Stats for comp.lang.c (last month)
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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: 3,911 over 31 days
Earliest article: Thu Jul 31 23:08:02 2008
Latest article: Sun Aug 31 05:04:02 2008
Original articles: 234, replies: 3,677
Total size of posts: 10,743,735 bytes (10,491K) (10.25M)
Average 126 articles per day, 0.33 MB per day, 2,747 bytes per article
Total headers: 4,864 KB bodies: 5,627 KB
Body text - quoted: 2,761 KB, original: 2,311 KB = 45.56%, sigs: 537 KB
Total number of posters: 332, average 32,360 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 282, average 38,098 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 47
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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 313
2: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 283
3: santosh <santo...@gmail.com>................................ : 233
4: CBFalconer <cbfal...@yahoo.com>.............................. : 163
5: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 137
6: Antoninus Twink <nos...@nospam.invalid>........................ : 115
7: vipp...@gmail.com............................................. : 103
8: mdh <md...@comcast.net>......................................... : 80
9: pete <pfi...@mindspring.com>.................................. : 80
10: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 79
11: "Bill Cunningham" <nos...@nspam.com>........................... : 77
12: Barry Schwarz <schw...@dqel.com>.............................. : 74
13: james...@verizon.net........................................ : 73
14: Richard<rgr...@gmail.com>...................................... : 66
15: s0s...@gmail.com............................................... : 66
16: Flash Gordon <sp...@flash-gordon.me.uk>......................... : 65
17: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 65
18: "Bartc" <b...@freeuk.com>........................................ : 64
19: James Kuyper <james...@verizon.net>......................... : 64
20: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.com>................................. : 59
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Top 20 posters by average article size in bytes (at least 5 posts)
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1: CLC stats <st...@nospam.invalid>............................... : 15729
2: Paul Hsieh <webs...@gmail.com>................................ : 9133
3: s0s...@gmail.com............................................... : 8656
4: James Dow Allen <jdall...@yahoo.com>........................ : 7205
5: "E.D.G." <edgr...@ix.netcom.com>.............................. : 6360
6: Flash Gordon <sp...@flash-gordon.me.uk>......................... : 5610
7: Hongyu <hong...@yahoo.com>................................... : 4145
8: "MikeC" <Mike...@btconnect.com>.............................. : 4132
9: Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net>................................. : 4025
10: arnuld <sun...@invalid.address>............................... : 3957
11: Randy Howard <FOOrandy...@verizon.net>................... : 3852
12: mathieu <mathieu....@gmail.com>.......................... : 3814
13: "Dann Corbit" <dco...@connx.com>.............................. : 3563
14: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 3561
15: "rio" <a@b.c>.................................................. : 3315
16: james...@verizon.net........................................ : 3285
17: ssubbarayan <ssu...@gmail.com>................................. : 3255
18: zai...@zaimoni.com............................................ : 3204
19: pereges <Bro...@gmail.com>.................................... : 3156
20: "Bill Reid" <horme...@happyhealthy.net>...................... : 3152
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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: "E.D.G." <edgr...@ix.netcom.com>.............................. : 89.38%
2: James Dow Allen <jdall...@yahoo.com>........................ : 87.42%
3: MN <mazouz....@gmail.com>.................................. : 85.63%
4: pereges <Bro...@gmail.com>.................................... : 80.10%
5: "Dann Corbit" <dco...@connx.com>.............................. : 76.51%
6: soscpd <sos...@gmail.com>...................................... : 75.65%
7: Jrdman <ahmed...@gmail.com>................................. : 73.45%
8: robe...@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson).................. : 72.49%
9: xiao <littl...@gmail.com>................................... : 71.61%
10: arnuld <sun...@invalid.address>............................... : 71.58%
11: Chris Torek <nos...@torek.net>................................. : 68.20%
12: user923005 <dco...@connx.com>................................. : 67.71%
13: Adeel Hasan Akbari <adeel....@gmail.com>.................... : 65.81%
14: Tristan Miller <psych...@nothingisreal.com>.................. : 63.76%
15: Martin Ambuhl <mam...@earthlink.net>.......................... : 63.39%
16: "Bill Cunningham" <nos...@nspam.com>........................... : 63.34%
17: "Herbert Rosenau" <os2...@pc-rosenau.de>....................... : 62.56%
18: "rio" <a@b.c>.................................................. : 62.19%
19: viza <tom....@gm-il.com.obviouschange.invalid>................ : 61.82%
20: "Bill Reid" <horme...@happyhealthy.net>...................... : 61.69%
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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Pietro Cerutti <gahr_SPAM_gahr_ME_ch>.......................... : 19.47%
2: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 20.41%
3: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 20.44%
4: Ali Karaali <ali...@gmail.com>................................. : 21.35%
5: s0s...@gmail.com............................................... : 21.84%
6: mathieu <mathieu....@gmail.com>.......................... : 23.34%
7: "Joachim Schmitz" <nospa...@schmitz-digital.de>............. : 23.75%
8: Hongyu <hong...@yahoo.com>................................... : 25.71%
9: Randy Howard <FOOrandy...@verizon.net>................... : 26.75%
10: Huibert Bol <huibe...@quicknet.nl>.......................... : 27.76%
11: Richard<rgr...@gmail.com>...................................... : 27.89%
12: Injam <inj...@gmail.com>...................................... : 28.01%
13: Jean-Marc Bourguet <j...@bourguet.org>........................... : 28.29%
14: pete <pfi...@mindspring.com>.................................. : 28.45%
15: slackcode <slac...@gmail.com>................................ : 28.83%
16: Chad <cda...@gmail.com>....................................... : 29.40%
