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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: 935 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Nov 7 20:08:03 2009
Latest article: Sat Nov 14 20:04:03 2009
Original articles: 58, replies: 877
Total size of posts: 2,694,978 bytes (2,631K) (2.57M)
Average 133 articles per day, 0.37 MB per day, 2,882 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,273 KB bodies: 1,358 KB
Body text - quoted: 568 KB, original: 666 KB = 53.95%, sigs: 117 KB
Total number of posters: 137, average 19,671 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 82, average 32,865 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 29

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 118
2: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 101
3: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 63
4: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 45
5: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 39
6: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 30
7: Nick <3-no...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 28
8: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 27
9: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 26
10: John Kelly <j...@isp2dial.com>.................................. : 20
11: gwowen <gwo...@gmail.com>...................................... : 19
12: phaedrus <orion....@virgin.net>............................. : 16
13: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 16
14: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 16
15: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 13
16: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 13
17: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 13
18: gaz...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 12
19: "Malcolm McLean" <regn...@btinternet.com>.................... : 11
20: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 10

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Top 20 posters by avg. article size in bytes
(at least 5 posts)
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1: =?windows-1256?B?x+Ph7Q==?= <mmu...@gmail.com>................. : 6991
2: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 5963
3: arnuld <sun...@invalid.address>............................... : 4902
4: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 4339
5: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 3344
6: Stephen Sprunk <ste...@sprunk.org>............................ : 3289
7: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 3021
8: Dann Corbit <dco...@connx.com>................................ : 3005
9: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 2942
10: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 2889
11: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 2881
12: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 2789
13: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 2692
14: frank <fr...@example.invalid>.................................. : 2683
15: Francis Moreau <franci...@gmail.com>........................ : 2649
16: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 2598
17: neeraj <neera...@gmail.com>.................................. : 2590
18: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 2588
19: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 2516
20: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 2443

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Top 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: "io_x" <a...@b.c.invalid>......................................... : 90.11%
2: r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)............................ : 74.51%
3: "Malcolm McLean" <regn...@btinternet.com>.................... : 69.83%
4: Beej Jorgensen <be...@beej.us>.................................. : 69.00%
5: frank <fr...@example.invalid>.................................. : 66.62%
6: Andrey Vul <andre...@gmail.com>.............................. : 65.01%
7: Gareth Owen <gwo...@gmail.com>................................. : 64.54%
8: Stephen Sprunk <ste...@sprunk.org>............................ : 64.49%
9: pac...@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry).............................. : 63.69%
10: gwowen <gwo...@gmail.com>...................................... : 61.97%
11: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 61.44%
12: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 61.17%
13: arnuld <sun...@invalid.address>............................... : 60.38%
14: Robert Latest <bobl...@yahoo.com>............................ : 54.74%
15: phaedrus <orion....@virgin.net>............................. : 51.93%
16: gaz...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 51.77%
17: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 50.23%
18: neeraj <neera...@gmail.com>.................................. : 49.96%
19: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 49.01%
20: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 48.81%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text (at least 5 posts)
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1: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 20.21%
2: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 24.35%
3: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 24.90%
4: Francis Moreau <franci...@gmail.com>........................ : 29.21%
5: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 31.42%
6: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 36.25%
7: Nick Keighley <nick_keigh...@hotmail.com>............... : 38.04%
8: Nick <3-no...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 38.41%
9: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 39.52%
10: ral...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos)................................ : 40.40%
11: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>................................ : 42.71%
12: Dann Corbit <dco...@connx.com>................................ : 42.81%
13: John Kelly <j...@isp2dial.com>.................................. : 43.51%
14: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 45.82%
15: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 46.63%
16: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 46.67%
17: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 47.59%
18: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 47.75%
19: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 48.81%
20: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 49.01%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 194
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 94
3: Container library progress..................................... : 68
4: dp............................................................. : 44
5: Help: Is this a bug in my compiler?............................ : 41
6: Source code for simple web page retriever?..................... : 40
7: Problem with gcc............................................... : 36
8: stack operation................................................ : 25
9: Basics on real floating types.................................. : 25
10: Is thi me or GCC............................................... : 22
11: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 18
12: Casting double by long gives wrong value....................... : 17
13: && Suggestion.................................................. : 17
14: variable arguments question.................................... : 16
15: void * vs. int................................................. : 15
16: IDE recommendation?............................................ : 15
17: The lack of default function parameter in C99 makes compatibili : 14
18: The lack of default function parameter in C99 makes compatibili : 13
19: Mr Ed.......................................................... : 11
20: stuck in Infinite-loop......................................... : 11

