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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: 45,433 over 365 days
Earliest article: Thu Jan 1 00:04:03 2009
Latest article: Thu Dec 31 22:04:04 2009
Original articles: 2,791, replies: 42,642
Total size of posts: 121,419,233 bytes (118,573K) (115.79M)
Average 124 articles per day, 0.32 MB per day, 2,672 bytes per article
Total headers: 56,229 KB bodies: 62,344 KB
Body text - quoted: 29,101 KB, original: 28,492 KB = 49.47%, sigs: 4,522 KB
Total number of posters: 2,388, average 50,845 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 3,166, average 38,350 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 118
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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 3173
2: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 2692
3: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 1384
4: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 1325
5: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 1244
6: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 1163
7: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 992
8: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 934
9: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 906
10: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 873
11:
(Richard Bos)................................ : 731
12: jacob navia <>................................ . : 705
13: Han from China <autistic->................. : 690
14: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 689
15:
(Kenny McCormack)................... : 676
16:
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17: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 570
18: jameskuyper <>......................... . : 563
19: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 544
20: pete <>.......................... ........ : 522
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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 200 posts)
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1: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 4789
2: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 4131
3: Tim Rentsch <>......................... . : 3729
4: user923005 <>............................... .. : 3579
5: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 3185
6: Stephen Sprunk <>............................ : 3174
7: luserXtrog <>............................... .. : 3139
8:
(Richard Harter).................................. : 3136
9: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 3113
10: "Tony" <>..................................... ...... : 3030
11: Tim Rentsch <>.......................... . : 3029
12: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 3002
13: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 2996
14: jameskuyper <>......................... . : 2995
15: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2961
16: "io_x" <>................................... ...... : 2844
17: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 2776
18: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 2767
19: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 2765
20: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 2751
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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 200 posts)
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1: Han from China - Master Troll <autistic->.. : 81.94%
2: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 76.81%
3: Han from China <autistic->................. : 72.61%
4: Antoninus Twink <>........................ : 67.30%
5: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 63.77%
6:
(Richard Tobin)........................ : 62.17%
7: "io_x" <>................................... ...... : 61.85%
8: "Malcolm McLean" <>.................... : 60.85%
9: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 60.47%
10: jacob navia <>................................ . : 57.55%
11: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 56.90%
12: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 56.74%
13: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 53.54%
14: Ben Pfaff <>............................. ... : 52.95%
15: jameskuyper <>......................... . : 52.59%
16: James Kuyper <>....................... .. : 52.21%
17: "Chris M. Thomasson" <>......................... : 51.95%
18: Eric Sosman <>............................. . : 51.05%
19: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 51.03%
20:
(Kenny McCormack)................... : 50.78%
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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 200 posts)
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1: Ian Collins <ian->............................. : 22.41%
2: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 23.96%
3: "Tech07" <>............................... .... : 28.26%
4: Golden California Girls <>............... : 30.06%
5: pete <>.......................... ........ : 30.78%
6: Phil Carmody <>............... .. : 31.56%
7: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 32.00%
8:
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9: Tim Rentsch <>.......................... . : 33.69%
10: CBFalconer <>............................ .. : 33.77%
11: Tim Rentsch <>......................... . : 33.97%
12: luserXtrog <>............................... .. : 36.26%
13: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 36.51%
14: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 37.52%
15: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 37.63%
16: "Tony" <>..................................... ...... : 37.68%
17:
(Richard Bos)................................ : 39.37%
18:
(blargg).............................. : 41.75%
19: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 41.86%
20: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 42.91%
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Float comparison........................................ ....... : 1067
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 800
3: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 571
4: Null terminated strings: bad or good?.......................... : 355
5: On the development of C........................................ : 297
6: New release of the Dynace OO extension to C.................... : 295
7: A C showstopper....................................... ......... : 249
8: Common misconceptions about C (C95)............................ : 234
9: detab utility challenge........................................ : 233
10: Another spinoza challenge...................................... : 232
11: C vs. C++............................................... ....... : 224
12: Zero terminated strings........................................ : 196
13: A C Adventure: your comments are welcome....................... : 190
14: Casting the return value of malloc()........................... : 188
15: Code Review - is this code ****................................ : 187
16: What is the gain of "inline"................................... : 186
17: A doubly linked-list in C...................................... : 179
18: pre-requestie for learning C................................... : 175
19: A lurker's take on C.L.C pedantry.............................. : 173
20: C as a scripting language...................................... : 172
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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Float comparison........................................ ....... : 3089
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 2753
3: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 2302
4: New release of the Dynace OO extension to C.................... : 1056
5: Null terminated strings: bad or good?.......................... : 976
6: Stats for comp.lang.c (last 7 days)............................ : 822
7: detab utility challenge........................................ : 805
8: On the development of C........................................ : 760
9: Another spinoza challenge...................................... : 731
10: A C Adventure: your comments are welcome....................... : 722
11: A C showstopper....................................... ......... : 680
12: Code Review - is this code ****................................ : 663
13: C vs. C++............................................... ....... : 618
14: Zero terminated strings........................................ : 583
15: Comparision of C Sharp and C performance....................... : 565
16: Common misconceptions about C (C95)............................ : 557
17: Return of spinoza1111....................................... ... : 509
18: A doubly linked-list in C...................................... : 506
19: Casting the return value of malloc()........................... : 502
20: Statement on Schildt submitted to wikipedia today.............. : 496
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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c++..................................... ............. : 665
2: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 639
3: microsoft.public.vc.language...................... ............. : 405
4: comp.lang.misc.................................... ............. : 370
5: comp.std.c........................................ ............. : 356
6: comp.os.linux.development.apps.................... ............. : 343
7: comp.os.linux.advocacy............................ ............. : 315
8: comp.lang.fortran................................. ............. : 257
9: comp.arch.embedded................................ ............. : 227
10: comp.lang.lisp.................................... ............. : 208
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 1293
2: rn................................................ ............. : 261
3: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 100
4: Unknown........................................... ............. : 97
5: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 70
6: Pan............................................... ............. : 59
7: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 54
8: KNode............................................. ............. : 48
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 46
10: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 43
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 10358 (23%)
2: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 8144 (18%)
3: KNode............................................. ........ : 3340 ( 7%)
4: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 2974 ( 7%)
5: Outlook Express........................................... : 2484 ( 5%)
6: slrn.............................................. ........ : 2392 ( 5%)
7: unknown........................................... ........ : 2204 ( 5%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 1789 ( 4%)
9: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 1257 ( 3%)
10: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 1083 ( 2%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................... ............. : 13561
2: -0700.............................................. ............ : 11389
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 5477
4: +0100............................................. ............. : 4162
5: -0500.............................................. ............ : 3108
6: -0400.............................................. ............ : 2770
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 2284
8: -0600.............................................. ............ : 1219
9: +0300............................................. ............. : 575
10: +1300............................................. ............. : 291
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