From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman Date: 2005-06-07T06:31:46+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
1 24 46.6 Robert Klemme 2 20 64.0 Ara.T.Howard 3 16 37.1 Lothar Scholz 4 14 64.5 Austin Ziegler 5 13 27.2 Gavin Kistner 6 13 25.6 James Edward Gray II 7 12 32.7 Eric Mahurin 8 12 31.2 ES 9 12 30.9 Brian Schr�der 10 11 26.0 Eric Hodel ----- ------ 147 385.7 Total for top 10 Totals for the newsgroup: 198 posters 636 articles 1425.0 kbytes The top 10 accounted for: 5.05% of the posters 23.11% of the articles 27.06% of the bytes Averages: 3.21 articles / poster 2.24 kbytes / article 7.20 kbytes / poster 61 people posted for the first time this period. They went on to post 106 articles altogether The new posters accounted for: 30.81% of the posters 16.67% of the articles 13.83% of the bytes smallest post was 0.872 kbytes by Michael Vondung largest post was 15.877 kbytes by Austin Ziegler * Top 10 subjects for the period: posts kbytes subject 28 66.8 Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days) 28 60.7 Method Chaining Issues 27 115.3 Intellisense and the psychology of typing 20 41.0 array of object insert polices 18 43.3 internal iterators in ruby 18 38.1 ternary operator confusion 15 46.8 Building a business case for Ruby 11 32.7 Implementing a Read-Only array 11 31.2 Package, a future replacement for setup.rb and mkmf.rb 11 26.3 Interesting discovery... 636 articles on 151 subjects 515 were followups (80.97%) 2 were crossposts (0.31%) 1425.0 kbytes total headers: 711.4kb 49.92% quoted text: 187.2kb 13.14% original text: 461.8kb 32.41% signatures: 23.2kb 1.63% Averages: 4.21 articles / subjetc 2.24 kbytes / article 9.44 kbytes / subject Postings per weekday: Day posts Monday 90 ********* Tuesday 89 ********* Wednesday 132 ************* Thursday 144 ************** Friday 89 ********* Saturday 63 ****** Sunday 29 *** (*=10 posts) Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated): posts newsreader users 431 (67.77%) ruby-talk 128 64.65% 66 (10.38%) g2 32 16.16% 42 ( 6.60%) thunderbird 14 7.07% 32 ( 5.03%) outlook 4 2.02% 11 ( 1.73%) slrn 5 2.53% 11 ( 1.73%) pan 3 1.52% 9 ( 1.42%) noaa 1 0.51% 9 ( 1.42%) mozilla 1 0.51% 6 ( 0.94%) tin 2 1.01% 4 ( 0.63%) knode 3 1.52% 17 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!