From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T09:44:22+09:00
Subject: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)


Top 10 posters for the period:

rank posts kbytes  name <address>
   1    50  132.3  Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
   2    50  102.7  Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>
   3    34   80.2  David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
   4    29   82.6  Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
   5    27   65.7  Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
   6    27   53.1  Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
   7    21   49.9  James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
   8    20   36.1  James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
   9    19   46.5  Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com>
  10    18   46.4  Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com>
     ----- ------
       295  695.3  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
 242 posters
 1031 articles
 2294.4 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
   4.13% of the posters
  28.61% of the articles
  30.31% of the bytes

Averages:
   4.26 articles / poster
   2.23 kbytes / article
   9.48 kbytes / poster

90 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 184 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  37.19% of the posters
  17.85% of the articles
  16.51% of the bytes

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes  subject
   55  122.8  [RCR] Object#inside_metaclass?
   43  110.7  RCR 303: nil should accept missing methods and return ni
   37   75.2  [ETYMOLOGY] - Sterile Classes / Sterile Meta Classes
   35   87.7  object reference handle (like perl's reference to scalar
   31   68.2  Typo-checking instead of static typing
   28   65.0  Bug Tracker
   24   52.0  "Bounty" approach for small pieces of code?
   21   51.9  Ruby, Rails and now og
   21   48.2  [ANN] traits-0.0.0
   18   43.3  [ANN] Ruby Editor Plugin for jEdit 0.6 - method completi

1031 articles on 212 subjects
 867 were followups (84.09%)
 0 were crossposts (0.00%)

2294.4 kbytes total
 headers:        1104.9kb   48.16%
 quoted text:     366.1kb   15.96%
 original text:   713.0kb   31.08%
 signatures:       40.5kb    1.77%

Averages:
   4.86 articles / subjetc
   2.23 kbytes / article
  10.82 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day          posts
 Monday       102  **********
 Tuesday      170  *****************
 Wednesday    187  *******************
 Thursday     155  ****************
 Friday       166  *****************
 Saturday     134  *************
 Sunday       117  ************
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader        users
  713 (69.16%)  ruby-talk          176 72.73%
  103 ( 9.99%)  thunderbird         19  7.85%
   68 ( 6.60%)  g2                  26 10.74%
   50 ( 4.85%)  noaa                 1  0.41%
   43 ( 4.17%)  outlook              6  2.48%
   10 ( 0.97%)  knode                6  2.48%
   10 ( 0.97%)  pan                  4  1.65%
   10 ( 0.97%)  tin                  1  0.41%
    7 ( 0.68%)  mozilla              2  0.83%
    6 ( 0.58%)  trn                  1  0.41%

17 different agents have been used (versions unaccounted).

DISCLAIMER
Please, take these stats with a dash of salt, quantity might not always
imply any quality.

Have a lot ..., lots of fun!