[net.general] Where does net news come from? Summary by sites and users.

jim (04/05/83)

I got curious about where the news comes from, so I whipped up a couple
of simple shell scripts to search through our news spool directory, and
here are the results.

There were 343 sites represented, from uucp, Arpanet, and CSnet.  The
top ten sites in number of articles submitted:

     1	  58 cbosgd
     2	  46 zinfandel
     3	  42 floyd
     4	  38 unc
     5	  36 sri-unix
     6	  36 rlgvax
     7	  35 sdccsu3
     8	  33 uw-beave
     9	  31 watmath
    10	  31 csu-cs

There were 938 users represented.  The top ten users in number of
articles submitted:

     1	  26 cbosgd!map
     2	  23 unc!tim
     3	  23 rlgvax!guy
     4	  21 tesla!jeff (Jeff Frey)
     5	  20 cbosgd!mark
     6	  18 bmcg!unicorn
     7	  17 zinfandel!mark
     8	  17 sri-unix!bhayes
     9	  17 eagle!karn
    10	  15 mhb5b!smb

I thought I was pretty prolific, but I came in a paltry 17th place at
12 articles.  Andy Tannenbaum came in at a surprising 140th place, with
a mere 4 articles.