Balwinder S Dheeman
7/4/2005 12:36:00 AM
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>
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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!