From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman Date: 2005-08-01T16:06:04+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 44 128.5 Daniel Brockman 2 36 119.9 Ara.T.Howard 3 30 49.8 Trans 4 21 53.8 Brian Schr�der 5 19 36.8 Yukihiro Matsumoto 6 18 52.7 Devin Mullins 7 18 45.0 Jim Weirich 8 18 42.7 James Edward Gray II 9 16 36.0 Austin Ziegler 10 16 28.2 Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner ----- ------ 236 593.5 Total for top 10 Totals for the newsgroup: 210 posters 834 articles 1837.4 kbytes The top 10 accounted for: 4.76% of the posters 28.30% of the articles 32.30% of the bytes Averages: 3.97 articles / poster 2.20 kbytes / article 8.75 kbytes / poster 71 people posted for the first time this period. They went on to post 145 articles altogether The new posters accounted for: 33.81% of the posters 17.39% of the articles 15.35% of the bytes smallest post was 0.699 kbytes by Wolfgang N�dasi-Donner largest post was 9.023 kbytes by James Edward Gray II * Top 10 subjects for the period: posts kbytes subject 83 238.1 What's so special about operators, built-in classes and 31 92.6 Lisp on Lines 24 47.8 Idea for Ruby 2.0 21 42.8 make local var visible 20 38.8 Trying to understand symbols 18 37.9 [newbie] make local var visible 18 36.4 Next Official Ruby Version 17 42.5 Factory Patterns in Ruby 17 33.5 Combination of two arrays 12 22.1 Chopping the beginning of a string elegantly 834 articles on 169 subjects 716 were followups (85.85%) 0 were crossposts (0.00%) 1837.4 kbytes total headers: 946.0kb 51.49% quoted text: 219.9kb 11.97% original text: 591.2kb 32.18% signatures: 25.1kb 1.36% Averages: 4.93 articles / subjetc 2.20 kbytes / article 10.87 kbytes / subject Postings per weekday: Day posts Monday 124 ************ Tuesday 134 ************* Wednesday 115 ************ Thursday 148 *************** Friday 167 ***************** Saturday 90 ********* Sunday 56 ****** (*=10 posts) Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated): posts newsreader users 537 (64.39%) ruby-talk 133 63.33% 140 (16.79%) g2 36 17.14% 52 ( 6.24%) thunderbird 14 6.67% 38 ( 4.56%) outlook 7 3.33% 11 ( 1.32%) slrn 1 0.48% 10 ( 1.20%) gnus 4 1.90% 8 ( 0.96%) tin 1 0.48% 8 ( 0.96%) trn 1 0.48% 7 ( 0.84%) noaa 1 0.48% 5 ( 0.60%) knode 3 1.43% 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!