Stats for comp.lang.c (last 7 days)

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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: 1,051 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Jun 14 20:08:02 2008
Latest article: Sat Jun 21 20:04:03 2008
Original articles: 65, replies: 986
Total size of posts: 2,593,032 bytes (2,532K) (2.47M)
Average 150 articles per day, 0.35 MB per day, 2,467 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,241 KB bodies: 1,290 KB
Body text - quoted: 611 KB, original: 560 KB = 47.81%, sigs: 115 KB
Total number of posters: 167, average 15,527 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 95, average 27,295 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 35

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: santosh <>........................... ..... : 77
2: Richard<>......................... ............. : 54
3: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 50
4: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 45
5: ............................................. : 43
6: "Bill Cunningham" <>........................... : 38
7: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 32
8: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 28
9: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 27
10: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 26
11: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_=D3_h=C9ilidhe?= <>...... : 24
12: "Joachim Schmitz" <>............. : 22
13: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 19
14: rahul <>........................... ....... : 19
15: jacob navia <>................................ . : 18
16: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 16
17: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 16
18: (Kenny McCormack)................ : 15
19: Bart <>................................... ........ : 14
20: pereges <>............................... ..... : 14

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Top 20 posters by average article size in bytes (at least 5 posts)
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1: Paul Hsieh <>.............................. .. : 4964
2: James Kanze <>........................... . : 3623
3: somenath <>........................... .... : 3404
4: sinbad <>......................... ...... : 3148
5: user923005 <>............................... .. : 3020
6: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 2957
7: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 2941
8: pete <>.......................... ........ : 2908
9: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 2905
10: Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSzaw==?= <>............ : 2892
11: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2878
12: ............................................. : 2787
13: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 2772
14: Richard<>......................... ............. : 2733
15: vaib <>........................ ........ : 2600
16: Flash Gordon <>......................... : 2588
17: Daniel Pitts <>........ : 2569
18: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_=D3_h=C9ilidhe?= <>...... : 2542
19: santosh <>........................... ..... : 2521
20: Tor Rustad <>.......................... .. : 2465

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Johannes Bauer <>.......................... : 75.16%
2: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s_=D3_h=C9ilidhe?= <>...... : 71.29%
3: Angelo Chen <>......................... . : 69.35%
4: "christian.bau" <>............. : 65.69%
5: (Walter Roberson).................. : 65.03%
6: Tor Rustad <>.......................... .. : 63.58%
7: viza <>............................... ........ : 62.15%
8: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 61.31%
9: pereges <>............................... ..... : 60.12%
10: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 56.92%
11: Bart <>................................... ........ : 56.47%
12: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 56.41%
13: pete <>.......................... ........ : 55.26%
14: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 54.15%
15: "Bill Cunningham" <>........................... : 54.15%
16: "Mike Wahler" <>......................... . : 54.06%
17: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 53.24%
18: Flash Gordon <>......................... : 52.54%
19: "Remo D." <rd>.............................................. ... : 51.69%
20: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 50.91%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Daniel Pitts <>........ : 13.77%
2: Anna <>........................... ........ : 23.07%
3: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 23.91%
4: sinbad <>......................... ...... : 25.04%
5: somenath <>........................... .... : 25.89%
6: Richard<>......................... ............. : 27.01%
7: "Joachim Schmitz" <>............. : 27.94%
8: (Richard Bos)....................... : 28.43%
9: Horacius ReX <>.......................... : 29.39%
10: "Serve Lau" <>................................ . : 32.00%
11: ............................................. : 32.05%
12: vaib <>........................ ........ : 32.74%
13: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 33.01%
14: Paul Hsieh <>.............................. .. : 33.91%
15: Mark McIntyre <>.............. . : 35.66%
16: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 37.16%
17: Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSzaw==?= <>............ : 37.38%
18: santosh <>........................... ..... : 38.47%
19: user923005 <>............................... .. : 38.72%
20: jacob navia <>................................ . : 41.08%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: seg fault............................................. ......... : 87
2: How to transfer an address value without using pointers........ : 76
3: Getting the file name from a FILE *............................ : 44
4: How come C allow structure members to be addressed like an arra : 39
5: decrementing arrays............................................ : 38
6: Slightly OT: Compilation question.............................. : 34
7: Pedants........................................... ............. : 32
8: Do memory allocations need to be freeed every time?............ : 28
9: how to organize my main file ?................................. : 28
10: print binary............................................ ....... : 27
11: fopen............................................. ............. : 25
12: how to put 8 "int" => 10100010 into one character of type "char : 25
13: Reading .ini files in ANSI C................................... : 25
14: check if a double is odd or not................................ : 24
15: Help avoid goto.............................................. .. : 23
16: Alignment on stack arrays...................................... : 19
17: newbee help : parser in C...................................... : 19
18: How come C allow structure members to be addressed like an arra : 19
19: CPU temperature....................................... ......... : 19
20: extract all hotmail email addresses in a file and store in sepa : 18

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: seg fault............................................. ......... : 218
2: How to transfer an address value without using pointers........ : 208
3: Slightly OT: Compilation question.............................. : 117
4: How come C allow structure members to be addressed like an arra : 99
5: Getting the file name from a FILE *............................ : 94
6: decrementing arrays............................................ : 75
7: Pedants........................................... ............. : 74
8: Do memory allocations need to be freeed every time?............ : 70
9: how to organize my main file ?................................. : 66
10: comp.lang.c Answers (Abridged) to Frequently Asked Questions (F : 60
11: Reading .ini files in ANSI C................................... : 58
12: print binary............................................ ....... : 56
13: How come C allow structure members to be addressed like an arra : 54
14: how to put 8 "int" => 10100010 into one character of type "char : 52
15: extract all hotmail email addresses in a file and store in sepa : 50
16: In 3 moves, where can the knight go?........................... : 49
17: fopen............................................. ............. : 46
18: newbee help : parser in C...................................... : 43
19: Help avoid goto.............................................. .. : 41
20: Alignment on stack arrays...................................... : 40

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.compilers.lcc................................ ............. : 44
2: comp.lang.c++..................................... ............. : 40
3: comp.lang.perl.misc............................... ............. : 28
4: alt.sex.movies.................................... ............. : 4
5: soc.men........................................... ............. : 4
6: alt.crusade.anti-pornography................................... : 4
7: alt.sex.masturbation.............................. ............. : 4
8: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 3
9: fr.comp.lang.c.................................... ............. : 2
10: comp.answers...................................... ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 65
2: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421)........................ : 13
3: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 13
4: Pan............................................... ............. : 11
5: rn................................................ ............. : 11
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 8
7: KNode............................................. ............. : 8
8: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 6
9: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 4
10: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505)............................ : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 282 (27%)
2: KNode............................................. ........ : 140 (13%)
3: Outlook Express........................................... : 114 (11%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 66 ( 6%)
5: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 62 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows............................. : 61 ( 6%)
7: Emacs 22.2.1............................................ .. : 53 ( 5%)
8: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11................................. : 45 ( 4%)
9: Pan............................................... ........ : 38 ( 4%)
10: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 38 ( 4%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 348
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 243
3: +0200............................................. ............. : 165
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 101
5: +0530............................................. ............. : 77
6: +0100............................................. ............. : 77
7: +1200............................................. ............. : 16
8: +0200 (CEST)............................................ ....... : 11
9: -0500.............................................. ............ : 8
10: +0900............................................. ............. : 2

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