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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: 948 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Aug 1 20:08:03 2009
Latest article: Sat Aug 8 20:04:05 2009
Original articles: 44, replies: 904
Total size of posts: 2,793,193 bytes (2,727K) (2.66M)
Average 135 articles per day, 0.38 MB per day, 2,946 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,261 KB bodies: 1,466 KB
Body text - quoted: 749 KB, original: 657 KB = 46.76%, sigs: 56 KB
Total number of posters: 143, average 19,532 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 72, average 38,794 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 33

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 108
2: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 58
3: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 54
4: "Chris M. Thomasson" <>......................... : 36
5: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 35
6: "Tech07" <>............................... .... : 30
7: "io_x" <>................................... ...... : 30
8: pete <>.......................... ........ : 26
9: (Richard Bos)................................ : 25
10: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 22
11: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 22
12: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 20
13: luserXtrog <>............................... .. : 19
14: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 18
15: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 18
16: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 17
17: user923005 <>............................... .. : 16
18: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 16
19: phil-news-...................................... : 15
20: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 15

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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 5 posts)
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 4362
2: "Chris M. Thomasson" <>......................... : 3819
3: "" <>........ : 3697
4: jameskuyper <>......................... . : 3678
5: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 3672
6: Preston <>.............................. ..... : 3515
7: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 3504
8: phil-news-...................................... : 3497
9: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 3318
10: "Tech07" <>............................... .... : 3293
11: luserXtrog <>............................... .. : 3197
12: "io_x" <>................................... ...... : 3145
13: Stefano Teso <>........ .. : 3014
14: user923005 <>............................... .. : 2998
15: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 2992
16: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 2941
17: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 2870
18: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 2810
19: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 2753
20: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2646

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 78.57%
2: matt <>................................... ........ : 78.00%
3: "Ant" <>.................................. ....... : 68.89%
4: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 68.44%
5: Rafael Anschau <>...................... : 67.91%
6: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 66.82%
7: Stefano Teso <>........ .. : 66.74%
8: "" <>........ : 65.07%
9: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 60.46%
10: "io_x" <>................................... ...... : 59.40%
11: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 59.19%
12: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 54.97%
13: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 54.74%
14: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 53.57%
15: jameskuyper <>......................... . : 51.50%
16: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 51.12%
17: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 50.74%
18: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 50.64%
19: (Richard Bos)................................ : 47.15%
20: "Chris M. Thomasson" <>......................... : 46.40%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Preston <>.............................. ..... : 10.33%
2: "Tech07" <>............................... .... : 18.58%
3: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 21.50%
4: superpollo <>................................ .. : 22.95%
5: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 30.27%
6: pete <>.......................... ........ : 31.52%
7: Frank <>.............................. : 33.08%
8: "Default User" <>....................... : 33.37%
9: arnuld <>......................... ...... : 34.24%
10: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 35.03%
11: (Richard Harter).................................. : 36.82%
12: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 38.35%
13: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 38.40%
14: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 38.82%
15: Kenneth Brody <>.......................... . : 40.38%
16: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 42.04%
17: luserXtrog <>............................... .. : 43.75%
18: user923005 <>............................... .. : 44.43%
19: InuY4sha <>.............................. .... : 44.51%
20: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 45.56%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Return of spinoza1111....................................... ... : 143
2: Zero terminated strings........................................ : 99
3: Is C99 C?................................................ ...... : 59
4: Rounding error when converting from double to int.............. : 47
5: OT impending lunar eclipse and ABQ............................. : 37
6: Best free C compiler for Windows, please....................... : 36
7: New release of the Dynace OO extension to C.................... : 30
8: Dr Dobbs snippet........................................... .... : 26
9: Comparing pointers to NULL..................................... : 25
10: fclose() after getline() function.............................. : 23
11: LIFO in C, need your suggestions............................... : 22
12: passing variable number of arguments to a function............. : 22
13: Code Review - is this code ****................................ : 21
14: Can C do it ?................................................. . : 21
15: casts............................................. ............. : 19
16: sizeof operator in C........................................... : 18
17: Is this code totaly a shit2?................................... : 18
18: Why C is really a bad programming language..................... : 16
19: Computing a distance matrix using SSE2......................... : 16
20: Error checking for atan2()?.................................... : 15

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Return of spinoza1111....................................... ... : 496
2: Zero terminated strings........................................ : 328
3: Is C99 C?................................................ ...... : 171
4: Rounding error when converting from double to int.............. : 158
5: New release of the Dynace OO extension to C.................... : 99
6: Code Review - is this code ****................................ : 98
7: OT impending lunar eclipse and ABQ............................. : 84
8: Best free C compiler for Windows, please....................... : 84
9: LIFO in C, need your suggestions............................... : 71
10: Can C do it ?................................................. . : 62
11: casts............................................. ............. : 58
12: fclose() after getline() function.............................. : 58
13: Comparing pointers to NULL..................................... : 52
14: passing variable number of arguments to a function............. : 51
15: Dr Dobbs snippet........................................... .... : 51
16: Why C is really a bad programming language..................... : 46
17: Computing a distance matrix using SSE2......................... : 44
18: sizeof operator in C........................................... : 40
19: linked-list entirely in macros................................. : 38
20: "regulars" do not use debuggers................................ : 38

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Top 5 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 142
2: comp.lang.misc.................................... ............. : 30
3: comp.lang.c++..................................... ............. : 30
4: comp.lang.asm.x86................................. ............. : 16
5: sci.math.num-analysis.......................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 47
2: rn................................................ ............. : 17
3: Unknown........................................... ............. : 15
4: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 10
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605)........................ : 8
6: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 6
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 6
8: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 5
9: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 4
10: KNode............................................. ............. : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 307 (32%)
2: Outlook Express........................................... : 129 (14%)
3: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 104 (11%)
4: KNode............................................. ........ : 63 ( 7%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 59 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows............................. : 46 ( 5%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 40 ( 4%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 32 ( 3%)
9: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 30 ( 3%)
10: slrn.............................................. ........ : 20 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.............................................. ............ : 423
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 223
3: +0100............................................. ............. : 91
4: -0400.............................................. ............ : 75
5: +0200............................................. ............. : 55
6: -0500.............................................. ............ : 45
7: +0300............................................. ............. : 22
8: -0600.............................................. ............ : 11
9: +0530............................................. ............. : 2
10: +0200 (CEST)............................................ ....... : 1

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