From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-06-13T09:40:30+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    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>
     ----- ------
       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!