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...)
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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
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