Statistics for comp.lang.perl.misc
Greg Bacon
beginning at 24 Feb 2003 13:40:49 GMT and ending at
03 Mar 2003 13:23:36 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+>|\+\+)/.
- 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" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gba...@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2003 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
faq\@(?:.*\.)?denver\.pm\.org
comdog\@panix\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 273
Articles: 905 (371 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 188
Volume generated: 1702.3 kb
- headers: 807.0 kb (15,092 lines)
- bodies: 846.9 kb (28,471 lines)
- original: 500.3 kb (18,703 lines)
- signatures: 47.6 kb (1,120 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.591
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.3
median: 1 post
mode: 1 post - 149 posters
s: 6.4 posts
Posts per thread: 4.8
median: 4.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 44 threads
s: 4.3 posts
Message size: 1926.2 bytes
- header: 913.1 bytes (16.7 lines)
- body: 958.2 bytes (31.5 lines)
- original: 566.1 bytes (20.7 lines)
- signature: 53.8 bytes (1.2 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
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(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
53 135.0 ( 59.1/ 68.8/ 53.7) ta...@augustmail.com
43 81.4 ( 33.7/ 47.7/ 18.7) Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
31 55.1 ( 32.5/ 22.7/ 16.5) "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
30 49.2 ( 27.3/ 21.9/ 11.7) "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
29 71.5 ( 28.3/ 36.6/ 18.8) tassilo....@post.rwth-aachen.de
24 52.1 ( 26.6/ 25.5/ 17.4) "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
23 48.1 ( 19.2/ 25.8/ 13.9) Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
22 37.1 ( 19.8/ 16.0/ 11.5) "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
20 46.3 ( 21.2/ 19.0/ 7.8) Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>
19 36.8 ( 17.3/ 16.4/ 13.1) abi...@abigail.nl
These posters accounted for 32.5% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
135.0 ( 59.1/ 68.8/ 53.7) 53 ta...@augustmail.com
81.4 ( 33.7/ 47.7/ 18.7) 43 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
71.5 ( 28.3/ 36.6/ 18.8) 29 tassilo....@post.rwth-aachen.de
55.1 ( 32.5/ 22.7/ 16.5) 31 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
52.1 ( 26.6/ 25.5/ 17.4) 24 "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
49.2 ( 27.3/ 21.9/ 11.7) 30 "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
48.1 ( 19.2/ 25.8/ 13.9) 23 Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
46.3 ( 21.2/ 19.0/ 7.8) 20 Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>
37.1 ( 19.8/ 16.0/ 11.5) 22 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
36.8 ( 17.3/ 16.4/ 13.1) 19 abi...@abigail.nl
These posters accounted for 36.0% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by Volume of Original Content (min. five posts)
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(kb)
Posts orig Address
----- ----- -------
53 53.7 ta...@augustmail.com
29 18.8 tassilo....@post.rwth-aachen.de
43 18.7 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
24 17.4 "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
31 16.5 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
23 13.9 Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
19 13.1 abi...@abigail.nl
30 11.7 "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
22 11.5 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
6 8.4 "matt" <urza...@home.com>
These posters accounted for 36.7% of the original volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.799 ( 13.1 / 16.4) 19 abi...@abigail.nl
0.781 ( 53.7 / 68.8) 53 ta...@augustmail.com
0.743 ( 4.0 / 5.3) 5 Michele Dondi <bik....@tiscalinet.it>
0.728 ( 16.5 / 22.7) 31 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
0.716 ( 11.5 / 16.0) 22 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
0.683 ( 17.4 / 25.5) 24 "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
0.674 ( 3.7 / 5.5) 7 "C3" <som...@microsoft.com>
0.671 ( 8.4 / 12.5) 6 "matt" <urza...@home.com>
0.635 ( 2.9 / 4.6) 5 "Geoff Soper" <geoff...@alphaworks.co.uk>
0.631 ( 4.6 / 7.3) 11 mg...@tradingpost.com.au
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.411 ( 2.4 / 5.8) 6 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Salvador_Fandi=F1o_Garc=EDa?= <sfan...@yahoo.com>
0.396 ( 3.5 / 8.8) 9 tyra...@o-space.com
0.392 ( 18.7 / 47.7) 43 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
0.360 ( 2.6 / 7.1) 9 "Tintin" <m...@privacy.net>
0.353 ( 1.7 / 4.9) 7 Malte Ubl <u...@schaffhausen.de>
0.342 ( 2.2 / 6.4) 10 "John W. Krahn" <kra...@acm.org>
0.322 ( 1.8 / 5.7) 6 "Spero" <spero12...@yahoo.com>
0.278 ( 1.3 / 4.5) 6 Tina Mueller <use...@tinita.de>
0.276 ( 1.7 / 6.1) 8 Barry Kimelman <bar...@SPAM-KILLER.mts.net>
0.235 ( 1.0 / 4.1) 6 "Bernard El-Hagin" <bernard.el-hagin@DODGE_THISlido-tech.net>
