4) 13 String manipulation
0.515 ( 11.3 / 22.0) 24 A Critique of Common Lisp
0.512 ( 1.5 / 3.0) 4 No Subject
0.477 ( 25.8 / 54.0) 63 Artificial intelligence (AI) has been solved
0.448 ( 0.4 / 1.0) 3 Anyone using "J" editor?
0.427 ( 8.1 / 18.9) 13 Computing the actual size of an array given dimensions and element
type.
0.402 ( 1.4 / 3.5) 6 how to convert a number to a string?
0.392 ( 2.3 / 5.9) 9 How to specify the default superclass for instances of a metaclass
0.379 ( 4.9 / 12.9) 11 Computing the actual size of an array given dimensions and element type.
0.309 ( 3.2 / 10.4) 14 Why A.I. Is Brain-Dead

Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
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76 rec.arts.sf.science
76 comp.ai.games
76 sci.skeptic
76 alt.folklore.computers
29 comp.lang.scheme
5 comp.ai
3 comp.constraints
2 comp.lang.functional
1 comp.lang.scheme.scsh
1 comp.software-eng

Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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56 Don Stockbauer <donstockbauer@hotmail.com>
40 jmfbahciv@aol.com
20 Eternal Vigilance <wotan@oneeye.com>
20 "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
13 Joe Marshall <jrm@ccs.neu.edu>
12 Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@eircom.net>
12 Pete Fenelon <pete@fenelon.com>
9 Olin Shivers <shivers@cc.gatech.edu>
8 rickr@is.rice.edu
8 George William Herbert <gherbert@gw.retro.com>