From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@...>
Date: 2005-07-04T09:40:46+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 <address>
   1    20   57.0  Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>
   2    19   57.2  Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com>
   3    18   34.9  Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
   4    15   35.2  Devin Mullins <twifkak@comcast.net>
   5    12   58.6  Ara.t.howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
   6    12   31.6  Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
   7    12   24.0  James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
   8    10   20.3  Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net>
   9     9   18.2  Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
  10     8   21.4  Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de>
     ----- ------
       135  358.3  Total for top 10

Totals for the newsgroup:
 197 posters
 557 articles
 1282.8 kbytes

The top 10 accounted for:
   5.08% of the posters
  24.24% of the articles
  27.93% of the bytes

Averages:
   2.83 articles / poster
   2.30 kbytes / article
   6.51 kbytes / poster

52 people posted for the first time this period.
They went on to post 85 articles altogether

The new posters accounted for:
  26.40% of the posters
  15.26% of the articles
  12.87% of the bytes

smallest post was 0.790 kbytes by Sven Suska <sven501nn@suska.org>
largest post was 27.146 kbytes by Ara.t.howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>*

Top 10 subjects for the period:

posts kbytes  subject
   37   98.7  yield does not take a block
   22   41.6  Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page
   15   37.2  [Project Idea] RCM - A Ruby Configuration Management Sys
   14   40.1  class variable leading a double life
   12   25.2  Smart(er) platform detection
   11   40.9  shift vs. slice!(0) and others
   11   34.4  ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails
   10   23.9  running unit tests in graphical mode
    9   31.4  iterators and block arguments
    9   17.1  RubyGems Issue

557 articles on 140 subjects
 461 were followups (82.76%)
 9 were crossposts (1.62%)

1282.8 kbytes total
 headers:         626.8kb   48.86%
 quoted text:     183.6kb   14.31%
 original text:   420.9kb   32.81%
 signatures:       13.3kb    1.04%

Averages:
   3.98 articles / subjetc
   2.30 kbytes / article
   9.16 kbytes / subject

Postings per weekday:

Day          posts
 Monday        65  *******
 Tuesday      100  **********
 Wednesday    129  *************
 Thursday     101  **********
 Friday        71  *******
 Saturday      37  ****
 Sunday        54  *****
                 (*=10 posts)

Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated):

posts           newsreader        users
  395 (70.92%)  ruby-talk          117 59.39%
   78 (14.00%)  g2                  38 19.29%
   25 ( 4.49%)  thunderbird         13  6.60%
   20 ( 3.59%)  outlook              9  4.57%
   10 ( 1.80%)  knode                4  2.03%
    5 ( 0.90%)  pan                  4  2.03%
    5 ( 0.90%)  mozilla              3  1.52%
    4 ( 0.72%)  40tude_dialog        2  1.02%
    3 ( 0.54%)  xnews                1  0.51%
    3 ( 0.54%)  noaa                 1  0.51%

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!