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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: 848 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Sep 27 20:08:02 2008
Latest article: Sat Oct 4 20:04:04 2008
Original articles: 65, replies: 783
Total size of posts: 2,197,448 bytes (2,145K) (2.10M)
Average 121 articles per day, 0.30 MB per day, 2,591 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,019 KB bodies: 1,126 KB
Body text - quoted: 493 KB, original: 511 KB = 50.86%, sigs: 118 KB
Total number of posters: 142, average 15,474 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 87, average 25,258 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 32

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 82
2: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 55
3: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 35
4: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 33
5: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 31
6: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 29
7: ............................................. : 26
8: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 25
9: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 21
10: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 19
11: ........................................ : 17
12: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 17
13: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 16
14: ............................................... : 16
15: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 16
16: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 15
17: mdh <>................................ ......... : 15
18: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 14
19: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 14
20: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 14

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Top 20 posters by average article size in bytes (at least 5 posts)
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1: ............................................... : 4396
2: "Robbie Hatley" <>............................ : 4010
3: ........................................ : 3290
4: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 3275
5: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 3038
6: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 2919
7: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 2862
8: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2857
9: Why Tea <>................................ ..... : 2766
10: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 2740
11: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 2728
12: Jack Klein <>........................... .. : 2681
13: Martien Verbruggen <>................... : 2644
14: Martin Ambuhl <>......................... . : 2612
15: Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSzaw==?= <>............ : 2607
16: ............................................. : 2585
17: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 2553
18: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 2542
19: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 2475
20: Nate Eldredge <>............................... . : 2466

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: "Robbie Hatley" <>............................ : 87.52%
2: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 80.30%
3: ........................................... : 70.51%
4: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 67.11%
5: Tinkertim <>............................. ... : 66.12%
6: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 65.83%
7: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 65.51%
8: Martin Ambuhl <>......................... . : 63.17%
9: William Pursell <>....................... : 61.09%
10: (Richard Bos)....................... : 60.33%
11: ........................................ : 59.92%
12: ..................................... : 59.84%
13: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 59.52%
14: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 59.32%
15: Nate Eldredge <>............................... . : 57.35%
16: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 55.66%
17: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 54.82%
18: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 51.13%
19: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 48.14%
20: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 47.06%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 19.40%
2: "Default User" <>....................... : 26.25%
3: "Joachim Schmitz" <>............. : 27.45%
4: ............................................... : 28.25%
5: ............................................. : 28.99%
6: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 32.36%
7: Chris Dollin <>........................... .. : 33.49%
8: Harald van =?UTF-8?b?RMSzaw==?= <>............ : 34.33%
9: Why Tea <>................................ ..... : 34.90%
10: pete <>.......................... ........ : 36.11%
11: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 36.65%
12: jacob navia <>................................ . : 36.69%
13: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 37.06%
14: mdh <>................................ ......... : 37.95%
15: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 39.70%
16: "Bartc" <>................................... ..... : 41.78%
17: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 44.42%
18: Martien Verbruggen <>................... : 44.72%
19: Jack Klein <>........................... .. : 44.78%
20: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 46.52%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: good c compiler.......................................... ...... : 68
2: Memory allocation for an initialized character pointer;........ : 65
3: code.............................................. ............. : 57
4: Memory alignment......................................... ...... : 42
5: 99 ^ 99 in C................................................. .. : 34
6: can someone help me how to compile this program??.............. : 31
7: void pointer........................................... ........ : 28
8: Initializing compound type containing opaque type.............. : 28
9: input word.............................................. ....... : 28
10: p 161...File access............................................ : 22
11: function definition........................................ .... : 21
12: Casting the return value of malloc() ?......................... : 20
13: Random integer program: critique?.............................. : 20
14: How to generate random number between two numbers.............. : 19
15: Size of file.............................................. ..... : 19
16: More Macro questions......................................... .. : 17
17: Bit shifting past length of type............................... : 15
18: GMP Library and POWER.......................................... : 15
19: Pointer Arithmetic Problem..................................... : 14
20: Any way to take a word as input from stdin ?................... : 14

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Memory allocation for an initialized character pointer;........ : 240
2: good c compiler.......................................... ...... : 183
3: code.............................................. ............. : 122
4: Memory alignment......................................... ...... : 104
5: 99 ^ 99 in C................................................. .. : 90
6: void pointer........................................... ........ : 66
7: Initializing compound type containing opaque type.............. : 64
8: can someone help me how to compile this program??.............. : 64
9: input word.............................................. ....... : 60
10: comp.lang.c Answers (Abridged) to Frequently Asked Questions (F : 60
11: Random integer program: critique?.............................. : 58
12: p 161...File access............................................ : 53
13: function definition........................................ .... : 51
14: Casting the return value of malloc() ?......................... : 50
15: Any way to take a word as input from stdin ?................... : 48
16: More Macro questions......................................... .. : 44
17: How to generate random number between two numbers.............. : 38
18: Size of file.............................................. ..... : 37
19: Static function prototype...................................... : 36
20: Bit shifting past length of type............................... : 35

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Top 7 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c.moderated............................. ............. : 3
2: comp.answers...................................... ............. : 2
3: news.answers...................................... ............. : 2
4: comp.lang.java.programmer......................... ............. : 1
5: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets..................... : 1
6: comp.lang.cobol................................... ............. : 1
7: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html............................ : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 61
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 15
3: rn................................................ ............. : 14
4: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 9
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914)........................ : 7
6: Unknown........................................... ............. : 6
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 5
8: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 4
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080925)............................ : 4
10: KNode............................................. ............. : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 247 (29%)
2: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 135 (16%)
3: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 63 ( 7%)
4: KNode............................................. ........ : 63 ( 7%)
5: Outlook Express........................................... : 60 ( 7%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 32 ( 4%)
7: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows............................. : 31 ( 4%)
8: slrn.............................................. ........ : 31 ( 4%)
9: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 30 ( 4%)
10: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 28 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 375
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 172
3: -0400.............................................. ............ : 104
4: +0100............................................. ............. : 75
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 49
6: -0500.............................................. ............ : 23
7: +0500............................................. ............. : 17
8: +1300............................................. ............. : 16
9: +1000............................................. ............. : 9
10: +0300............................................. ............. : 3

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