Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
Christopher Browne
beginning at 05 Jan 2003 07:12:27 GMT and ending at
12 Jan 2003 06:00:25 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
to the total body volume.
- Please send all comments to Christopher Browne <cbbr...@acm.org>
Totals
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Posters: 119
Articles: 456 (162 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 54
Volume generated: 1096.6 kb
- headers: 461.8 kb (7,863 lines)
- bodies: 607.4 kb (15,553 lines)
- original: 359.8 kb (9,887 lines)
- signatures: 27.0 kb (676 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.592
Averages
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Posts per poster: 3.8
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 40 posters
s: 4.9 posts
Posts per thread: 8.4
median: 4.5 posts
mode: 1 post - 14 threads
s: 13.5 posts
Message size: 2462.6 bytes
- header: 1037.0 bytes (17.2 lines)
- body: 1364.0 bytes (34.1 lines)
- original: 808.0 bytes (21.7 lines)
- signature: 60.7 bytes (1.5 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
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18 28.8 ( 17.2/ 11.7/ 7.1) Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
17 53.3 ( 22.2/ 31.0/ 14.7) Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
17 37.1 ( 17.6/ 15.5/ 11.1) Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
15 30.1 ( 11.5/ 18.6/ 8.9) Kent M Pitman <pit...@world.std.com>
14 42.6 ( 14.6/ 25.8/ 21.1) http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
13 50.7 ( 15.0/ 35.7/ 17.6) spino...@yahoo.com (Edward G. Nilges)
13 35.5 ( 16.4/ 16.8/ 8.7) Pascal Costanza <cost...@web.de>
12 24.0 ( 9.6/ 14.4/ 8.8) cst...@dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
12 22.0 ( 9.7/ 11.5/ 5.9) Nils Goesche <n...@cartan.de>
12 41.1 ( 15.9/ 25.1/ 12.1) g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
These posters accounted for 31.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
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53.3 ( 22.2/ 31.0/ 14.7) 17 Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
50.7 ( 15.0/ 35.7/ 17.6) 13 spino...@yahoo.com (Edward G. Nilges)
42.6 ( 14.6/ 25.8/ 21.1) 14 http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
41.1 ( 15.9/ 25.1/ 12.1) 12 g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
41.0 ( 11.7/ 27.3/ 15.0) 10 Duane Rettig <du...@franz.com>
37.1 ( 17.6/ 15.5/ 11.1) 17 Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
35.5 ( 16.4/ 16.8/ 8.7) 13 Pascal Costanza <cost...@web.de>
30.1 ( 11.5/ 18.6/ 8.9) 15 Kent M Pitman <pit...@world.std.com>
29.7 ( 4.9/ 24.9/ 24.7) 8 lo...@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)
28.8 ( 17.2/ 11.7/ 7.1) 18 Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
These posters accounted for 35.6% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.994 ( 24.7 / 24.9) 8 lo...@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)
0.819 ( 21.1 / 25.8) 14 http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
0.791 ( 8.7 / 11.0) 6 Yarden Katz <ka...@underlevel.net>
0.718 ( 10.3 / 14.3) 8 rp...@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
0.715 ( 11.1 / 15.5) 17 Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
0.705 ( 8.5 / 12.0) 11 "Steven M. Haflich" <smh_no_s...@alum.mit.edu>
0.651 ( 4.4 / 6.7) 6 Daniel Barlow <d...@telent.net>
0.612 ( 5.5 / 9.0) 7 Larry Clapp <la...@theclapp.org>
0.610 ( 7.1 / 11.7) 18 Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
0.610 ( 8.8 / 14.4) 12 cst...@dtpq.com (Christopher C. Stacy)
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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OCR orig / body Posts Address
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0.493 ( 17.6 / 35.7) 13 spino...@yahoo.com (Edward G. Nilges)
0.481 ( 12.1 / 25.1) 12 g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
0.476 ( 8.9 / 18.6) 15 Kent M Pitman <pit...@world.std.com>
0.474 ( 14.7 / 31.0) 17 Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
0.463 ( 3.1 / 6.7) 6 Bruce Hoult <br...@hoult.org>
0.455 ( 2.1 / 4.6) 9 "Paul F. Dietz" <di...@dls.net>
0.446 ( 4.7 / 10.4) 12 Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net>
0.424 ( 0.9 / 2.0) 5 The