41 posters (15%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
26 FAQ proposal: Why can't I compare two strings using == ?
25 Question about text processing
20 regular expression question *NOT PERL-SPECIFIC*
18 Just a plain Perl manual. But where??
16 Anyway to do away with ?: in the map function
15 Checking something to see if it isn't there..........
15 Writing my own scripting language. Need advice.
14 locate 1, 1 wont work properly, perhaps it's only meant for linux
14 Long strings're causing problems
14 Getting answers with perldocs
These threads accounted for 19.6% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
47.5 ( 25.4/ 20.4/ 10.3) 26 FAQ proposal: Why can't I compare two strings using == ?
46.4 ( 25.2/ 18.6/ 11.0) 25 Question about text processing
41.4 ( 16.0/ 24.4/ 11.6) 16 Anyway to do away with ?: in the map function
37.5 ( 17.7/ 18.9/ 10.9) 20 regular expression question *NOT PERL-SPECIFIC*
37.1 ( 4.0/ 33.0/ 32.2) 4 Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: 1.4 $)
36.6 ( 15.8/ 19.7/ 11.6) 18 Just a plain Perl manual. But where??
35.3 ( 10.8/ 23.3/ 12.7) 11 Feedback request: photobrowser
35.0 ( 15.4/ 18.8/ 10.0) 15 Writing my own scripting language. Need advice.
31.2 ( 13.6/ 16.6/ 4.4) 15 Checking something to see if it isn't there..........
30.8 ( 14.7/ 15.1/ 8.1) 14 Long strings're causing problems
These threads accounted for 22.3% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.766 ( 6.5/ 8.5) 6 How to sort by field in objects?
0.758 ( 8.9/ 11.7) 8 search algorithm needed
0.720 ( 10.9/ 15.2) 8 getting prmature end of script headers
0.717 ( 9.1/ 12.6) 11 Looking for a utility to remove duplicates
0.697 ( 4.9/ 7.0) 5 How Do I Clone An Object
0.687 ( 2.7/ 3.9) 7 filename returned by server?
0.684 ( 4.1/ 6.0) 6 Going around in circles with modules?
0.680 ( 6.2/ 9.1) 11 my own "modules" for want of a better name
0.679 ( 2.9/ 4.3) 5 Simple question about Perl Regular Expressions
0.677 ( 7.1/ 10.4) 14 Getting answers with perldocs
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.458 ( 4.5 / 9.7) 12 Counting matches in a regular expression
0.453 ( 1.9 / 4.3) 8 sleep happening at the wrong time.
0.447 ( 3.4 / 7.5) 7 Parsing line into hash...
0.447 ( 2.3 / 5.1) 9 Using AuthTicket with a Mac?
0.425 ( 2.4 / 5.7) 7 better way to avoid "uninitialized value in join" ?
0.421 ( 2.6 / 6.1) 5 NET::FTP cut my file ?
