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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: 1,073 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Sep 20 20:08:02 2008
Latest article: Sat Sep 27 20:04:04 2008
Original articles: 63, replies: 1,010
Total size of posts: 2,714,682 bytes (2,651K) (2.59M)
Average 153 articles per day, 0.37 MB per day, 2,529 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,304 KB bodies: 1,346 KB
Body text - quoted: 648 KB, original: 594 KB = 47.83%, sigs: 97 KB
Total number of posters: 149, average 18,219 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 90, average 30,163 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Richard<>......................... ............. : 86
2: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 79
3: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 72
4: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 55
5: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 48
6: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 43
7: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 40
8: ........................................ : 35
9: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 32
10: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 31
11: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 27
12: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 25
13: Chris Dollin <>........................... .. : 22
14: ............................................. : 21
15: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 20
16: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 18
17: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 17
18: jacob navia <>................................ . : 17
19: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 16
20: Amkcoder <>................ .... : 14

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Top 20 posters by average article size in bytes (at least 5 posts)
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1: Chad <>............................... ........ : 4460
2: Amkcoder <>................ .... : 3692
3: ........................................ : 3294
4: "lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com" <>.... : 3192
5: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 3188
6: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 3033
7: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 3024
8: ............................................... : 3006
9: (Richard Harter).................................. : 2889
10: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 2831
11: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 2827
12: jleslie48 <>.......................... ... : 2799
13: Chris Dollin <>........................... .. : 2751
14: Richard<>......................... ............. : 2721
15: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2716
16: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 2671
17: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 2658
18: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 2642
19: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 2571
20: David Thompson <>.................... : 2544

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: "Andrea Taverna (Tavs)" <>..................... : 69.90%
2: ..................................... : 68.71%
3: Martin Ambuhl <>......................... . : 66.96%
4: jleslie48 <>.......................... ... : 63.14%
5: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 62.84%
6: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 62.56%
7: David Thompson <>.................... : 61.44%
8: MisterE <>............................. ..... : 59.82%
9: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 58.39%
10: ........................................ : 57.73%
11: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 56.04%
12: Ben Pfaff <>............................. ... : 55.80%
13: (Richard Bos)....................... : 54.28%
14: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 53.64%
15: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 52.00%
16: mdh <>................................ ......... : 51.81%
17: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 51.54%
18: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 51.07%
19: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 50.85%
20: jacob navia <>................................ . : 50.23%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Chad <>............................... ........ : 16.72%
2: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 22.03%
3: pete <>.......................... ........ : 27.40%
4: Sjouke Burry <>............ .. : 27.57%
5: ............................................... : 28.24%
6: Richard<>......................... ............. : 29.96%
7: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 31.88%
8: August Karlstrom <>........................ : 31.96%
9: ............................................. : 34.28%
10: "lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com" <>.... : 34.55%
11: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 36.78%
12: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 37.06%
13: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 37.12%
14: "" <>.... : 37.48%
15: Amkcoder <>................ .... : 38.43%
16: Chris Dollin <>........................... .. : 42.42%
17: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 44.35%
18: Trent Josephsen <>........................ : 44.96%
19: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 46.42%
20: (Richard Harter).................................. : 48.24%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Highly efficient string reversal code.......................... : 131
2: good c compiler.......................................... ...... : 96
3: Good Tutorials......................................... ........ : 94
4: A very **very** basic question................................. : 61
5: question.......................................... ............. : 49
6: Comment Style............................................. ..... : 46
7: Any way to take a word as input from stdin ?................... : 41
8: "Continue" usage............................................. .. : 39
9: writing cgi programs in c: the system() call................... : 37
10: code question.......................................... ........ : 36
11: use assert and defensive together.............................. : 31
12: c program........................................... ........... : 22
13: What's the position of pointers................................ : 19
14: the code of two-way linked list failed to be compiled.......... : 18
15: prob with int**............................................. ... : 15
16: a problem about windows memory................................. : 14
17: generation of Apocalyptic number............................... : 14
18: const char*............................................. ....... : 13
19: Alignment issues -- are they an issue?......................... : 12
20: help needed............................................ ........ : 12

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Highly efficient string reversal code.......................... : 314
2: Good Tutorials......................................... ........ : 309
3: good c compiler.......................................... ...... : 241
4: A very **very** basic question................................. : 128
5: "Continue" usage............................................. .. : 118
6: Any way to take a word as input from stdin ?................... : 117
7: Comment Style............................................. ..... : 104
8: use assert and defensive together.............................. : 94
9: code question.......................................... ........ : 91
10: writing cgi programs in c: the system() call................... : 89
11: question.......................................... ............. : 85
12: What's the position of pointers................................ : 58
13: generation of Apocalyptic number............................... : 42
14: the code of two-way linked list failed to be compiled.......... : 41
15: c program........................................... ........... : 40
16: UDB and pointer increments and decrements...................... : 38
17: Confusion in ANSI C's function concepts........................ : 33
18: prob with int**............................................. ... : 32
19: Alignment issues -- are they an issue?......................... : 32
20: const char*............................................. ....... : 28

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.comp.freeware................................. ............. : 11
2: comp.lang.python.................................. ............. : 10
3: sci.electronics.design............................ ............. : 10
4: comp.lang.java.programmer......................... ............. : 8
5: microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp.......... ............. : 4
6: comp.os.linux.development.apps.................... ............. : 3
7: comp.programming.threads.......................... ............. : 3
8: comp.lang.c++..................................... ............. : 3
9: comp.unix.programmer.............................. ............. : 3
10: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets..................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 69
2: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/2008070........................ : 11
3: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 8
4: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 7
5: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
6: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 7
7: rn................................................ ............. : 7
8: Pan............................................... ............. : 6
9: KNode............................................. ............. : 5
10: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 269 (25%)
2: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 137 (13%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 117 (11%)
4: KNode............................................. ........ : 88 ( 8%)
5: Emacs 22.2.1............................................ .. : 87 ( 8%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 53 ( 5%)
7: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 46 ( 4%)
8: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 41 ( 4%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11................................. : 31 ( 3%)
10: Outlook Express........................................... : 29 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 387
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 182
3: +0200............................................. ............. : 139
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 136
5: +0100............................................. ............. : 132
6: +1200............................................. ............. : 31
7: -0500.............................................. ............ : 26
8: +0500............................................. ............. : 20
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 11
10: +0900............................................. ............. : 4

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