Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
Top 10 posters for the period:
rank posts kbytes name <address>
1 25 74.0 Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov>
2 18 40.4 Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net>
3 18 37.8 James Britt <james_b / neurogami.com>
4 16 60.4 Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin / yahoo.com>
5 16 47.3 James Edward Gray II <james / grayproductions.net>
6 14 40.0 Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com>
7 11 17.3 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org>
8 10 21.3 Isaac Gouy <igouy / yahoo.com>
9 9 28.5 Hidetoshi NAGAI <nagai / ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
10 9 20.1 Ghislain Mary <nospam / lunacymaze.org>
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146 387.0 Total for top 10
Totals for the newsgroup:
174 posters
566 articles
1310.0 kbytes
The top 10 accounted for:
5.75% of the posters
25.80% of the articles
29.54% of the bytes
Averages:
3.25 articles / poster
2.31 kbytes / article
7.53 kbytes / poster
45 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 93 articles altogether
The new posters accounted for:
25.86% of the posters
16.43% of the articles
15.22% of the bytes
smallest post was 0.850 kbytes by Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net>
largest post was 22.091 kbytes by Tim Sutherland <timsuth / ihug.co.nz>*
Top 10 subjects for the period:
posts kbytes subject
44 112.6 python/ruby benchmark.
27 81.3 making a duck
17 50.1 python/ruby benchmark(don't shoot the messenger)
17 29.7 [PROPOSAL] ruby-wish / ruby-lang.org mailing list
16 38.1 newbie read.scan (?) question
16 30.5 [ANN] RubyStuff: The Ruby Shop for Ruby Programmers
12 29.6 new article
11 42.3 duck-typing allows deeper polymorphism
11 20.8 Building a business case for Ruby
11 19.0 RubyStuff: The Ruby Shop for Ruby Programmers
566 articles on 130 subjects
468 were followups (82.69%)
0 were crossposts (0.00%)
1310.0 kbytes total
headers: 642.1kb 49.01%
quoted text: 181.7kb 13.87%
original text: 419.6kb 32.03%
signatures: 28.1kb 2.14%
Averages:
4.35 articles / subjetc
2.31 kbytes / article
10.08 kbytes / subject
Postings per weekday:
Day posts
Monday 89 *********
Tuesday 105 ***********
Wednesday 73 *******
Thursday 96 **********
Friday 97 **********
Saturday 54 *****
Sunday 52 *****
(*=10 posts)
Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):
posts newsreader users
409 (72.26%) ruby-talk 121 69.54%
65 (11.48%) g2 24 13.79%
28 ( 4.95%) outlook 5 2.87%
27 ( 4.77%) thunderbird 10 5.75%
6 ( 1.06%) turnpike 1 0.57%
5 ( 0.88%) knode 2 1.15%
5 ( 0.88%) trn 1 0.57%
3 ( 0.53%) tin 2 1.15%
3 ( 0.53%) noaa 1 0.57%
3 ( 0.53%) mozilla 1 0.57%
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!