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 725
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 300
3: Container library progress..................................... : 168
4: dp............................................................. : 98
5: Source code for simple web page retriever?..................... : 88
6: Help: Is this a bug in my compiler?............................ : 85
7: Problem with gcc............................................... : 78
8: Basics on real floating types.................................. : 62
9: stack operation................................................ : 59
10: stuck in Infinite-loop......................................... : 56
11: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 53
12: C: The Complete Meta-Nonsense.................................. : 52
13: variable arguments question.................................... : 43
14: The lack of default function parameter in C99 makes compatibili : 41
15: The lack of default function parameter in C99 makes compatibili : 37
16: Is thi me or GCC............................................... : 35
17: && Suggestion.................................................. : 35
18: void * vs. int................................................. : 35
19: ohmigod I forgot to google for time............................ : 31
20: Naive Custom Malloc Implementation............................. : 28

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Top 5 cross-posted groups
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1: alt.zines...................................................... : 3
2: comp.programming............................................... : 3
3: comp.os.linux.development.apps................................. : 1
4: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 1
5: comp.unix.programmer........................................... : 1

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 50
2: rn............................................................. : 17
3: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 12
4: Gnus........................................................... : 11
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 9
6: Unknown........................................................ : 6
7: Pan............................................................ : 5
8: Forte Agent.................................................... : 5
9: Mozilla........................................................ : 5
10: KNode.......................................................... : 4

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: G2........................................................ : 232 (25%)
2: Gnus...................................................... : 152 (16%)
3: slrn...................................................... : 127 (14%)
4: KNode..................................................... : 107 (11%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 82 ( 9%)
6: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 45 ( 5%)
7: Forte Agent............................................... : 36 ( 4%)
8: Outlook Express........................................... : 36 ( 4%)
9: Mozilla................................................... : 24 ( 3%)
10: Pan....................................................... : 16 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 433
2: -0800.......................................................... : 299
3: +0100.......................................................... : 74
4: -0500.......................................................... : 63
5: +0200.......................................................... : 20
6: -0600.......................................................... : 14
7: +1300.......................................................... : 13
8: +0800.......................................................... : 9
9: +0530.......................................................... : 4
10: -0700.......................................................... : 4

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Nov 21, 2009, 3:07:16 PM11/21/09

Total posts considered: 1,096 over 7 days
Earliest article: Sat Nov 14 20:08:03 2009
Latest article: Sat Nov 21 20:04:03 2009
Original articles: 68, replies: 1,028
Total size of posts: 2,824,765 bytes (2,758K) (2.69M)
Average 156 articles per day, 0.38 MB per day, 2,577 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,335 KB bodies: 1,422 KB
Body text - quoted: 657 KB, original: 648 KB = 49.68%, sigs: 110 KB
Total number of posters: 160, average 17,654 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 79, average 35,756 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 34

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 91
2: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 87
3: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 71
4: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 71
5: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 43
6: John Kelly <j...@isp2dial.com>.................................. : 38
7: Nick <3-no...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 36
8: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 35
9: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 29
10: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 27
11: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 26
12: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 26
13: "Dik T. Winter" <Dik.W...@cwi.nl>............................ : 21
14: gaz...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 20
15: Walter Banks <wal...@bytecraft.com>............................ : 20
16: pete <pfi...@mindspring.com>.................................. : 17
17: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 16
18: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 14
19: Ioannis Vranos <wooj...@huskies.com>.......................... : 13
20: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 12

1: Hektor Rottweiler <spino...@yahoo.com>...................... : 5008
2: Faay <spa...@gmail.com>....................................... : 4433
3: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 3916
4: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 3480
5: "Dennis \(Icarus\)" <nojun...@ever.invalid>.................. : 3397
6: Yoshi <hiro...@gmail.com>..................................... : 3376
7: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 3292
8: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 3242
9: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 3035
10: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 3015
11: c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter).................................. : 2985
12: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 2921
13: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 2810
14: Chad <cda...@gmail.com>....................................... : 2747
15: pete <pfi...@mindspring.com>.................................. : 2676
16: Lew Pitcher <lpit...@teksavvy.com>............................ : 2644
17: Eric Sosman <eso...@ieee-dot-org.invalid>..................... : 2607
18: "bartc" <ba...@freeuk.com>..................................... : 2592
19: frank <fr...@example.invalid>.................................. : 2575
20: James Dow Allen <jdall...@yahoo.com>........................ : 2525

1: Faay <spa...@gmail.com>....................................... : 94.05%
2: Charlton Wilbur <cwi...@chromatico.net>....................... : 89.69%
3: Noob <ro...@127.0.0.1>.......................................... : 82.99%
4: "Malcolm McLean" <regn...@btinternet.com>.................... : 78.38%
5: ric...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)........................ : 72.79%
6: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.fu...@usit.uio.no>................. : 71.11%
7: James Dow Allen <jdall...@yahoo.com>........................ : 63.02%
8: frank <fr...@example.invalid>.................................. : 61.10%
9: Seebs <usenet...@seebs.net>................................ : 60.90%
10: Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com>.................................... : 59.38%
11: Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org>................................. : 53.22%
12: Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid>....................... : 52.47%
13: gaz...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)................... : 51.76%
14: "Herbert Rosenau" <os2...@pc-rosenau.de>....................... : 51.59%
15: Dann Corbit <dco...@connx.com>................................ : 49.42%
16: "news.tiscali" <ne...@tiscali.nospam>........................... : 49.24%
17: jacob navia <ja...@nospam.org>................................. : 49.08%
18: John Kelly <j...@isp2dial.com>.................................. : 48.71%
19: Lew Pitcher <lpit...@teksavvy.com>............................ : 48.55%
20: Ioannis Vranos <wooj...@huskies.com>.......................... : 48.55%