0.370 ( 4.1 / 10.9) 14 locate 1, 1 wont work properly, perhaps it's only meant for linux
0.353 ( 1.2 / 3.4) 6 Quickie: Contents of Array into 1 Varaible
0.324 ( 1.0 / 3.0) 7 remove unwanted characters
0.264 ( 4.4 / 16.6) 15 Checking something to see if it isn't there..........
75 threads (39%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
14 comp.lang.c++
14 comp.lang.perl
13 comp.lang.perl.modules
11 alt.perl
6 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
5 comp.databases.sybase
5 sybase.public.connectivity.open_client
1 comp.object.corba
1 comp.infosystems.www.misc
1 be.comp.programming
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
8 Apryl Ferrell <apryl.b...@cpa.state.tx.us>
8 Joachim Ring <jr...@web.de>
5 Joe Smith <in...@inwap.com>
4 al...@usenix.org, al...@usenix.org
4 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Salvador_Fandi=F1o_Garc=EDa?= <sfan...@yahoo.com>
3 Tom Scanlan <tsca...@they.gotdns.org>
2 tassilo....@post.rwth-aachen.de
2 "Corno Schraverus" <corno@%spam%.dds.nl>
2 Dean Kutryk <trol...@shaw.ca>
2 "Kelly Greer" <kelly...@hell.rr.com>
Greg Bacon
10 Mar 2003 10:53:15 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+>|\+\+)/.
- 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" email address and name.
- Original Content Rating (OCR) is the ratio of the original content
volume to the total body volume.
- Find the News-Scan distribution on the CPAN!
<URL:http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News/>
- Please send all comments to Greg Bacon <gba...@cs.uah.edu>.
- Copyright (c) 2003 Greg Bacon.
Verbatim copying and redistribution is permitted without royalty;
alteration is not permitted. Redistribution and/or use for any
commercial purpose is prohibited.
Excluded Posters
================
perlfaq-suggestions\@(?:.*\.)?perl\.com
faq\@(?:.*\.)?denver\.pm\.org
comdog\@panix\.com
Totals
======
Posters: 233
Articles: 799 (335 with cutlined signatures)
Threads: 164
Volume generated: 1535.9 kb
- headers: 694.6 kb (13,199 lines)
- bodies: 797.6 kb (25,834 lines)
- original: 503.0 kb (17,596 lines)
- signatures: 43.0 kb (1,334 lines)
Original Content Rating: 0.631
Averages
========
Posts per poster: 3.4
median: 2 posts
mode: 1 post - 114 posters
s: 5.5 posts
Posts per thread: 4.9
median: 4.0 posts
mode: 1 post - 32 threads
s: 5.5 posts
Message size: 1968.4 bytes
- header: 890.1 bytes (16.5 lines)
- body: 1022.1 bytes (32.3 lines)
- original: 644.6 bytes (22.0 lines)
- signature: 55.1 bytes (1.7 lines)
Top 10 Posters by Number of Posts
=================================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Posts Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Address
----- -------------------------- -------
41 75.3 ( 37.6/ 36.2/ 24.8) "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
40 98.5 ( 33.8/ 53.3/ 31.0) Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
31 61.6 ( 23.6/ 38.0/ 16.8) Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
28 88.2 ( 31.3/ 53.3/ 43.2) ta...@augustmail.com
22 45.4 ( 20.1/ 20.9/ 19.8) abi...@abigail.nl
22 34.2 ( 19.8/ 14.4/ 7.3) "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
19 34.3 ( 17.2/ 15.6/ 7.4) Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nor...@gunnar.cc>
18 32.8 ( 18.2/ 14.6/ 9.7) "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
16 34.9 ( 13.9/ 19.9/ 11.7) Brian McCauley <nob...@mail.com>
14 30.0 ( 15.1/ 14.7/ 9.7) "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
These posters accounted for 31.4% of all articles.