17: vipp...@gmail.com............................................. : 29.44%
18: "Harold Aptroot" <harold....@gmail.com>.................... : 30.01%
19: nicolas...@gmail.com....................................... : 30.32%
20: Flash Gordon <sp...@flash-gordon.me.uk>......................... : 31.18%
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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Storgae durations.............................................. : 264
2: Why is it dangerous?........................................... : 202
3: C99 IDE for windows............................................ : 124
4: Pointer dereference rather than sizeof?........................ : 95
5: sh?tpile of errors............................................. : 91
6: C Compilation.................................................. : 85
7: which functions set the end-of-file indicator?................. : 82
8: C99 portability challenge...................................... : 80
9: problem with macros............................................ : 77
10: why are GOTO's not used ....................................... : 69
11: stack.......................................................... : 65
12: How to write to a file including full directory in C under Unix : 64
13: how to find number of bytes freed.............................. : 59
14: scanf doubt.................................................... : 56
15: programi parsing question...................................... : 53
16: reverse string, how to print string and not decimals?.......... : 52
17: fscanf......................................................... : 46
18: catching exit.................................................. : 45
19: Environmental limits........................................... : 45
20: Value of int NULL.............................................. : 43
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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Storgae durations.............................................. : 1455
2: Why is it dangerous?........................................... : 564
3: C99 IDE for windows............................................ : 371
4: Pointer dereference rather than sizeof?........................ : 251
5: which functions set the end-of-file indicator?................. : 207
6: C Compilation.................................................. : 207
7: C99 portability challenge...................................... : 203
8: problem with macros............................................ : 181
9: sh?tpile of errors............................................. : 172
10: why are GOTO's not used ....................................... : 170
11: How to write to a file including full directory in C under Unix : 170
12: scanf doubt.................................................... : 163
13: how to remove code duplication................................. : 147
14: stack.......................................................... : 145
15: programi parsing question...................................... : 139
16: Environmental limits........................................... : 128
17: catching exit.................................................. : 121
18: how to find number of bytes freed.............................. : 120
19: comp.lang.c Answers (Abridged) to Frequently Asked Questions (F : 120
20: Value of int NULL.............................................. : 113
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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.unix.programmer........................................... : 58
2: comp.programming............................................... : 53
3: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 16
4: comp.lang.perl.misc............................................ : 9
5: comp.lang.misc................................................. : 9
6: comp.unix.solaris.............................................. : 5
7: gnu.gcc.help................................................... : 5
8: alt.solaris.x86................................................ : 5
9: comp.lang.c.moderated.......................................... : 3
10: news.answers................................................... : 3
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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 149
2: rn............................................................. : 35
3: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708)........................ : 20
4: Unknown........................................................ : 17
5: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 17
6: Pan............................................................ : 14
7: Gnus........................................................... : 10
8: KNode.......................................................... : 10
9: Mozilla........................................................ : 8
10: Forte Agent.................................................... : 7
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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 875 (22%)
2: Gnus...................................................... : 439 (11%)
3: KNode..................................................... : 339 ( 9%)
4: unknown................................................... : 311 ( 8%)
5: Mozilla................................................... : 254 ( 6%)
6: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows............................. : 215 ( 5%)
7: Outlook Express........................................... : 206 ( 5%)
8: slrn...................................................... : 197 ( 5%)
9: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 152 ( 4%)
10: Pan....................................................... : 111 ( 3%)
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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0700.......................................................... : 1331
2: UTC............................................................ : 1075
3: -0400.......................................................... : 412
4: +0200.......................................................... : 317
5: +0100.......................................................... : 288
6: +0530.......................................................... : 243
7: +1200.......................................................... : 80
8: -0500.......................................................... : 65
9: +0500.......................................................... : 35
10: -0600.......................................................... : 21
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