0.278 ( 5.3 / 18.9) 11 Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de>
0.255 ( 4.1 / 15.9) 5 steph...@hotmail.com (Steph)
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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78 Re: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
51 Conservative vs. precise GC
30 Interest of formal proof Was: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
23 signalling conditions which are not ERRORs with ERROR
19 Re: (endp lst) or (null lst)
18 This one goes to 11
14 Unexpected behavior in CMU CL for Linux
14 Re: closing files by gc
12 Ufasoft LispStudio
12 Re: OT: Erik Naggum's Long-Windedness (was: (endp lst) or (null lst))
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
214.5 (101.1/108.1/ 55.2) 78 Re: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
129.1 ( 51.3/ 73.7/ 47.2) 51 Conservative vs. precise GC
110.4 ( 43.4/ 65.0/ 36.3) 30 Interest of formal proof Was: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
50.4 ( 13.2/ 36.1/ 21.6) 14 Re: closing files by gc
40.9 ( 19.0/ 21.0/ 12.6) 23 signalling conditions which are not ERRORs with ERROR
40.7 ( 18.1/ 22.1/ 11.6) 19 Re: (endp lst) or (null lst)
39.4 ( 17.0/ 20.6/ 14.2) 18 This one goes to 11
35.9 ( 7.5/ 28.1/ 11.6) 10 newbie questions
29.5 ( 15.1/ 14.2/ 6.4) 14 Unexpected behavior in CMU CL for Linux
28.8 ( 11.9/ 16.7/ 9.6) 12 fun with eval-when and compile-file
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.916 ( 15.5/ 16.9) 5 conservative gc sucks
0.906 ( 11.4/ 12.6) 6 Statistics for comp.lang.lisp
0.858 ( 2.7/ 3.1) 5 how to access a shared slot without an instance?
0.830 ( 0.8/ 1.0) 3 Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual at: http://green.iis.nsk.su/~vp/doc/lisp1.5/mccarthy.html
0.822 ( 12.4/ 15.1) 9 testing for open-ness (was Re: conservative gc sucks)
0.761 ( 2.4/ 3.1) 3 changing slots in an overloaded initialize-instance, and type checking
0.748 ( 2.4/ 3.2) 5 Help with Lisp exercise in book
0.715 ( 10.0/ 14.0) 12 Re: OT: Erik Naggum's Long-Windedness (was: (endp lst) or (null lst))
0.709 ( 1.2/ 1.7) 3 LISP and Calling Other Programs
0.690 ( 14.2/ 20.6) 18 This one goes to 11
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.491 ( 6.4 / 13.0) 11 mod_lisp 2.3 beta available for testing
0.483 ( 2.7 / 5.5) 6 Setting and Retrieving from Hash Table
0.482 ( 3.3 / 6.8) 10 [OT] Re: Conservative vs. precise GC
0.451 ( 6.4 / 14.2) 14 Unexpected behavior in CMU CL for Linux
0.450 ( 3.6 / 8.0) 8 clisp sockets
0.431 ( 3.4 / 7.8) 4 web toolkits for Allegro (was Re: defsystem on Allegro CL)
0.419 ( 1.3 / 3.1) 4 Where is the CLisp documentation?
0.412 ( 11.6 / 28.1) 10 newbie questions
0.411 ( 1.5 / 3.7) 6 Remarketing the language ( was Re: ....ADA ? One silly idea..)
0.310 ( 0.4 / 1.4) 3 John McCarthy RIP
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
6 comp.lang.ada
3 comp.lang.functional
2 comp.lang.clos
2 comp.lang.dylan
2 comp.lang.scheme
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
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3 Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
3 The
3 gilbert_a...@yahoo.com (gilbert)
1 Fraser Wilson <newsf...@blancolioni.org>
1 "Bill Margolis" <wmar...@sbcglobal.net>
1 zor...@yahoo.com (Zork Adi)
1 Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de>
1 "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3...@cogeco.ca>
1 "Geoffrey Summerhayes" <sumNOS...@hotmail.com>
0 news_...@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk
Erik Naggum
| - The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
| in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
How incredibly stupid.
--
Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway
Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder.
Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.
Christopher Browne
19 Jan 2003 04:49:43 GMT.
Notes
=====
- A line in the body of a post is considered to be original if it
does *not* match the regular expression /^\s{0,3}(?:>|:|\S+>|\+\+|\|\s+|\*\s)/.
- All text after the last cut line (/^-- $/) in the body is
considered to be the author's signature.
- The scanner prefers the Reply-To: header over the From: header
in determining the "real" e-mail address and name.