Top 10 Posters by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Address
-------------------------- ----- -------
98.5 ( 33.8/ 53.3/ 31.0) 40 Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
88.2 ( 31.3/ 53.3/ 43.2) 28 ta...@augustmail.com
75.3 ( 37.6/ 36.2/ 24.8) 41 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
61.6 ( 23.6/ 38.0/ 16.8) 31 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
45.4 ( 20.1/ 20.9/ 19.8) 22 abi...@abigail.nl
34.9 ( 13.9/ 19.9/ 11.7) 16 Brian McCauley <nob...@mail.com>
34.3 ( 17.2/ 15.6/ 7.4) 19 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nor...@gunnar.cc>
34.2 ( 19.8/ 14.4/ 7.3) 22 "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
32.8 ( 18.2/ 14.6/ 9.7) 18 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
30.0 ( 15.1/ 14.7/ 9.7) 14 "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
These posters accounted for 34.8% of the total volume.
Top 10 Posters by Volume of Original Content (min. five posts)
==============================================================
(kb)
Posts orig Address
----- ----- -------
28 43.2 ta...@augustmail.com
40 31.0 Benjamin Goldberg <gol...@earthlink.net>
41 24.8 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
22 19.8 abi...@abigail.nl
31 16.8 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
12 12.5 ctc...@hotmail.com
16 11.7 Brian McCauley <nob...@mail.com>
11 9.8 "Alan J. Flavell" <fla...@mail.cern.ch>
14 9.7 "Eric J. Roode" <REMOVE...@comcast.net>
18 9.7 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
These posters accounted for 37.6% of the original volume.
Top 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
==============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.946 ( 19.8 / 20.9) 22 abi...@abigail.nl
0.810 ( 43.2 / 53.3) 28 ta...@augustmail.com
0.789 ( 3.8 / 4.8) 5 Michele Dondi <bik....@tiscalinet.it>
0.775 ( 6.4 / 8.3) 5 david <dwle...@yahoo.com>
0.773 ( 9.2 / 11.8) 8 Eric Osman <ericosma...@rcn.com>
0.714 ( 4.9 / 6.8) 5 "William Alexander Segraves" <wseg...@mindspring.com>
0.700 ( 9.8 / 14.0) 11 "Alan J. Flavell" <fla...@mail.cern.ch>
0.684 ( 24.8 / 36.2) 41 "Tore Aursand" <to...@aursand.no>
0.664 ( 9.7 / 14.6) 18 "Peter Cooper" <news...@boog.co.uk>
0.659 ( 2.1 / 3.2) 5 imper...@attbi.com
Bottom 10 Posters by OCR (minimum of five posts)
================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Address
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.478 ( 1.6 / 3.3) 8 he...@decode.is
0.475 ( 2.7 / 5.8) 5 Jay Tilton <til...@erols.com>
0.474 ( 4.3 / 9.0) 9 "John W. Krahn" <kra...@acm.org>
0.471 ( 7.4 / 15.6) 19 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nor...@gunnar.cc>
0.442 ( 16.8 / 38.0) 31 Anno Siegel <anno...@lublin.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
0.430 ( 5.6 / 13.0) 5 Joe Creaney <ma...@annuna.com>
0.430 ( 1.0 / 2.4) 5 Matija Papec <mpa...@yahoo.com>
0.423 ( 1.6 / 3.7) 7 Alan Gutierrez <ajg...@izzy.net>
0.355 ( 2.9 / 8.0) 11 "Janek Schleicher" <bi...@kamelfreund.de>
0.312 ( 1.2 / 3.9) 6 Barry Kimelman <bar...@SPAM-KILLER.mts.net>
37 posters (15%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Threads by Number of Posts
=================================
Posts Subject
----- -------
39 I want to know the line n umber of the error !
36 Lightweight CGI module?
32 Greedy regexps
15 CGI query string help
14 NEWBIE: PerlNET
13 SUBSTR or pattern matching?
13 Regular Expressions
13 Stolen!
11 Perl Mysql uploading a image in a database.
11 printing hash values
These threads accounted for 24.7% of all articles.
