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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: 3,031 over 31 days
Earliest article: Mon Nov 30 23:08:03 2009
Latest article: Thu Dec 31 22:04:04 2009
Original articles: 239, replies: 2,792
Total size of posts: 8,241,121 bytes (8,047K) (7.86M)
Average 97 articles per day, 0.25 MB per day, 2,718 bytes per article
Total headers: 3,731 KB bodies: 4,316 KB
Body text - quoted: 2,026 KB, original: 1,990 KB = 49.55%, sigs: 286 KB
Total number of posters: 275, average 29,967 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 285, average 28,916 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 41

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 163
2: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 161
3: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 147
4: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 118
5: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 99
6: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 90
7: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 88
8: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 82
9: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 78
10: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 74
11: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 73
12: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 70
13: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 68
14: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 62
15: jacob navia <>................................ . : 61
16: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 53
17: (Stefan Ram)............................ : 50
18: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 48
19: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 48
20: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 41

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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 20 posts)
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 4945
2: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 4094
3: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 3585
4: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 3225
5: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 3006
6: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 2991
7: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 2880
8: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 2815
9: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 2747
10: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2713
11: James Dow Allen <>........................ : 2661
12: Michael Foukarakis <>................... : 2643
13: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 2630
14: Tim Streater <>...................... .. : 2597
15: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 2568
16: (Stefan Ram)............................ : 2543
17: Kenneth Brody <>.......................... . : 2531
18: pete <>.......................... ........ : 2519
19: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 2483
20: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 2401

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 20 posts)
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1: (Stefan Ram)............................ : 82.65%
2: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 74.48%
3: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 70.94%
4: Gareth Owen <>................................ . : 70.14%
5: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 68.19%
6: James Dow Allen <>........................ : 64.62%
7: gwowen <>................................ ...... : 64.33%
8: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 61.53%
9: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 60.03%
10: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 59.57%
11: Ben Pfaff <>............................. ... : 57.88%
12: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 56.54%
13: jacob navia <>................................ . : 55.79%
14: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 54.26%
15: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 53.96%
16: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 49.65%
17: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 48.54%
18: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 47.88%
19: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 47.05%
20: jacob navia <>.............................. . : 46.89%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 20 posts)
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1: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 20.78%
2: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 21.03%
3: Tim Streater <>...................... .. : 24.24%
4: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 28.83%
5: Michael Foukarakis <>................... : 29.78%
6: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 31.05%
7: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 31.06%
8: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 34.87%
9: pete <>.......................... ........ : 35.26%
10: Nick <3->....................... : 37.37%
11: Frank <>........................... ....... : 38.06%
12: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 38.65%
13: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 39.79%
14: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 41.32%
15: "Dik T. Winter" <>............................ : 43.03%
16: Peter Nilsson <>............................. . : 43.40%
17: Kenneth Brody <>.......................... . : 43.77%
18: jacob navia <>.............................. . : 46.89%
19: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 47.05%
20: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 47.88%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: What is the gain of "inline"................................... : 186
2: Comparision of C Sharp and C performance....................... : 139
3: sequence points in subexpressions.............................. : 134
4: While(1) or for(; for infinite loops?........................ : 131
5: Advanced data structures....................................... : 100
6: Why is it "mov eax, 25h" in the first line of NtCreateFile?.... : 98
7: Advacnced C................................................. ... : 97
8: API Design............................................ ......... : 94
9: Void Main?............................................. ........ : 73
10: assert in C................................................. ... : 71
11: Questions about pointer comparisons............................ : 62
12: Difference between Cygwin and DOS handling of string input..... : 62
13: Is C good enough - or can the world survive w/o OOP............ : 52
14: How to know whether a dll is in use............................ : 50
15: dice generator problems........................................ : 50
16: Fn Defn Style............................................. ..... : 49
17: herding the bits of a float into an integer array.............. : 49
18: efficient approach to check a set bit.......................... : 46
19: how to know local port used in an udp client ?................. : 31
20: In the matter of Herb Schildt.................................. : 30

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Comparision of C Sharp and C performance....................... : 565
2: What is the gain of "inline"................................... : 467
3: sequence points in subexpressions.............................. : 380
4: While(1) or for(; for infinite loops?........................ : 312
5: API Design............................................ ......... : 301
6: Advanced data structures....................................... : 248
7: Advacnced C................................................. ... : 247
8: Void Main?............................................. ........ : 221
9: assert in C................................................. ... : 210
10: Why is it "mov eax, 25h" in the first line of NtCreateFile?.... : 209
11: Difference between Cygwin and DOS handling of string input..... : 162
12: Questions about pointer comparisons............................ : 156
13: Fn Defn Style............................................. ..... : 140
14: Is C good enough - or can the world survive w/o OOP............ : 135
15: In the matter of Herb Schildt.................................. : 121
16: herding the bits of a float into an integer array.............. : 115
17: dice generator problems........................................ : 111
18: Richard Heathfield's lie....................................... : 109
19: efficient approach to check a set bit.......................... : 107
20: Queue question wih dyn mem alloc............................... : 103

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 104
2: comp.lang.c.moderated............................. ............. : 41
3: comp.lang.misc.................................... ............. : 18
4: alt.lang.asm...................................... ............. : 11
5: sci.math.......................................... ............. : 10
6: comp.os.linux.development.apps.................... ............. : 9
7: news.software.readers............................. ............. : 9
8: comp.unix.programmer.............................. ............. : 9
9: comp.graphics.misc................................ ............. : 8
10: sci.crypt......................................... ............. : 8

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 130
2: rn................................................ ............. : 19
3: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 17
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 16
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 13
6: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 12
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 11
8: Unknown........................................... ............. : 10
9: KNode............................................. ............. : 10
10: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 6

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 795 (26%)
2: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 544 (18%)
3: slrn.............................................. ........ : 315 (10%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 256 ( 8%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 213 ( 7%)
6: Outlook Express........................................... : 160 ( 5%)
7: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 136 ( 4%)
8: KNode............................................. ........ : 111 ( 4%)
9: unknown........................................... ........ : 93 ( 3%)
10: Pan............................................... ........ : 76 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 1087
2: -0800.............................................. ............ : 1045
3: +0100............................................. ............. : 346
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 252
5: -0600.............................................. ............ : 88
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 61
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 57
8: +1300............................................. ............. : 48
9: +0800............................................. ............. : 32
10: +0700............................................. ............. : 4

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