From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman Date: 2005-07-25T09:45:58+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 41 149.9 Ara.T.Howard 2 21 68.3 Daniel Brockman 3 20 46.0 Joe Van Dyk 4 20 44.7 Devin Mullins 5 17 49.5 James Edward Gray II 6 17 43.2 David A. Black 7 16 36.8 Hal Fulton 8 14 33.1 mathew 9 13 32.8 James Britt 10 13 29.9 Stefan Lang ----- ------ 192 534.0 Total for top 10 Totals for the newsgroup: 224 posters 820 articles 1850.8 kbytes The top 10 accounted for: 4.46% of the posters 23.41% of the articles 28.85% of the bytes Averages: 3.66 articles / poster 2.26 kbytes / article 8.26 kbytes / poster 77 people posted for the first time this period. They went on to post 170 articles altogether The new posters accounted for: 34.38% of the posters 20.73% of the articles 17.17% of the bytes smallest post was 0.786 kbytes by Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner largest post was 28.473 kbytes by Ara.T.Howard * Top 10 subjects for the period: posts kbytes subject 70 176.0 Ruby/Rails as a starter language? 28 68.3 Ruby momentum? 24 61.6 [WAY OT] Re: Ruby/Rails as a starter language? 23 52.2 ] Re: Ruby has ruined my Java (was Re: Ruby has ruined m 20 42.6 Local Instance Methods 19 65.8 Refactoring Tycho API - Opinions wanted 17 40.5 Are there packages? 16 40.1 [RCR] nil for unassigned keys 16 39.9 C extension makes things slower 14 19.8 FreeRIDE: Where does the output go? 820 articles on 164 subjects 698 were followups (85.12%) 0 were crossposts (0.00%) 1850.8 kbytes total headers: 951.7kb 51.42% quoted text: 247.9kb 13.39% original text: 550.9kb 29.77% signatures: 47.1kb 2.55% Averages: 5.00 articles / subjetc 2.26 kbytes / article 11.29 kbytes / subject Postings per weekday: Day posts Monday 183 ****************** Tuesday 149 *************** Wednesday 134 ************* Thursday 121 ************ Friday 114 *********** Saturday 65 ******* Sunday 54 ***** (*=10 posts) Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated): posts newsreader users 549 (66.95%) ruby-talk 142 63.39% 121 (14.76%) g2 46 20.54% 59 ( 7.20%) thunderbird 12 5.36% 30 ( 3.66%) outlook 7 3.12% 7 ( 0.85%) slrn 2 0.89% 7 ( 0.85%) noaa 1 0.45% 7 ( 0.85%) trn 1 0.45% 6 ( 0.73%) 40tude_dialog 3 1.34% 6 ( 0.73%) gnus 3 1.34% 6 ( 0.73%) mozilla 2 0.89% 19 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!