page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (11/03/87)
I just noticed swan.ulowell.edu (ULowell's news/mail gateway) is up to message number 10000 in comp.sys.amiga. This is just since the name change, which took place around May 1 of this year. That means Ten Thousand messages in about 26 weeks, or 385 mesages per week. If you read news M-F only, that's an average of almost 77 messages per day. Kinda boggles the mind, eh? From Brian Reid's arbitron stats, in news.lists: >Message-ID: <12041@decwrl.DEC.COM> >Date: 1 Nov 87 16:16:44 GMT +-- 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders Rank V V V V V V V V 1 11000 845 97% 1351 3092.1 122 1.70 5.0% comp.sys.amiga 2 31000 2453 98% 68 2667.2 2 0.51 14.6% comp.sources.unix 3 21000 1642 98% 1427 2124.3 67 0.60 9.8% comp.sys.mac 4 22000 1733 96% 882 1898.9 40 0.51 10.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 8 9200 729 97% 555 1162.7 60 0.74 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st Note also that comp.sys.amiga has a VERY high participation ratio, which indicates the number of people that CONTRIBUTE to the group rather than just read it. Amigans are twice as active as anyone else! [ and you voted against a split! ] ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}