1: Ian Collins <ian-...@hotmail.com>............................. : 16.85%
2: "Dennis \(Icarus\)" <nojun...@ever.invalid>.................. : 20.78%
3: Richard <rgr...@gmail.com>.................................... : 22.84%
4: Yoshi <hiro...@gmail.com>..................................... : 24.64%
5: Joe Wright <joeww...@comcast.net>............................ : 24.82%
6: Flash Gordon <sm...@spam.causeway.com>.......................... : 28.53%
7: Phil Carmody <thefatphi...@yahoo.co.uk>................. : 31.58%
8: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu>................................ : 33.66%
9: Chad <cda...@gmail.com>....................................... : 34.92%
10: Colonel Harlan Sanders <Har...@kfc.com>........................ : 35.25%
11: pete <pfi...@mindspring.com>.................................. : 35.45%
12: arnuld <sun...@invalid.address>............................... : 37.62%
13: Hektor Rottweiler <spino...@yahoo.com>...................... : 38.10%
14: Walter Banks <wal...@bytecraft.com>............................ : 39.15%
15: Nick <3-no...@temporary-address.org.uk>....................... : 40.01%
16: Ben Bacarisse <ben.u...@bsb.me.uk>........................... : 40.69%
17: Julienne Walker <happy...@hotmail.com>...................... : 42.00%
18: Alessio <fa...@fake.org>........................................ : 42.50%
19: spinoza1111 <spino...@yahoo.com>............................ : 42.99%
20: "Dik T. Winter" <Dik.W...@cwi.nl>............................ : 43.07%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: Common misconceptions about C (C95)............................ : 151
2: Problem with gcc............................................... : 116
3: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 95
4: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 84
5: Casting the return value of malloc()........................... : 63
6: size and range of int in c..................................... : 57
7: Does this program have undefined behavior?..................... : 56
8: breaking out of multiple nested loops.......................... : 48
9: print out ascii characters..................................... : 32
10: L in return.................................................... : 28
11: Loop Un Rolling................................................ : 27
12: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 25
13: An associative container....................................... : 22
14: stuck in Infinite-loop......................................... : 18
15: function returning pointer..................................... : 14
16: Tryst with a variation of Fibonacci !!......................... : 13
17: K random numbers............................................... : 12
18: linked list.................................................... : 12
19: Writing on file.txt not in append.............................. : 12
20: This program output............................................ : 12

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: Common misconceptions about C (C95)............................ : 364
2: subroutine stack and C machine model........................... : 334
3: Problem with gcc............................................... : 266
4: Pig-Wrestling.................................................. : 198
5: Casting the return value of malloc()........................... : 153
6: Does this program have undefined behavior?..................... : 142
7: size and range of int in c..................................... : 133
8: breaking out of multiple nested loops.......................... : 117
9: print out ascii characters..................................... : 91
10: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation.............. : 81
11: L in return.................................................... : 58
12: An associative container....................................... : 58
13: Loop Un Rolling................................................ : 49
14: stuck in Infinite-loop......................................... : 42
15: function returning pointer..................................... : 36
16: K&R Exercise 1-21: entab....................................... : 34
17: Tryst with a variation of Fibonacci !!......................... : 29
18: linked list.................................................... : 27
19: gcc broke...................................................... : 26
20: constness problem.............................................. : 26

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Top 1 cross-posted groups
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1: comp.lang.c++.................................................. : 23

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0......................................................... : 63
2: rn............................................................. : 15
3: Gnus........................................................... : 12
4: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 11
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)........................ : 10
6: Mozilla........................................................ : 7
7: Unknown........................................................ : 7
8: KNode.......................................................... : 6
9: Pan............................................................ : 5
10: Forte Agent.................................................... : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Gnus...................................................... : 243 (22%)
2: G2........................................................ : 217 (20%)
3: slrn...................................................... : 104 ( 9%)
4: KNode..................................................... : 97 ( 9%)
5: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows............................. : 72 ( 7%)
6: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001).............................. : 62 ( 6%)
7: Mozilla................................................... : 56 ( 5%)
8: Forte Agent............................................... : 55 ( 5%)
9: unknown................................................... : 32 ( 3%)
10: Pan....................................................... : 29 ( 3%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: UTC............................................................ : 489
2: -0800.......................................................... : 311
3: -0500.......................................................... : 105
4: +0100.......................................................... : 87
5: +0200.......................................................... : 46
6: -0600.......................................................... : 17
7: +1300.......................................................... : 14
8: +0800.......................................................... : 12
9: +0530.......................................................... : 6
10: +0900.......................................................... : 4

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