From: Balwinder Singh Dheeman Date: 2005-08-15T09:46:13+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 18 58.6 Austin Ziegler 2 18 46.7 David A. Black 3 13 38.0 Julian Leviston 4 13 35.1 Brian Schr�der 5 10 24.3 Jim Weirich 6 10 20.4 Dave Burt 7 9 31.6 Ara.T.Howard 8 9 23.3 Joel VanderWerf 9 9 19.7 Adrian Howard 10 9 16.5 Greg Brown ----- ------ 118 314.3 Total for top 10 Totals for the newsgroup: 149 posters 418 articles 981.0 kbytes The top 10 accounted for: 6.71% of the posters 28.23% of the articles 32.04% of the bytes Averages: 2.81 articles / poster 2.35 kbytes / article 6.58 kbytes / poster 56 people posted for the first time this period. They went on to post 112 articles altogether The new posters accounted for: 37.58% of the posters 26.79% of the articles 24.87% of the bytes smallest post was 0.877 kbytes by walter a kehowski largest post was 10.324 kbytes by Tim Sutherland * Top 10 subjects for the period: posts kbytes subject 40 101.4 Ruby Performance 22 56.4 Ruby report generation tool 20 41.8 Another newbie question 18 54.9 no clue 13 30.5 Array redefinition problem 11 25.3 Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require. 11 20.7 eval, attr_* like methods 10 25.9 Head First Design Patterns - Strategy Pattern [was: Java 10 24.1 How do I use heredocs 10 19.6 Problems with Net::HTTP.get 418 articles on 99 subjects 362 were followups (86.60%) 1 were crossposts (0.24%) 981.0 kbytes total headers: 509.8kb 51.96% quoted text: 143.0kb 14.57% original text: 285.1kb 29.07% signatures: 14.2kb 1.44% Averages: 4.22 articles / subjetc 2.35 kbytes / article 9.91 kbytes / subject Postings per weekday: Day posts Monday 24 ** Tuesday 0 Wednesday 0 Thursday 67 ******* Friday 186 ******************* Saturday 80 ******** Sunday 61 ****** (*=10 posts) Top 10 newsreader agents used (accumulated): posts newsreader users 267 (63.88%) ruby-talk 88 59.06% 75 (17.94%) g2 29 19.46% 33 ( 7.89%) outlook 8 5.37% 11 ( 2.63%) thunderbird 7 4.70% 10 ( 2.39%) gnus 5 3.36% 4 ( 0.96%) slrn 3 2.01% 4 ( 0.96%) 40tude_dialog 1 0.67% 4 ( 0.96%) nn 1 0.67% 3 ( 0.72%) mozilla 2 1.34% 2 ( 0.48%) noaa 1 0.67% 15 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!