Top 10 Threads by Volume
========================
(kb) (kb) (kb) (kb)
Volume ( hdr/ body/ orig) Posts Subject
-------------------------- ----- -------
83.3 ( 37.0/ 45.2/ 29.2) 39 I want to know the line n umber of the error !
72.6 ( 36.3/ 35.3/ 22.7) 36 Lightweight CGI module?
58.7 ( 28.6/ 27.8/ 17.2) 32 Greedy regexps
40.1 ( 9.9/ 23.4/ 12.9) 11 Counting matches in a regular expression
33.8 ( 1.8/ 32.0/ 32.0) 2 Posting Guidelines for comp.lang.perl.misc ($Revision: 1.4 $)
28.5 ( 13.5/ 15.1/ 9.5) 15 CGI query string help
28.3 ( 11.6/ 16.5/ 6.4) 9 new Perl feature request: call into shared libs
27.2 ( 13.7/ 12.6/ 6.9) 13 Stolen!
26.2 ( 8.7/ 16.6/ 11.2) 10 Obfuscated Perl Challenge
26.1 ( 12.1/ 13.5/ 8.7) 13 Regular Expressions
These threads accounted for 27.7% of the total volume.
Top 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
=============================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.904 ( 13.8/ 15.3) 5 New module proposed: Class::Accessor::NoviceArray
0.817 ( 2.6/ 3.1) 6 ***Text files***
0.786 ( 8.0/ 10.2) 5 Redirect with links stored in external txt file
0.736 ( 1.6/ 2.2) 5 Early Perl source
0.736 ( 1.8/ 2.4) 5 simple while problem
0.712 ( 9.4/ 13.1) 11 Perl Mysql uploading a image in a database.
0.684 ( 3.9/ 5.6) 8 memory testing with Perl
0.673 ( 11.2/ 16.6) 10 Obfuscated Perl Challenge
0.661 ( 3.1/ 4.7) 5 foreach in while-block cancels while
0.658 ( 5.2/ 7.9) 6 Non-fatal error, "script not found or unable to stat"
Bottom 10 Threads by OCR (minimum of five posts)
================================================
(kb) (kb)
OCR orig / body Posts Subject
----- -------------- ----- -------
0.442 ( 7.2 / 16.4) 8 Moving on a grd.
0.440 ( 2.2 / 5.0) 6 Catching errors using DBI
0.424 ( 1.7 / 4.0) 6 Problem with Term::ReadKey on RedHat
0.414 ( 3.0 / 7.2) 6 a minor point about the distinction between arrays and lists.
0.409 ( 1.8 / 4.4) 6 '@' symbol confusion
0.405 ( 1.3 / 3.3) 5 Errors to browser??
0.404 ( 1.4 / 3.4) 5 Shell commands
0.399 ( 3.0 / 7.5) 9 Print lines of file until certain string found?
0.388 ( 6.4 / 16.5) 9 new Perl feature request: call into shared libs
0.316 ( 2.9 / 9.0) 6 DBD and DBI on Solaris 64 bit
66 threads (40%) had at least five posts.
Top 10 Targets for Crossposts
=============================
Articles Newsgroup
-------- ---------
6 comp.lang.asm.x86
6 comp.lang.perl.modules
5 comp.lang.perl
4 alt.perl
3 comp.lang.python
2 comp.protocols.snmp
2 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
2 comp.databases.sybase
2 sybase.public.connectivity.open_client
1 comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi
Top 10 Crossposters
===================
Articles Address
-------- -------
4 Joachim Ring <jr...@web.de>
3 "Josh McAdams" <jmc...@hotmail.com>
3 Guenter <no....@gknw.de>
3 Joe Smith <in...@inwap.com>
3 Malte Ubl <u...@schaffhausen.de>
2 Bryan Castillo <rook...@yahoo.com>
2 Ronald Schmidt <Rona...@software-path.com>
2 <jari....@poboxes.com> (Jari Aalto+mail.perl)
1 "Jürgen Exner" <jurg...@hotmail.com>
1 Marshall Dudley <mdu...@execonn.com>