- Original Content Rating is the ratio of the original content volume
to the total body volume.
- Please send all comments to Christopher Browne <cbbr...@acm.org>
Totals
======
Posters: 126
Articles: 333 (116 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 52
Volume generated: 741.6 kb
- headers: 309.9 kb (5,662 lines)
- bodies: 407.4 kb (10,770 lines)
- original: 263.7 kb (7,388 lines)
- signatures: 23.9 kb (567 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.647
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 2.6
median: 2.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 61 posters
s: 3.7 posts
Posts per thread: 6.4
median: 3.5 posts
mode: 1 post - 14 threads
s: 9.0 posts
Message size: 2280.5 bytes
- header: 953.1 bytes (17.0 lines)
- body: 1252.9 bytes (32.3 lines)
- original: 810.8 bytes (22.2 lines)
- signature: 73.5 bytes (1.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
17 40.8 ( 16.6/ 21.5/ 16.1) http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
17 55.4 ( 19.4/ 36.0/ 20.3) Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
15 22.2 ( 14.2/ 8.0/ 4.8) Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
11 26.4 ( 8.9/ 17.5/ 13.6) k...@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
9 25.0 ( 8.9/ 14.5/ 10.1) Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
8 16.0 ( 5.6/ 10.4/ 8.5) "Adam Warner" <use...@consulting.net.nz>
8 23.5 ( 7.6/ 15.3/ 8.3) Nils Goesche <n...@cartan.de>
7 10.2 ( 4.4/ 5.8/ 3.6) Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de>
7 17.1 ( 7.4/ 8.2/ 4.0) Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net>
7 20.3 ( 8.0/ 12.4/ 7.3) =?iso-8859-1?q?=22Aur=E9lien_Camp=E9as=22?= <aurel...@wanadoo.fr>
These posters accounted for 31.8% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
55.4 ( 19.4/ 36.0/ 20.3) 17 Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
40.8 ( 16.6/ 21.5/ 16.1) 17 http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
26.4 ( 8.9/ 17.5/ 13.6) 11 k...@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
25.0 ( 8.9/ 14.5/ 10.1) 9 Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
24.7 ( 3.4/ 21.3/ 21.3) 5 lo...@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)
23.5 ( 7.6/ 15.3/ 8.3) 8 Nils Goesche <n...@cartan.de>
22.8 ( 6.2/ 16.5/ 9.7) 5 Damien Kick <dki...@email.mot.com>
22.2 ( 14.2/ 8.0/ 4.8) 15 Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
20.3 ( 8.0/ 12.4/ 7.3) 7 =?iso-8859-1?q?=22Aur=E9lien_Camp=E9as=22?= <aurel...@wanadoo.fr>
17.1 ( 7.4/ 8.2/ 4.0) 7 Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net>
These posters accounted for 37.5% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.997 ( 21.3 / 21.3) 5 lo...@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)
0.813 ( 8.5 / 10.4) 8 "Adam Warner" <use...@consulting.net.nz>
0.777 ( 13.6 / 17.5) 11 k...@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku)
0.757 ( 7.0 / 9.2) 5 "Simon Katz" <si...@nomistech.com>
0.748 ( 16.1 / 21.5) 17 http://naggum.no/erik/contact.html
0.702 ( 1.4 / 2.0) 5 Nicolas Neuss <Nicola...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
0.701 ( 10.1 / 14.5) 9 Kenny Tilton <kti...@nyc.rr.com>
0.631 ( 3.6 / 5.8) 7 Edi Weitz <e...@agharta.de>
0.601 ( 3.0 / 5.0) 5 ana...@earthlink.net (Andy Freeman)
0.600 ( 3.3 / 5.5) 6 Larry Clapp <la...@theclapp.org>
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.600 ( 3.3 / 5.5) 6 Larry Clapp <la...@theclapp.org>
0.596 ( 4.8 / 8.0) 15 Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
0.595 ( 7.3 / 12.4) 7 =?iso-8859-1?q?=22Aur=E9lien_Camp=E9as=22?= <aurel...@wanadoo.fr>
0.588 ( 9.7 / 16.5) 5 Damien Kick <dki...@email.mot.com>
0.566 ( 20.3 / 36.0) 17 Joe Marshall <j...@ccs.neu.edu>
0.543 ( 8.3 / 15.3) 8 Nils Goesche <n...@cartan.de>
0.490 ( 3.9 / 7.9) 6 g...@jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
0.486 ( 4.0 / 8.2) 7 Barry Margolin <bar...@genuity.net>
0.397 ( 1.0 / 2.5) 5 "u.r. faust" <urf...@optushome.com.au>
0.247 ( 0.8 / 3.3) 5 mar...@cs.nyu.edu
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
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Posts Subject
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47 Re: OT: Erik Naggum's Long-Windedness (was: (endp lst) or (null lst))
