trolfs@vax1.tcd.ie (06/27/90)
[I posted this earlier this month, but was informed that outgoing
messages weren't getting out. Here it is again, for the first time I
hope]
dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips) writes:
>
> (Does anyone even know how many people read ForthNet?)
>
> -Doug
Well, news.lists has regular stats on USENET readers. I've taken the
latest set for the comp.lang.* newsgroups and reposted here so that
you can see the breakdown across groups. This gives a rough idea of
the numbers reading this group, but you can't really say who they are.
I would hazard a guess that most are intermediate Forthers who have
played around with Forth but never really done anything with it (like
myself). The numbers seem quite encouraging, seeing as how USENET
represents mostly universities and large organisations most of whom
probably don't use Forth at all.
[ I'm thinking of drawing up a questionaire (sp?) for OLIS, to
get an *idea* of what people think about Forth? what they use it for?
what they would like to see happening in the future? etc.. If anyone
has any ideas, or experience, on drawing up a simple questionaire, I'd
be grateful for the input.]
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-----------------USENET Stats on Comp.lang.* groups----------------------
Newsgroups: news.lists
Subject: USENET Readership report for May 90
Date: 6 Jun 90 13:08:54 GMT
Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory
This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for May 90.
Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.
+-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
| +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
| | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
| | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
| | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
| | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
326 14000 344 91% 280 502.1 0% 0.05 1.3% comp.lang.forth
13 76000 1887 96% 1039 1870.0 14% 0.03 7.3% comp.lang.c
84 35000 874 93% 225 425.9 7% 0.02 3.4% comp.lang.postscript
120 28000 702 92% 113 324.1 5% 0.02 2.7% comp.lang.lisp
169 24000 591 92% 66 105.2 10% 0.01 2.3% comp.lang.misc
205 21000 519 92% 157 302.8 2% 0.02 2.0% comp.lang.prolog
208 21000 517 92% 195 369.8 4% 0.02 2.0% comp.lang.pascal
233 19000 483 92% 156 384.9 3% 0.03 1.9% comp.lang.ada
250 18000 447 92% 76 125.9 3% 0.01 1.7% comp.lang.smalltalk
263 17000 433 92% 98 175.1 8% 0.01 1.7% comp.lang.fortran
264 17000 431 86% 140 302.2 9% 0.02 1.7% comp.lang.perl
300 15000 385 77% 11 10.2 0% 0.00 1.5% comp.lang.idl
317 14000 356 91% 64 135.9 15% 0.01 1.4% comp.lang.scheme
320 14000 351 71% 50 158.9 6% 0.01 1.3% comp.lang.functional
326 14000 344 91% 280 502.1 0% 0.05 1.3% comp.lang.forth
329 14000 340 89% 1 1.0 0% 0.00 1.3% comp.lang.sigplan
341 13000 331 89% 39 101.7 14% 0.01 1.3% comp.lang.eiffel
376 11000 286 91% 199 291.5 1% 0.04 1.1% comp.lang.modula2
407 10000 253 85% 15 51.5 0% 0.01 1.0% comp.lang.lisp.x
455 8800 220 84% 18 31.8 18% 0.00 0.8% comp.lang.rexx
463 8400 210 83% 4 6.6 0% 0.00 0.8% comp.lang.scheme.c
489 7600 189 85% 38 72.0 0% 0.01 0.7% comp.lang.icon
492 7400 184 85% 31 34.0 0% 0.01 0.7% comp.lang.asm370
503 7000 174 76% 4 5.0 25% 0.00 0.7% comp.lang.visual
527 5800 144 90% 3 2.4 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.lang.apl
534 5200 131 77% 3 2.7 0% 0.00 0.5% comp.lang.lisp.franz
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-- jvh@clinet.FIpeter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (06/29/90)
I don't know how relevent this is to how many people read Forthnet. I read comp.lang.forth, but I have Forthnet in my kill file, because it's got too much BBS chatter. Cut your count of readers down to 325. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>
rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) (07/01/90)
In article <2:A40X2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >I read comp.lang.forth, but I have Forthnet in my kill file, because >it's got too much BBS chatter. Cut your count of readers down to 325. >Peter da Silva. `-_-' Ditto. Make that 324. .....rob -- EMAIL: rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca <<< Standard Disclaimers Apply >>> ARCHAIC: Steltech, 1375 Kerns Rd., Burlington, Ontario, Canada, L7P 3H8.
jjwoehr@nyx.UUCP (jack j. woehr) (07/02/90)
In article <268DF846.9482@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rob@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Rob McDonald) writes: >In article <2:A40X2@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >>I read comp.lang.forth, but I have Forthnet in my kill file, because >>it's got too much BBS chatter. Cut your count of readers down to 325. >>Peter da Silva. `-_-' > >Ditto. Make that 324. > Some Of Us said, when this linkup was first proposed between ForthNet and USENET that Certain People Were Going To Be Unhappy. Some Of Us said that USENET traffic tends to be reserved for More Carefully Reasoned Postings Than Those Entered Into PCBoard BBS'es. Some Of Us May Have Been Right Despite The Flack They Took For Expressing Unpopular Opinions On ForthNet. Any, Rob, Pete ... whynot do what I do ... don't use rn to read comp.lang.forth, use nn which carefully highlights the ForthNet postings, and ... don't read 'em! Boys and Girls, can you say, "bozo filter"? I though you could! =jax=
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (07/03/90)
In article <1410@nyx.UUCP> jjwoehr@nyx.UUCP (jack j. woehr) writes: > Boys and Girls, can you say, "bozo filter"? I though you could! It's spelled "/ForthNet/h:j". No need for "nn", which doesn't run worth a damn on systems with broken large models nohow. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>