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Analysis of posts to comp.lang.c
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)
Total posts considered: 973 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Oct 31 20:08:03 2009
Latest article: Sat Nov 7 20:04:02 2009
Original articles: 79, replies: 894
Total size of posts: 3,345,545 bytes (3,267K) (3.19M)
Average 139 articles per day, 0.46 MB per day, 3,438 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,352 KB bodies: 1,914 KB
Body text - quoted: 802 KB, original: 869 KB = 52.01%, sigs: 235 KB
Total number of posters: 138, average 24,243 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 111, average 30,140 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 29
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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net>................................ : 169
2: spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@yahoo.com>............................ : 113
3: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 91
4: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 49
5: Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>............... : 41
6: gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 37
7: Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 22
8: Richard <rgrd...@gmail.com>.................................... : 20
9: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 18
10: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 16
11: Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com>........................ : 16
12: Flash Gordon <s...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 15
13: Tom St Denis <t...@iahu.ca>..................................... : 15
14: Nick <3-nos...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 15
15: arnuld <sunr...@invalid.address>............................... : 14
16: "Dik T. Winter" <Dik.Win...@cwi.nl>............................ : 11
17: Noob <r...@127.0.0.1>.......................................... : 10
18: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 10
19: user923005 <dcor...@connx.com>................................. : 9
20: phaedrus <orion.osi...@virgin.net>............................. : 9
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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 5 posts)
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1: Gene <gene.ress...@gmail.com>.................................. : 7710
2: spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@yahoo.com>............................ : 6776
3: =?windows-1256?B?x+Ph7Q==?= <mmu...@gmail.com>................. : 6288
4: user923005 <dcor...@connx.com>................................. : 4633
5: "BGB / cr88192" <cr88...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 4200
6: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 3875
7: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 3674
8: Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>............... : 3563
9: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 3530
10: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 3391
11: Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net>................................ : 3334
12: Flash Gordon <s...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 3306
13: Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com>........................ : 3159
14: Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 3134
15: Barry Schwarz <schwa...@dqel.com>.............................. : 3131
16: Nick <3-nos...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 3101
17: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 3014
18: Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 2909
19: Tom St Denis <t...@iahu.ca>..................................... : 2901
20: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 2807
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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: phaedrus <orion.osi...@virgin.net>............................. : 89.22%
2: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 86.63%
3: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 80.07%
4: Gareth Owen <gwo...@gmail.com>................................. : 79.03%
5: "BGB / cr88192" <cr88...@hotmail.com>.......................... : 71.81%
6: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 68.73%
7: InuY4sha <inuy4...@gmail.com>.................................. : 67.22%
8: Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com>.............................. : 64.98%
9: "Malcolm McLean" <regniz...@btinternet.com>.................... : 62.36%
10: rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 61.06%
11: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 57.46%
12: Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net>................................ : 56.50%
13: arnuld <sunr...@invalid.address>............................... : 54.05%
14: user923005 <dcor...@connx.com>................................. : 53.65%
15: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 52.08%
16: Chris McDonald <ch...@csse.uwa.edu.au>......................... : 51.34%
17: Noob <r...@127.0.0.1>.......................................... : 51.14%
18: gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 49.77%
19: Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 48.72%
20: Tom St Denis <t...@iahu.ca>..................................... : 47.47%
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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Gene <gene.ress...@gmail.com>.................................. : 16.11%
2: Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com>............................. : 19.43%
3: Richard <rgrd...@gmail.com>.................................... : 27.20%
4: Tim Streater <timstrea...@waitrose.com>........................ : 28.91%
5: Flash Gordon <s...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 34.25%
6: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>................................ : 34.46%
7: Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>............... : 35.65%
8: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demun...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 36.49%
9: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 38.60%
10: spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@yahoo.com>............................ : 41.12%
11: Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 45.44%
12: "Dik T. Winter" <Dik.Win...@cwi.nl>............................ : 46.65%
13: Nick <3-nos...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 46.80%
14: Barry Schwarz <schwa...@dqel.com>.............................. : 46.93%
15: Tom St Denis <t...@iahu.ca>..................................... : 47.47%
16: Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 48.72%
17: gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 49.77%
18: Noob <r...@127.0.0.1>.......................................... : 51.14%
19: Chris McDonald <ch...@csse.uwa.edu.au>......................... : 51.34%
20: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 52.08%
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 326
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 108
3: C: The Complete Meta-Nonsense.................................. : 55
4: Buffer Overruns other C Gotchas -- "Coders at Work"............ : 52
5: void *......................................................... : 31
6: Question on structs............................................ : 28
7: Optimization idea: put (y&1) in [] instead of if()............. : 15
8: RNGs: A Super KISS............................................. : 15
9: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 14
10: whats the use of unsigned char................................. : 13
11: suggestion for matrix algebra library?......................... : 11
12: Question on Data Type Declarations............................. : 11
13: A code snippet................................................. : 11
14: [C / C++] Portable library to measure time..................... : 10
15: Bitwise question............................................... : 9
16: randoms........................................................ : 9
17: Array based Binary Heap in C................................... : 8
18: Portability issues (union, bitfields).......................... : 8
19: The sound of silence........................................... : 7
20: usage example for container_of in functions.................... : 7
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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 1398
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 426
3: C: The Complete Meta-Nonsense.................................. : 178
4: Buffer Overruns other C Gotchas -- "Coders at Work"............ : 129
5: void *......................................................... : 73
6: Question on structs............................................ : 69
7: RNGs: A Super KISS............................................. : 54
8: Buy Cheap Viagra Online | Product Description, Dosage, Possible : 42
9: Optimization idea: put (y&1) in [] instead of if()............. : 37
10: suggestion for matrix algebra library?......................... : 34
11: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 33
12: Z-Ordering (Morton ordering) question.......................... : 32
13: whats the use of unsigned char................................. : 29
14: Portability issues (union, bitfields).......................... : 27
15: A code snippet................................................. : 25
16: Question on Data Type Declarations............................. : 23
17: Maybe C is the perfect language for really good systems program : 20
18: Changing the meaning of the array indexing brackets "[ ]" to do : 19
19: Changing the meaning of the array indexing brackets "[ ]" to do : 19
20: [C / C++] Portable library to measure time..................... : 19
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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 18
2: sci.math....................................................... : 14
3: sci.crypt...................................................... : 14
4: comp.programming............................................... : 3
5: comp.lang.java.programmer...................................... : 1
6: comp.lang.lisp................................................. : 1
7: comp.arch.embedded............................................. : 1
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 66
2: rn............................................................. : 11
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 11
4: Gnus........................................................... : 9
5: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 8
6: Unknown........................................................ : 6
7: Pan............................................................ : 5
8: Forte Agent.................................................... : 5
9: KNode.......................................................... : 3
10: Forte Free Agent............................................... : 2
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 296 (30%)
2: slrn...................................................... : 178 (18%)
3: Gnus...................................................... : 129 (13%)
4: KNode..................................................... : 98 (10%)
5: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 52 ( 5%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 40 ( 4%)
7: Outlook Express........................................... : 30 ( 3%)
8: Mozilla................................................... : 29 ( 3%)
9: Pan....................................................... : 24 ( 2%)
10: Forte Agent............................................... : 18 ( 2%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 451
2: -0800.......................................................... : 334
3: +0100.......................................................... : 82
4: -0700.......................................................... : 37
5: -0500.......................................................... : 32
6: -0600.......................................................... : 10
7: +0200.......................................................... : 10
8: +0800.......................................................... : 7
9: +1300.......................................................... : 5
10: ............................................................... : 1
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