22 How to convince employer..
20 building a new run-time system
19 Re: conservative gc sucks
18 Re: closing files by gc
18 Writing (un)maintanble code
12 format directive
12 lisp and redhat
11 Re: Interest of formal proof Was: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
9 EVAL-WHEN and using SPECIAL
Top 10 Threads by Volume
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
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122.9 ( 50.5/ 69.4/ 44.2) 47 Re: OT: Erik Naggum's Long-Windedness (was: (endp lst) or (null lst))
75.3 ( 21.6/ 52.9/ 30.2) 18 Re: closing files by gc
53.6 ( 16.1/ 36.8/ 31.0) 19 Re: conservative gc sucks
41.7 ( 15.6/ 25.2/ 12.8) 11 Re: Interest of formal proof Was: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
40.7 ( 17.7/ 21.4/ 14.7) 22 How to convince employer..
37.3 ( 17.6/ 18.3/ 11.2) 20 building a new run-time system
26.0 ( 14.9/ 10.2/ 5.6) 18 Writing (un)maintanble code
24.9 ( 7.6/ 16.0/ 9.4) 9 EVAL-WHEN and using SPECIAL
22.9 ( 7.8/ 15.0/ 5.6) 8 NON-trivial regular expression problem (could not find on google)
22.2 ( 11.1/ 10.0/ 7.1) 12 lisp and redhat
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.843 ( 31.0/ 36.8) 19 Re: conservative gc sucks
0.834 ( 8.1/ 9.7) 8 Lisp editor that can parse strings
0.747 ( 6.9/ 9.2) 7 A little, tiny crack in the language
0.745 ( 3.2/ 4.3) 3 Re: Help with Lisp exercise in book
0.741 ( 7.8/ 10.6) 9 A very simple question on SED or AWK for a GURU, possibly a lisp script or emacs batch processing of many files
0.733 ( 1.3/ 1.8) 4 Repackaging Lisp
0.731 ( 2.4/ 3.2) 3 Lisp for projects
0.715 ( 8.3/ 11.6) 8 Half of *PRINT-ESCAPE*
0.713 ( 1.1/ 1.5) 5 Re: John McCarthy RIP
0.707 ( 7.1/ 10.0) 12 lisp and redhat
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of three posts)
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(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.591 ( 0.8 / 1.3) 5 Help
0.590 ( 2.4 / 4.1) 8 Implementations of C function interface?
0.585 ( 9.4 / 16.0) 9 EVAL-WHEN and using SPECIAL
0.572 ( 30.2 / 52.9) 18 Re: closing files by gc
0.554 ( 5.6 / 10.2) 18 Writing (un)maintanble code
0.526 ( 3.6 / 6.7) 5 Re: Conservative vs. precise GC
0.512 ( 2.8 / 5.6) 12 format directive
0.509 ( 12.8 / 25.2) 11 Re: Interest of formal proof Was: Rudeness index was Looking for Lisp compiler
0.498 ( 2.1 / 4.3) 5 Re: syntax question from a newbie
0.375 ( 5.6 / 15.0) 8 NON-trivial regular expression problem (could not find on google)
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
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Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
18 gnu.emacs.help
12 comp.unix.shell
9 gnu.misc.discuss
9 comp.lang.awk
1 comp.lang.java.programmer
1 comp.lang.functional
1 comp.lang.java.misc
1 comp.lang.python
1 comp.lang.java.tech
1 comp.lang.java.setup
Top 10 Crossposters
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Articles Address
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9 zus...@viagra99.com
5 gnui...@hotmail.com (gnuist006)
3 demo...@india.com (Instant Democracy)
3 thr...@sheol.org (Wayne Throop)
3 Harry Putnam <h...@sbcglobal.net>
3 kai.gro...@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
3 AW <adoub...@hotmail.com>
3 Larry Clapp <la...@theclapp.org>
3 William Park <openge...@yahoo.ca>
3 "Dr. Yuan Liu" <yl...@stemnet.nf.ca.remove_this>