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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Date: 30 Jan 2024 17:19:54 GMT
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  The stats are based on data from the years between 2012 and 2022,
  approximately.. Some posts have not be taken into account for the
  following stats, eg., when they are missing on the server because
  they were cancelled or expired. OTOH, spam messages are also counted.
  
  Posts per year

2012  14092
2013   8926
2014  16383
2015  23411
2016  21078
2017  24089
2018  14170
2019   9235
2020   9341
2021   6093
2022   4450

  Some From names that did not post in 2012 or 2013 and then appeared.

2014-01-20 Rick C. Hodgin
2014-07-08 Richard Heathfield
2015-04-02 jacobnavia
2015-12-12 Jerry Stuckle
2016-09-14 Thiago Adams
2017-02-21 Steve Carroll
2017-03-27 bartc
2018-06-04 Bart
2020-08-30 olcott

  Some From names (case sensitive) that disappeared (have not posted
  anything for months)

2012-12-05 Jens Gustedt

  (Jens, of course, is the author of "Modern C".)
  
2015-11-07 Bartc
2015-12-11 glen herrmannsfeldt
2016-06-07 Stephen Sprunk
2018-02-01 Jerry Stuckle
2018-05-28 bartc
2018-06-21 Steve Carroll
2018-07-05 supercat@casperkitty.com
2018-09-20 BartC
2018-10-29 Bill Cunningham
2019-03-01 Richard Heathfield
2020-02-25 Robert Wessel
2020-06-18 Mr. Man-wai Chang
2020-06-29 Richard Bos
2020-10-02 jacob navia

  (Jacob, of course, created LCC-Win32.)

2021-06-02 Rick C. Hodgin
2021-06-12 jacobnavia
2021-11-23 Ian Collins

  From names by the number of posts 

Keith Thompson           10922
David Brown               8514
Ben Bacarisse             8336
fir                       6576
Malcolm McLean            6351
James Kuyper              6010
Rick C. Hodgin            5312
Tim Rentsch               5183
BartC                     4208
supercat@casperkitty.com  4169

  From names by the number of lines written by them
  
David Brown              145573
Keith Thompson            99176
Rick C. Hodgin            83966
Ben Bacarisse             80379
James Kuyper              74212
supercat@casperkitty.com  66411
Tim Rentsch               61761
Bart                      55293
Malcolm McLean            53193
BartC                     49164

  Selected words from the bodies

C                  42918
code               37777
think              25599
compiler           19587
function           18786
type               17642
language           17191
program            15679
standard           13896
value              13633
problem            13468
pointer            11321
functions          10021
C++                 9595
types               9531
number              9288
data                9281
memory              9114
implementation      9050
call                8831
compilers           8203
source              8091
written             8088
idea                7701
gcc                 7631
question            7518
error               7351
values              7337
programming         6883
behavior            6761
library             6621
writing             6574
run                 6563
pointers            6336
correct             6335
programs            6246
systems             5966
languages           5957
bits                5775
integer             5706
files               5547
syntax              5288
definition          5180
machine             5122
undefined           5039
issue               5019
char                5009
big                 4984
variable            4978
address             4943
unsigned            4938
Windows             4918
struct              4787
expression          4757
output              4652
text                4622
space               4552
argument            4504
#include            4498
character           4405
Linux               4392
implementations     4362
names               4346
programmer          4139
loop                4077
statement           3999
bytes               3899
thread              3859
characters          3823
numbers             3819
user                3730
software            3727
feature             3714
solution            3708
programmers         3696
calls               3676
variables           3661
valid               3658
structure           3604
process             3590
static              3576
C99                 3519
Standard            3518
macro               3431
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