labc-3dc@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) (04/08/89)
For the curious... from "news.lists", the comp.sys.[micro] groups (and the first and last entries...) ***** This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Feb 89. 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 1 59000 3071 93% 58 145.4 0% 0.00 13.8% rec.humor.funny 8 36000 1885 97% 1573 2329.1 9% 0.10 8.4% comp.sys.mac 34 21000 1096 95% 1348 2349.8 5% 0.18 4.9% comp.sys.amiga 44 18000 929 95% 759 1275.2 5% 0.11 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st 105 12000 604 95% 1128 1879.7 2% 0.24 2.7% comp.sys.apple 285 4400 228 94% 103 162.5 1% 0.06 1.0% comp.sys.atari.8bit 289 4200 217 89% 58 780.6 2% 0.27 1.0% comp.binaries.apple2 421 170 9 1% 18 264.3 47% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.sources ***** -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden labc-3dc@widow.berkeley.edu