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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: 660 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Dec 26 20:08:05 2009
Latest article: Sat Jan 2 20:04:05 2010
Original articles: 47, replies: 613
Total size of posts: 2,218,076 bytes (2,166K) (2.12M)
Average 94 articles per day, 0.30 MB per day, 3,360 bytes per article
Total headers: 867 KB bodies: 1,298 KB
Body text - quoted: 615 KB, original: 569 KB = 48.09%, sigs: 109 KB
Total number of posters: 106, average 20,925 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 67, average 33,105 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: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 105
2: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 55
3: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 39
4: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 27
5: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 23
6: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 21
7: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 18
8: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 17
9: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 14
10: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 12
11: Moi <>........................ ......... : 12
12: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 11
13: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 11
14: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 10
15: Nick <3->....................... : 10
16: jacob navia <>................................ . : 10
17: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 10
18: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 9
19: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 9
20: Duke Normandin <>......................... : 8

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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 5 posts)
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1: cerr <>............................ ........ : 6883
2: (Richard Harter).................................. : 6471
3: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 5438
4: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 4224
5: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 3977
6: Francis Glassborow <>......... : 3681
7: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 3679
8: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 3675
9: Moi <>........................ ......... : 3154
10: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 2985
11: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 2942
12: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 2899
13: Michael Foukarakis <>................... : 2843
14: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 2760
15: stan <>................................. ........ : 2706
16: "Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub->.............. : 2681
17: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 2639
18: Joe Wright <>.......................... .. : 2633
19: Duke Normandin <>......................... : 2627
20: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 2596

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Gareth Owen <>................................ . : 81.18%
2: .......................................... : 78.21%
3: (Stefan Ram)............................ : 77.43%
4: Nobody <>.............................. ...... : 70.88%
5: Beej Jorgensen <>.................................. : 70.59%
6: jacob navia <>................................ . : 67.18%
7: "BGB / cr88192" <>.......................... : 65.01%
8: (Richard Tobin)........................ : 62.04%
9: Seebs <usenet->................................ : 59.76%
10: Kaz Kylheku <>.............................. . : 59.73%
11: "Bill Cunningham" <>....................... : 58.25%
12: Julienne Walker <>...................... : 57.56%
13: (Kenny McCormack)................... : 54.27%
14: Eric Sosman <>..................... : 51.93%
15: Tom St Denis <>................................... .. : 51.50%
16: Richard Heathfield <>....................... : 50.29%
17: Keith Thompson <kst->................................. : 48.57%
18: jacob navia <>.............................. . : 47.84%
19: Francis Glassborow <>......... : 46.45%
20: "Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub->.............. : 46.38%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Michael Foukarakis <>................... : 12.59%
2: pete <>.......................... ........ : 20.13%
3: (Richard Harter).................................. : 20.35%
4: Joe Wright <>.......................... .. : 21.20%
5: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>............................... ..... : 23.85%
6: Simon P Simonson <>........................... : 24.50%
7: Barry Schwarz <>............................. . : 26.62%
8: Walter Banks <>.......................... .. : 28.43%
9: Nick Keighley <>.............. . : 28.79%
10: Duke Normandin <>......................... : 31.71%
11: Moi <>........................ ......... : 32.57%
12: spinoza1111 <>........................... . : 35.53%
13: Francois Grieu <>.............................. : 36.35%
14: "bartc" <>................................ ..... : 38.79%
15: cerr <>............................ ........ : 39.97%
16: Flash Gordon <>........................ .. : 40.62%
17: Nick <3->....................... : 43.31%
18: stan <>................................. ........ : 44.15%
19: Ben Bacarisse <>.......................... . : 45.97%
20: "Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub->.............. : 46.38%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Comparision of C Sharp and C performance....................... : 187
2: assert in C................................................. ... : 66
3: Is C good enough - or can the world survive w/o OOP............ : 57
4: driver............................................ ............. : 21
5: Pointers and Allocated Memory.................................. : 21
6: malloc() execution time?....................................... : 19
7: Queue question wih dyn mem alloc............................... : 16
8: C Noob looking for open-source project......................... : 16
9: +1 an invalid constant expression.............................. : 15
10: [Q] UB query............................................. ...... : 15
11: Void Main?............................................. ........ : 14
12: qsort needs one more argument.................................. : 13
13: Int promotion......................................... ......... : 13
14: inline function or macro?...................................... : 13
15: Richard Heathfield's lie....................................... : 11
16: Container library (continued).................................. : 11
17: Advancing past the last element of an array.................... : 11
18: C is NOT significantly more efficient than C Sharp............. : 9
19: Naming variables......................................... ...... : 9
20: sizeof() structure member...................................... : 8

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Comparision of C Sharp and C performance....................... : 787
2: assert in C................................................. ... : 198
3: Is C good enough - or can the world survive w/o OOP............ : 147
4: Queue question wih dyn mem alloc............................... : 103
5: Void Main?............................................. ........ : 55
6: The True Religion.......................................... .... : 50
7: Pointers and Allocated Memory.................................. : 49
8: driver............................................ ............. : 46
9: C is NOT significantly more efficient than C Sharp............. : 44
10: Richard Heathfield's lie....................................... : 41
11: malloc() execution time?....................................... : 39
12: Advancing past the last element of an array.................... : 33
13: [Q] UB query............................................. ...... : 32
14: inline function or macro?...................................... : 27
15: C Noob looking for open-source project......................... : 27
16: +1 an invalid constant expression.............................. : 26
17: Int promotion......................................... ......... : 25
18: qsort needs one more argument.................................. : 24
19: C as deep blasphemy......................................... ... : 24
20: Container library (continued).................................. : 21

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Top 6 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.programming.................................. ............. : 18
2: comp.os.linux.development.apps.................... ............. : 4
3: comp.unix.programmer.............................. ............. : 4
4: comp.software-eng.............................................. : 1
5: sci.math.......................................... ............. : 1
6: comp.lang.c.moderated............................. ............. : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 35
2: rn................................................ ............. : 10
3: Gnus.............................................. ............. : 8
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 8
5: Unknown........................................... ............. : 7
6: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 6
7: Pan............................................... ............. : 5
8: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 5
9: KNode............................................. ............. : 4
10: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 3

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2................................................ ........ : 206 (31%)
2: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 91 (14%)
3: Gnus.............................................. ........ : 70 (11%)
4: slrn.............................................. ........ : 64 (10%)
5: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 49 ( 7%)
6: Outlook Express........................................... : 31 ( 5%)
7: Pan............................................... ........ : 30 ( 5%)
8: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 27 ( 4%)
9: unknown........................................... ........ : 16 ( 2%)
10: KNode............................................. ........ : 13 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0800.............................................. ............ : 254
2: UTC............................................... ............. : 243
3: +0100............................................. ............. : 69
4: -0500.............................................. ............ : 56
5: -0700.............................................. ............ : 20
6: -0600.............................................. ............ : 9
7: +0200............................................. ............. : 4
8: +0800............................................. ............. : 3
9: +0900............................................. ............. : 1
10: -0900.............................................. ............ : 1

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